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The link below is to the National Weather Service forecast for Pocomoke and the lower Eastern Shore.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.0722&lon=-75.5638
(Delmarvanow.com)
Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash that occurred early Sunday morning, Feb. 16, in Worcester County.
The front passenger of a Honda Accord is identified as Forest Eugene Crippen 3rd, 34, of Pocomoke City, Maryland. He was pronounced dead on the scene by Pocomoke City emergency medical services personnel. The driver, identified as Yakia Shree Brittingham, 35, of Berlin, Maryland, was transported by ambulance to TidalHealth Peninsula Regional for treatment of her injuries.
Shortly after 1:30 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack responded to the area of southbound Route 113, south of Blades Road, for a report of a single-vehicle crash. According to a preliminary investigation, the Honda was traveling south when for unknown reasons, it traveled off the roadway, subsequently striking a tree. Police believe that impairment may have been a factor in this crash.
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INTERVIEWER: Did your family own a car?
VIVIAN: Own a car? Well after, I think about 1915, my father and brother had a Hudson Super 6, if you heard of that. It was a big car.
INTERVIEWER: Did any of your neighbors have a car?
VIVIAN: Well, I guess they did, but I don’t remember any particular time. Dr. Walters had the first car in Pocomoke.
INTERVIEWER: What was your first car like?
VIVIAN: Well it was, it would seat 3, 6, 8 people. It had 2 fold seats in the middle, more like a station wagon, except I think it had 4 doors, the best I can remember.
INTERVIEWER: How much did it cost?
VIVIAN: Don’t ask me. I don’t know. Plenty I imagine. But it took a big car for our family.
INTERVIEWER: Did you ever go to Public Landing?
VIVIAN: Oh yes, lots of times.
INTERVIEWER: Well do you want to describe what Public Landing was like?
VIVIAN: Well, it was just a little place, opening, there were houses a little far back, and one quite near the water, that somebody used to live there, who served meals and we’d go Sundays sometimes and have dinner there. They had a little pier that went out some distance, and we’d go sit out there and enjoy the water.
INTERVIEWER: What was Farmer’s Day, I think it is? Farmer’s Day?
VIVIAN: At Public Landing?
INTERVIEWER: Ahun
VIVIAN: I don’t know. But they had a day at Red Hills, the first Wednesday in August, was a great picnic day for everybody.
INTERVIEWER: What was Red Hills like?
VIVIAN: Well, it was kinda up on a high cliff from the water. You’ve been there, haven’t ya? But there wasn’t much there. Finally they gotta, built a pavilion, I don’t know whether they sold ice cream cones and things like that or not, but you could get in the shade if you wanted to, then there was a family that lived nearby, that rented little bathhouses to change your suits in if you wanted to.
INTERVIEWER: Did you ever go to Assateague?
VIVIAN: Once before it became popular. Recently, in the old day, but you had to go in a boat from Franklin City.
INTERVIEWER: What was Franklin City like?
VIVIAN: Well just a, as I remember it was just about one long street, that run down to the water, I don’t really know much about it.
INTERVIEWER: Did somebody have, own, anybody in your family have an instrument, or did you listen to the radio?
VIVIAN: Well my sister, my older sister played the piano, my sister Vesta played by ear, she could play anything she ever heard, by ear. I took lessons but I never really learned to play much. We had one of the first Victrolas that anybody around here had, and of course that led to radios and televisions.
INTERVIEWER: Where were the fairgrounds?
VIVIAN: What were they like?
INTERVIEWER: Uhun
VIVIAN: Well, they had a big grandstand and when they, the week of the fair they had these sideshows and things like that and races. Horse racing was most of it.
INTERVIEWER: Your family, did your family attend the fair?
VIVIAN: Oh yeah, we always went.
INTERVIEWER: Okay. Where did you get your toys from?
VIVIAN: My uncle Ira’s store. He had toys upstairs on the second floor. He sold some groceries, but his soda fountain and candy was the main attractions.
INTERVIEWER: How much land did your parents own?
VIVIAN: How much land? Well, they owned from this street here down to the river and over, right far over toward the river.
INTERVIEWER: They had right much land?
VIVIAN: Well, I think, it, my great-grandfather bought it, was supposed to be 300 acres and most of it was the woods, there wasn’t much cultivated, but I don’t think he was much of a farmer, because he spent 26 years going to the legislature, my great-grandfather.
INTERVIEWER: Did your family have any home remedies?
VIVIAN: I don’t know. I don’t remember, my grandfather was a doctor, and my great-grandfather, on my mother’s side, was a doctor. Great great-grandfather, I guess it was.
INTERVIEWER: Do you remember the fire they had uptown here?
VIVIAN: I remember the one in 1922. It was on an Easter Monday. A very windy day, the wind was blowing this way, from the south and the, Mr. Davis, who had a store there on the corner of Willow and Second, had this store and he was out burning trash and the lady behind him went out and told him it was dangerous. It really was. And that’s what started the fire. And it burned, nearly, all that block down to the hotel. I don’t think the hotel burned and it blew across and burned my father’s shop and his brother’s house next to it and quite a few houses down there where your office is.
(This series continues next Saturday with recollections from another long-time area resident.)
February 14, 2025
In response to a significant increase in COVID-19, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Influenza A, and Influenza B cases across the region, TidalHealth has announced that it is returning to temporary masking practices in its hospitals in Salisbury and Seaford, the Richard A. Henson Cancer Institute in Salisbury and Ocean Pines, the Allen Cancer Center in Seaford, and at TidalHealth McCready Pavilion in Crisfield.
As a temporary proactive measure, surgical ear loop masks, which will be provided to those without one, are temporarily required for team members, patients and visitors in all patient rooms and patient-facing areas.
(View more info:)
Temporary masking practices resume due to rising respiratory illnesses | TidalHealth
(Info from a WMDT news report:)
There was cause for alarm this week at a drop-off location when a six-year-old Ocean City Elementary School student was not on his assigned bus. All turned out well when it was learned he had been put on the wrong bus.
WMDT received this statement from the county schools system:
“Worcester County Public Schools is aware of the unfortunate incident during which a child was on the wrong bus with a substitute bus driver. We certainly empathize with the parents’ concerns, and through our conversations with the child’s parents since the incident, we believe we have arrived at a resolution to improve existing protocols at dismissal to ensure this does not occur in the future. These protocols will go into effect next week.”
This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:
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(Pocomoke High School graduating class)
(Rebuilding from fire)
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(WBOC)
The rotor blades of Crisfield's 213-foot-tall wind turbine were spinning once again Thursday after months of stagnation.
The $4.1 million turbine was constructed as a step toward green energy to offset Crisfield's electricity costs.
Misleading information was conveyed to WBOC webpage viewers who were checking Wednesday evening for the status of public-school operations for Thursday and saw that Worcester, Accomack, Somerset, and Wicomico County schools were designated for "virtual learning" days. The problem was, that was the status for Wednesday not Thursday but their page did not indicate to when the announcements applied.
When the Pocomoke Public Eye could not verify the Thursday status on the county schools Facebook pages we took down the WBOC link.
It's essential to designate to which days announcements apply .. in a column heading or with the announcements. Maybe WBOC will do so in the future (??).
Susan succeeds Karah Lacey who is now Pocomoke City's Director of Economic Development.
Read more about Susan on the Pocomoke City Facebook page:
An undisclosed “verbal threat” put Ocean City Elementary on lockdown midday Tuesday, bringing a nerve-wracking, full-scale police mobilization to the West Ocean City school. No one was injured and the threat remains under investigation.
(View news story:)
School locked down after threat heard | Premium Content | octodaydispatch.com
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The link below is to the National Weather Service forecast for Pocomoke and the lower Eastern Shore.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.0722&lon=-75.5638
