Monday, January 6, 2025
Weather impact.
WBOC is providing an extensive list of public activities/functions (in alphabetical order) that are impacted by the weather.
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Sunday, January 5, 2025
Pocomoke City Hall announcement-
City of Pocomoke
Pocomoke City Hall will be officially closed on Monday, January 6, 2025 due to the predicted weather conditions.
The Mayor and City Council meeting scheduled for tomorrow is also cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date.
Pocomoke City Police, EMS, and Public Works will be on duty to protect the safety of our community.
If possible, please stay off the roads, stay home, and be safe. Thank you.
Pocomoke parking restrictions-
City of Pocomoke ·
❄️❄️❄️A snow emergency has been declared by Mayor Nock for the City of Pocomoke City as of 6pm on Sunday, January 5th. Please remove all parked vehicles from city roads as we prepare for imminent winter weather conditions. Pretreatment of roads will begin after this time and the plowing of streets will begin after 1 inch of snow has accumulated on roads. *Stay tuned for updates as weather conditions change.❄️
Be weather smart.
When weather is in the news there's prone to be many sources of misinformation such as word of mouth, be it in person or on some social media outlets.
Check reliable sources such as news & weather media or their online pages.
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
Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper; Feature- Pocomoke's Michelle Roberts still has her eyes on the game.
Delmarva Sports Network's
Michelle Roberts is Pocomoke's own.
NOW
& THEN (2009)
(2009)
was 2009's Miss Pocomoke
( Salisbury Daily Times)
(Delmarva Sports Network Bio)
Michelle is an Anchor, Reporter, and Field Hockey Color Commentator for DSN.
She is a proud graduate of Pocomoke High School and the University of Michigan. Her dream to be a journalist and passion for sports started as a child living on Delmarva, watching WBOC, and playing field hockey. In high school, she helped Pocomoke win four state championships and was named to the NFHCA All-Region Team and National Academic Squad. She also was a member of the U.S. U-16 National Team and earned an athletic scholarship to Michigan.
In Ann Abor with the field hockey team, she competed in the NCAA Elite 8 and Sweet 16 and won three Big Ten Championships. She also reported for the Michigan Athletic Department, interned at local television stations, and sideline reported on ESPN+. Upon graduation, she interned in the Sports Department at ABC Headquarters In New York, NY. Then, she worked as a Field Hockey Color Commentator for Big Ten Network and Reporter/Media Director for USSSA in Kansas City, MI. From 2018 to 2021, Michelle joined WBNG in Binghamton, NY, as a Morning Anchor. Following that, she worked for WCTV in Tallahassee, FL, as a Morning Reporter and Anchor.
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Recollections from generations past (Marah Stevenson Finney- 3)
Marah Stevenson Finney (1913 - 2006)
TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS FROM 1982 INTERVIEW
(Continued from last week)
INTERVIEWER: Did you go to Ocean City very often, I mean, or was that just
for, like …
MARAH: No, not very often.
INTERVIEWER: How about swimming, did you go swimming?
MARAH: We didn’t have any place around here we could go swimming,
except the ocean. The river was not fit for swimming, and we did not have
swimming pools. And consequently, most of the ones my age except the
boys who lived around the water like probably Andy, or who, you know, were
a little bit braver,
INTERVIEWER: Mhmm.
MARAH: The girls didn’t learn to swim very much. I taught myself later, after I
was even out of Towson. And I can swim as long as I can hold my breath.
INTERVIEWER: (Laughs.)
MARAH: That’s not very far (laughs).
INTERVIEWER: Did you only date boys from Pocomoke, or did you venture
out to Snow Hill and …
MARAH: No, in high school, it was just Pocomoke.
INTERVIEWER: Were there any big hangouts downtown or anywhere?
MARAH: Clarke’s Drugstore. Which is where the pharmacy is now.
INTERVIEWER: Uh-huh.
MARAH: Was really the only hangout. And when we’d go there, they had a
fountain, a soda fountain. And in fact, when I was in high school, every
afternoon, the girls dressed up and walked downtown to buy a loaf of bread
or quart of milk or some little thing. But we walked downtown and … There
really wasn’t much to do, we read a lot, but we did have, at one time, we did
have a tennis court on the high school property. It was not a very good one.
And we played a little tennis, that was it. We played badminton in each
others’ yards, but we didn’t have courses in tennis like they do in school
now.
INTERVIEWER: Where did you go to church, if you went?
MARAH: I went to church at First Baptist Church.
INTERVIEWER: Okay, yeah, that’s …
MARAH: In Pocomoke.
INTERVIEWER: Pocomoke, right.
MARAH: I had joined the church in Baltimore, First Baptist Church in
Baltimore at the same time my father joined. He had been a Methodist.
INTERVIEWER: Mhmm.
MARAH: And we joined together one Easter. And then when we came here, we
confirmed the membership.
INTERVIEWER: How did you go to Sunday school and then church, then?
MARAH: Well, Sunday school was in the morning, and church, and EYCU in
the afternoon. Well, late-afternoon. Like young people’s games, you know.
INTERVIEWER: Mhmm.
MARAH: And then church at night.
INTERVIEWER: (Laughs) Oh, so all Sunday was devoted to church.
MARAH: All Sunday was devoted to church.
INTERVIEWER: All right. What about the population in Pocomoke in 1920?
MARAH: I am not very good at remembering figures. But I will say this: We
knew everyone we met on the street. There were no strangers. You’d go
down the street, and everyone you saw, you knew personally. I’m not sure
about population at the time.
INTERVIEWER: How about a class structure? Was there any, like, very rich,
poor, was there very much difference between those two?
MARAH: There probably was, but I was not aware of it at the time. Now, I knew
the ones in my class who had much more money than I had.
INTERVIEWER: Right.
MARAH: And I knew the ones who didn’t have as much, but I think ... There
was no distinction as far as class. Possibly, we chose our friends from the
class we were actually in, not realizing it, really.
INTERVIEWER: So it was unspoken.
MARAH: Unspoken really. But, I don’t think, as far as my class in high school,
no one was looked down on. Three years ago, we had our 50th reunion. And
almost the whole class was there except three who had died and one in
California who could not come, and one in Pennsylvania who could not
come. And it was really nice because we had not had any reunion.
INTERVIEWER: None?
MARAH: None.
INTERVIEWER: And you managed to go to 50?
MARAH: We managed to go to 50, and had a really good time.
INTERVIEWER: Wow. I’m sure. How ‘bout law and order in Pocomoke? Did
you have a police force, or … ?
MARAH: I remember one policeman, Mr. Strallon. An older man, or at that time
he seemed older to me. He also directed the band. We had a town band, and
he directed the band at that time.
INTERVIEWER: Was it high school students in the band, or the whole
community?
MARAH: No, when I was in high school, I don’t think we had a high school
band. Like the one that Mr. Fullout was in.
INTERVIEWER: Right, I heard …
MARAH: When my father was a young man, they had quite a town band.
INTERVIEWER: I’ve seen pictures.
MARAH: And I’ve seen pictures. He had a bandwagon and played the
trombone.
INTERVIEWER: How about hanging? Did you ever go to a hanging?
MARAH: No, never did.
INTERVIEWER: Wow.
MARAH: There was a tree on Snow Hill, the road between Snow Hill and
Berlin. They called it the hanging tree. But no, I never did, no.
INTERVIEWER: I know I wouldn’t’ve gone to a hanging ….
Continues next Saturday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Thank you Sgt Harmon!
Pocomoke City Police Dept
December 30, 2024
Today we celebrated the retirement of Sergeant Stanley Harmon. Sgt Harmon gave over 45 years of service to Law Enforcement. We are honored to have served with him and had such a special person impact the lives of so many. Sgt Harmon's smile and laughter will be greatly missed. However, we wish our Forever Brother of Blue nothing but the best and to enjoy your much deserved retirement. God Bless you and Thank You for Everything.
State help urged with water intrusion-
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Maryland’s coastal communities need help now - Maryland Matters
Maria Payan paints a grim picture of despair and destruction caused by Mother Nature and aided and abetted by unbridled racism and states that water levels will rise precipitously in the near future.
Her solution is that government must "take action" and "invest more". Nowhere does she offer any concrete ideas. Does she think the residents should be evacuated and compensated for their losses? Should the Chesapeake Bay be plugged at the southern end and the water pumped out into the ocean? Should fresh water be pumped into the ground to halt salt water intrusion?
Typical blather from another well-meaning but brain-fried liberal who thinks government can actually help people.
Your friend,
Slim
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
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