The Numbers Game And Worcester's Low Ranking In Receiving State Aid To Education

Why are we here in Worcester County receiving the second lowest amount of state funding for education?  If you want to try to follow the financial dots an article in Ocean City's "OC Today" tells why we don't fare too well, proportionately, in receiving state aid for our Worcester County schools.

https://www.oceancitytoday.com/news/worcester-second-lowest-in-state-in-education-aid/article_036c130c-1a8f-11e9-a315-fba768d81f35.html

Chief's Vacancy Filled

 

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Local media reports say Lee Brumley will fill the vacancy of Chief Of Police in Pocomoke City. Brumley is a retired Pocomoke City Police veteran and has been working with the Somerset County Sheriff's Office for many years.

TIME MACHINE: 1899, 1935, 2007, 1921.

July, 1899

January, 1935

 

 

Worcester Democrat

Footnote: Edna Davy Muir authored the popular "Life In The Country" feature in the Salisbury Daily Times for nearly 20 years. Her last original column was published December 29, 2007. She passed away the following day.  

December, 2007

(excerpt from separate obituary)

Footnote: Muir's first marriage ended after a few years and in 1989 she married Daily Times reporter Brice Stump who was some 30-plus years her junior. 

  

June, 1921

Democratic Messenger

The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011.  I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area...a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.

Mid-Winter Surprise On Assateague!

(The Dispatch)

ASSATEAGUE — In a mid-winter surprise, a new foal was born to the herd of wild horses on Assateague Island last week.

(Full article)
https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2019/01/16/surprise-winter-foal-born-on-assateague/

Think WARM! We may need it.

(Washington Post weather blog)
"The polar vortex has fractured, and the eastern U.S. faces a punishing stretch of winter weather"

(Click below for the chilling prediction)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/15/polar-vortex-has-fractured-eastern-us-faces-punishing-stretch-winter-weather-just-underway/?utm_term=.bb199a9aadc7&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

Mallards Has Closed

(Salisbury Daily Times)

Pocomoke City's Mallards on the River closed its doors permanently over the weekend. 

Owner John "Johnny Mo" Morrison announced the closure on the restaurant's Facebook page Sunday, Jan. 13. The eatery opened in 2017 after taking over the $1 million restaurant building in downtown. Previously the building housed Riverside Grill. 

"​It is with extreme regret that I am announcing that we will be permanently closing our newest location, Mallards on the River on Sunday January 13, 2019," Morrison wrote in the Facebook post. "After a 13 month run it has proven to be unsuccessful. It is an accumulation of too many reasons to list, one of them being the long commute from Melfa, VA."

PPE FOOTNOTE:

Long before the time of the Riverside Grill and Mallards On The River a retired ferry boat, The Emerson C. Harrington, was brought to the north side of the river at Pocomoke City in 1938 and used as a hotel and restaurant.

TIME MACHINE: 2001, 1987, 1907, 1925.

December, 2001

The Daily Times (Salisbury)

January, 1987

The Marylander And Herald

November, 1907

Baltimore Sun

October, 1925
(referencing Pocomoke City)

Worcester Democrat

The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011.  I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area...a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.

Just In Case...

Here on Delmarva we never know for sure how Mother Nature will treat us, regardless of the forecast. If it should turn out that we'll be dealing with a wintry scenario remember to take extra care if you're on our roadways.

Worcester County has its first female State's Attorney

(from The Dispatch)

SNOW HILL – Veteran prosecutor Kris Heiser was sworn in as the first female state’s attorney for Worcester County this week.

(full article:)

https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2019/01/08/heiser-sworn-in-as-worcester-countys-first-female-states-attorney/

TIME MACHINE: 1938, 1905, 1914, 2004, 1955, 1889.

September, 1938

Footnote:This was the era before automatic pin setters when "pin boys" set the pins. Newspaper articles in the early 1940's reported on competition in an eight team Pocomoke bowling league at Bunting's. The Peninsula Building was located near the foot of Market Street at the northeast corner of Market and Front Streets. A 1935 newspaper article concerning the garage/auto dealership building across the street (now the Delmarva Discovery Center building) made mention of a section of that building having been used as "a pool and bowling parlor" for a short period of time. 

Worcester Democrat

January, 1905

The Democratic Messenger

June, 1914

The Evening Sun (Baltimore)

May, 2004

The Daily Times (Salisbury)

September, 1955

The Crisfield Post

February, 1889

The Critic (Washington, D.C,)

The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011.  I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area..a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.

tkforppe@yahoo.com