(Above forecast was for 2/6-2/7/21)
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021
Our City Hall Women In Red
(Pocomoke City Facebook page)
The ladies of Pocomoke City Hall Go Red For Women to support the American Heart Association's national movement to end heart disease and stroke in women.
(PPE reader comment)
Anonymous said...Aren't masks wonderful? I recognize the lady in the middle of the front row only because she was my first girlfriend in Mrs. Duncan's first grade class but have no idea who the others are.
Time Machine Preview
This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:
1985 ..
2011 .. Pocomoke City's police chief for the past 16 years announces his retirement.
1919 .. The new concrete State Road between Pocomoke City and Westover has been completed.
1921 .. "The Social Season" is the subject of a January editorial in Pocomoke City's Worcester Democrat.
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Covid-19 Vaccination Update From Worcester County Health Department
New system designed to simplify the process and prioritize elderly
Snow Hill, MD– This week the Worcester County Health Department is updating how it registers individuals for COVID-19 vaccine clinics. There is now a single central waiting listing that includes all clinics operated by Worcester Health. To register for this waiting list, call 667-253-2140. Due to limited vaccine supply, we do not expect to post Worcester County Health Department clinics onto MarylandVax.org for the next several weeks.
Read more:
Worcester Health updates COVID-19 Vaccination Wait List
Monday, February 1, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Time Machine: 1995, Pre-1922, 1902, 1910, 1938, 1970, 1975.
December, 1995
Daily Times (Salisbury)
Not dated
(Location in picture below is Front & Market Streets. Buildings at left fell victim to the fire of 1922. The Empire Theater is across the street at right and survived. Building in shadow at right is approximate location of the current Delmarva Discovery Center.)
Democratic Messenger 1969 Centennial Edition
December, 1902
Democratic Messenger
January, 1910
Crisfield Times
November, 1938
Salisbury Times
1970 .. Can you believe it? The Beatles have split up!
1975 .. Newcomer VHS challenges Beta.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Early Days Of TV Triggers Memory From Reader
Thanks to the Pocomoke Public Eye reader who shares the comment below after reading a July, 2019 story we posted about the early days of TV on the Eastern Shore.
Remember TV French class? Our school, Princess Anne Elementary, had one TV. When it was time, we trooped upstairs and watched a female teacher speaking incomprehensible English and Breton French, and later, a man talking about rolling r’s and saying “Watch my lips.”
This would have been c. 1960.
View the original article:
The Pocomoke Public Eye: WBOC-TV BEGINS BROADCASTING JULY 15, 1954.
(1/30/21 reader comment)
Anonymous said...WBOC started broadcasting Delmarva TV School in 1958 in conjunction with the Boards of Education in the surrounding counties. TV classes were offered in art, science, music and French. Each elementary classroom was equipped with a television on a rolling stand and classes were scheduled throughout the week, initially starting in early afternoon. Our second grade science class was first on the daily schedule and the preceding program was the Liberace show. (Anybody remember him?) Miss Julia Robertson was our teacher and also a big Liberace fan. About a half hour before our class was supposed to begin Miss Robertson would turn on the TV, "just to warm it up" and close the classroom door and warn us not to tell anyone what we were actually watching.
(1/30/21 tk for PPE says)
Miss Robertson was my third grade teacher. She was a wonderful teacher and liked by everyone. Yes, I do have to admit that I'm old enough to remember Liberace.
Time Machine Preview
This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:
1995 .. Reactions from the Pocomoke business community on Wal-Mart coming.
Pre-1922 .. (Picture & info) Pocomoke City's Public Square.
1902 .. The passing of a "kind hearted, charitable old-time doctor" in Worcester County.
1910 .. Prominent Crisfield doctor incurs painful mishap while making a house call.
1938 .. Worcester Countians are urged to unite in boycotting
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
HEARING HELD ON CAROZZA-SUPPORTED SMALL BUSINESS PROTECTION LEGISLATION
Annapolis, MD—The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee (JPR) held a hearing on Senate Bill 210—COVID-19 Claim - Civil Immunity on Tuesday, January 26. Senator Carozza is the lead cosponsor of Senate Bill 210.
Senate Bill 210 was introduced by Senator Chris West (R-Baltimore County) with bipartisan support. This bill would provide immunity from civil liability for claims related to COVID-19 for all who follow applicable federal, state, and local statutes, rules, regulations, executive orders, and agency orders related to COVID-19 (COVID-19 rules and regulations) so long as the person’s actions do not amount to gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing.
Senate Bill 210 has the support of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce; the Salisbury, Ocean City, and other Lower Shore Chambers of Commerce; the Maryland Restaurant Association; the Ocean City Hotel-Motel Restaurant Association; the Maryland Retailers Association; and the Maryland chapter of the National Federation for Independent Business.
Natural Gas For Somerset County?
Wetlands permit decision due on natural gas pipeline in Somerset County
ANNAPOLIS — The last major hurdle for the extension of natural gas into Somerset County rests with Maryland Board of Public Works which is being asked by Chesapeake Utilities Corporation to approve a wetlands permit so it can run an 8-inch pipeline from Eden to Westover.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Time Machine: 1878, 1944, 1982, 1909, 2012, 1973, 1967.
September, 1878
Baltimore Sun
Footnote: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 originated in New Orleans and spread up the Mississippi River and inland during the spring and summer of that year with 120,000 cases reported and between 13,000 and 20,000 deaths. In later years it was found that Yellow Fever was borne by a species of mosquitoes from tropical and subtropical climates. The last epidemic of the illness in the U.S. was in 1905.
(Info source: Digital Public Library Of America)
August, 1944
The Parsons Sun (Parsons, Kan.)
Footnote: Camp Somerset at Westover was a former military installation turned POW camp during World War II and in later years was used as a camp for migrant laborers.
(Reader comment)
Anonymous said...During World War II Mason Canning Company on Clarke Avenue employed upwards of 100 women, mostly to peel the tomatoes after scalding. Most local men were off to aid the war effort so German prisoners from Camp Somerset were brought in as laborers, mostly to load cases of tomatoes on the railroad cars. Every day at noon the factory whistle would blow and the ladies would take their noon break by climbing up into the rail cars and having some fun with German prisoners. After the German defeat in May of 1945 many of the prisoners refused to return to Germany and wanted to stay and enjoy all the benefits of the American way of life.
May, 1982
Daily Times (Salisbury)
September, 1909
The Gering Courier (Gering, Neb.)
October, 2012
Worcester County Times
1973 .. The U.S. senate begins hearings into Watergate.
1967 .. I'm sticking with regular. Premium gas is over 30-cents a gallon!
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