Senator Carozza's Weekly Update

 

For safety- Accomack public schools will dismiss early on partial-eclipse date, April 8.

 

(Shore Daily News)

At Tuesday’s (3/26) meeting of the Accomack County School Board, April 17, originally scheduled as a half day, was switched to April 8 due to the total eclipse which will be visible in the Eastern United States.

Superintendent Rhonda Hall said she proposed the change out of concern that students would be getting out of school at the time of the eclipse which could be a safety issue.  She is concerned that the kids would look up at the sun.  Middle Schools and High Schools will dismiss at 11:30 a.m. on April 8 with elementary schools getting out at 12:30.

The eclipse on the East Coast will be partial with a swath of total eclipse across the mid-west.

Alert! Alert! Alert!

 

Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper; 1985, 1914, 1958, 1891, 1933.

 

March 23, 1977 - Francis Scott Key Bridge

             The Evening Sun (Baltimore)

April, 1985

Salisbury Daily Times

May, 1914

Evening Star (Washington)

December, 1958

Worcester Democrat

December, 1891

Baltimore American

*October, 1933

Salisbury Times.

Pocomoke Public Eye footnote:  The Pocomoke Arena was located at the Fairgrounds.  Another popular boxing venue during this era was the Lyric Theater in Crisfield.

Downtown Pocomoke City's welcome to Spring!

 

                                                                                                     Wulfhause Productions photo

Chief Hancock and Mayor Nock at the Downtown Pocomoke Spring Festival Saturday. 

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 (Re: Today's "When Pocomoke Was Young" column.)

 Anonymous said...

Alpheus Sidney Stevens may have been a good lawyer but he was a poor geneticist as Colonel Wiliam Stevens, of colonial fame, died without issue in 1687. There have been many locals who claim to be descended from the good colonel, but none have been able to prove it.

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