At a meeting Tuesday with Maryland transportation officials, the Queen Anne’s County Commissioners continued to emphasize the county’s top transportation safety priority is getting an interchange built at U.S. Route 301 and state Route 304.
But state officials said funding for capital transportation projects has been cut severely. State Highway Administration [...]
The Leagues of Women Voters of Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties invite the citizens of Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne’s Counties to a preview of the 2010 Maryland General Assembly.
The Legislative Preview will feature members of our 36th District Delegation: Senator E. J. Pipkin, Delegate Michael Smigiel, Delegate Richard [...]
A committee established 10 months ago in response to a controversial proposal dealing with rural development and smart growth has competed its task and submitted a package of recommendations to the Queen Anne’s County Planning Commission.
“We’re done now. We have a list of recommendations that’s going forward,” said County Commission [...]
Truckers carrying loads heavier than the maximum 80,000 pounds or whose rigs have safety violations are electronically signaled to pull over at the state’s new weigh and inspection station on U.S. 301 south of Middletown.
Most truckers get the green light to keep rolling by the cream-colored one-story station with an [...]
A complaint was filed with State Attorney General`s Open Meetings Act Compliance Board alleging numerous violations of the Open Meetings Act by the Centreville Town Manager. They include:
No minutes have been produced for several meetings or were not released in a timely manner. (Eight instances) The reason given for closing several [...]Every year the Maryland Department of Planning receives a report on “acreage subject to agricultural land transfer tax” which is used to measure the amount of farmland lost to development. The total number of acres lost in Fisal Year 2009 - 3,209 acres - was lower than 2008, which itself [...]
7:00 p.m.
Goodwill Fire Company
I. Convene – Council President Frank C. Ogens
II. Review of Minutes from Past Meetings
a. November 5, 2009 (Regular Meeting)
III. Announcement of Closed Sessions
a. none
IV. Citizens Forum (Citizens are requested to keep their questions/comments to three minutes)
V. Appearances -
VI. Old Business
a. Ordinance 04-2009, Budget Amendment [...]
County Annex Building – 2nd Floor (B)
206 North Commerce Street
7:00 P.M.
I. CALL TO ORDER – Christopher Frank – Chair
II. Review of Minutes from Previous Meeting
III. Citizen Comment (Citizens are requested to keep their questions/comments to three minutes)
IV. Appearances
a. Ron Manslow, Security Vault Works, Inc. – Simplified Site Plan for Drive-up Kiosk, BB&T [...]
Talbot County officials weren’t enamored of the town of Trappe’s desire to build a major housing development, so they twice turned down the Eastern Shore hamlet’s efforts to upgrade local sewer and water capacity, in 2004 and 2005. And theoretically, that should have been the end of it. But it [...]
Queen Anne’s County officials said they will again ask two federal agencies to hold a public meeting in Ruthsburg to preview the federal plan for a “hard skills” training center for U.S. embassy security personnel that could be built on 1,505 acres at Hunt Ray Farm, near state Routes 481 [...]
The October 15, 2009, Town Council meeting was called to order at 7:04 p.m. by Council President Frank C. Ogens, in the first floor meeting room of the Goodwill Volunteer Fire Company. The following members and staff were present: Frank C. Ogens, Council President; Norman P. Pinder, Jr., Vice President; [...]
Washington County is moving ahead with a plan to more fairly tax municipal residents.
The county commissioners voted 3-0 on Tuesday in favor of the concept of charging residents of Hagerstown and the towns lower taxes than residents in unincorporated areas, who don’t fund two different local governments.
The new structure, known [...]
The Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association recently awarded the Town of Centreville the 2009 winner in the “Small Town/Rural Initiative, Plan, jurisdictional population less than 10,000″ category for its 2009 Community Plan. For more details see the Maryland Chapter of the APA’s web site.
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The September 17, 2009, Town Council meeting was called to order at 7:04 p.m. by Council Vice President Norman P. Pinder, Jr., in the first floor meeting room of the Goodwill Volunteer Fire Company. The following members and staff were present: Norman P. Pinder, Jr., Vice President; Timothy E. McCluskey, [...]
The August 19, 2009 Centreville Planning Commission meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Christopher Frank, Chairman in Meeting Room B of the County Annex Building. The following members and staff were present: Christopher Frank, Chair; Elizabeth Brice, Vice-Chair; Penny Lins, Secretary; Jim Cooke, member; Nick Barbalace, member; [...]
The parking lots of Queen Anne’s County’s Bloomfield Farm will soon be modeling the latest in a series of efforts by the county to battle stormwater runoff pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
Pervious concrete — the technology Queen Anne’s County will use in Bloomfield Farm’s parking lots — allows water [...]
Queen Anne’s County embarked on its six year update to the 2002 Comprehensive Plan about 18 months ago with three large community meetings and the formation of seven citizen committees to guide the plan update.
These citizens, about 109 volunteers, spent 10 months reviewing critical studies, conducting visioning sessions and developing [...]
7:00 p.m.
Goodwill Fire Company
I. Convene – Council President Frank C. Ogens
II. Review of Minutes from Past Meetings
a. October 15, 2009 (Regular Meeting)
III. Announcement of Closed Sessions
a. none
IV. Citizens Forum (Citizens are requested to keep their questions/comments to three minutes)
V. Appearances -
a. Annexation Agreement signing regarding Providence [...]
A Searchable Integrated Report (303d List of Impaired Waterways) is now available on the Maryland Department of the Environment’s website.
Searching for Information on the Corsica River reveals that there are three impairments listed, with one considered too difficult to assess (Aquatic Life and Wildlife), one without an established [...]
In June 2009, The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) President Darnell Earley, city manager, Saginaw, Michigan, appointed Robert C. McGrory, town manager, Centreville, Maryland, to serve on the ICMA Conference Planning Committee.
New committee members began terms of service at the 95th annual conference in Montréal, Canada held in September 2009. [...]
