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Monday, May 05, 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Suspect fatally wounded in trooper involved shooting in Salisbury

Maryland State Police Press Release
03/18/2014 22:40

SUSPECT FATALLY WOUNDED IN TROOPER INVOLVED SHOOTING

(SALISBURY, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating a trooper involved shooting that fatally wounded a man who may have struck or dragged a trooper with his car while trying to avoid further police investigation at the Salisbury Barrack tonight.

Details are few and are preliminary at this time. Maryland State Police investigators from the Homicide Unit and Criminal Enforcement Division are on the scene conducting the investigation. Crime scene technicians from the Forensic Sciences Division are processing the scene, which includes the front of the Salisbury Barrack and a segment of Rt. 13, requiring both north and southbound lanes to be closed. State Highway Administration personnel are on the scene and have arranged a detour.

The preliminary information indicates a man entered the Salisbury Barrack shortly before 8:30 p.m. tonight and asked the duty officer to check a vehicle repair he had made after receiving a safety equipment repair order. The duty officer went outside to the parking spaces in front of the barrack with the man.

Moments later, the duty officer called for assistance outside the barrack. Another trooper who had just left the barrack returned immediately to assist. At this time, it is believed both troopers fired their Department issued pistols.

The duty officer was found lying along the edge of the parking lot near the entrance to Rt. 13. He had sustained injuries consistent with being struck and/or dragged by a vehicle.

The man who had come to the barrack was found in his vehicle about 150 yards north of the barrack on Rt. 13. His vehicle had struck the center median guardrail on the northbound side of Rt. 13.

EMS personnel responded and transported the man and the duty officer to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center. The man was pronounced dead at the hospital. The duty officer is being treated for injuries.

State Police investigators are conducting interviews and preparing a search warrant. Their investigation will continue through the night.

Members of the Salisbury Police Department and the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene to assist. An assistant Wicomico County state’s attorney is on the scene for consultation with investigators. When this investigation is complete, it will be presented to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney for review.

Further information, including the identity of the deceased man, is expected to be provided tomorrow. The investigation is continuing. 

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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Good morning sunrise on Choptank River Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Cambridge Md

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Heart of the Chesapeake – Visitors Guide to Dorchester County Maryland


Heart of the Chesapeake – Visitors Guide to Dorchester County Maryland




Last fall I had a delightful trip to the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay… MML – Maryland Municipal League Fall Conference October 31 - November 2, 2011…

See also: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/MML%20Municipal%20League and MD MML Muni League Disclosure and November 2, 2011, Work Cut Out For Municipal League by Kevin E. Dayhoff: “This week officials from Maryland cities and towns throughout the state converged on the Cambridge Hyatt Chesapeake Bay conference facilities for the three-day Maryland Municipal League’s fall legislative conferencehttp://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4723

I’m now planning another trip to Cambridge at the end of September 2012. I pulled the Visitors Guide to Dorchester County Maryland from my 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay files and have posted it for easy access while I am on the road.

If you ever have a chance to visit anywhere on the Delmarva Peninsula, please take advantage of the opportunity. Be sure to put Cambridge, Blackwater Refuge and Dorchester County on your itinerary.

I’m just saying… August 22, 2012 Kevin Dayhoff




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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Farm pollution lawsuit spurs public relations battle

Farm pollution lawsuit spurs public relations battle


Poultry industry, environmental groups fund lawyers for national bellwether



By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun

March 19, 2012

With a catch in her throat, Kristin Hudson talks in a video posted online about her young daughter asking if "they" will take away her daddy's farm.

The video, featured on SaveFarmFamilies.org rallied farmers and others across the country to the side of an Eastern Shore farm couple fighting an environmental group's lawsuit alleging that the farm polluted a Chesapeake Bay tributary.

The Web-based organization has raised more than $200,000 to date from Perdue Farms, agricultural groups and other farmers to help Alan and Kristin Hudson pay legal bills in the 2-year-old case, according to one of the group's leaders. Meanwhile, two Maryland foundations with environmental agendas have poured a comparable amount into supporting the suit filed by the Waterkeepers Alliance… http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bs-gr-chicken-farmer-campaign-20120319,0,1037150,full.story


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Friday, January 06, 2012

Save Farm Families Fundraiser planned for the Hudson Family on February 18, 2012


Save Farm Families Fundraiser planned for the Hudson Family on February 18, 2012

When: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Time: 3:00pm until 8:00pm

At Queen Anne's County 4-H Park; Centreville, MD

The Hudson Family of Berlin, Maryland is being sued by the New York based Waterkeeper Alliance. They operate a poultry and beef farm in Worcester County, Maryland. 100% of the funds raised will go to help the Hudson family pay their legal bills. This event is sponsored by the Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot County Farm Bureaus.


Our goal is simple: Stand up and protect struggling farm families from bankruptcy triggered by extremist groups and their lawsuits.

For more than two centuries, family farms have been critical to the Maryland economy and the state’s way of life. Many of us are the sons and daughters of men and women who farmed, fished and raised their families in every corner of the Free State.

The Maryland Family Farmers Legal Defense Fund, Inc. was created to help Alan and Kristin Hudson, who run a family farm located near Maryland’s Eastern Shore, pay their mounting legal bills and to call attention to the threat that radical groups like the Waterkeeper Alliance pose to every family farm in America. Unless we stop them in the courtroom, Maryland’s largest industry, responsible for 14 percent of the state’s workforce, could disappear forever.


[20120218 Save Farm Families Fundraiser]
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Scientists Warn of Smith Island's Demise, Residents Are Skeptical

Chesapeake Bay

Scientists Warn of Smith Island's Demise, Residents Are Skeptical

The town of Ewell, on Smith Island
Waterways thread through the land near Ewell, one of the three towns on Smith Island. Water has crept closer to the town as it erodes the island's shores. (Photo by Ben Giles)

By Ben Giles
Maryland Newsline
SMITH ISLAND, Md. - Capt. Larry Laird ferries passengers and cargo to and from Smith Island twice a day, each time navigating the narrow channel that grants passage to his boat through the shallow Chesapeake Bay waters.
 A wrong turn to the left or right, and he’ll run his vessel aground.
Shallow waters are part of daily life on Smith Island, the last inhabited island on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay that has no roads connecting it to the mainland. For generations, the water has been the source of the island residents’ livelihood, providing crab in one season and oyster in another.
But now, erosion and rising sea levels in the Chesapeake threaten the island’s existence.
“In the worst-case scenarios, Smith Island could be gone in, let’s say by 2025, 2030 or so,” said Raghu Murtugudde, professor at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center...

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Smigiel Pipkin protest closing the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center

Smigiel Pipkin protest closing the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center

Can you only imagine the outrage of the liberal Maryland media if former Governor Robert Ehrlich had closed the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center?

Delegate Mike Smigiel Press Release:

Contact: Andi Morony September 24, 2009 410-490-2734

For Immediate Release

Delegate Mike Smigiel (R-District 36-Upper Shore) will be joining Senator EJ Pipkin at an all-night vigil in Chestertown, MD to protest the closing of the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center.

"Very few issues touch the community in such a real and significant way as the need for basic services for those who are unable to help themselves. When those issues arise, public servants need to do everything possible. to bring attention to the urgency of the situation." Smigiel said of the vigil.

"The community has been working very hard to save the USCMHC. We, as public officials, must lead the charge to reverse this decision." Smigiel said in reference to the decision to close the center.

"I find it in poor taste and particularly callous that the Governor will attend a $1,000 a plate fundraiser here in Chestertown but cannot find the time to tour this award-winning facility and speak directly with the people most affected by the cuts" Smigiel concluded.

An invitation went to the Governor's office a week ago from the members of the 36th District Legislative Team asking that he come and tour the facility. To date, no response has been received. The high dollar campaign fundraiser is scheduled for this Saturday at 1PM in Chestertown, Md.


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Smigiel Pipkin protest closing Upper MD Shore Community Mental Health Center
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC by Joe Albero

"Fishing" July 23, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff
Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC by Joe Albero

Arts on the Dock is an entertainment filled evening on the docks of one of Ocean City's most scenic marinas, the Ocean City Fishing Center.

[…]

Every Thursday, June 18th - September 24th, from 4:00PM - 8:00PM…

[…]

Are you an artist, who'd like to show at Arts on the Dock? Any Questions? Call the Ocean City Fishing Center at (410) 213-1121.

Read the entire post here: Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC


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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Arts On The Dock Returns To West OC

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Chamber members divided on blogger

I’m never quite sure what to make of folks who are so fragile, so insecure and unsure of their convictions that they are threatened by someone speaking - with whom you disagree.

I mean, let me think about this a moment. Mr. Albero has published a blog, for quite some time now, that is consistently one the top five, if not indeed, the number one ranked blog, in Maryland.

The Chamber event is “the impact of Internet communications on local politics.”

Like him or dislike him, how could you not invite Mr. Albero, for pity sake.

From Joe Albero's "Salisbury News":

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Today's Daily Times Article

Chamber members divided on blogger
Anger rises over speaker pick
By Deborah Gates • Staff Writer • May 10, 2009

SALISBURY -- It's difficult to separate Web loggers from digital-age journalism.

So a public forum on "the impact of Internet communications on local politics" that excludes Salisbury News blog publisher Joe Albero, arguably the region's most politically charged and recognized blogger, is illogical.

At least that was the thinking behind a decision by the Local Legislative Committee of the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce to invite Albero to be a guest speaker at the Thursday morning forum at Wor-Wic Community College in Salisbury.

Apparently, some members of the local business community disagree. The request for participation by the Salisbury News Web log site publisher has caused an uproar among Chamber membership, and some people want the invitation rescinded, said Brad Bellacicco, Chamber executive director.

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Read the rest here: Chamber members divided on blogger

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Sunday, May 06, 2007

20070506 Bay Bridge Walk cancelled due to high winds

Bay Bridge Walk cancelled due to high winds

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Photo info: In this 1952 photograph owned by the Baltimore Sun, “On the opening day, people drove part of the way across and got out to enjoy the view.”

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Walk scheduled for today has been canceled due to high winds – wind gusts up to 45 mph... It will not be re-scheduled.

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Joe Trippi Fighting for his Eastern Shore home

Joe Trippi Fighting for his Eastern Shore home

From the Baltimore Sun: Fighting for his Eastern Shore home By Rona Kobell Sun reporter May 1, 2006

Political campaigner turns grass-roots environmentalist to protect the Chesapeake Bay

WITTMAN -- Just before the sun sets over Cummings Creek, Joe Trippi ambles over to say hello to Yoda, the one-horned goat, and Mrs. Lucky, one of his favorite ducks.

He seems a world away from where he was three years ago: inhaling Diet Pepsi, stuffing his cheeks with Skoal, and trying to elect an obscure former Vermont governor as president of the United States.

These days, when Trippi's not in Italy advising Romano Prodi's campaign or in Moscow addressing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he is here, surrounded by old-growth pines and noisy chickens, trying to safeguard the Eastern Shore's open spaces from fast- encroaching development.

For the past several months, Trippi has quietly been working with the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation in an effort to stop the Blackwater Resort, a 3,200-home development slated to be built near Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and Cambridge. He has joined the board of the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, an organization dedicated to preserving the Shore's rural landscapes.

But his biggest plans are ahead of him. He wants to coordinate grass-roots gatherings and mass Internet drives in the style of the Howard Dean campaign, this time to rile the public about imminent threats to the bay. Trippi hopes to connect people who care about environmental issues, whether or not they live along the estuary and regardless of their political affiliation, and help them collaborate.

It's a different sort of cause for the inveterate campaigner, who has worked seven presidential runs. This one is not ideological, not focused around a cult of personality, and not likely to end anytime soon. It is, he says, about fighting for his home.

[…]

Trippi, 49, still advises congressional candidates, among them Democrat Kweisi Mfume, who is running for U.S. Senate in Maryland. But he seems to have settled in to life on the Eastern Shore.

In a barn on his 47-acre farm between
St. Michaels and Tilghman Island, and just a few creeks away from the weekend homes of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, Trippi is restoring one of the bay's few remaining two-masted wooden bugeyes. A smaller sailboat is tied to his dock.

There are few signs of the rumpled, mile-a-minute talker who ran himself and his young staff ragged. He looks relaxed in his faded jeans, denim jacket and work shirt.

"The second I get over the Bay Bridge, this big sigh of relief happens, and I let go," Trippi said.

[…]

Trippi's ability to tap into voter anger prompted Republican media consultant Frank Luntz to call him for the job of unseating Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Prodi, the challenger, was looking to refine his message and beat the incumbent billionaire. Prodi won by a hair; Berlusconi indicated that he will resign this week.

During their trips to Italy, Luntz said, Trippi spoke often of his beloved farm.

"His comment was, 'If you saw what I see every morning, you'd live there, too,'" Luntz said. "This is something very special to him. This is part of his definition of quality of life. He lives what he preaches."

[…]

Trippi has experience wrangling with developers. In the late 1990s, he and his wife, Kathleen Lash, fell in love at first sight with a 20-acre waterfront farm near
St. Michaels. They bought it that day.

Before long, Trippi said, a developer bought the two large tracts on either side and got Talbot County to upzone all three parcels so his company could build hundreds of houses. By the time Trippi learned what had happened, county officials told him he could do nothing to stop it.

So, when the Cummings Creek farm went up for sale, Trippi offered the developer his farm in exchange. Trippi says his condition was that the company move to the new farm the barn and chicken coop he'd built with his sons. The developer agreed.

Trippi and Lash have settled into their new house, which is actually three structures - a one-room schoolhouse, an old waterman's cottage and a farmhouse fused together. Trippi's longtime friend, Newsweek contributing editor Peter Goldman, said the house is like the man - elements you wouldn't think to put together, but work once they're merged.

"If they try to move me off of this, we'll be seceding from the state of Maryland," Trippi said. "This is where I intend to die. As far as I'm concerned, this is where they're going to bury me."

rona.kobell@baltsun.com

Read the entire article here: Joe Trippi Fighting for his Eastern Shore home

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.trippi01may01,0,3860993.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

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