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Cecil County Life: Community Connecting Us aligns with local agencies and neighbors to celebrate the alchemy of what happens when people come together
Additional photos courtesy of Community Connecting Us. On April 22 – under the direction of Ralf Schmitt – the Roedean Girls Choir of Johannesburg, South Africa performed a breathtaking concert at the historic Tome Memorial Church in Port Deposit, now the Cultural and Wellness Center of Community Connecting Us (CCU). Tilting back their heads and singing in pure harmony at the altar, the chorus of their voices reverberated around the old church, and each selection celebrated the universal language of song.
Fire At Vacant Home Known To Have Trespassers In Cecil County Under Investigation
Dozens of firefighters responded at around 2:40 a.m. on June 26 to a home on Stevenson Road in North East, when a passerby reported the fire. According to the Maryland Fire Marshal, the blaze started in a bedroom on the second floor of the home, which has been vacant for several years.
Leatherwood retires after practicing dentistry in Cecil County for 48 years
NORTH EAST — Suzanne Leffew has been working at the Indian Falls Dental Center in North East for only three months. But even so, the newest dental assistant on the close-knit staff already knows full well how respected and adored Dr. Dave Leatherwood is. “I have never seen so many patients cry saying their goodbyes,” Leffew marveled. The tears are because Leatherwood, 74, is retiring after serving as a dentist...
Fatal crossbow shooting in Conowingo leads to murder indictment
ELKTON — A man has been charged with murder and other offenses after a Cecil County grand jury handed up a six-count indictment against him on Thursday, five months after he allegedly shot a crossbow arrow into a woman inside of his Conowingo residence — killing her, according to court records. Cecil County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested the defendant — Jeffrey Allen Lander, 41 — at his residence in the 700 block of Bell Manor Road in Conowingo late Thursday night, hours after the grand...
18th century house burns down in Cecil County, $2.5M in damages
(WBFF) — A house built in the 18th century burned down in Cecil County on Monday, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Around 2:40 p.m., a fire broke out at 125 Conestoga St. in Charlestown. The historic, approximately 4,000-square-foot home overlooked the North East River and...
Historic Cecil County Home Built In 1792 Destroyed By Two-Alarm Blaze: Fire Marshal
An estimated $2.5 million in damage was reported in Charlestown, when a residence known by local residents as the Eagle Point Rod and Gun Club went up in flames on Monday. Dozens of firefighters from the Charlestown Volunteer Fire Company and nearby agencies responded to the historic residence on Conestoga Street at around 2:40 p.m. on June 24, when a neighbor reported a fire at the 4,000-square-foot residence.
Maryland’s Blueprint reform plan is pouring billions into education. So why are schools facing budget cuts?
In a county boardroom 4 miles away from the Delaware border, the five members of the Cecil County Board of Education grew increasingly worried about the state of the school system’s finances. Federal pandemic-relief dollars used to prop up the budget the past three years are gone. Inflation and health care costs have ballooned. Starting salaries for teachers need to be raised to $60,000 by ...
Folks find ways to keep cool as heat wave hits Cecil County
CECIL COUNTY — The first heat wave of this summer hit over the weekend, driving people willing to leave the comfort of their air-conditioned homes to swimming pools, ice cream stands and other such places in Cecil County that offered cool respites. A heat wave is a “period of abnormally hot weather generally lasting more than two days,” according to the National Weather Service. Those in the overall community of meteorologists agree, however, that the term “heat wave” applies when, more specifically, there have been...
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