Published March 23, 2007
NEWARK - The Worcester County Board of Education on
Tuesday night unanimously adopted the school system's proposed operating budget
for fiscal year 2008, which comes to around $87.3 million when all sources of
revenue are added in, and will submit the document to the County Commissioners
for approval next month.
The total proposed budget of $87.3 million includes a
requested total county allocation of around $70.7 million from Worcester County
with the balance coming from the state in...
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Published March 23, 2007
SNOW
HILL - Water quality in the coastal bays is getting worse, not better, reported
Dave Goshorn of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Dave
Blazer of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) to the Worcester County
Commissioners Tuesday.
'We
have a lot of red flags going off,' said Dave Blazer, director of MCBP.
Monthly
water quality monitoring of the Atlantic Coastal Bays has shown a leveling off
of improvement and even a decline in quality in some places,...
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Published March 23, 2007
ANNAPOLIS - The controversial Chesapeake Bay Green Fund,
criticized in Worcester because it would charge local citizens to help clean up
the Chesapeake Bay without returning any money to the local Atlantic coastal
bays, underwent a major transformation late yesterday including a change in the
name to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coastal Bays Green Fund.
The bill as initially submitted basically established an
onerous new fee based on the amount of impervious surface created by...
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