Happening this week around Cecil County â¦
Sonny Beaâs Floral & Event Design is branching out and adding a second location in Oxford; Sonny Beaâs Floral Studio, with a specific market in mind.
âThis will be our floral design location for weddings,â said
Natalie Weaver, who opened the first Sonny Beaâs in Nov. 2019 in the Oxford Square Shopping Center. âWe want to expand our bridal options.â
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âThe flowers could be pressed and dried or placed in resin,â Weaver said.
Weaver said funeral arrangements would also be fulfilled here because of the additional floor space, which is helpful for grave blankets and other large arrangements.
The Senate never took up the Moving Forward Act. But housing advocates continue to focus on repealing the Faircloth Amendment. The New York Times recently ran an op-ed labeling a repeal of the rule as the “first step to addressing the country’s housing affordability problem.” On the other side, Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution, recently argued that “focusing debate on the Faircloth Amendment is a red herring a political distraction from more tangible obstacles to low-cost housing.”
Here’s a look at the basics.
What is the Faircloth Amendment?
The Faircloth Amendment was a provision of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. It amended the Housing Act of 1937, which authorized federal financial assistance to help states and housing authorities provide housing for low-income people. The amendment says, “a public housing agency may not use any of the amounts allocated for the agency from
More renters seek help as relief program struggles to keep up
The state reports there are 2,000 rent relief applications filed before Dec. 31 still being processed, and renters say they are running out of savings.
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Brandon Marshall of South Portland is a gig worker and author who tried to get rental assistance but gave up after two months of waiting and being unable to get any assurance that he would be granted relief.
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Martin Murray lost his job working in a visitor information booth in Portland when the pandemic hit in March.
The part-time job and his Social Security income covered the $700 a month rent for his studio apartment on Stevens Avenue and helped keep bills paid and food in the cupboard.