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January 15, 2021
PRINCESS ANNE, Md. – The Main Street Princess Anne organization is now nationally recognized. It was designated as a 2020 accredited Main Street America program. “We worked really closely with the town of Princess Anne, with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, with the Somerset County government. We also worked with local business owners,” said Main Street Princess Anne Manager Carrie Samis.
Samis says this is exciting news, as it will provide extra support for local businesses. “We have access to that network of organizations and individuals who really help to guide us and give us connections – folks we can reach out to when we’re looking for advice,” said Samis.
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In the decade and a half
Ron Davis has spent coaching the Howard University women’s bowling team, he’s never led a group quite like the one he did last winter. The Bison won a program-best 50 matches and qualified for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament for the second straight year. The players spoke excitedly about the chance to bowl for the title to cap off their historic season.
Then, shortly before the team was set to leave for the MEAC championships in Chesapeake, Virginia, in late March, the conference suspended its basketball and bowling tournaments and spring sports season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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January 7, 2021
MARYLAND – There are about 700 bills that area pre-filed for the 2021 General Assembly legislative session. The Eastern Shore’s elected officials say regardless of the troubling events that unfolded in the nation’s capitol Wednesday, they’re ready to move forward and make progress. “Yesterday is going to be gone. Next week we are all going to Annapolis, and it’s very important that everybody is on the same page,” said Delegate John Mautz.
Kirwan Commission Veto
Including taking another look at the Kirwan Commission’s Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, which Maryland Governor Larry Hogan vetoed in May of 2020. Speaker Pro Tempore Sheree Sample-Hughes says she plans to work towards overriding that veto in order to secure more funding for Maryland’s schools. “We’re at a stage now in leadership where we are working to identify what all those details would look like as we move closer to next week,” said Speaker Pro Tempore Sample- Hughes
January 1, 2021
Clement Lee Counts III, Ph.D., also known as “That Clam and Snail Guy,” “Dude,” “Doc,” and “Daddy,” 74, of Salisbury, Md., passed away Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, at Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional Medical Center surrounded by loving family. He was a man who lived a life of scholarship, learning, exploration and teaching.
Born in Huntington, W.Va., Oct. 3, 1946, Clem graduated from Chesapeake High School, Chesapeake, Ohio, in 1965, and briefly studied fine arts at Ohio University. He later attended Marshall University where he developed a lifelong passion for science. He graduated with a B.A. in zoology and a chemistry minor, and was elected to Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and Chi Beta Phi, the National Scientific Honorary Fraternity. Having discovered he loved college, he decided never to leave, earning his M.S. in biological sciences from Marshall University under Dr. Ralph W. Taylor, and his Ph.D. from the University of De