Farmers Market returns for both days to Lawyer`s Row

July 2nd, 2009

The Farmers Market is now back on Lawyer’s Row, permanently.

Market vendors had unanimously agreed to relocate to Lawyer’s Row on Wednesdays and have now given up on the Millstream Park location for Saturdays, too.

Read more in the Record-Observer

Queenstown OKs budget

July 2nd, 2009

The Queenstown Town Commissioners have approved a $796,235 budget for fiscal year 2010 that is $73,195 lower than last year’s spending package and includes no tax increase.

The budget approved unanimously at the commissioners’ June 23 meeting also gives the town a surplus of $65,670 as a result of an increase in unrestricted net assets.

“There aren’t many subdivisions that can do that,” Finance Committee Chairman Mike Bowell said after the commissioners approved the budget. Read the rest of this entry »

Block Party - July 17, 2009

July 2nd, 2009

Block Party Poster

Terrapin Run back in court

July 1st, 2009

Terrapin Run is back in court.

The Board of Allegany County Commissioners joined with Terrapin Run LLC to file suit against two state agencies alleging actions tantamount to taking of the property. Read the rest of this entry »

Centreville`s population now 3,458

July 1st, 2009

According to the latest figures from the US Census, Centreville`s population was estimated to be 3,458 as of July 1, 2008.

This is an increase of 4.2% from 2007 and is much lower than the 13.3% increase of the previous year. However, Centreville continues to grow faster than other large nearby Towns like Chestertown, Denton, and Easton.

Public Hearing - July 16, 2009

June 30th, 2009

6:30 pm
Goodwill Volunteer Fire Company
First Floor Meeting Room

The Town Council of Centreville will hold a public hearing to discuss a proposed text amendment to the Centreville Code to increase the allowable square footage for a convenience store from less than 2,000 square feet to less than 3,500 square feet. The hearing will be held in the first floor meeting room at the Goodwill Volunteer Fire Company. The public is welcome and invited to attend.

Meetings set next week for proposed MSP chopper move

June 30th, 2009

The Maryland State Police Aviation Command will hold two public meetings regarding the possible relocation of the Trooper 6 helicopter base from Centreville to the Easton Airport. Read the rest of this entry »

Petition against tax submitted

June 29th, 2009

Town residents hoping to force a referendum on Princess Anne’s fiscal 2010 budget turned in a petition Friday that is still short by 40 signatures.

Since the deadline for the petition falls on Sunday, when town offices are closed, the group is allowed to turn in additional names Monday morning, said Beechwood Street resident John Nicholson, who headed the petition drive. Read the rest of this entry »

Officials travel to meeting despite protest

June 29th, 2009

If the adage, “it’s not what you know, but whom you know,” holds true, politicians from cash-strapped towns and cities are banking it’s true at the Maryland Municipal League’s annual convention, where they expect to rub elbows with controllers of state coffers. Read the rest of this entry »

Bloomfield slowly turning from working farm to park

June 29th, 2009

Sealed bids for leasing up to 40 acres of the former Bloomfield Farm on Route 213 just north of Centreville for a vineyard will be opened next Tuesday, June 30, by the Queen Anne’s County commissioners.

That was not what farm owner William V. (Bill) Riggs III had in mind when he agreed, in the closing months of 2005, to sell the 300-acre farm to the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC).
“I thought they were in business to preserve farmland,” Riggs said. “I thought it was going to be a showcase for agriculture.” Read the rest of this entry »