Princess Anne

PRINCESS ANNE -- Incumbents Robert W. Erickson and Carol O. Wink easily won re-election to their seats on the Princess Anne town commission yesterday after a heated campaign that had candidates claiming their opponents were a threat to good government.In Princess Anne's 1st District, Mr. Erickson defeated challenger Robert W. Nittel, 119-82. In the 2nd District, Mrs. Wink won over Joseph J. Minor, 68-38.The 307 votes cast represented a record turnout in the Somerset County seat of about 1,700 residents, said Wilmer O. Lankford, president of the town election board.

Margaret B. Tyler, a former Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customer service representative, died Aug. 5 from complications of dementia at Cadia Rehabilitation in Millsboro, Del. She was 96. The former Margaret Beulah Knochel was born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown. She was a 1933 graduate of Eastern High School where she excelled in French, fencing and archery. She was married in 1939 to Oliver T. Tyler, an aeronautical engineer, who later became an executive with the old Glenn L. Martin Co. and the Boeing Co. He died in 1984.

A 30-year-old Princess Anne man was arrested Thursday and charged with raping a 26-year-old Jessup woman nearly two months ago.Weldon William Ward was charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sex offense, false imprisonment and battery.Ward was released during the weekend on $10,000 bail.A warrant for Ward's arrest had been issued shortly after the April 22 attack.That night, the victim had been with a man at The Place, a bar on Old Telegraph Road in Anne Arundel County.The two had been drinking and decided to go to an all-night restaurant.

New York City has its descending ball. Miami Beach has its giant orange. And Princess Anne has its stuffed muskrat. At midnight Saturday, the town of 2,400 people in Somerset County will become the latest in a line of Maryland communities — and scores of towns across the country — to embrace a growing tradition: dropping a locally significant if less than elegant object from a great height as a way of welcoming the new year. "The muskrat is a part of our heritage, and we wanted to drop something relevant to us," said Ben Adler, director of the Princess Anne Main Street Partnership, one of the brains behind the plan.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Princess Anne, one of the most expensive ferry boats built in the U.S. and which plied the Chesapeake Bay for nearly three decades, was sunk yesterday full of rust and memories as the newest addition to Palm Beach County's artificial reef."

PRINCESS ANNE -- Being ranked last on the list of leading sports cities in America came as a cultural shock, a literary knockdown pitch that has upset the normally tranquil pace of this quaint and quiet community on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where spectacular fields of corn stretch to infinity and even unannounced visitors from the big city are welcomed as if they're home folks.Princess Anne feels as if it took a belittling brush from The Sporting News, which history tells us is the nation's oldest publication dealing with fun, games and box scores.

PRINCESS ANNE -- The state Department of Economic and Employment Development has approved a request by Princess Anne officials to create an enterprise zone in their town, boosting hopes that the Somerset County seat can provide badly needed jobs for its unemployed."

Yielding to pressure from the ACLU of Maryland, Princess Anne has agreed to repeal a law that allowed nonresident property owners to vote in municipal elections.The Somerset County town reached an out-of-court settlement with the state's American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a federal lawsuit Feb. 16 challenging the voting law."We're really pleased it was resolved this quickly," said Elliott D. Andalman, a lawyer for the ACLU.The consent decree, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, was signed yesterday by Senior Judge Joseph H. Young.

New York City has its descending ball. Miami Beach has its giant orange. And Princess Anne has its stuffed muskrat. At midnight Saturday, the town of 2,400 people in Somerset County will become the latest in a line of Maryland communities — and scores of towns across the country — to embrace a growing tradition: dropping a locally significant if less than elegant object from a great height as a way of welcoming the new year. "The muskrat is a part of our heritage, and we wanted to drop something relevant to us," said Ben Adler, director of the Princess Anne Main Street Partnership, one of the brains behind the plan.

When most people travel abroad, they fall in love with and buy little mementos to bring home - a sweater, a figurine, an "I fell for Niagara" shot glass. But when a Swiss couple visited friends on the Eastern Shore during a three-week American vacation in the fall of 1993, they fell in love with a house.A big, three-story house listed on the National Register of Historic Places that lay on the empty Mount Vernon road between Princess Anne and the town of Mount Vernon - in other words, a great big renovation project in just about the middle of nowhere.

The Sporting News has released its annual list of the best sports cities in the United States, and for a second consecutive year, Baltimore ranked 29th on the list. Go ahead and blame it on the Blast not winning the MISL title. According to the publication , the rankings aren't solely based on winning championships (but they certainly help). For a 12-month span from summer 2010 to summer 2011, point values were assigned to categories such as win-loss records, postseason appearances, “applicable power ratings,” the number of teams and attendance.

Maryland State Police said Sunday that they were investigating after a dead body with "signs of trauma" was found in a wooded area of Somerset County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The body — police did not specify whether male or female — was discovered by members of the Supreme Council of the House of Jacob Church in Princess Anne while they were in the woods behind the building Sunday afternoon. A Wicomico County woman went missing on Labor Day, but state police said they had no confirmation Sunday that the body is hers.

There are 280 children in Frederick County enrolled in Head Start. To support the program the county spends $2.3 million and the federal government matches the county's contribution, for a total cost of $4.6 million to taxpayers. Long division is not my strong point, but that comes to $16,428.57 per kid if I'm not mistaken. Every study of Head Start shows there is no — zip, none, not an iota of — long-term learning advantage for kids enrolled in the program. Head Start is two things: an employment opportunity for a failed program and an expensive baby-sitting service.

Oliver Wendel Laird A memorial service will be held Friday evening at 7 P.M. at Hinman Funeral Home in Princess Anne. Rev. Jerry Bozman will officiate. Contributions in his memory may be made to Coastal Hospice, PO Box 1733, Salisbury, MD 21802-1733. Visit www.hinmanfuneralhome.com to send condolences to the family.

Group to hold 5-kilometer, 1-mile fundraising runs PRINCESS ANNE - Therapeutic Alternatives of Maryland will hold a 5-kilometer run and hike and a 1-mile fun run at 10:30 a.m. Saturday through Cromwell Valley Park. The fundraiser is taking place in partnership with the Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks and the Baltimore Road Runners Club, organizers said. The run and hike will be cross country-style, and the walk will be wheelchair-accessible. T-shirts and prizes will be offered.

Dr. David A. Patterson A memorial service will be held Friday, September 19th at 2:00 P.M. at the Manokin Presbyterian Church, 11892 Somerset Ave., Princess Anne, MD 21813. A Friends Hour will begin at 1:00 P.M. prior to the service. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made in his name to the Seton Center Catholic Charities, Attn: Sister Regina Hudson, PO Box 401, Princess Anne, MD 21853.

Edwin B. "Ed" Sinclair, 75, of Princess Anne, formerly of Baltimore, died March 1, 2007. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 2pm at Hinman Funeral Home in Princess Anne, MD, where friends may call Saturday from 6 to 8pm and on Sunday one hour prior to the service. Interment will be held in the family cemetery in Princess Anne.

On October 16, 2003, NANCY LEE PARKS-WANTZ, age 70, of Princess Anne, MD, died at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. A funeral service will be held Saturday at 11 AM at First Baptist Church in Princess Anne, MD, where friends may call one hour prior to the service. Friends may also call Friday evening at Hinman Funeral Home in Princess Anne from 7 to 9pm. Contributions may be made to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, PO Box 650309, Dallas, Texas 75265-0309. Arrangements are being handled by Hinman Funeral Home in Princess Anne.

Lucretia H. Harris, a retired Somerset County housekeeper and cook who was recently honored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and who established a scholarship in her name on her 100th birthday, died Saturday at Manokin Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Princess Anne. Mrs. Harris, who was diagnosed three days before her death with leukemia, had lived at Manokin Manor for three years. She celebrated her 100th birthday June 21 at a party with family and friends on the UMES campus in Princess Anne, at which time the scholarship in her name was unveiled.

Two jailers sue over firing for hair incident FREDERICK -- Two Frederick County jailers who were fired for forcing a female inmate to have her hair extensions cut have sued the county government, claiming they were wrongly terminated. The Frederick News-Post reports that former Sgt. Andrew Adelsberger is seeking $500,000 in damages, while former Cpl. Samuel Stottlemyer just wants his job back. Both were fired after inmate Sherelle Showell was pepper-sprayed and placed in a restraint chair so that a nurse could cut off her hair extensions after she refused to remove them last November.