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Carozza attends Kirwan Commission meeting Ocean City Today    By Brian Gilliland | Jan 25, 2018 (Jan. 26, 2018) Del. Mary Beth Carozza attended a briefing this past week from the Kirwan Commission, which is expected to deliver a recommendation concerning statewide funding of public schools at the end of the session, prepared for members of the ...  Educational Consortium requests legislative initiatives By HANNAH COMBS [email protected] Feb 14, 2018  ANNAPOLIS — Superintendent of Talbot County Public Schools and current academic year President of the Eastern Shore of Maryland’s Educational Consortium Kelly Griffith presented to the Eastern Shore Delegation Feb. 9 in Annapolis. Griffith along with the nine superintendents from the Eastern Shore school districts requested the support of their six legislative initiatives. Funding, capital projects, technology, assessments, local control, and teacher shortages are the top priorities facing the school districts on the Shore, Griffith said.

Hogan's Budget

Hogan’s budget is good news for local projects Salisbury Independent  Jan 24th, 2018 · by Susan Canfora ·   Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposed $17.7 billion, FY19 budget is being praised by local officials and state lawmakers as being written with the Lower Shore in mind, a testament to the strong relationship among Salisbury, Wicomico County and state... Hogan’s budget pays for design work and construction on the water line extension to the airport at a cost of $1.9 million.

More on H2O

H2Oi, Cruisin’: Officials weigh fines, other venues amid 'mayhem' Susan Parker, [email protected] Published 6:00 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2018 | Updated 8:32 p.m. ET Jan. 18, 2018 In the wake of problems that occurred during the 2017 H2O International and Endless Summer Cruisin' events in Ocean City, the Motor Event Task Force was created to address some of the issues that increasingly come with the resort's car-themed events. The first meeting in December established specific areas for members to investigate, primarily ways for the town to lessen some of the immediate impact of these events. And by impact, officials mean disrespect for both the community and law enforcement, loud noises into the wee hours of the morning, law-breaking and general mayhem and disregard for everyone in the resort. The task force met for the second time Wednesday, Jan. 17, at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center, to solidify a strategy.

Special Events

Special Event Zone Idea Advances With Legislation Planned In Annapolis  The Dispatch   Jan 11,2018 by Shawn Soper   A vehicle is pictured spinning out on Baltimore Avenue in Ocean City during the H2Oi weekend. File Photo OCEAN CITY — Legislation creating special enforcement zones to help stem some of the issues associated with the mobilized special events in Ocean City will be introduced in this General Assembly session. After several troubling motorized special events in Ocean City, resort officials began exploring ways to curb some of the illicit activity associated with the events. Last November, it was standing room only in the Mayor and Council chamber as the elected officials got their first look at a list of recommendations from the police commission that included eliminating or at least curtailing some of the motorized special events.

Grants for Mental Health

Two Grants Totaling $250K To Expand Worcester Mental Health Care Services The Dispatch   Dec 07,2017 by Bethany Hooper Pictured, from left, are Maryland Community Health Resources Commission Chair Dr. Allan Anderson, Delegate Mary Beth Carozza, Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Executive Director Steven Taylor and Maryland Community Health Resources Commission Executive Director Mark Luckner. Photo by Bethany Hooper BERLIN – Two grants totaling $250,000 are expected to expand mental health services in Worcester County. On Wednesday, officials with Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services announced the nonprofit had secured $250,000 in grants to fund two clinicians over the course of two years.

Carozza to challenge Mathias for Maryland Senate seat

Delegate Mary Beth Carozza, a Republican who was elected to represent District 38C four years ago, announced Sunday she will challenge incumbent Sen. Jim Mathias, a Democrat, in the 2018 election. "I believe it is my calling," Carozza told a large group that gathered Sunday at Ocean City Elementary School. Carozza, 56, grew up in Ocean City, where her family operated a drive-through restaurant called Beefy’s. She graduated from Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin and the Catholic University of America in Washington, where she earned joint BA and MA degrees.

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School Funding

Carozza attends Kirwan Commission meeting

Ocean City Today    By Brian Gilliland | Jan 25, 2018

(Jan. 26, 2018) Del. Mary Beth Carozza attended a briefing this past week from the Kirwan Commission, which is expected to deliver a recommendation concerning statewide funding of public schools at the end of the session, prepared for members of the ...

 Educational Consortium requests legislative initiatives

 ANNAPOLIS — Superintendent of Talbot County Public Schools and current academic year President of the Eastern Shore of Maryland’s Educational Consortium Kelly Griffith presented to the Eastern Shore Delegation Feb. 9 in Annapolis.

Griffith along with the nine superintendents from the Eastern Shore school districts requested the support of their six legislative initiatives. Funding, capital projects, technology, assessments, local control, and teacher shortages are the top priorities facing the school districts on the Shore, Griffith said.


Hogan's Budget

Hogan’s budget is good news for local projects

 

Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposed $17.7 billion, FY19 budget is being praised by local officials and state lawmakers as being written with the Lower Shore in mind, a testament to the strong relationship among Salisbury, Wicomico County and state...

Hogan’s budget pays for design work and construction on the water line extension to the airport at a cost of $1.9 million.


More on H2O

H2Oi, Cruisin’: Officials weigh fines, other venues amid 'mayhem'

Susan Parker, [email protected] Published 6:00 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2018 | Updated 8:32 p.m. ET Jan. 18, 2018

In the wake of problems that occurred during the 2017 H2O International and Endless Summer Cruisin' events in Ocean City, the Motor Event Task Force was created to address some of the issues that increasingly come with the resort's car-themed events.

The first meeting in December established specific areas for members to investigate, primarily ways for the town to lessen some of the immediate impact of these events.

And by impact, officials mean disrespect for both the community and law enforcement, loud noises into the wee hours of the morning, law-breaking and general mayhem and disregard for everyone in the resort.

The task force met for the second time Wednesday, Jan. 17, at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center, to solidify a strategy.


Special Events

Special Event Zone Idea Advances With Legislation Planned In Annapolis

 

Special Event Zone Idea Advances With Legislation Planned In Annapolis
A vehicle is pictured spinning out on Baltimore Avenue in Ocean City during the H2Oi weekend. File Photo

OCEAN CITY — Legislation creating special enforcement zones to help stem some of the issues associated with the mobilized special events in Ocean City will be introduced in this General Assembly session.

After several troubling motorized special events in Ocean City, resort officials began exploring ways to curb some of the illicit activity associated with the events. Last November, it was standing room only in the Mayor and Council chamber as the elected officials got their first look at a list of recommendations from the police commission that included eliminating or at least curtailing some of the motorized special events.


Grants for Mental Health

Two Grants Totaling $250K To Expand Worcester Mental Health Care Services

The Dispatch   Dec 07,2017 by Bethany Hooper

Pictured, from left, are Maryland Community Health Resources Commission Chair Dr. Allan Anderson, Delegate Mary Beth Carozza, Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Executive Director Steven Taylor and Maryland Community Health Resources Commission Executive Director Mark Luckner. Photo by Bethany Hooper

BERLIN – Two grants totaling $250,000 are expected to expand mental health services in Worcester County.

On Wednesday, officials with Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services announced the nonprofit had secured $250,000 in grants to fund two clinicians over the course of two years.


Carozza to challenge Mathias for Maryland Senate seat

Delegate Mary Beth Carozza, a Republican who was elected to represent District 38C four years ago, announced Sunday she will challenge incumbent Sen. Jim Mathias, a Democrat, in the 2018 election.

"I believe it is my calling," Carozza told a large group that gathered Sunday at Ocean City Elementary School.

Carozza, 56, grew up in Ocean City, where her family operated a drive-through restaurant called Beefy’s. She graduated from Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin and the Catholic University of America in Washington, where she earned joint BA and MA degrees.


Mary Beth Carozza for State Senate