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From the eBlast:
“The information below was in an email I received from David Myerberg, Chairman, DCL Policy and Review Board, on September 12, 2013. He requested I forward it to our membership due to rumors that have been circulating that some unusual water releases were planned that would cause a dramatic drop in lake levels. The lake water levels can always be checked at the POA website or the Deep Creek Hydro site. The email information follows:
I just finished a conversation with Eric Null regarding the projected effects on lake levels from the dam releases planned for the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th of September, 2013. As you know, during that week, Brookfield is permitted to have three releases, including one on Saturday. They are also permitted to have three additional releases for the week leading to the Gauley Fest. Although the Gauley Fest is in Summersville, WV, it attracts a large number of kayakers and rafters to Garrett County. “….more here.
The investigation into these eagle deaths excluded the deadliest place in the country for eagles, which kills more than 60 per year.
WASHINGTON — Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists.
The research represents one of the first tallies of eagle deaths attributed to the nation’s growing wind energy industry, which has been a pillar of President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming. Wind power releases no air pollution.
But at a minimum, the scientists wrote, wind farms in 10 states have killed at least 85 eagles since 1997, with most deaths occurring between 2008 and 2012, as the industry was greatly expanding. Most deaths — 79 — were golden eagles that struck wind turbines. One of the eagles counted in the study was electrocuted by a power line.
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A cool pic of Swallow Falls from a few weeks back –
West Virginia was the last state to break off from another. Now, 150 years later, a 49-year-old information technology consultant wants to apply the knife to Maryland’s five western counties. “The people are the sovereign,” says Scott Strzelczyk, leader of the fledgling Western Maryland Initiative, and the western sovereigns are fed up with Annapolis’s liberal majority, elected by the state’s other sovereigns.
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“If you think you have a long list of grievances and it’s been going on for decades, and you can’t get it resolved, ultimately this is what you have to do,” says Strzelczyk, who lives in New Windsor, a historic town of 1,400 people in Carroll County. “Otherwise you are trapped.”
By: HEATHER HANSMAN
OAKLAND — The Garrett County commissioners will conduct a public hearing Sept. 24 to review a petition submitted by Bill Meagher to amend the Deep Creek Watershed zoning ordinance to include a new category of use for boat rentals not offering any services associated with a marina.
In July, the Garrett County Planning Commission voted to recommend that county commissioners endorse Meagher’s petition.
The public hearing will take place at 5 p.m. in Room 203 of the courthouse.
Greg LarryCumberland Times-News
CUMBERLAND — David Cox and Janet Wilson, the school superintendents for Allegany and Garrett County, respectively, along with Garrett College President Richard MacLennan, gave an update on the challenges currently facing education at a meeting Thursday of The Greater Cumberland Committee.
“We are moving toward having assessments that increase the demand of our kids cognitive skills. It’s been long overdue,” said Wilson, during the luncheon at the Cumberland Country Club.
Wilson and Cox gave a joint talk on the new curriculum and testing assessments being implemented in Maryland’s public schools known as Common Core, which is being phased in with the goal of the new system replacing traditional assessments by 2015.
For years, Maryland students were assessed by two tests: Elementary and middle school students took the Maryland Standard Assessment and grades 9 through 12 were given the High School Assessments.
Before Wilson and Cox spoke on the Common Core, MacLennan gave committee members in attendance an overview of the challenges facing education today.
MacLennan said the demand for workers with some level of higher education is continuing to rise.
“About two thirds of all employment will require some college education,” he said.
An estimated 81 million Baby Boomers will leave the job market, according to MacLennan, in the next 18 to 20 years, creating a high demand for educated workers.
“There is a sense of urgency here,” said MacLennan.
He also spoke on the skyrocketing student loan debt.
“Last year, student loan debt surpassed credit card debt nationally. It is closing on $1.12 trillion now. It increases by $2,853 every minute,” said MacLennan.
MacLennan stressed the need to close the gap between employer needs and workplace readiness through education.
“We are 16th in the world in our graduation rate. Today, 13 million attend a community college while only 25 percent will earn an associate degree within four years,” he said.
MacLennan also said that early college access during high school is critical.
“We know that those who get some college-level exposure while in high school will do better in college and are more likely to graduate,” he said.
Following MacLennan’s presentation, Cox and Wilson explained the Common Core assesment for K-12 students, known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
Wilson and Cox both think that Common Core can add to the quality of Maryland’s public education standards.
The educators pointed out that Maryland has ranked number one in the U.S., based on six levels of criteria, by the trade publication Education Week, for the last five years.
“The old testing was basically multiple choice questions with the students regurgitating the content,” said Cox.
The educators said the new PARCC testing will stress analytical, abstract and quantitative reasoning.
The tests will stress the coordination between math and science and language arts by requiring the student to defend or argue their answers using their technical language.
“The students will use computers and utilize models as well,” said Wilson.
Wilson described moving from the traditional MSA and HSA testing method to PARCC as “going from the rural dirt road to the highway.”
The educators said the Common Core has been vetted by business, researchers and education.
“This is the most monumental change I have seen in 33 years in education,” said Cox.
Greg Larry can be contacted at glarry@times-news.com.
Flash flooding occurred in several areas of Garrett County last evening, as a hard rain fell for some time on the already well-saturated ground, causing streams and rivers to back up. Low-lying areas became temporary ponds, including places along roadways. This is B Street in Mountain Lake Park in the early evening. Matthew Friend, a resident of the area, came upon the sight as he headed home and took the picture. A number of other photographs popped up on Facebook over several hours last night, as residents found similar scenes across the county. The waters have receded today, and a partly sunny weekend is in the forecast, although more thunderstorms may also come by.
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