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Friday, March 18, 2011
Explore Carroll: Commissioners help mark National Red Cross Month
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
The first Carroll County Board of Commissioners met on Friday, January 27, 1837
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Thursday, December 02, 2010
The miserable condition of the road leading from Oakland Mills to the Liberty pike
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Carroll County Commissioners to hold news conference on budget
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Vivian Laxton, Carroll County government public information administrator: The Board of County Commissioners will be holding a news conference at 5 p.m. today in the Public Hearing Room (003) of the County Office Building to discuss Carroll County’s budget. The County Office Building is located at 225 North Center Street in Westminster. Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
20080807 “La Policía” © by Kevin Dayhoff
Writer’s note: A shortened version of this appeared in the Sunday Carroll Eagle on August 17, 2008: “And now, for this week’s installment of ‘La Policia,’ in the Opinion section of the paper.
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Carroll County’s reputation for low crime and an aggressive approach to public safety is not a recent phenomenon.
Over 80 years ago on July 16, 1925, the editor of the American Sentinel newspaper in Westminster, Joseph D. Brooks wrote that many “years ago Carroll county was known to criminals all over the state as an ‘open door to the penitentiary,’ and many there were who entered by way of that door.”
However, as one can imagine when a community determines any public policy to be of paramount importance there are bound to be impassioned conflicts and dramas.
Writing for the Historical Society of Carroll County in 2001, Jay Graybeal noted in his introduction of the 1925 newspaper article, “Why the Listlessness of the Sheriffs of Carroll County?”; that it seems that Mr. Brooks had become unhappy with the Carroll County sheriff and state’s attorney and was letting them know that in no uncertain terms.
Carroll County history is replete with colorful conflicts, many of operatic proportions, between the Carroll County board of commissioners, the Carroll County delegation to Annapolis, the state’s attorney’s office, and the sheriff.
In the most recent act of this ongoing opera, on October 4, 2007 the Carroll County board of commissioners opted to move forward with a plan to form a county police department headed by an appointed chief of police.
Not willing to disappoint future historians, troubadours from far-flung regions of the Carroll County Empire then entered the stage and chaos ensued. I read several of the news accounts with the soundtrack of “Les Misérables” playing in the background.
The only disappointment is that Victor Hugo, the author of the classic 1862 novel, is not available to write about it.
Just as with any good storytelling, “La Policía” the current epic Carroll County constitutional conflict over the future of the police in Carroll County has many layers, story lines, strong personalities, and plot twists.
The frenzied operatic moments are reminiscent of what a collaboration between the famous 19th-century composer Richard Wagner and his father-in-law, Franz Liszt, would have looked like; with the emphasis of folks attempting to promote a plan for the future that cannot escape the past.
The very first act of La Policía is borrowed from Les Misérables. As the curtains rise, the scene before the bewildered citizen audience is the barricaded Carroll County office building.
It’s August 7, 2008 and the commissioners have just voted 2-1 to not move forward with the October 4, 2007 police plan.
As the smoke rises from the stage, there is a break in the action as members of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department are storming the barricades.
Blinking red and blue police lights reflect back and forth in the fog of the smoke.
In the background, the delegation to Annapolis forms the chorus and is softly singing.
The three commissioners are standing on top of the barricades. Commissioners Mike Zimmer and Dean Minnich are on either side of Julia Gouge, holding her steady as she waves an oversized Carroll County flag.
Office building employees have broken out the windows and are showering the storming sheriff’s deputies with office furniture.
The stage is littered with burning newspapers as the local media has shelled all the participants with folded newspapers shot from makeshift artillery.
Off to the side, Channel 13 news reporter Mike Schuh is attempting to interview Westminster Police Chief Jeff Spaulding. The only thing is - the chief has the 1971 Led Zeppelin classic, “The Battle of Evermore,” coincidentally, the title of the first act of La Policía, cranked-up so loud on the car stereo, no one can hear a thing.
Inside the office building the receptionist, Kay Church, is serving cookies, answering the phones and has armed herself with a salad shooter and big bag of carrots.
Ted Zaleski, the director of management and budget is huddled off to the side with Vivian Laxton, the public information administrator as they try and figure out who is playing what character from Les Misérables.
All of the sudden there is silence on the stage as famed local historian; Jay Graybeal emerges from the fog as a narrator, smiles and begins to softly tell the story of the history of the sheriff’s department.
“When Carroll County was founded in 1837, one of the first tasks…” of the newly formed government was to elect a sheriff. As with many aspects of early American government, its origins date back to the history of mother England.
According to some undocumented notes, “1200 years ago, England was inhabited by Anglo-Saxons. Groups of a hundred would ban together and form communities known as a “tun,” from where we get the word, “town.”
Every group of a hundred, or “tun,” as led by a “reeve,” which was the forerunner of what we now know as a chief of police.
According to Mr. Brooks, the reeve was “charged with the execution of the laws … and the preservation of the peace, and, in some cases having judicial powers. He was the King’s reeve, or steward over a shire … — a distinctive royal officer, appointed by the king, dismissible at a moment’s notice…”
Groups of “tuns” banned together to form a larger form of government known as a ‘Shire’” – what we now know as a county; and my old notes reflect that in order to distinguish the leader of a “Shire,” from a leader of a tun, the more powerful official became known as a “Shire-Reeve.”
Which is where we get the modern word “sheriff.”
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20080807 “La Policía” © by Kevin Dayhoff
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
20080408 Links to related materials on Carroll County Maryland’s future solid waste management decisions
Links to related materials on Carroll County Maryland’s future solid waste management decisions… Related to: 20080331 Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
20080317 Recent columns on the future of Solid Waste Management in Carroll and Frederick Counties
20080309 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
In The Tentacle:
March 6, 2008
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The February 26th joint meeting between
March 5, 2008
Making Trash Go Away – Part One
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On February 26, the
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Related: Environmentalism Solid Waste Management or
Environmentalism Solid Waste Management Recycling or
Environmentalism Solid Waste Management Waste to Energy
And:
Citizens for a Green Mount Airy
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19880900 To Burn or Not to Burn an interview with Neil Seldman
19960900 The Five Most Dangerous Myths About Recycling
“Pay as you throw” By Carrie Ann Knauer, Times Staff Writer Sunday, August 12, 2007
20070912 Carroll County EAC votes to promote recycling by Carrie Ann Knauer
20071112 Frederick County seeks Carroll participation in trash incinerator
Carroll County Times editorial from November 14, 2007: “Talk some trash with the county”
20080318 Frederick News Post Tourism Council opposes incinerator by Karen Gardner
20080331 Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
http://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/pubworks/sw-future/default.asp
Board of
Future of Solid Waste Dates Released
Commissioner Discussion on WTE Shared Facility March 28, 2008
Future of Solid Waste Options March 10, 2008, public discussion
Future of Solid Waste Options March 5, 2008, public discussion
Joint meeting with Frederick County Board of County Commissioners
February 26, 2008
Presentation on home composting February 28, 2008
Economics of a shared Waste-to-Energy facility February 21, 2008
Presentation of recycling policy February 14, 2008
Discussion of integrated materials management strategy November 19, 2007
Report on recycling and update on solid waste August 14, 2007
Environmental Advisory Council Meetings
County's electronic recycling March 11, 2008
Food waste composting January 8, 2008
Council priorities review December 11, 2007
Presentation on composting November 13, 2007
Resource assessment, continuation of EAC discussion on waste management October 9, 2007
EAC discussion on waste management September 11, 2007
Pay per throw, Recycling August 14, 2007
Municipal waste options July 10, 2007
Waste To Energy Option for Carroll County
U.S. Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration
Waste to Energy: Investment/Expense/Income
Environmental Advisory Council Recommendations on Addressing
Solid Waste in Carroll County
Environmental Advisory Council Recommendations (DPW's presentation)
Multiple Pathway Health Risk Assessment
Municipal Waste Combustion Ash, Soil, and Leachate Characterization
Carroll County Waste Reduction, Recycling and Buy Recycled Policy
Resource Assessment (Richard Anthony report)
Integrated Materials (Waste) Management System
Carroll County, Maryland Solid Waste Management Options (R.W. Beck report)
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
20080331 Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
News Release
For more information, contact: Cindy Parr,
Chief of Administrative Services ~ 410-386-2043
For Immediate Release
Future of Solid Waste Dates Released
March 31, 2008
The Carroll County Board of Commissioners has released the following dates for public meetings related to the future of solid waste.
This meeting will allow residents the opportunity to ask questions regarding solid waste options for
The Board of County Commissioners, Public Works Staff, and members of the Environmental Advisory Council as well as other industry professionals will be in attendance.
A Public Hearing will be held on Thursday, April 10th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Room 003 of the
On Thursday, April 17th at 11:30 a.m., in Room 311 of the
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
20080118 Code addition will set stage for police force
Code addition will set stage for police force
01/18/08
The (
The hearing will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31, in Room 003 of the
The proposed chapter specifies the procedure the board must follow to appoint a chief and what the chief's powers and responsibilities will be. It also stipulates duties that county officers will have.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
20070616 Petula Clark, Commissioner Minnich, Steve Powell, and Dave Roush sing “Our Barn.”
Saturday evening, June 16th, 2007
I just filed my next Westminster Eagle column and in it Commissioner Dean Minnich, commissioners’ chief of staff Steve Powell, and Dave Roush are speculated as dancing in a chorus line singing “Our Barn” to the tune of Petula Clark’s November 1964 hit, “Downtown”
Hmmm.
Well, you should have read the first draft… Enough said.
This week’s column will be on the continuing efforts to relocate the historic Marlin K. Hoff log barn to the
Meanwhile, for the younger folks reading the blog, this is Petula Clark singing her November 1964 hit, “Downtown:”
Here – you can sing along with the lyrics:
DOWNTOWN lyrics
And for a bonus, here’s “Petula Clark - This Is My Song”
I had wanted to post “Don’t Sleep in the Subway Darling,” but came across this and liked the video better...
An intelligent comment noted, “this song was originally written for the feature film "A Countess From
Oh what the heck… here’s Don’t Sleep in the Subway Darling
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Friday, July 07, 2006
20060706 KDDC Aunt Kay Birthday Cake and the Commissioners
Carroll County Commissioners Julia Gouge, Dean Minnich and Perry Jones surprise Carroll County Office Building receptionist Kay Church with a birthday cake for her birthday.
How old is she, you ask? Well, here at kevindayhoff.com, we are not in the business of devulging state secrets, that's the job of the New York Times. However, we'll give ya a hint: she's the same age as President George W. Bush.
People Carroll County, Carroll County Commissioners, Carroll County Government News
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Sunday, March 21, 1999
19990320 My Locational Whereabouts
My Locational Whereabouts
Kevin E. Dayhoff
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Saturday, March 20, 1999
Commander Kay Church, Receptionist
410.386.2102
Dear Commander Kay,
Oh!, Ah, ummmm, Kay - It seems that I’m lost. Recently, I seem to have been dropped off the office building radar screen - on my head. I’ve gone off to find me. If you should happen to find me, could you please tell me where it is that I am. Right now, I may be losing, but I’m making record time.
Meanwhile, please hold all my calls, should I ever again be found on the
If you should find me aimlessly wondering about the halls of the office building, with a shell shock look about my unshaven face, staggering, stuttering, slobbering and muttering to myself, please direct me to safety; - preferably someplace where chocolate covered doughnuts can be found.
Should you, ever hear a voice similar to mine, disseminating from the close proximity of a pounding sound on the inside a trash truck, would you please consider stopping the truck and saving me from the landfill?
In case I am ultimately ground up into veggie burger and fed to the bog turtles, allow me to share with you what a pleasure it has been to serve under you. Thanks !
Sincerely yours,
Uncle Kevin
Remember Kay, always keep your salad shooter at the ready!!
Carroll County Commissioners, Environmentalism EAAB - Carroll County Environmental Affairs Advisory Board, Art literature of the absurd,