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Back in May, the Chestertown Historic District Commission held a hearing and granted Washington College’s application for partial demolition of the Armory. Following the decision, a group of interested citizens filed a petition for judicial review and Washington College filed a motion to dismiss for lack of standing to bring the matter. Recently, the Circuit Court ruled in the college’s favor. The petitioners will have 30 days to appeal from the date the Court issues the order dismissing the matter.

September is Suicide Prevention Month and locally, help is just a phone call away. The new Suicide and Crisis Lifeline can be reached by dialing 988.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties extends an invitation to members of the community to reach out for support and help. You can call the NAMI-MD help line at 410-884-8691.
In addition to dialing 988, consider contacting Eastern Shore Mobile Crisis. Click on the link for details, https://santeeasternshore.org/county/kent-county/.

The Queen Anne’s County Commission on Aging is hosting a Town Hall Meeting, which will take place on September 19, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. The event will be held at the Grasonville Senior Center, located at 4802 Main Street. The event will let community members engage with State and County Officials in order to address important issues affecting seniors in Queen Anne’s County.

The Queen Anne’s County Office of the Sheriff issued a response to social media posts threatening potential gun violence in schools. WBOC reports several posts suggesting threats to student safety circulated among the Queen Anne’s County School District, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Gary Hoffman assures the community the threats are unsubstantiated – sharing similarities with false threats currently being shared throughout the nation. Hoffman says Queen Anne’s County schools are not named in the threats – which instead target schools in Marshall County, West Virginia.

The Queen Anne’s County Parks and Recreation Department is celebrating the 20th year of the annual Corsica River Day, set to take place on Sunday, September 22, from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. This milestone event marks two decades of dedication to promoting sustainable environmental practices and inspiring the next generation of environmental stewards.

Queen Anne’s County Commissioners have approved hiring an independent auditing firm to conduct a performance audit of the Queen Anne’s County Public School’s Board of Education’s financial records and budgetary development procedures. According to the Kent County News, Commissioner President Jim Moran said in a statement, “The county does not suspect any fraudulent activity, but believes it is prudent for transparency to our citizens that we engage a third party firm to conduct a performance audit in order to assess the operational decisions of the school system, evaluate whether the finance office is properly structured and designed to deliver a complete, accurate, reliable financial information and ensure that no fraud is occurring.”

Kent County Middle School teacher Kaitlyn Wright is among seven finalists announced for the Maryland Teacher of the Year. According to the Kent County Crier, Wright, who teaches English and leads the drama program at the middle school, was named Kent County Public Schools Teacher of the Year last spring.
Wright will go through an interview process with a panel of state judges this month. The next Maryland Teacher of the Year will be announced in October.

After several years in a temporary location on North Main Street, the Rock Hall branch of the Kent County Public Library is moving to Rock Hall Avenue. According to the Evening Enterprise, to facilitate the move, the branch will be closed from Monday, Sept. 16 through Friday, Oct. 4. Limited services will be available during the closure.
The outside book drop will be available at 5746 N. Main St. (the current location) from Sept. 16 through Sept. 29.
On Monday, Sept. 30, the book drop will move to the new location at 21258 Rock Hall Ave.

The Washington College Electric Boat Team has etched their names into the history books by breaking the world record for the longest distance traveled on a single battery charge by an electric boat without using solar. In a feat of student ingenuity and a testament to the potential of environmentally conscious boating, the team successfully set the new record over the Labor Day weekend, with a dramatic 2:30 a.m. finish, shaving nearly 24 miles off the current Guinness World Record which was set in 2001 by the Thames Electric Launch Company on the Thames River in England. The team, comprised of six students and two college staff members, began their attempt last Friday afternoon.

Queen Anne’s County Commissioners meet Tuesday at 5:30 PM and the public is encouraged to attend in person at 107 N Liberty Street in Centreville. The meetings are also streamed live at www.qac.org/live, on QACTV Facebook and YouTube and broadcasted on QACTV’s channel on Breezeline cable channel 7 or in HD 507.