EEDC: Tell us a bit about your organization? Marilyn Neal: Neighborhood Service Center (NSC), Inc. is the designated Community Action Agency for Talbot County and has served low-income families and individuals for over 50 years. The purpose of NSC is to provide a wide range of services that will assist individuals...
EEDC: For the past few weeks, your organization has been holding bi-weekly private sector conference calls, helping businesses with information and resources during this crisis. How did the idea for this come about? Cassandra Vanhooser: Credit goes to Clay Stamp, our Director of Emergency Services, I’m part of the Emergency...
If you have cabin fever and want to do something that could really make a difference in your community during the stay-at-home directives, consider completing your 2020 Census. If you have cabin fever and want to do something that could really make a difference in your community during the stay-at-home...
EEDC: The schools have been confronted with extraordinary challenges: Having to deliver learning to their students, but now in a digitized environment. How is this going? Dr. Griffith: We are very fortunate that we had people many years ago that had the foresight to start obtaining devices for our school system....
Even before COVID-19 hit our area, 40% of the children in Easton Elementary schools were considered ‘food insecure.’ Through programs such as FARMs (free and reduced-priced meals) that work with Talbot County Public School (TCPS) and Sodexo (the company that provides the food), these children and others in the school...
EEDC spoke to Mayor Bob Willey last week about the Easton’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is his response. EEDC: What changes have been made in Easton to help deal with the Corona virus crisis? Mayor Willey: We’re going to go ahead, and as long as possible, keep the...
The Rural Maryland Council published a special report, 2020 Rural Prosperity Investment Initiative: Building on the Past; Investing in the Future, establishing that Marylanders living in rural communities: Are achieving success in education and employment, Have access to quality and affordable health care and other vital services, and Live in an environment...
On Tuesday, February 25th, Easton Economic Development Corp and Chesapeake Harvest hosted a dinner meeting designed to update farmers, restaurant and catering owners, retail buyers, and community leaders on Chesapeake Harvest programs. There was also an overview and wrap up of the USDA Local Food Promotion Program Grant (LFPP). The...
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience an afternoon or evening screening of the film Fantastic Fungi on Thursday, March 26th at Temple B’Nai Israel in Easton sponsored by Out of the Fire and Dock Street Foundation. Award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg has teamed up with an all-star team of professional and amateur mycologists,...
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