PORT DEPOSIT â Although the charter does not require it, Mayor Wayne Tome decided to resign from his town leadership to focus on his new position as director of the Cecil County Department of Emergency Services.
âI could wear two hats but I didnât want anything to distract me from my new role,â Tome said. Heâs been mayor of Port Deposit this time around for 11 years. Tome noted this was the third time he has stepped down from the town board.
âI had to resign from the council to run for mayor and I had to resign as mayor to run for the county,â he said. Tome was a Cecil County Commissioner from Dec. 2006 through Dec. 2010.
The
Rising Sun Chamber of Commerce gave its 2020 Business of the Year Award to Sueâs Restaurant, owned and operated by
Jim Gibney and
Gerry Knotts.
This was possibly the chamberâs last chance to honor the business, which opened in 1947 as Montgomeryâs Diner. Gibney purchased it in 1985 and renamed it after his wife.
âMy wife was here when it started,â Gibney said. A black and white copy of the ad announcing the new restaurant at 9 East Main St. in Rising Sun shows not much has changed there in 73 years. Gibney thinks even the blue seats along the lunch counter are the same