CHARLESTOWN â Jeff Fields, President of the Charlestown Board of Town Commissioners, announced that he was tenuring his resignation from the Board on Thursday morning.
âI basically resigned for health and personal reasons,â Fields told the Cecil Whig late Thursday afternoon, declining to elaborate further on his reasons.
Fields, who started serving as Board President in March 2020, was more than halfway through his second two-year term when he resigned. The next election for Fieldsâ position would have been in March 2022, had he remained in office.
With a population of approximately 1,500 residents, Charlestown does not have a mayor. In general terms, Fields and others who have held the president-of-the-town-board position have functioned as de-facto mayors for the town.
By Carl Hamilton
cahamilton@cecilwhig.com Apr 7, 2021
Apr 7, 2021
ELKTON â A woman is facing an attempted murder charge after she allegedly opened fire on a man at their Elkton residence on Tuesday night â wounding him in the leg after one of the bullets narrowly missed his head, according to Cecil County District Court records.
Investigators identified the suspect as Ishina T. Robinson-McCoy, 30, of the unit block of Huntsman Drive.
Police said the only people at the residence when the incident occurred were Robinson-McCoy, the man who suffered the gunshot wound to his leg and a second woman.
The second woman told investigators that she was at that residence âto participate in a threesomeâ and that, throughout the evening, Robinson-McCoy grew âincreasingly upset and began to physically attackâ the man â hitting him with her hands and a stroller, police added.
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Many Charlestown residents present at the meeting opposed the rezoning.
âThis type of rezoning, quite frankly, will push this historic stretch of Route 7, which was the Old Post Road traveled by George Washington, to really nothing but a heavy industrial trucking route,â said Suzanne Fockler, a member of the Charleston Historic District Commission.
Richard Polansky, president of EJP, LLC., is requesting the county to rezone 34.1 acres from general business to heavy industrial zoning on 875 West Old Philadelphia Road in North East. He withdrew a previous request to rezone 9.4 acres from suburban transition to heavy industrial to expand his recycling company Complete Recycling Group. The two companies made a joint application for rezoning, according to Cecil County Public Information Officer Kevin Alkinburg.