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Crofton Mountain Climber Ready for Mt. McKinley
May 10th, 2008 Categories: Crofton News
If you didn’t see my post a few weeks ago, let me refer you to Adventures of a Crofton Climber about Crofton resident, Art Huseonica. You’ll want to read that post and click through to the links for some background information.
After that, you’ll probably be interested in this update from Art’s wife, Karen Huseonica:
“Art Huseonica is busy training and preparing for an attempt to climb Denali (Mt. McKinley) in Alaska. He leaves Maryland on May 17th for Anchorage where he’ll meet up with the team’s American Alpine Institute guides and the rest of the Denali Ice Agers team. In Anchorage, they’ll inventory personal and group gear, and make last-minute provision purchases.
Early on Monday, May 19th, the team will drive north to Talkeetna, Alaska to meet up with their pilots who will attempt to fly the team deep into the Alaska Range.”
Karen suggests you might want to click here for more information from Art and teammate Coley Gentzel about team members and how they chose their team name.
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Experts Rank Anne Arundel County #7
May 7th, 2008 Categories: Crofton News
Did you see the Forbes Magazine article featuring the nation’s Best Places to Get Ahead? Anne Arundel County is #7.
Matt Woolsey reports on communities where income and job growth are the highest, based upon income and job data from the U.S. Census and Department of Labor Statistics. They didn’t take into account the likelihood that this will continue in Anne Arundel County during future years due to further job and income expansion resulting from BRAC 2005. I imagine that factor secures Anne Arundel County’s place on this list for years to come.
This study was limited to counties where the median income was at least $75,000, starting with data from the year 2000, and places people live AND earn their paychecks – NOT retreats for the rich or bedroom communities where people live in one county but work in a neighboring jurisdiction. For information about additional criteria, read Best Places to Get Ahead and you’ll see why Anne Arundel County, Maryland, made the Top Ten, along with five other Washington, D.C. area counties.
Top Ten Best Places to Get Ahead:
1. Stafford County, VA
2. Forsyth County, GA
3. Calvert County, MD
4. Loudon County, VA
5. Charles County, MD
6. Prince William County, VA
7. Anne Arundel County, MD
8. Delaware County, OH
9. Sussex County, NJ
10. Williamson County, TN
Here’s what the article in Forbes Magazine said about Anne Arundel County:
Not as affluent as some of its neighbors, residents in Anne Arundel County have felt a big boost in their wallets since 2000, as a steady 2.5% job growth rate and a 28% income hike has changed the profile of the county to one where the median household has an income of $79,160.
Crofton in the Top 100 Best Places to Live nationwide.
If you’re relocating to Northrop Grumman, Fort George G. Meade, BWI, or anywhere in the Baltimore-Washington area for a new job, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the vast area and so many communities. Maybe it would help to know that one of these communities is listed as #72 on Money Magazines Top 100 Best Places to Live – Crofton. For more information about Crofton, or to check out Crofton Homes for Sale, simply click on these links.
Why not start your home search here, in one of the nation’s Top Ten Counties for Getting Ahead and one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live? Chances are you’ll see why this county and community are the pick of experts, and you’ll decide to stay.
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Crofton School Shuffle Official
April 23rd, 2008 Categories: Crofton News
Re-Districting Plan Approved
The Anne Arundel County School Board approved a school re-districting proposal for the Crofton area last week. Very few things arouse as much passion in a community as the shuffling of children from one school to another, and not all Piney Orchard residents are happy with the accepted plan.
Some Piney Orchard students will move to Four Seasons Elementary School next year, under the approved plan, and children attending Kiddie Academy who don’t live within the new boundary for Piney Orchard Elementary will attend Four Seasons. Authors of a rejected re-districting proposal who threatened to appeal this decision to the State Department of Education, may do so for up to 30 days.
School Assignments
Based on the approved plan, some current students at Four Seasons, Crofton and Piney Orchard elementary schools will be moved to accommodate the new school, known as the “Gambrills Area” elementary school, and students attending the new school will attend Crofton Middle and Arundel High Schools.
A School Locator on the Anne Arundel County Public School website probably won’t be updated for a while, and I wouldn’t advise my clients to rely on it to determine where their children will attend school next year.
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How New Maryland Legislation Impacts Crofton
April 18th, 2008 Categories: Crofton News
Crofton area residents are learning from State Senator Janet Greenip how the recent legislative session in Annapolis may affect our community. After a busy Legislative Session beginning in January and ending earlier this month, Senator Greenip is not yet taking a well-deserved vacation.
She is out and about – speaking to community groups in the Greater Crofton area, sending emails and writing letters to constituents. Whether you agree with Senator Greenip’s perspective on everything or not, you have to respect her transparency (reporting her position on bills that passed and those that didn’t) and her communication with constituents.
Here is some of the new legislation she mentioned:
Anne Arundel County will be reimbursed for monies spent on testing Gambrills-area wells for pollutants allegedly caused by Constellation Energy’s fly ash disposal.- A “cap and trade” policy was enacted to decrease emissions from power plants, encouraging plants to use effective “scrubbers” to lower emissions.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be alerted promptly when illegal immigrants are arrested, possibly resulting in prompt deportation.
- Transparency in state government should be improved by a website reporting any expenditure over $25,000 (excluding salaries).
- The privacy of fallen soldiers and their families will be protected by a new bill that prohibits commercial use of their names without permission.
- Tanning restrictions on anyone under 18 will no doubt become one of Maryland’s Craziest Laws, since it requires parent approval and presence for anyone under 18 to go tanning. However, the same requirement was rejected for having an abortion; and teens can drive a car without a parent being present, beginning at age 16. Go figure!
- Utility and energy costs will increase due to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which will more than offset a one-time credit of $170 to BGE Customers.
Several bills were passed by the Legislature to help Maryland homeowners at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure. These are summarized by the Maryland Association of Realtors on their website.
Thank you, Senator Greenip, for taking the time to let Crofton residents know what happened in Annapolis during the Legislative Session that may affect us directly or indirectly.
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School Board Considers Re-Districting Proposals
March 26th, 2008 Categories: Crofton News
No decision is expected by the Anne Arundel County School Board on the two re-districting proposals for the Greater Crofton area before the April 30 deadline.
The two proposals under consideration for filling the new Gambrills-Area Elementary School (pictured at right) are:
1. The Recommendation of schools Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell regarding the Gambrills-Area Elementary School includes redistricting a portion of the Piney Orchard Community to Four Seasons Elementary School, and redistricting of students not living in the community of Piney Orchard, but attending the Kiddie Academy, from Piney Orchard Elementary School to Four Seasons Elementary School.
2. The West Side of Route 3 Alternate Redistricting Proposal regarding the Gambrills-Area Elementary School includes reassignment of all kindergarten students living in the Piney Orchard Elementary boundary to Four Seasons Elementary, with those students returning to Piney Orchard Elementary School for grades 1-5; redistricting of Piney Orchard Elementary School students along North Patuxent Road to Odenton Elementary School; redistricting of Odenton Elementary School from “the ramp off of Highway 32, off Burns Crossing Road, East to Route 3” to Four Seasons Elementary School; redistricting of Waugh Chapel Elementary School from “Dairy Farm Road, East/Southeast to Route 3” to Four Seasons Elementary School; redistricting from Crofton Elementary School the area referred to as “East Walden” from Crofton Elementary School to Crofton Meadows Elementary School; and establishing boundaries for the new Gambrills-Area Elementary School to include the Walden and Chapman Farms.
I’m doing my best to keep up with this issue so you don’t have to.
SOURCE: Anne Arundel County Public Schools
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