Aberdeen Communities Together (ACT), the community action group which recently saw all four of its endorsed candidates for mayor and city council elected into office, will celebrate the election victory Friday at the Aberdeen Senior Center.
ACT, which originally organized to stop the Wetlands Golf Course annexation and has been actively involved in Aberdeen politics ever since, endorsed incumbent Mike Bennett for mayor and incumbents Ruth Elliott and Ruth Ann Young and challenger Bruce Garner for city council – each of whom was elected in the city’s Nov. 3 election.
Here is the event invitation sent out this week:
Dear Concerned Citizens:
We are holding our public meeting and local election results celebration this Friday evening, at 7 PM, at the Senior Center, 7 Franklin Street and would love to see you there.
We have invited all of our newly elected officials and hope all will be in attendance.
For those who are unable to attend the Aberdeen Mayor and City Council Candidates Night Forum tonight (Wednesday), or may just want to catch the action for the comfort of their own homes, The Dagger will be providing live video of the entire event.
The Dagger is hosting and moderating the forum, which is scheduled be begin at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 128 in Aberdeen
Doors open at 6 p.m., and the forum will begin at 7 p.m. Questions will concern issues facing Aberdeen, and candidates’ answers will be limited to 90 to 120 seconds.
The forum is sponsored by the Harford County Municipal Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 128.
Whether you show up in person or tune in online, join this important discussion with less than a week remaining until the Tuesday, November 3 City of Aberdeen election.
With the late addition Monday of two new city council challengers, Trudie Norman and Zenobia Todd, the ballot for Aberdeen’s November 3 municipal election has swelled to 10 candidates – 3 vying for mayor and now 7 for city council.
The race for mayor pits incumbent Mayor Michael E. Bennett against incumbent city council president Michael G. Hiob and former state delegate and county councilwoman Barbara Osborn Kreamer.
In the 7-way race for the 4 seats on the Aberdeen City Council, incumbent city council members Ruth E. Elliott, Ruth Ann Young and Ronald Kupferman face opposition from local businessman Bruce E. Garner, longtime city planning and zoning commissioner Sandra J. Landbeck, and now Trudie Norman and Zenobia Todd.
The City of Aberdeen Municipal Election will be held Tuesday, November 3, 2009 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Aberdeen Senior Center on Franklin Street.
So here’s the big announcement we teased last week: The Dagger will host and moderate Aberdeen’s Meet the Candidates Forum, scheduled for Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 128 in Aberdeen.
Also, the forum will be streamed LIVE exclusively on www.daggerpress.com.
Doors open at 6 p.m., and the forum will begin at 7 p.m. Questions will concern issues facing Aberdeen, and candidates’ answers will be limited to 90 to 120 seconds. Click on the e-mail link below to send your question to us for consideration.
Invitations have gone out to the mayoral and council candidates who have already filed, and we’ll post a final list of those participating after the RSVP deadline next month.
The forum is sponsored by the Harford County Municipal Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 128.
Keep an eye on The Dagger in coming weeks, we’re preparing a comprehensive election guide for all the Harford races.
Local businessman Bruce Garner has joined Sandy Landbeck and incumbents Ruth Elliott, Ron Kupferman, and Ruth Ann Young this week in the growing race to fill Aberdeen’s four city council seats.
Garner finished 7th out of 10 candidates and garnered (!) roughly 700 votes in his bid for city council two years ago.
Elliott was the leading vote-getter in that 2007 city council race, followed by Kupferman, Mike Hiob (who will forego reelection in a bid for the mayor’s office), and Young.
A few months ago, Aberdeen City Council President Mike Hiob wasn’t sure if he was going to seek a fourth term on the city council. Now he’s certain he won’t.
Tired of being hampered by ineffectual administrations and uncooperative council members, Hiob, 50, will instead run for mayor of Aberdeen during the city’s non-partisan municipal election on November 3, 2009.
It is unclear, but speculated that incumbent Aberdeen Mayor Mike Bennett will seek reelection.
Although constituents have been championing Hiob as a mayoral candidate for months, Hiob confided that, until recently, he didn’t even know if his name would appear on the election ballot at all.
A self-proclaimed “family first” husband and father of two, Hiob was leaning toward spending more time with his family and less time tied up and fed up in City Hall.
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The decision by the Havre de Grace City Council last Monday to withdraw all $12,000 in city funding originally designated for the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway may also jeopardize significant funding for local museums and the city itself.
In an eight-page letter sent to Mayor Wayne Dougherty and the City Council last Wednesday, Greenway Executive Director (and Harford County Councilwoman) Mary Ann Lisanti informed the City Council that its decision to cut all funding for the Greenway – which describes itself as “a non-profit organization whose mission is to stimulate local economic activity by developing a linkage between our natural, historic and cultural resources” – may result in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in additional grants and aid being lost.
“We hope that the City now fully understands that this minor budget
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Aberdeen, MD – On Tuesday night (May 26, 2009), members of the Harford County Municipal Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 128, attended the City of Aberdeen Council meeting. The purpose of this was to show support for two members of their lodge who would address the City’s Mayor and Council in reference to proposed budget cuts to the Aberdeen Police Department and public safety.
On a rainy and uninspired Election Day in Havre de Grace, which saw only 814 residents bother to cast votes, Randy Craig was reelected and will return to the city council along with former Harford County Councilman Mitch Shank and newcomer Brenda Guldenzopf.
Mayor Wayne Dougherty, who was elected two-years ago in one of the closest and most highly-contested races in Havre de Grace history, was unopposed in his reelection bid.
Two weeks after it was unanimously approved by the city council, the Mixed Office/Equipment Zoning ordinance, which would bring new hotels, offices and retail development to Route 155 and Bulle Rock Parkway, has been vetoed by Havre de Grace Mayor Wayne Dougherty – ostensibly because he says the plan should also include a new baseball/football/soccer field.
The city council approved the MOE Ordinance with a six-to-zero vote on Dec. 1, yet on Monday, Dec. 15, Dougherty issued a memo announcing he was vetoing the ordinance and offering his explanation why.
