Richard Crumbacker - Crisfield Times has left a new comment on your post "Crisfield Victim Recovering From Pit Bull Attack":
All of this is very interesting to me - not only do I live around the corner from State Street, but I am editor of the Crisfield Times.
As of Monday afternoon, there was no apparent attempt by dog control or police to place information about the suspect dog in the newspaper. Had this information been forthcoming over the weekend or by mid-day Monday (in time for the Wednesday paper) we could have alerted more of the community about it.
Joe - your posters are welcome to e-mail me to have their comments placed in the newspaper's "Sound Off" column.
Thanks, and Merry Christmas....
Richard Crumbacker
Crisfield Times914 W. Main Street
Crisfield, Md. 21817
9 comments:
This is truly amazing. I live in Crisfield and am getting my local news from Joe in Delmar. I don't know how joe gets his information but I say keep up the good work. I am not surprised however that dog control and CPD gave no information to the Crisfield Times. Don't forget the head of dog control is the former warden of the detention center who was forced to resign because of his abuse of inmates. The fact that he is even working for the county in any capacity is enough to boggle any ones mind. The chief of the Crisfield police department and several officers spend way to much time at the American Legion drinking and driving home. Both dog control and CPD are disfunctional and some good investigative reporting by the Crisfield Times would be helpful to the local folks. It may even help sell more papers.
Many folk around here will remember Richard Crumbacker as having been the editor of the Somerset Herald and the News and Advertiser, before all the local papers were bought up by Gannett and became Pravda minions.
Richard is a good fellow-- I sure wish somebody could put up the money to start a REAL paper in the area, and put Richard in charge of it. Maybe a weekly like the News and Advertiser was...
I don't know if the print medium is dead, but if it can still be done, Richard is the go-to guy.
If what you say is true 5:10, Mr Crumbacker should have demanded answers from dog control and the CPD. Joe had information, there is no reason a news paper editor cannot get the same information. This should have been public information, nothing secret about it. The press must hold the government accountable or they will always operate in secrecy.
Why would dog control want to see this incident reported? It's their job to keep us safe from this type of thing and they failed. The press needs to go after this kind of secrecy by government. If the dog were still running loose and attacking people we wouldn't know it if it were not for Joe.
6:29-- Richard indicated he didn't find out about it till after the paper's deadline..
Besides, we're talking Crisfield here.
You don't go demanding anything.
awww shucks.
Crisfield is dead and nothing will change as long as over a third of the town (Projects and marina) is publicly owned and no taxes are payed. A big chance was missed when a smart governor tried to take the marina private but the good old boys did'nt want to lose their state subsidized boat slips. Pay consultants for plans and appoint each other to commissions,sit at the Legion and listen to Terry bitch about Buddy,the dogs and drug dealers run loose.
Still happy up north.
It's really not the towns job to control the dogs, it's the countys dog control department and they are the ones not doing there job. Frankly I agree about Crisfield, but the dog problem falls on the shoulders of the county commissioners and James L. Henderson at dog control.
Minutes ago I saw two dogs running wild less than a mile from where this attack took place. One was a rotwieler and the other just a mixed breed. They were just around the corner from where main street extended stops. What is dog control doing and why do they just keep riding around the county in there trucks and wasting tax payers money. Wake up Somerset and demand some kind of action be taken.
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