DAILY TIMES IS FOLLOWING SBYNEWS AGAIN!

Two days late, the newspaper has reported the latest revelation about the Onley Road intersection on South Division Street that the Wicomico County Board of Education is hounding Salisbury to upgrade ASAP because the new high school is opening a year earlier than planned.

On Thursday, we revealed that the BOE has hundreds of thousands of surplus dollars in its hands that it is attempting to spend (also ASAP) -- so that it need not be returned to the County’s coffers—on such things as additional landscaping. During the day we did an update reporting that the City, in the light of that information not previously disclosed in its discussions with the BOE, has decided to reconsider the tentative decision made at a recent work session to proceed with a “stopgap” upgrade that would waste almost $500,000 on a poorly designed modification of the intersection.

We will be providing further news and analysis about this matter, including the BOE’s objection to spending some of that cash kitty to upgrade the intersection rather than the landscaping at the new Bennett high school. Look for more commentary on this blog in a day or so!