in this section | Politics & Opinion | Health & Fitness | Business Anne Arundel County Bridal Guide ECRWSS Bridal Polar Bear Plunge Severna Park Wrestling US POSTAGE Everything you need to PAID 2019 Check out exclusive photos from this year’s Falcons prepare for Guide know for planning a wedding PERMIT NO. 546 county championships. in Anne Arundel County. event to benefit Special Olympics Maryland. Millersville, MD �� www.severnaparkvoice.com �� Page B1 Inside FREE The Voice Media Inc. Severna Park Voice • Pasadena Voice 1 CMYK 12 BASE--11.00DX8.75W TRIM-- Severna Park VoicE SERVING OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1981 SEVERNA PARK, MD FE BRUARy 6, 2019 A1 Time To Vote For The Anne Arundel County May Soon Best Of Severna Park! Regulate Short-Term Rentals he Voice wants to know for at least 10 categories for By Zach Sparks which businesses, res- the ballot to be valid. If you [email protected] Ttaurants, services and are nominating a business venues in Greater Severna that has multiple loca- t sounds like the plot of Park have become your tions, please specify the a slapstick comedy film favorites over the past year. exact location you are I— a group of people rent It’s simple — just fill out the nominating. a home for the weekend and survey and return it to the - Entries should be mailed invite more than 100 guests Voice by Friday, March 22. to Severna Park Voice, P.O. to a party that gets so rowdy We will then tally all the Box 608, Severna Park, that police are called three votes and announce this Maryland, 21146, or hand- times, and when the cruisers year’s winners in our April delivered to our office at arrive, the partiers all rush to 4 edition. You may also cast 1511 Ritchie Highway, Suite their cars and create a bottle- your ballot by voting online 304, in Arnold. neck at a spot they mistake at www.severnaparkvoice. for the com- com/bestofsevernapark. The Dates munity exit. Deadline for entry is Fri- Except The Rules day, March 22. All entries this was Short-term rentals, like this Arnold home owned by Timothy Mewmaw, allow people to visit - Nominees must be must be received by close of not a Anne Arundel County at an affordable rate, but some neighbors are worried about their guests. located within the Severna business on March 23 to be fictional Park Voice distribution area counted. We will print a re- scenario and the Severna Airbnb, which all allow people timore City ($14.9 million), zip codes — 21146 (Severna minder in the March 7 issue Park neighbors did not laugh to rent out their property on a Montgomery County ($11.3 Park), 21012 (Arnold) and of The Voice, and the win- when they heard the raucous short-term basis. million) and Prince George’s 21108 (Millersville). ners will be announced in noise and saw cars speeding That business has become County ($9.4 million) had - Entries must be made the April 4 issue. Winning through the Kensington com- lucrative for some homeown- more. The next closest, Gar- on original newsprint — no businesses, organizations, munity on July 4, 2018. ers. According to data re- rett County, accounted for photocopies, faxes, scans services and venues will That story was relayed to leased in January by Airbnb, $2 million. or emails — and must be receive a custom-designed the Greater Severna Park Anne Arundel County had Matt Hetrick lists four mailed or hand-delivered window sticker designating Council, with some people 48,700 arrivals that paid a properties on Airbnb includ- to the Voice (one entry per their 2019 “Best of Severna advocating regulations on collective $7.8 million to hosts ing a loft over Main Street in household). Park” status. Thank you for sites like HomeAway, VRBO, during 2018. Of Maryland’s Annapolis that was booked - Dropping off or mailing your participation. We look FlipKey and the most popular, 24 jurisdictions, only Bal- » Continued on A4 of multiple ballots will forward to announcing the not be accepted. Voters winners you select! must fill in nominations Cast your votes on page A6. January Weather Serves As A Reminder Of Council Strikes AACPS’ Challenges In Closing Schools By Dylan Roche best decision we can for the Down Immigration [email protected] system as a whole — both students and staff — with hen Winter Storm the information we have at Resolutions Gia swept through the time we have to make a Wthe area from the decision,” Mosier explained. By Zach Sparks Fredericks and visiting a de- evening of Saturday, Janu- “Given the choice, we would [email protected] tention center to ask correc- ary 12, and throughout the like to inform everyone the tional officers about 287(g). day of Sunday, January 13, day or evening before. It’s just he immigration debate “An individual who has nearly doubling the expected not always possible.” got so heated in Janu- been held in the detention 3 inches in the forecast, par- Parents again awaited Tary that Anne Arundel center, at least according to ents took to social media with some sort of word about County Executive Steuart Sheriff Fredericks, they would variations of the same plea to school closing on Friday, Pittman received cellphone have already been charged Anne Arundel County Public February 1, when an unantici- calls telling him to “go back with a crime, arrested and had Schools: “Make the call, Bob,” pated amount of snow swept to Mexico,” said government an initial appearance before a lighthearted but direct through the area, beginning affairs officer Peter Baron dur- a court officer to determine if request to Bob Mosier, the at 8:00am. “There’s no more ing a county council meeting probable cause existed for the chief communications officer problematic instance with on January 22. arrest,” Volke said. “It’s not who makes the announce- regard to weather than a Dominating the meeting as though people are being ment of any weather-related storm that begins during the were two resolutions intro- rounded up or asked for their closures. In this instance, day,” Mosier said. “It hasn’t duced by Republican Council- papers or in some shape or AACPS was able to announce started when students leave man Nathan Volke of Pasa- form being shoved into jail School officials realized that the snowfall on that Monday would be a for school, and it has started dena, who cited public safety under a pretense to then be February 1 exceeded the forecast amounts and snow day by 5:30pm the night before they go home.” concerns. One resolution able to determine their im- opted to send students home early. before. In other instances, it Based on the forecast, asked Pittman to reinstate the migration status.” isn’t so easy. AACPS put out a message the county’s 287(g) immigration Through the program, “We are going to make the » Continued on A5 screening program, which Immigration and Customs former Anne Arundel County Enforcement (ICE) trained lo- Executive Steve Schuh initiat- cal officers to find and report ed in 2017 and Pittman ended undocumented immigrants Chamber Of Commerce Installs in December 2018. The other who, as Volke mentioned, resolution urged the county had already been arrested executive to not use federal for other crimes. In each New Board Members For 2019 funds for the legal representa- instance, a potential violator tion of county detainees. was flagged by Anne Arundel Both resolutions failed 4-3, personnel, a regional ICE of- with votes cast along party ficer was contacted, and then lines, but not before county that agent would determine officials spoke and 55 people if the person was subject to testified during the pub- deportation. lic hearing. From December 4 when Pit- Volke formed his opinion tman ceased the program to after consulting Sheriff Jim » Continued on A7 Inside Community .......................A1-A8 Sports ................................B1-B5 Photos courtesy of Laura’s Eyes Photography Politics & Opinion ...................A9 School & Youth .................B6-B9 Left: At its annual installation dinner, held on Wednesday, January 30, the Greater Severna Park and Arnold Health & Fitness ..........A10-A11 Arts & Entertainment . B10-B14 Chamber of Commerce swore in its board of officers and directors for 2019.Right: The meeting was also a chance Business ....................... A12-A14 Business Directory ..................B5 for the chamber to present its annual Harmony Award to the owners of Kogen Dojo — Robert Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Van Valkenburgh and Dwayne Bowie — in recognition of their contributions to the community. facebook.com/severnaparkvoice @SPVoice BLOG severnaparkvoice.com/blogs A2 FE BRUARy 6, 2019 SEVERNA PARK VOICE Publishers Dianna Lancione Margueritte Mills Lonnie Lancione Laura Nelson Volunteers With Editor’s Voice Chief Operating Officer Volunteer Larry Sells Of The Month Winter Relief For 19th Year V.P., Operations ballot count. The voting Brian Lancione period ends on March 22, Sales Account Executive the program. Dylan Roche and all the ballots will be Shannon Vitielliss Editor Nelson said she didn’t totaled so that winners Inside Sales Support want to see her fellow com- can be announced in the Heather Lancione munity members suffering April 4 issue of the paper. Editor in the cold without food. In case you missed it If you’re eligible for Dylan Roche “I felt it was something we on the front page, I will a category in Best of Sports Editor could do, and it was a local be only too happy to fill Severna Park, be sure Colin Murphy thing we could support,” you in — it’s February, to let all your support- Assistant Editor Nelson said. “This, to me, and that means it’s time ers know to vote for you.