By Greg Bassett

Friday, Dec. 9, 1994 --

• Salisbury City Council President Bob Gladden said a coup is under way to strip him of his council leadership post. Gladden said two of his colleagues -- Councilmen Tim Sakemiller and Bob Caldwell -- asked him to resign, citing “lack of leadership.” Gladden said he asked Sakemiller and Caldwell to “offer some specifics” but that “no one has explained it to me yet.” A meeting for the sole purpose of reorganizing the council has been called for Monday. The other council members are Lavonzella Siggers and Carolyn Hall, who have declined comment.
•  Wilkins Electronics and The Daily Times are vying to operate a homework hotline service for Wicomico County students. Superintendent William T. Middleton told the school board that both companies are offering the service as a way for teachers and schools to make information available to students and parents. Wicomico’s first homework line was tried at Pittsville Elementary and Middle School.
• K&L Microwave, a Salisbury-based manufacturer of microwave filters and switches for telecommunications and defense industries, will increase its business operations in 1995 as a result of two recent business expansions. K&L added a switch product line with its November acquisition of a California company. K&L President Charles J. Schaub said the company also expects to add about 30 positions next year to its plant on Northwood Drive.
• Health care developer Denny Nooner Jr. of Ewing Health Systems said he will seek approval to build a 76-bed assisted living center between Healthway Drive and Route 50, just off East Main Street in Salisbury. Nooner said that, if approved, construction could begin as soon as March. He said the facility would offer less-costly care than what’s given in nursing homes.
• In a visit to Salisbury, Maryland Gov.-elect Parris N. Glendenning said he is “puzzled” by the November election results in which he lost every Eastern Shore county to Republican Ellen Sauerbrey. Glendenning -- tongue firmly planted in cheek -- said everyone he has encountered during his post election tour of the SHore has said they voted for him, yet he lost the Peninsula by more than 300,000 votes. 
• The Salisbury-Wicomico Planning Commission has approved a luxury housing development overlooking the Wicomico River at Cherry Hill on Riverside Drive Extended. Two condominium duplexes totaling 24 units will be constructed on what is regarded as one of the county’s best residential homesites, with stunning views up and down the river.
• To save on legal costs related to a protracted court battle, the city of Salisbury might back off on its new regulations affecting billboards. The law outlaws new billboard construction, requires that existing signs be reduced in size, calls for boards to be set back from roadsides and adds a landscaping provision. Since the law went into effect, the city has issued more than 100 fines to Revere National Corp. and Reichard Outdoor Advertising, the two companies that have billboards in the city.
  
  
• Approximately 80 people could lose their jobs when Imperial Bondware, a paper cup manufacturer, closed its Northwood Industrial Park plant in June. Company spokeswoman Robin Hall blamed “economic conditions” for the decision to close the plant, which opened in Salisbury in 1988.