<P> Easton Utilities, which is owned by the town of Easton, provides electricity, natural gas, water, wastewater service, cable, internet, and telephone service to the town . The utility commission was founded in 1914 and had control of all utility services in 1923, making Easton the first community in the state to own all its utility services . Easton Utilities provides electricity to over 10,000 customers, with most electricity purchased and some also generated by the town during times of high prices . The town owns 18 diesel - powered electric generators with a total capacity of 69 megawatts at two sites, one at a plant built in 1923 located in the center of town on Washington Street and the other located near the Easton Airport . Easton Utilities provides natural gas to over 4,500 customers, with natural gas purchased from the Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company . The town's natural gas supply is piped from the Gulf of Mexico via an interstate pipeline to Federalsburg, where 100 miles (160 km) of steel and plastic mains then deliver it to customers in Easton . The town, which has owned the natural gas utility since 1923, formerly delivered gas to customers by burning coal at a plant on West Street, but converted to natural gas in 1966 . Easton Utilities is the only municipal natural gas utility in Maryland . Easton Utilities provides water to 6,800 customers, with 84 miles (135 km) of water mains and over 550 fire hydrants . The town gets its water from six wells that draw from underground aquifers, with the water then treated and stored . Easton Utilities provides wasterwater service to about 6,800 customers, operating more than 90 miles (140 km) of wastewater mains, six pumping stations, and a wastewater treatment plant . Easton Utilities' cable service, branded as Easton Velocity, is one of a few municipal cable systems in the United States . The cable system in Easton was first built in 1984 and upgraded to a hybrid fiber / coax design in 2001 . Internet service through Easton Utilities is provided under the Easton Velocity brand, utilizing a fiber - optic network . Easton Utilities' telephone service operates under the Easton Velocity DigitalVoice brand . The town's Public Works department provides trash and recycling collection to Easton, with trash collection utilizing automated tipper cans . </P> <P> University of Maryland Shore Regional Health operates the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton in Easton, a hospital with 112 beds, 20 acute care inpatient beds, and an emergency room . </P> <P> Easton is home to the Easton Ice Hawks . They play in the CBHL (Chesapeake Beltway Hockey League). Easton Ice Hawk home games are played at the Talbot County Community Center in Easton . </P> <Ul> <Li> Leslie Holdridge Famed 20th Century Climatologist </Li> <Li> David Adkins, actor and playwright </Li> <Li> Harold Baines, baseball player </Li> <Li> Birch Bayh, United States senator from Indiana (1963--1981) </Li> <Li> J. Harry Covington, U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district </Li> <Li> Frederick Douglass, author and abolitionist </Li> <Li> Jeannie Haddaway, member of the Maryland House of Delegates </Li> <Li> Harry Hughes, Maryland governor (1979--1987) </Li> <Li> Chris Moore (film producer), producer for films including American Pie (film) and Good Will Hunting </Li> <Li> William O. Mills, U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district </Li> <Li> Maggie Rogers, singer, songwriter and producer </Li> <Li> William Pierce Rogers (1913--2001), Cabinet officer in the administrations of presidents Eisenhower and Nixon </Li> <Li> James W. Rouse, real - estate developer, civic activist, and free enterprise - based philanthropist </Li> <Li> Philip F. Thomas, Maryland governor (1848--1851), United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Buchanan (1860--1861) </Li> <Li> Oswald Tilghman, Confederate Army officer </Li> <Li> Tench Tilghman, aide - de-camp for George Washington </Li> </Ul>

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