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Flex zoning could help shops open City looks for means to allow businesses to use more space By Josh Kim Staff Writer (May 15, 2020) Ocean City officials, staff and department heads are brainstorming ways to allow local businesses to have access to all their available space, zoning restrictions notwithstanding, so they can conduct services efficiently and safely this summer. The Ocean City Planning and Zoning Commission addressed the topic last Tuesday. “The issue is that our recovery plan that is being discussed right now through our Emergency Operations Center includes a general desire on the mayor and city council’s part to have some flexibility moving forward with how we apply our zoning regulations, our inspections and our potential citations See CITY Page 3
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The extraordinarily low tide Sunday left the bay bottom bare at the Marina Deck restaurant off Dorchester Street.
Persistent winds create whoa tide
By Greg Ellison Staff Writer (May 15, 2020) The exceptionally low tides over the weekend couldn’t be missed in the bay and the inlet after Mother Nature dished out several days of blustery winds following the full “Flower Moon” last
Thursday. Morning Star charter boat proprietor Capt. Monty Hawkins said prolonged gusty conditions often have a negative impact on tide levels. “The main thing is just a hard, hearty See SUNDAY’S Page 2
By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (May 15, 2020) Although Atlantic General Hospital received an annual grant of $175,000 from the Worcester County Commissioners last year, it will receive no county money this year, after a discussion of the hospital’s service area and expansion plans led to a narrow vote to end funding on Tuesday. The debate leading up to the commissioners’ 4-3 decision began when County Commissioner Jim Bunting said he would back zeroing out all funding to nonprofits in the county. “I don't think we should be giving anything to any nonprofits,” Bunting said. See COUNTY Page 4
Unemployment leaves them waiting and in trouble Weeks of trying to receive benefits without success, workers face dire situations By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (May 15, 2020) Debbi Dean-Colley wakes up at 6 a.m. every morning to check the status of her BEACON OneStop unemployment application. She then spends seven to eight hours on hold with the Maryland Department of Labor, trying to figure out why she has yet to receive benefits and why her ap-
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plication switched from active to pending. After being laid off from her job at Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services and stopping her work with the Art League of Ocean City following its closure, Dean-Colley applied for unemployment at the end of March and still hasn’t received any answers. “The journey has been frustrating — emotionally trying,” Dean-Colley said. “I can say there have been days where it’s consumed me.” On April 24, the department launched the unemployment applica-
tion website for residents to apply online around the clock for all claims and weekly certifications. But then the system crashed when thousands of Marylanders seeking unemployment benefits flooded the system all at once. The majority of these workers were furloughed or laid off due to the coronavirus pandemic. The department apologized for the website glitches and rolled out numerous improvement strategies. Dean-Colley said the improvements have not helped. Two weeks ago, she was told she would be given an ap-
pointment time, and still has not received that. In addition, the first couple weeks she filed under the old system did not transfer into the new system. “It’s eliminated three or four weeks out of what we would’ve received through unemployment,” Dean-Colley said. On Tuesday night, she expressed her frustration as testimony to the Maryland General Assembly via Zoom. “There’s nobody that’s standing up for us,” Dean-Colley said. “What does it do to our self-esteem? We’re disSee WAITING Page 4
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Schools’ graduations get creative By Ally Lanasa Staff Writer (May 15, 2020) With the May 6 announcement that public schools in Maryland would be closed for the remainder of the academic year, administrators at Worcester County high schools have developed new graduation schedules to honor the 2020 seniors. Chief Operations & Academic Officer for Worcester County Public Schools (grades 9-12) and Chairperson of the Graduation Committee Dr. Annette Wallace said the district level graduation committee will recognize the seniors at the three high schools with a virtual celebration. A local videographer and graduate of Worcester County public schools will film the Stephen Decatur, Pocomoke and Snow Hill commencement ceremonies. All of the graduates will receive a copy of the video and it will be uploaded to social media to have a watch party at a later date. “We have heard our seniors’ voices that they want to celebrate together, which is why we came up with these celebrations that will happen over the next couple of weeks, but we need our community and our seniors to also recognize that our No. 1 priority is their safety and our No. 2 priority is celebrating them,” Wallace said. “We have to keep them safe first, and that’s something that school administrators—regardless if we’re living in a pandemic or not—the truth is, safety really is first.” In addition, each high school is planning senior activities that adhere to social distancing protocol. The high schools have their own graduation committees and have received feedback from students and parents about how to celebrate. “The graduation events aren’t just commencement, and I think we all probably get caught up in commencement because that’s the biggest one, but we have our senior awards nights and each of our schools is going to be celebrating those differently,” Wallace said. “Our communities partner with us to do a baccalaureate service, so each of our three high schools is going to be doing something virtually with that as well.” Stephen Decatur High School has shifted to several virtual events, including the online baccalaureate spearheaded by Pastor Dan Turing and a radio broadcast of school-based senior awards. The Bill Baker and Jessica Show on Power 101.7 will play the award ceremony with interviews and shout-outs from 6-10 a.m. on May 19. A video of the awards ceremony will also be uploaded to Decatur’s social media. “We’re creating a YouTube video of all the teachers giving their awards, which I think is great for our students to be able to see their teacher
they are getting the award from,” Principal Thomas Sites said. “It’s usually the department chairs who will give out a lot of these awards to clubs [and] to different organizations through the school.” For the first time, Decatur will host a Boardwalk commencement parade. “Our graduation ceremony has always been in the [Roland E. Powell] Convention Center,” Sites said. “It’s a great ceremony. We have them up on the platform, on the stage. We give 10 tickets per student, so there’s upwards of 2,500 to 3,000 people in there, but of course Annette Wallace with what’s going on today that is not a possibility.” Seniors asked Sites to avoid a virtual commencement. The Decatur administration considered how a class of 295 students could gather while practicing social distancing. With a Boardwalk parade, the students would remain in their cars but still be physically together to meet the students’ desires. “We’ve been working on this for about three weeks now, trying to figure out the best way that we could recognize our seniors and make it special for them,” Sites said. Sites was inspired by students in Florida, who are crossing the finish line in their cars at Daytona 500 and receiving their diplomas. “I thought, ‘Wow that is neat. That’s neat to them because that’s where the speed race is located. What’s our unique thing we have around here?’ We have the Boardwalk, known throughout the region and really the country, so this was our way of doing it.” With the Ocean City Boardwalk and beach reopening on May 9, Sites said “It kind of fell in place.” A date and time for the parade is to be announced. Although the 2020 Decatur graduating class is not having a traditional commencement ceremony, the students will receive their caps and gowns. On May 22, regalia will be distributed to students while they stay in their cars. Similar to Decatur, Pocomoke High School has scheduled a regalia pickup day for May 21. Seniors will wear their caps and gowns for modified outdoor commencement ceremonies from May 26-28. The students will participate in staggered graduations that comply with social distancing rules, such as scheduling the students 10 to 15 minutes apart, said Principal Jennifer Rayne. Rayne and her 92 seniors have prioritized upholding the school’s traditions during these unprecedented times.
The soon-to-be graduates gave the Pocomoke administration a wish list of three items that would make their commencement memorable and incorporate customs. “One was that they wanted to be able to graduate before the end of the school year, and I appreciate that. I understand that many of them want closure and that also keeps it as normal as possible,” Rayne said. “The other thing that was on our seniors’ wish list is that they cross the stage and have that traditional experience. And then finally, the last piece was that they wanted to celebrate together and celebrate with the community.” To fulfill the graduates’ final request a senior car parade around Pocomoke City is in the works. “The parade, which is going to be our culminating event, is going to be the opportunity for our seniors to celebrate together, celebrate each other and for the community to recognize them,” Rayne said. The date has yet to be determined, as the Pocomoke administration awaits changes in the social distancing and stay-at-home orders. Likewise, Snow Hill High School’s car parade, coined ‘A Little Pomp Under the Circumstances’ for the graduation song, is pending approval. As for its commencement, Snow Hill is planning a staggered outdoor ceremony called ‘Soaring through Graduation.’ The 66 graduating students will drive to the school, exit their vehicles to participate in a video recording inside the facility, then walk across the outdoor stage to receive their diplomas. Families will have the opportunity to take photos, then the new graduates will turn their tassels. Then, they will be asked to return to their vehicles and exit the venue. Students who are waiting their turn will be able to blow their horns and celebrate their classmates, said Dr. Kimberly Purvis, principal of Snow Hill. “One of our visions was to meet the needs of our students and our families by providing a commencement exercise that would give parents and students two things and that would be a face-to-face encounter as well as recognition and celebration among some of their classmates,” said Purvis. In addition, Snow Hill is hosting a virtual senior awards ceremony on May 20 at 6 p.m. and a virtual baccalaureate on May 27 at 6 p.m., both via Zoom. “We will have community presenters at our graduate awards night,” Purvis said. “This is giving the opportunity to organizations to see the students they awarded, and the students will be able to thank those organizations for investing in them.” As the local high schools adjust their graduation plans, throughout Maryland there has been debate
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Sunday’s low tide was whoa tide because of winds Continued from Page 1 northwest wind or westerly gale,” he said. “You get three days of it and, boy, will the water disappear.” Hawkins also noted the full moon days earlier also exacerbated the situation. “If there was something going on with the moon … and if you had a wind whipping out … then you would get a double whammy,” he said. Hawkins said westerly winds typically push water away from shore. “They drive the water out and we get really low tides,” he said. “Some of the marinas were just flat mud across.” Hawkins said it’s likely been at least a year since tide levels dipped that significantly. “It’s been over a year since I’ve seen one that low,” he said. “Usually, they’re in the heart of winter [and] we don’t usually get them this time of year.” Hawkins said ever changing nautical conditions can alter work procedures. “Sometimes the tide will be so low we’ll have to go up into the commercial harbor to unload our people,” he said. “It’s part of the game [and] you’ve got to have plan B.” For his part, Hawkins used the less-than-ideal water conditions to perform seasonal boat maintenance. “I’m sure glad I wasn’t trying to fish,” he said. “I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere.” about the 54-page recovery plan, which State Superintendent Karen B. Salmon released on May 6, that details the possibilities for the state’s schools when they reopen. “I think that the recovery plan has caused quite a stir … The recovery plan doesn’t start in September,” Wallace said. “There isn’t a start date on the recovery plan, so we are very hopeful that the recovery plan is going to start this summer.” Currently, Worcester County Public Schools is developing a recovery committee, Wallace said. “We’ll have a district level team … when it’s appropriate [we’ll be] bringing in some stakeholders, our parents, and probably likely some of our students to get some feedback from them about what some of our thoughts are,” Wallace said. “But, certainly, as we move forward in [recovery], our most vulnerable students are at the forefront of our minds. Our struggling learners are at the forefront of our minds, and then also providing opportunities for advancement and enrichment for our high performing students, so we are committed to producing a very comprehensive recovery plan.”
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City seeks way to help with space restrictions Continued from Page 1 over the summer,” said Bill Neville, City Planning and Community Development director. As the resort slowly opens, social distancing and gathering guidelines will most likely remain in place to prevent spikes in covid-19 cases. To accommodate these rules, businesses would have to balance maximizing capacity and maximizing public safety. “One of the examples that came out early on was the idea that our restaurants, in order to open and provide social distancing, would need to provide additional outdoor seating so that tables could be spaced further apart,” Neville said. That could mean putting tables out in the parking lot, and the city would need to waive the parking standards to a certain level over the summer until social distancing restrictions are relaxed. “This is something that other communities have talked about, and in other places they’ve talked about it as a 90-day waiver of permits and a waiver of certain regulations,” Neville said. However, rather than waiving permits and regulations, Neville said the city’s approach was more about allowing modifications. “If you look at that section that requires a site plan, at the end of it there’s a provision that allows administrative approval for very small changes to site
plans, so that’s one section that we could potentially modify to deal with how can we accommodate some site plan revisions on a temporary basis,” Neville said. He also stressed the importance of maintaining records and emphasizing this was not the new normal, but a temporary solution to an unprecedented problem. Neville asked whether the commission wanted to be involved in each review, or whether it wanted staff to handle it. “I don’t think it’s necessary to bring every single thing in front of us,” Planning Commissioner Joe Wilson said. “I think the staff is perfectly capable of handling those items, particularly because this is going to be an extremely interesting summer for everyone. I think these businesses are going to need the ability to make a decision on the fly, [rather] than waiting for us to meet every two weeks. Two weeks during the summer could mean 20 percent of their income.” Other members agreed, and stressed the importance of making the process as easy and as fast as possible. “I think a lot of people are going to be doing stuff without your approval just to survive. They’re freaking out,” Commission Member Chris Shanahan said. Nonetheless, developing some form of allowance before the season begins will be difficult, as it will require collab-
oration between the planning department, fire marshal’s office, law enforcement, local health officials, businesses, and other departments, and will be contingent on Gov. Larry Hogan’s recovery plan.
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Waiting for unemployment with rent overdue Continued from Page 1 carded so easily.” This is especially trying for her family, as she has two daughters who are also struggling to apply for unemployment. As a single parent, Dean-Colley has not received child support for the last two months. She had to delay her car payment for a month and her landlord has not received rent. Ellie Bratten, an Ocean City resident who worked at a restaurant and a grocery store before the pandemic hit, filed for unemployment the day after the BEACON One-Stop application was launched. She said applying was the easy part. “I thought, ‘Okay, this isn’t as bad as people made it out to be,’” Bratten said. “But I did have some questions that I needed to ask that weren’t available on the website. So then I proceeded with
the phone calls. Two thousand phone calls I made the first week.” Since then, she only received a busy signal and has not had any of her questions answered. Bratten also has received no benefits, even though she was approved. In addition, her case switched from active to pending this past weekend and she can no longer access the weekly claim certification. Bratten said this experience has been more stressful than working, as it has taken a financial toll. “I’ve had to put my car payment and car insurance on postponement,” Bratten said. “I’ve had to put my electric on postponement. I’ve been able to pay part of my rent. I don’t know about the rest of my rent for this month.” She has contacted multiple local officials and employees at the state department, but many have redirected
her to someone else or have said they will be in touch later, according to Bratten. “Everyone is passing the buck around,” Bratten said. Rainy Hamrock of Ocean Pines said her husband, Brooke, received unemployment benefits about three weeks ago after applying on April 1. However, her daughter, Rebekah Nesbit, has struggled because she worked on her college campus, Washington College. Hamrock said her daughter was originally denied because her wages were insufficient, but then they requested an alternate base period to reflect when she was working more hours. When the paperwork arrived to re-apply, it was still for the original base period which would not qualify. Hamrock said college students have been grossly underrepresented. “They didn’t get the stimulus because most of them are claimed on their parents’ taxes,” Hamrock said.
“Then the parents didn’t get the dependent stimulus because they’re over 16, but most of these kids were already working and paying into the system too.” She added that Nesbit had been calling the department all Wednesday morning to get the issue corrected, as that day was the deadline for her to fill out the paperwork. “She’s trying to leave for grad school in a couple months and there are fees associated with that,” Hamrock said. “The uncertainty of knowing if you’re going to make those deadlines is incredibly stressful.” According to the department of labor, more than 5,000 Worcester County residents have filed for unemployment since the beginning of March, and those are just the successful applications. To access the application, visit dllr.state.md.us/employment/unemployment.shtml.
County zeros out grants to AGH Continued from Page 1 County Commissioner Diana Purnell disagreed, especially during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. “To zero out grants to Atlantic General Hospital would be detrimental to our community,” Purnell said. “The hospitals are going to need everything that they can get.” County Commissioner Bud Church added that thought cutting funding to Atlantic General would not sit well with Worcester County citJim Bunting izens. County Commissioner Joseph Mitrecic, however, said that after a poor experience with the emergency room at Atlantic General, the emergency room director called him and mentioned that 40 percent of emergency room visits are from Sussex County. Mitrecic said he was concerned that Sussex County was enjoying 40 percent of the emergency room while not making any grants or donations to the hospital. “Perhaps if we withhold our funding this year, they’ll go after Sussex County in a more rigorous method to collect more money from them,” Mitrecic said. He said that although Worcester residents might not be happy with that, some of them might not realize that so many Sussex County residents are using the hospital without their county paying. Mitrecic then referenced when Atlantic General CEO Michael Franklin presented commissioners with the hospital’s expansion plans in early March. “They need to start worrying about the hospital and not building that
campus,” Mitrecic said. The hospital plans to redesign the inpatient care on the second floor of the hospital and to design a surgical services and ambulatory surgery center in Ocean Pines. Mitrecic also pointed out that the hospital received more than $1 million in state funding for the pandemic. The motion to cut Atlantic General’s funding from $175,000 to zero passed with the support of Mitrecic, Bunting, Commissioner Ted Elder and Commissioner Chip Bertino. Purnell, Church and Commissioner Joshua Nordstrom voted in opposition. In a statement issued Wednesday, Franklin said he was disappointed with the commissioner’s decision. He explained that $100,000 of that funding was a continuation of the county’s five-year pledge to support the hospital’s Campaign for the Future to update and renovate facilities. “The decision to discontinue that commitment in year four of five of their pledge may set an ill-fated precedent with others that have similar pledges, and that will significantly impact our ability to continue with those plans,” Franklin said. The remaining $75,000 was for annual hospital operations. “Discontinuing funding support to all nonprofits will put added stress on those citizens most at risk, and will create a disproportionate strain on the health department and hospital moving forward,” Franklin said. Atlantic General was the only nonprofit commissioners chose to completely cut from the budget. Franklin also clarified that Atlantic General recently requested and received support from Delaware for critically ill patients.
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Wor. releases two ICE detainees Court cites inmates at high risk for covid-19, says jail withheld case information By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (May 15, 2020) Although U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang originally declined to release an immigration and customs enforcement inmate in the Worcester County Detention Center in Snow Hill, the court released two ICE detainees last Friday. Adina Appelbaum, program director of the immigration impact lab at the capital area immigrants’ rights coalition, who helped represent the two detainees, said their release was because they were at high risk for severe infection or death from the coronavirus and because the Worcester jail withheld information from the court. The second inmate was added to the lawsuit after he was identified to be at risk. According to the ruling, one inmate suffers from hypertension, high blood pressure, lymphedema and a compromised immune system, while another suffers from hypertension, prostate problems, including a prostate infection, chronic pain, and a rule/out diagnosis of an intellectual disability. Appelbaum said that the court originally denied releasing the inmates because there was no evidence that any individuals had coronavirus or that the government was failing to test people. She added that the court ruled that the detention center would be held in constitutional violation if that changed. Medical documents were later obtained that showed medical personnel wearing hazmat suits had been visiting an inmate. “All of that person’s medical records, which we filed, had notes throughout them from the facility stating that the person was suspected of having covid-19,” Appelbaum said. Both inmates are residing in Maryland and at least one is being monitored by ICE, according to Appelbaum. Kim Moses, public information officer for Worcester County, said although the county respected the court’s decision to release the inmates, it did not agree. “The judge’s decision was based almost entirely on the fact that one detainee, who is not being released, had a cough and slight fever in early April and was not tested for covid-19,” Moses said. “However, that detainee was completely isolated in accordance with the jail’s procedures and his symptoms resolved.” She added that the decision to test an inmate is made by the jail’s healthcare provider and the Worcester County Health Department.
“The jail takes the health and safety of inmates, detainees, and staff very seriously,” Moses said. “It is unfortunate that this ruling does not reflect that care.” Since March, the jail has implemented safety measures — all new inmates receive a temperature check, medical screening, mask and are isolated in a single cell for 14 days until the medical provider has cleared them; extra cleaning practices are carried out in the facility and housing units; visits are restricted to attorneys only, who are medically screened be-
‘These two individuals — their lives were on the line, so it was very much an emergency to get them out before it was too late’ Adina Appelbaum, program director fore entry; any inmate with a fever is moved to the medical housing area for monitoring and must be cleared by the medical provider; four housing units have been designated for isolation; and all staff receive a temperature check and medical screening before entering the facility. As of Monday, the jail has not recorded a positive case. When asked how many inmates and staff had been tested, the jail did not respond. Despite these measures, Appelbaum said that jails are a tinderbox for coronavirus. “In the detention centers, it is impossible to do social distancing,” Appelbaum said. “We’ve seen in several other jail settings around the country and around the world that once covid-19 enters, it spreads very rapidly.” She cited a jail in California that
went from zero cases to over 100 in just a few days. “These two individuals — their lives were on the line, so it was very much an emergency to get them out before it was too late,” Appelbaum said. Although she didn’t know why Worcester chose not to test the individual, Appelbaum said it was nonsensical. “It goes to the heart of the judge’s decision of why the government has committed a constitutional violation of deliberate indifference here, to the safety of the petitioners and their custody,” Appelbaum said. The court’s decision states that because the jail withheld information and did not correct the record before or after the original ruling was made, the court doubts that the Worcester jail will reveal suspected cases when they arise and conduct proper testing. It added that because the jail “claims that a detainee it labeled as suspected covid-19 did not need to be tested because the temperature did not reach a particular threshold, it reflects an unreasonably high tolerance for the potential presence of a detected case of covid-19 inside the Worcester County Detention Center.” Appelbaum said that since the government had no plan to protect vulnerable populations, the only solution was to release inmates, as they have a constitutional right to be safe and free from punishment while in government custody. “We’re happy that these plaintiffs are now safe, but there’s also many other people still detained that we’re extremely concerned about,” Appelbaum said. “There’s a lot more work to be done right now to protect immigrants during this pandemic.”
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