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GRADUATION PARADE Ahead of graduation this week, Stephen Decatur High School’s Class of 2025, including Noah Tucker, above, was celebrated with a Boardwalk parade last Thursday night. See page 46 for more photos.
Teacher pay rejection leads to bitter ending County Commissioners cut property tax rate by two cents — PAGE 14
Gun threat ends with man’s arrest Chestertown man faces felony assault charges after allegedly threatening to ‘shoot up’ downtown restaurant
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Local lawmakers side with Trump’s offshore wind E.O. By Bethany Hooper Associate Editor (May 30, 2025) Two members of the Eastern Shore delegation are requesting the U.S. Department of the Interior take legal action to bring Maryland’s offshore wind energy project into compliance with the president’s executive order. In a May 15 letter, Senator Mary Beth Carozza (R-38) and Delegate Wayne Hartman (R-38C) urged Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to file motions pertaining to the Town of Ocean City’s lawsuit, which challenges the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) process for approving the US Wind project. The motions, they argue, will send the 114-turbine project back to BOEM and bring the project into compliance with President Donald Trump’s Jan. 21 executive order. “By filing motions and proposal orders to the court that agree with the allegations and deficiencies presented in this lawsuit and requesting the court to refer the permit issuance back to BOEM, it would trigger required compliance with the President’s executive order and effectively halt the project,” a joint statement reads. In October, the Town of Ocean City, alongside the Worcester County Commissioners, the Town of Fenwick Island and several other co-plaintiffs, filed suit in
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U.S. District Court challenging BOEM’s process for approving the US Wind project, which involves the construction of 114, 938-foot-tall wind turbines located nearly 11 miles off the coast. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges the regulatory agency ignored the local economic and aesthetic damage a wind farm could cause. Weeks later, BOEM announced it had granted US Wind a construction and operations permit. And, in January, Trump issued an executive order effectively withdrawing areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from any new offshore wind leasing. The order also halts the issuance of any new or renewed permits, leases or loans for onshore and offshore wind projects, pending the completion of a federal review. “Our constituents in Ocean City and other coastal communities along the Atlantic were grateful for this order; however, it did not change the status of Maryland’s Marwin project, which was hurriedly approved in the final months of 2024,” the statement reads. “Until the very end of his administration, President Biden did everything he could to accelerate the approval of offshore wind development. Ocean City’s lawsuit was filed on October 25, 2024, and on January 17, 2025 – just three days before the end of his term – the See LOCAL Page 6
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