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JUNE 6, 2014
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Brewery earns PZ support for fewer restrictions on ops Pyramidal zoning lead to conflict with neighbors
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DEMOLISHED Demolition of the fire-damaged rectory at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea church on Third Street and Baltimore Avenue is nearly complete as of this week. It formerly housed the church’s administrative offices on its upper floors, as well as the Shepherd’s Crook food and clothing pantry on the ground level.
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (June 6, 2014) Despite its acrimonious relationship with City Hall, the Ocean City Brewing Company at 56th Street and Coastal Hwy was granted another shot this week at removing some of the more onerous restrictions placed on it earlier this year. The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted five-to-one to recommend to the City Council that it approve the brewery’s request to have on-site bottling and canning, as well as an external grain silo. These two aspects of the operation were nixed by the council when the facility was originally approved. The commission’s recommendation also stipulates that such permission would come with a one-year sunset, after which the conditions would be reconsidered. Not unexpectedly, this move was met with distress by the facility’s neighbors. But regardless of the clash of personalities involved in the issue, the culprit seems to be the city’s long See BREWERY Page 10
Despite quick action, rip current claims life Two pulled back to shore, but third couldn’t be found in time by rescue swimmers
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By Nancy Powell Staff Writer (June 6, 2014) “Everybody, be careful,” said one of the two young men who had been caught in a rip current in the ocean at 137th Street on Monday afternoon with Don Pen Soh Boma. In his profound grief, he could say no more. A member of the Ocean City Beach
Patrol rescued him and the other young man at about 4:30 p.m., but despite heroic efforts by them and fire department rescue swimmers, they were unable to save Boma, who remained underwater for approximately 40 minutes. People gathered on the beach to watch the rescue efforts that included a Maryland State Police helicopter and a U.S. Coast Guard vessel. Several public safety personnel searched in the ocean for Boma, 18, of Burtonsville in Montgomery County until they were called out of the cold water as a safety precaution because they needed
to warm up before continuing the search. Shortly after they left the ocean, public safety personnel were seen suddenly bringing Boma out of the water to the beach. As they did that, bystanders who had been watching the sad drama were ordered to move farther away, although none were that close to the area of the beach where they took Boma. His friends had been talking to a police officer, but when they saw Boma being brought out of the ocean, they sprinted to be close to him. One knelt on the sand, pummeling it in de-
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spair. Paramedics performed CPR on Boma while he was on the beach and they continued CPR after he was lifted onto a Beach Patrol all-terrain vehicle and driven to a waiting ambulance. Lifesaving measures continued in the ambulance for quite some time before he was taken to Atlantic General Hospital. After that ambulance departed for the hospital, a second ambulance arrived to take one of his friends, a woman, to the hospital because she was hyperventilating See RIP Page 5
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