GAS: Natural gas expansion
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into Ocean City won’t go handin-hand with Chesapeake Utilities’ purchase of ESG PAGE 15
Rick Meehan advocates again for smoking ban on Ocean City’s beach PAGE 4
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SENTENCED Edwards faces 20 years behind bars for running over 7-Eleven clerk NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (July 6, 2012) The 65year-old Ocean City man who intentionally drove his car over a clerk at the 139th Street 7-Eleven last year because he thought he had been given the wrong change was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. “What you did was a vicious and brutal attack on Mr. Curry,” Judge Thomas C. Groton III told Richard Lee Edwards before sentencing him. “It was a complete disregard for the sanctity of human life.” Groton said he was shocked “that having been run over at least twice, he’s still alive.” The judge recounted what transpired at the 7-Eleven
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COASTAL EMERGENCY
Ocean City firefighters were forced to dump a load of trash in Coastal Highway’s bus lane Tuesday morning, and then hose it down outside the Oyster Bay shopping center on Jamestown Road after the garbage was discovered to be on fire. According to Public Works truck drivers, trash heaps have caught fire before, typically due to the dumping of charcoal that barbecue enthusiasts believe to be extinguished, but which is in fact still smoldering. See full story on Page 24.
Richard Lee Edwards
at about noon on June 9, 2011 after Edwards made a small purchase and then began screaming that the clerk, Michael Curry, 44, had given him the wrong change. “It was such a trivial matter, over $10,” Groton said. See THE HORROR on Page 8
Municipal election changed to coincide with nat’l date ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (June 6, 2012) The next municipal election in Ocean City will not take place in October, as it always has, but on the first Tuesday in November, when voters also go to the p0lls in the national election. The City Council made a
5-2 decision Monday night to change the city’s municipal election to coincide with the federal date, but declined to move towards combining the city ballot and polling system with the larger contest. The two elections will be held simultaneously but separately, presumably in two different See MUNICIPAL on Page 16