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AUGUST 28, 2020
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Eleventh annual event kicked off Thursday and continues through Sunday around resort – Page 28
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State PSC OK’s larger turbines for wind farm
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A REMINDER Although masks are required from 8-2 a.m. on the Boardwalk to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, not everyone does. Ocean City police have sometimes asked those who are not complying to do so.
County establishes voting centers Resort convention center will be one of four to be created for Nov. 3 election By Elizabeth Bonin Staff Writer (Aug. 28, 2020) There will be four voting centers for the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, instead of the 16 polling places originally planned, according to the Worcester County Board of Elections. Election Director Patti Jackson said one of the centers will be the Ocean City convention center in the Bayfront Ballroom on 40th Street,
which will also serve as Worcester’s early voting site. Jackson said the other three centers will be located in Berlin, Pocomoke and Snow Hill, but the exact site has not yet been determined. For a polling place, a voter must go to a certain one based on which precinct they live in, while voters can vote at a center regardless of where in the county they live. “You might live in Ocean City, but you work in Pocomoke, so on your way to work, if you want to stop in Pocomoke and vote, you can and you can have your correct voting style there,” Jackson said.
She said that Gov. Larry Hogan and the Maryland State Board of Elections recommended using the public high schools for voting centers. “We have three high schools Pocomoke, Snow Hill and Berlin and we have to go and look at them,” Jackson said. “We’ve been to a couple and we have to determine whether that would work for us or if we can find a suitable alternative.” The board hopes to have the other three centers determined by the end of this week or the beginning of September. In-person voting on Election Day See CONVENTION Page 2
By Josh Kim Staff Writer (Aug. 28, 2020) Ocean City is 0 for 1 in its fight against offshore wind turbines, after the Maryland Public Service Commission announced last Thursday its approval of Ørsted’s Skipjack Offshore Wind Energy’s 12 MW wind turbine selection. “We are disappointed by the opinion of the Public Service Commission, and somewhat surprised,” Mayor Rick Meehan said in a statement to Ocean City Today. “While we can support the Skipjack project, we believed our concerns with regard to the size and the distance from shore of these giant turbines was substantiated and well presented.” “Ørsted is pleased that the Maryland Public Service Commission approved the project’s longstanding commitment to use the best commercially available turbine technology,” said Brady Walker, Ørsted’s Mid-Atlantic Market Manager. “The project will continue to engage with all stakeholders on creating a project that all See PSC Page 4
Twenty-five ways to improve OC City Councilman Dennis Dare has been thinking about it for years, and now, as the resort has suffered some image setbacks because of poor behavior by some crowds, he has developed a white paper on things that can be done to address these problems and to restore the luster of Ocean City as the premiere family resort in the Mid-Atlantic region. This week, we begin a series of articles examining his proposals. Page 5