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DECEMBER 14, 2018
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SPIDERS AND A DEADPOOL Web crawlers flank comics anti-hero “Deadpool” during the second annual Ocean City Comic Con at the convention center on 40th Street, last Saturday. Pictured, from left, are Millsboro resident Logan Reichelt, John BiBonaventure, of Milton, Delaware, and Alex Lloyd-Wood, of Millsboro.
By Morgan Pilz Staff Writer (Dec. 14, 2018) Two weeks after the Trump Administration granted five “incidental harassment authorizations,” or IHAs, that give companies permission to use seismic airgun blasts to search for fossil fuels under the sea floor of the Atlantic Ocean, nine environmental groups have filed suit against the federal government. Oceana, the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, North Carolina Coastal Federation, One Hundred Miles, Sierra Club and Surfrider Foundation are suing Secretary of Commerce Wilbur See SEISMIC Page 8
‘Quite a shock,’ says cell tower company rep Project partner says she believed lease approval would be just a formality
By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Dec. 14, 2018) Calvert Crosslands partner Barb Pivec said she was blindsided by the Worcester County Commissioners’ decision last week to reject a lease agreement for a cell tower site at the Ocean Pines Wastewater Treatment Plant. Pivec said she entered the meeting with the belief the lease would be approved. “Yes, it was quite a shock. It was quite a shock,” she said. Pivec said Calvert Crosslands took over a proposed five-year lease for the
property from Verizon Wireless so the county’s need for space for its own communications equipment could be accommodated. The county would be able to use the tower for free, and would have been
paid $20,000 in rent for the first year, with 2 percent each year thereafter. She said Calvert Crosslands also recommended that the county permit it to make the tower taller to provide room for the county’s equipment. Ac-
cording to last week’s discussion, that space would have been the top four feet of a 160-foot tower. Pivec said the company worked with the county to move the project See CROSSLANDS Page 4
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The Worcester County Commissioners last week rejected a lease agreement with Calvert Crosslands for a proposed cell tower near the county wastewater treatment plant in Ocean Pines. A representative from the company this week called the decision “quite a shock.”
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