Board approves two-track process for new firehouse
The Board of Directors has initiated a two-track process that could lead to construction of a new Southside firehouse, one that incorporates the existing bays for fire apparatus, adds a new ambulance bay, and razes the existing administrative structure that dates back to the 1980s and replaces it with a new, modern, stateof-the art facility. The two tracks took shape during the Board of Directors’ July 26 monthly meeting, with two separate motions approved unanimously by the Board.
August 2022
PROGRESS THE OCEAN PINES JOURNAL OF NEWS & COMMENTARY
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DeAngelus caught up in state police probe of hit-and-run fatality
Perrone resigns as OPA treasurer, gag order alleged
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Contending he’d been told not to answer questions from Ocean Pines Association members about OPA finances, Director Larry Perrone resigned his position as the OPA treasurer effective immediately at the start of a July 27 Board of Directors meeting. “If the treasurer of the association doesn’t have the ability to answer a simple financial question, then you have the wrong person in the treasurer’s position,” he told OPA President Colette Horn, who he said issued a mandate that he and other directors not answer questions from property owners but instead refer them to the OPA’s information system for answers.
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Ocean Pines food and beverage manager provides details about how investigators came to know location of vehicle possibly involved in tragic death of Ocean Pines teen Gavin Knupp By TOM STAUSS Publisher n an ongoing state police investigation with more questions than answers, at least with what’s been released so far for public consumption, Matt Ortt Companies partner Ralph DeAngelus finds himself in the uncomfortable position of knowing more than he can reveal publicly about the tragic death of Ocean Pines teenager Gavin Knupp in a July 11 hit-and-run near the Glen Riddle development on Route 50. And DeAngelus may actually know very little, contrary to speculation on social media. Local print media have provided detailed information about the fatility and efforts to locate the driver of the vehicle that might have been involved, reportedly a 2011 black Mercedes. How DeAngelus became caught up in the incident remains murky at best. But he told the Progress in a recent telephone conversation July 26 that neither he nor any other MOC
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employee was behind the wheel of the vehicle that resulted in the fatality. DeAngelus is also providing details on how state police investigators came to know that the Mercedes was parked on his property in the Ocean Reef subdivision in West Ocean City. He also is disputing widely reported speculation that a member Ralph DeAngelus of his household, a person of interest in the hit-and-run, is missing, aided in the disappearance by DeAngelus himself. “We’re all here, going to work,” he told the Progress. “Nobody has gone to Mexico,” one of the rumors that found its way to social media. He said everyone in his household is willing to cooperate with investigators. To Page 3