OC Today-Dispaatch JANUARY 24, 2025
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COMING DOWN Half the Bo-Con Apartments remain as the demolition of it and the Beach Plaza Hotel next door continues. As local historian Bunk Mann reported in his “Vanishing Ocean City” column in 2023, the Beach Plaza was built in 1953 by Ethel Griffin Kelley and her son, Harry, who was Ocean City’s mayor from 1970 to 1985. Bought by Brice and Shirley Phillips in 1967, the Beach Plaza closed its doors in 2021. Developers plan to build a hotel on the site. Its style and scope is yet to be determined.
Wind energy order Taylor announces retirement viewed cautiously Rt. 90 project gets its funding
School superintendent says he will step down at the end of the school year, wrapping up a 41-year career with Worcester County public schools. — PAGE 53
President Trump’s executive order halting the lease of federal lands for wind farms also leaves projects with leases in hand subject to review by federal authorities. Local governments, US Wind aren’t sure what it might mean to them. PAGE 3
State Highway Administration said last fall there was no money to pay for studies to make the two-lane road a dual highway. They were wrong. — PAGE 6