OC Today-Dispaatch SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
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Tyler Walsh collision stuns area residents Sixteen-year-old Decatur student struck by hit-and-run motorcyclist remains in Shock Trauma as friends, family and coastal communities rally around him. — Page 3
Is special event zone needed for bike week? Tragedy spurs talk by county commissioners and resort officials about whether it’s time to make it so. — Page 14
Medical waste vanishes, but where did it originate? Beaches in three-state area suffer as discarded medical garbage washes ashore. Investigation begins. — Page 6
Cruisin, Springfest bumped to new dates by ... what? PHOTO COURTESY JANET HOUGH
MEMORIAL MORNING Ocean City’s Firefighter Memorial stands watch over the Boardwalk during the Sept. 11 sunrise.
Something big is brewing, as Ocean City’s special events team juggles the spring calendar. — Page 10
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Members of the Stephen Decatur junior varsity and varsity soccer teams, center of field, were surrounded Monday by fellow students and community members in a show of support for Tyler Walsh.
Walshes hoping for miracle following Friday hit-and-run By Steve Green Executive Editor (Sept. 20, 2024) The coastal community is again rallying around the Walsh family with an outpouring of support and love following last Friday’s hit-and-run collision in Ocean City. From 2020-2022, area residents came together to support Cory Walsh and his three children, twins Tyler and Emma and Carter, while their wife and mother, Rhonda Walsh, a beloved local teacher at Berlin Intermediate for 21 years, battled brain cancer. Meal trains were coordinated, and an online fundraising platform raised about $30,000 to help the family with expenses. Rhonda succumbed to sarcoma cancer on Oct. 15, 2022, at the age of 50 but not before putting up a courageous fight drawing the admiration of residents in Worcester and Sussex counties. On Friday night, Sept. 13, the
Walsh family was shaken again. Tyler Walsh, a 16-year-old junior at Stephen Decatur High School, was walking east in a crosswalk around 12th Street in Ocean City when a speeding motorcyclist struck him. The collision led to Walsh being flown immediately to Shock Trauma in Baltimore with life-threatening injuries. As of Wednesday afternoon, Tyler remains in critical condition after having several surgeries and multiple broken bones. Father Cory Walsh said this week he is hoping for a miracle for his son. “It’s going to take a miracle for this one,” Walsh told Coastal Point Staff Writer Susan Canfora in an interview this week. “His doctors say he’s stable, but he’s very critical and there are many more surgeries to go. He’s going to be sedated another couple of weeks. He’s a good kid. Good grades. Wrong place, wrong time. The guy on See MOTORCYCLIST Page 78
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