OCTOBER 20, 2022
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BERLIN • NORTH WORCESTER COUNTY• OCEAN PINES
Court says board can’t ban Janasek Opinion finds no support for OPA’s line of reasoning
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The Edelweiss Band provided much of the German atmoshphere during Berlin’s Oktberfest and Fall Sidewalk sale on Saturday. It was the first edition of the event to feature no covid restrictions since 2019. More photos on page 17.
Disc golf expansion urged All agree 9-hole course has been good addition to park and could be permanent By Jack Chavez Staff Writer (Oct. 20, 2022) After six months, no major twists, curves or skips have occurred in the budding relationship between Eastbound Disc Golf and the Town of Berlin. Town officials conferred with two representatives from the company at the Berlin mayor and Town Council meeting last Tuesday, and came out with a six-month extension of the agreement between the two entities
for the nine-hole course at Stephen Decatur Park. Town officials even urged the representatives to come back with a proposal for an expanded and permanent course. “It’s been neat to walk by or through the park and see people playing,” said Berlin Mayor Zack Tyndall, adding that the course’s usage seemed to increase over time. “It’s going well.” When asked by Tyndall if any complaints have been made to the town, Town Administrator Mary Bohlen only reported a couple of scant complaints — one dealing with errant discs landing in someone’s yard, and
the other regarding a “less-thanpleasant encounter” one resident had with a disc golfer. See DISC Page 3
By Jack Chavez Staff Writer (Oct. 20, 2022) The Ocean Pines Association cannot enforce its 90-day ban on former director Tom Janasek, according to a Worcester County Circuit Court decision announced last Friday. C i r c u i t Court Judge Beau Oglesby delivered the decision 50 days after a late-August evidentiary hearing in which he set a timeline to rule on the preliminary inTom Janasek j u n c t i o n request made by Janasek to enjoin the OPA from enforcing the ban. The ban was the OPA Board of Directors’ response to a May confrontation at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club in which Janasek accosted then-director Josette Wheatley. The scene escalated to the point that Janasek was escorted off the property. A couple of weeks later, the board moved to suspend Janasek from certain amenities, including the Yacht Club, for 90 days. “It was a pretty simple decision,” Janasek said on Saturday from the Ocean Pines Golf Clubhouse, where the OPA was holding its regular board meeting. “Until they found out (it was me in the altercation with Wheatley) they said to just file a report. As soon as they found out it was me, they said, ‘Oh no, we have to do this ban and have a special meeting’ and do all this other stuff.” It was a clean sweep for Janasek, with every factor weighed by Oglesby See JANASEK Page 4
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