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OCTOBER 31, 2014
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Air show gets free upgrade Officials waive any charges in exchange for multi-year deal
Spectators disappointed Resort residents flocked to the inlet parking lot on Monday and then Tuesday hoping for a view of the Antares rocket launch roughly 35 miles away at the Wallops Space Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va. Disappointed the first night after the launch was scrubbed because of a sailboat in the rocket’s flight path out in the Atlantic, spectators piled into the lot on Tuesday expecting to see something spectacular.
They did, in a way, but only briefly. Six seconds into the launch, the 14story-tall Orbital Sciences Corp. rocket commissioned by NASA exploded. About two minutes later, the rumble and shake of the fiery failure arrived in Ocean City. The photo above was taken by Linda Cicoira of the Eastern Shore Post in Onley, Va. More pictures and details on page 33.
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (Oct. 31, 2014) The Ocean City Air Show will have no reason to fly away any time soon, following a deal with the city approved this week. The City Council voted to extend the event’s memorandum of understanding through 2018, including a continued waiver up to $100,000 of in-kind costs for support services provided to the air show. Earlier this year, city officials established new policies that require the compilation of an itemized list of costs, both material and personnel, being incurred by private event. As of 2015, the council could decide to charge events all or part of that cost. But it appears that longstanding attractions such as the Air Show, which began in 2008, may be spared these costs. The $950 charge for See WEEKDAY page 4
It’s almost over, the local election that is
By Zack Hoopes Staff Writer (Oct. 31, 2014) Ocean City voters will go to the polls Tuesday to say hello to at least three new faces on the City Council – and to say goodbye to Ocean City’s antiquated mechanical voting machines. Polls for the city election will open at 7 a.m. at the Ocean City Convention Center on Nov. 4, and run until 8 p.m. DON’T FORGET TO
Again this year, officials are reminding citizens that the city’s elections are held simultaneously, but separately, from the ballot that contains the county, state, and federal contests. The Worcester County Board of Elections, under the purview of the state board, runs the largerscale contests. Under its charter from the state, however, the Town of Ocean City conducts its own election, with its own regulatory body and voting equipment.
The county will have a polling station at the convention center on the other side of the exhibit hall form the city’s voting booths, allowing voters to walk to the opposite side of the room to vote in the municipal election. “We will have plenty of signs and attendants to direct people to the city election after they vote in the county-run election,” City Clerk Kelly Allmond said. See VOTING page 5
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