NOVEMBER 24, 2022
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BERLIN • NORTH WORCESTER COUNTY• OCEAN PINES
Zoning code change aids silo project Burley Oak Brewery says it will reduce delivery traffic
PHOTO COURTESY DAVE LANDIS SR.
TOYS AND COATS
The Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City has been collecting toys and coats each Wednesday in November for those in need. The final day to donate is Wednesday, Nov. 30 from 9 a.m. until noon. Drop off toys and coats to Kiwanis members at the Ocean Pines Community Center parking lot. See article on page 19.
By Gee Williams Contributing Writer (Nov. 24, 2022) The construction of a grain silo at the Burley Oak Brewery took another step forward last Wednesday when the Berlin Planning Commission approved a zoning code amendment to allow that use in the brewery’s B-2 Shopping District on Old Ocean City Boulevard. By a vote of 6-1 the planning commission approval enables Bryan Brushmiller, the brewery’s owner, to seek site plan approval for a proposed grain silo on the site. Site plan approval is determined by the planning commission. The approved code amendment allows for a special exception to the town code for a grain silo to be used as a part of a brewery operation, but at no taller than 35-feet in height. Representing the brewery at the planning commission were attorney See SILO Page 5
Skate park unnamed for now, board says Directors say they’re being threatened during debate of memorial for Knupp By Jack Chavez Staff Writer (Nov. 24, 2022) The Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors is pointing to the “temperature” in the community as to why it will not consider renaming the local skate park in memory of 14-year-old Gavin Knupp at this time. There were no fireworks at the regular board meeting on Saturday,
where Doug Parks gave that explanation at the beginning of the meeting in a prepared statement. But plenty of association members were present to voice either support or opposition to the decision. Just days before the meeting, the association officials announced that residential identification cards would be required to attend the meeting, a move made in anticipation of nonPines residents attempting to crash it. Instead, the mostly full room was slightly tense at times, but never out of order. A handful of picketers, who See ‘TEMPERATURE’ Page 6
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Berlin youth Corbin Hartman, foreground, skates at the Ocean Pines Skate Park. Hartman, who said Gavin Knupp was “my best friend,” is one of many who’d like to see the park renamed for him.
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