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Farr lays out aims for coming year Having ascended from the lowly ranks of a “rejected” candidate for the Board of Directors in 2021 to the presidency of the Ocean Pines Association in 2023, Rick Farr doesn’t intend to occupy his new role for the glory of it. He’s already laid out an ambitious agenda for the coming year, and he’ll probably have a solid majority of directors behind him as they work through a to-do list. The two projects that top that list are new golf course irrigation and a new Southside firehouse.
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New Board room plans surface
An unnamed Ocean Pines Association source, who seems like he could be General Manager John Viola, and OPA President Rick Farr are floating different approaches to creating a dedicated Board of Directors meeting room sometime in the future. The different approaches are not mutually exclusive, and one could easily transition into the other. ~ Page 22
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Ehrisman’s exit from OPPD tied to missing guns, ammo Investigation that began with storage shed break-in continued with audit of equipment room and allegations of mishandling of firearms By TOM STAUSS Publisher recent podcast by Ocean Pines Residents Oversight Community founders Sherrie Clifford and Amy Peck with former Ocean Pines Police Department Sgt. Chris Tarr has shed new light on the circumstances involved in the six-month paid suspension of former Ocean Pines Chief of Police Leo Ehrisman and his retirement in early June. The podcast has also ignited a firestorm of criticism by members of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Department and Ocean Pines Association President Rick Farr. They suggested that Tarr’s podcast contained inaccuracies, omissions and was a one-sided and self-serving description of events. Regarding a Tarr allegation that Farr had posted a message on social media that Ehrisman was going to be fired, and that the OPA Board of Directors had involved itself in the investigation, Farr unambiguously called
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out the assertion “That’s a crock,” he said. “I never made such a post, and we (the Board) don’t get involved in personnel matters.” The podcast interview may also have triggered a new, separate investigation into Tarr by the Office of the State Prosecutor, an independent state investigatory agency that looks into allegations of Former Chief of Police misconduct by public officials, Leo Ehrisman including those associated with police departments in the state. That disclosure was made by Worcester County Deputy Sheriff Nate Passwaters in a recent Progress interview. Joining in that interview was Lt. Brian CarTo Page 3
Tim Robinson takes the reins of Ocean Pines Police Department ~ Page 35
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