Ocean Pines voters elect ‘Get Involved’ candidates to Board Two of the top three candidates in the recent Board of Directors election were endorsed by the ‘Get Involved” Facebook page created by former Ocean Pines Association Director Esther Diller in 2020. The two endorsed candidates were Stuart Lakernick, with 1,802 votes, and Monica Rakowski, with 1,603 votes, who finished second and third in the Board election, behind Steve Jacobs, who tallied 1,867 votes. The Get Involved page sent out an endorsement letter to resident and non-resident property owners targeted for receipt on or about the time that OPA ballots were expected to arrive in mailboxes. Jacobs also sent out a direct mail brochure, which arrived in mailboxes a little later than the Get Involved mailing.
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Janasek lawyer argues OPA governing docs don’t permit Janasek amenity suspension Bruce Bright confronts OPA directors Horn, Daly and former director Larry Perrone in Aug. 25 court hearing By TOM STAUSS Publisher day-long court hearing in Snow Hill Aug. 25 featured competing theories on whether Ocean Pines Association governing documents permitted the attempt by the Board of Directors to suspend former OPA director Tom Janasek’s access to Ocean Pines food and beverage venues after a much publicized verbal altercation with former Director Josette Wheatley this past May. The court hearing included a three-plus-hour interrogation of former OPA President Colette Horn by Janasek attorney Bruce Bright, and shortColette Horn er interrogations of Wheatley, former director Larry Perrone and current Bruce Bright director Frank Daly. The proceeding was punctuated by the first ever reThe OPA was represented by Megan Mantzavinos, corded use of the f-word and the c-word in public by an hired by the OPA’s insurance company to represent OPA officer, Horn, who on Aug. 25 was spending her last the OPA and five current or former OPA directors who day as the OPA’s president. Horn used the words on two voted for the Janasek suspension. separate occasions while testifying. She said she was Circuit Court Judge Beau Oglesby presided over quoting Janasek, who she contended used the profanity the hearing in Worcester County Circuit Court. To Page 3
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OPA Finances ...... Pages 36, 38 Lifestyles ................ Pages 39-41 Opinion .................. Pages 40-41 Captain’s Cove ..... Pages 42-55
Bruce Bright submits closing argument in Janasek case Visit www.issuu.com/oceanpinesprogress for a Special Report and transcript of the filing
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