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Ramadan bros. taken to NY for cig smuggling
(May 24, 2013) The 303-page indictment of two West Ocean City brothers and their associates in an alleged multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling scheme would seem to cover virtually everything. But the one thing that law enforcement officials do not know and are concerned about is where the money went.
Meanwhile, Basel Ramadan, 42, an Oyster Harbor resident…
Park skates past closures
(May 24, 2013) The Ocean City Council conceded this week to return $21,000 of funding to the city’s Ocean Bowl Skate Park, which had been scheduled for additional closures this winter, although the town will still be forming a committee to investigate the park’s usage and possible future service cuts.
But the relief decision came only after a lengthy, politically…
PAY INCREASES SOURCE OF CONFLICT
(May 17, 2013) Worcester County Commissioner James Purnell was disappointed Tuesday when his fellow commissioners voted to give school bus contractors a smaller pay increase than they gave county employees.
“You showed me today what you think of bus drivers,” said Purnell, a school bus contractor, after he and Commissioner Virgil Shockley, also a school…
City feeling heat from paid meter opponents
(May 10, 2013) Ocean City Council continued to take a beating during the public comments section of this week’s meeting over its budget decision to install more paid parking meters around town, particularly on 146th and 131st Streets, where parties from both locations accused the city of making secretive decisions in order to limit the political fallout…
