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Politics & Government

Week in Review: Volunteers Clean, Fire Displaces Family

A weekly recap of the past week's news.

This week we saw a few fires, announced causeway closings, and watched volunteers clean up the island. Here are some highlight's from the past week's news:

On Monday, we that we should all know about Martin Luther King Day, for a boardwalk at Corson's Inlet State Park, of volunteers cleaning up the island on MLK Day and at Ocean City police activity from Jan. 8 to 14.

On Tuesday, we saw a displace a family, heard what Bill Cosby about Martin Luther King, Jr., profiled a now in its fifth decade and heard Gov. Chris Christie his State of the State address.

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On Wednesday, we used an Environmental Protection Agency tool to look at greenhouse gas emitters and in the top fifteen in the state, saw at a local retreat, urging the zoning board to vote down a variance for a vacant Wawa property and damage two homes on West Avenue.

On Thursday, we to Wednesday's letter,  during which the Wawa property was discussed, reported on Ocean City Home Bank President Steve Brady's (the outlook isn't bad, he says), announced that the ninth street causeway will from Jan. 24 to 27 and reminded everyone that the for their annual sale.

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On Friday, we , announced that the city will for tax bills and  from the Travel Channel of parasailing in Ocean City.

On Saturday, we  a historic and contemporary picture of a house that sits on the corner of Plymouth Place and Atlantic Avenue and showed how to in Ocean City.

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