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Augusta National will be ready for 2025 Masters after Hurricane Helene damage
Golf fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Longtime Augusta National architectural consultant Tom Fazio is making assurances that the course will be rehabilitated from the damage sustained during Hurricane Helene in time for the 2025 Masters. “They (Augusta National) have the resources and the abilities to adjust to the conditions there. I would imagine you won’t know anything happened by April,” Fazio said in an interview with Sports Illustrated. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser jets off for Vegas weekend ‘mission’ after ritzy Masters trip on taxpayers’ dime “Having trees fall on your green, what does that mean? You pick up the trees, you...
Maryland man pleads guilty to charges for illegal dumping of over 250,000 tires
An Anne Arundel County resident pleaded guilty last week to 17 environmental charges stemming from more than 250,000 tires left on an abandoned industrial site in Western Maryland. Michael Osei, 48, of Hanover, was charged earlier this year in connection with the heaps of scrap tires left at an industrial site in Westernport. Investigators said that Allegany County officials had leased Osei the site adjacent to the Potomac River after he approached the county’s Office of Economic Development proposing a scrap tire recycling facility, the Attorney General’s office said in a news release. A Hanover man pleaded guilty last week to illegal dumping and other environmental charges stemming from an industrial site in Western Maryland where he and his employees left more 250,000 scrap tires, according to state prosecutors. In the June 2021 discussion, Osei had “claimed that the facility would eventually employ up to 50 people and already had millions of dollars’ worth of contracts to send the recycled tires overseas,” according to the news release. He started operations the next month and collected hundreds of thousands of tires — but “few tires, if any, were ever removed,” prosecutors said in the release.
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