Gravel pit application moves forward
ELLSWORTH Planning Board members have unanimously found complete a preliminary application submitted on behalf of E. Skip Grindle & Sons Inc. to dig a gravel pit on North Street. Consultant Steve Salsbury of Herrick & Salsbury of Ellsworth presented plans on April 7 for a 10-acre pit at the site where a much smaller pit now exists.
“The scope [for this meeting] is to determine if this is a complete application or not,” Chairman John Fink reminded the board, following discussion on noise, access and the site’s proximity to KidsPeace.
Salsbury had initially presented a sketch plan of the proposed project to the board on March 4, where board members raised those issues. The preliminary application includes a letter from KidsPeace Operations Supervisor Dale Cook stating no objections to the proposed site. It also outlined the equipment, noise levels and hours of operation: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. All falls within the city�
Proposed gravel pit near KidsPeace raises concerns
ELLSWORTH Planning Board members at a sketch plan meeting on March 4 aired concerns over the proximity of a proposed 10-acre gravel pit to KidsPeace. Those concerns are based on the noise associated with an extraction operation and what effect it might have on the autism program in place at the residential school.
KidsPeace is located off Patriot Road, and the proposed site on North Street abuts the school property.
“Bear in mind that we’re constrained by the ordinances that we wind up working with,” Chairman John Fink said. “Some things that some of us would like to see are beyond our purview.”
Delaware News Journal
A Wilmington police officer who opened fire on a man who had been asleep in his running SUV last year has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
Officer Luis Vazquez fired three rounds at Jabri Hunter, hitting him twice, after hearing a loud bang, caused by a colleague attempting to break the driver s side window.
The Department of Justice investigation determined that the bang contributed to Vazquez s state of mind that his – and his fellow officers – safety was at risk.
The results of three other police use-of-force inquiries were also released by the Justice Department on Friday. In all four cases, the officers were cleared of criminal wrongdoing. A police officer in Delaware has never been found criminally liable for a shooting.