Country Music Festival: Bane or Boon?

Someone with a little imagination could have come up with lyrics for a good country song based on testimony at a July 10 planning and zoning commission hearing.

For more than two-and-a-half hours, commissioners listened to people for and against the request filed by Dewey Beach businessman Alex Pires, whose Cool Spring LLC/Highway One Companies has filed an application for a conditional use of agricultural-residential, AR-1, land for an outdoor entertainment venue with temporary camping on 500 acres of a 1,000-acre farm owner by the Baker family near Harbeson.

Pires has signed a lease with the Bakers to use the farm.

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