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Gwynn’s Island restaurant eviction dominates discussion

The Mathews Board of Supervisors had an ambitious agenda for its July 17 meeting, held in the auditorium at Mathews High School, but discussions of the county’s eviction of Hole in the Wall Waterfront Grill from county-owned property ate up most of the three hours allotted for the public portion of the meeting, and the board had to set a second date to conduct the county’s business.
The meeting will continue at 6 p.m. next Thursday, July 31, in the historic courthouse on Court Street.
A public hearing had been scheduled for the meeting to determine whether Mathews residents were in favor of selling the structure where the Hole in the Wall is located and the small patch of land directly underneath it, but the board never got around to it. Instead, the meeting was taken up by lengthy comments by board members on their 3-2 decision to evict the restaurant and by a parade of residents who took to the podium to either condemn or express support for that decision.
Supervisor Tom Bowen laid o...

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