The popular Hole in the Wall restaurant on Gwynn’s Island was slated to be closed by Mathews County on Wednesday morning after Mathews supervisor Dave Jones, speaking during Tuesday night’s board meeting, presented fellow supervisors with information from an 11th hour engineering report that he said contained information regarding the building’s alleged lack of structural integrity.
That wasn’t the only bombshell that was dropped during the 4½-hour meeting. During a public hearing on a proposed resolution to reduce the number of members on the Mathews Planning Commission from seven to five, the commission’s chair, David Rollins, resigned his seat, but not before chastising some supervisors for, he said, putting their own interests and those of a small group of personal friends above the interests of the county as a whole. Other commission members also called out board members alleging such behavior.
Hole in the Wall
Jones told his fellow board members that he had received a report from...