TIMES RECORD • May 20, 2024
Sadia Crosby is still looking for a way to repair damage to her family’s wharf months after devastating January storms. Crosby owns Oysthers Sea Farm in Georgetown and Oysthers Raw Bar & Bubbly on the Bath riverfront with her sister and business partner, Lauren Crosby. After the January storms cleared, there was significant damage to Crosby’s wharf, rendering it useless. She applied for FEMA assistance but was denied because the grant wouldn’t cover damage to structures over the water like wharfs. She doesn’t qualify for the recent $25 million in funding from the Working Waterfront Resilience Grant Program because she doesn’t have 10 or more people working at her wharf. Business Resilience Storm Response Grants totaling $250,000 were applied to 52 other waterfront businesses. Crosby wasn’t able to get any funding. Her flood insurance does not cover her wharf either.