Various: A two-year battle over a New Jersey beach town’s plan to buy boardwalk wood from the Amazon rain forest is ending. Ocean City voted Thursday night to settle a lawsuit with a Baltimore lumber company that was to sell it nearly $1.2 million worth of Brazilian ipe (EE’pay) wood. The plan to use the tropical hardwood to fix the boardwalk drew the ire of environmentalists, prompting the city to cancel the order. That sparked a court fight between the city and the lumber …