BERLIN – Larger and older children in Maryland not currently required to be secured in a child safety seat or booster seat will be required to do so starting Monday when a change in state law goes into effect.Currently, state law requires children to use safety seats until they reach age six and/or weigh 40… Read more »

BERLIN – A Snow Hill man, who was one of dozens rounded up in a federal sting operation in Worcester County and across the Lower Shore last September for providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to undercover federal agents for illegal green cards and tax abatements, was sentenced this week in U.S. District… Read more »

BERLIN – A new set of maps generated by GIS (Geographic Information Systems) graduate student Jim Garrity for his Master’s degree will allow Berlin to use mapping data in a way it never has before.“You have a lot of data not being used already sitting in storage,” Garrity reported to the Berlin Mayor Council this… Read more »

BERLIN – The second citizen visioning meeting for the new Berlin Comprehensive Plan will be held on July 23 at the Flower St. Multi-Purpose Building.The meeting “will help us to be a little more in tune with that neighborhood,” said Tim Bourcier, the planning consultant writing the new Berlin Comprehensive Plan.Census information shows that Berlin… Read more »

BERLIN – Berlin will monitor its fuel consumption more closely under a new town vehicle fuel conservation policy.The Berlin Mayor and Council discussed the new fuel policy and two other new personnel policies for Berlin employees at the second June meeting on Wednesday night. The meeting was pushed back two days, instead of being held… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Property located on 33rd Street and Coastal Highway was officially rezoned from residential to commercial last week, as the City Council voted unanimously to make the change. At a public hearing in early April regarding the parcel, the Planning and Zoning Commission agreed that the property should be rezoned, making a favorable… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The tragic story of a then 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school graduate Benjamin Walter, who struck and killed another recent graduate on Coastal Highway in June 2005, took another turn last week when Walter was sentenced to four months of jail time for violating the terms of his probation with a second DUI… Read more »

NEWARK – While the Worcester County Commissioners claimed that they had not been told about the school system cost overruns at last Tuesday’s meeting, Superintendent of Schools Jon Andes said this week that the commissioners were informed in writing of the excess costs in November and again in the school board budget this spring.“We sent… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – A local security guard became a hero of sorts last Thursday evening, when he played a major role in saving the life of a seven-week-old infant that was rushed into his office. Barry Pryor, security guard at the Sea Watch Condominiums on 115th Street, was in the midst of a typical night… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – With the Fourth of July just around the corner and the ocean warming up just in time for the holiday crowds and the true start of summer, the Ocean City Beach Patrol is pulling out all the stops in preparation, from a week long re-certification process to pulling out extra stands and… Read more »