BERLIN – The town of Berlin faces a busy year with a long list of ambitious goals to achieve, from the new spray irrigation facility to parks projects to cleaning up Hudson’s Branch.Mayor Gee Williams outlined plans for 2010 this week, a set of goals he has roughed out for the next 12 months. He… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2009
Murder Suspect Arrested In Resort For Burglary
OCEAN CITY – The suspect arrested in the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Salisbury last week is loosely connected with Ocean City and was arrested in the resort in September for allegedly breaking into a female victim’s downtown residence and making sexual advances toward her.Thomas James Leggs, Jr., 30, of Salisbury, was… Read more »
County Lease Offer Could Renew Downtown Park Talks
OCEAN CITY — The alleged love loss between the county and the town of Ocean City may not be improving any time soon, as a newly proposed lease agreement reportedly reads much like the ones denied in the past.Two years after tempers flared concerning a proposed lease agreement between the town of Ocean City and… Read more »
City Manager Recounts Last Major Boardwalk Project
OCEAN CITY — It may not be an emergency project like it was in 1985, but for City Manager Dennis Dare, future plans to reconstruct the Ocean City Boardwalk in 2012 take him back to the morning after Hurricane Gloria passed through Ocean City in 1985.City Manager Dennis Dare remembers the last time much of… Read more »
Child Murder Suspect Arrested In OC For Bizarre Actions
OCEAN CITY – The suspect arrested in the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Salisbury last week is loosely connected with Ocean City and was arrested in the resort in September for allegedly breaking into a female victim’s downtown residence and making sexual advances toward her.Thomas James Leggs, Jr., 30, of Salisbury, was… Read more »
Abduction Sparks Effort To Tighten Sex Offender Laws
BERLIN – The tragedy that claimed the life of 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell, whose body was found near Delmar on Christmas day, has sparked a renewed effort to strengthen Maryland’s sexual predator laws, with local lawmakers and would-be lawmakers already doing their homework in advance of the upcoming legislative session.Foxwell’s body was found last Friday… Read more »
OC Mayor Hopeful Better Times Ahead
OCEAN CITY — Mayor Rick Meehan will be the first to tell you that he is looking forward to a new calendar year, and he firmly believes that 2010 can and will be a good one for the resort, despite fiscal projections that forecast a similar rough road as the one traveled upon in 2009.So,… Read more »
Enhanced Sex Offender Scrutiny Logical
The tragic situation involving Sarah Foxwell, the 11-year-old Parsonsburg girl abducted from her home days before Christmas and killed sometime thereafter, has touched many souls in the region.It’s the young innocent life unfairly ended by a disturbed individual that bothers all of us, but it’s also the fact it could have been prevented that’s especially… Read more »
Voices From The Readers
Country’s Course ConcerningEditor:No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as ability, of our worthy citizens who attended the third meeting of the Americans for Prosperity last night.Having attended the tea parties in Washington, D.C., I see the need for a concerted effort to be continued for our leaders to… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
On this last day of 2009, a year many are happy to see go, I submit some developments I predict will take place locally and elsewhere in 2010:— Ocean Downs will be the only site where slots are played in Maryland in 2010.— The state’s Board of Public Works will approve funding for the expansion… Read more »