SALISBURY – The Salisbury City Council worked on a couple of Memorandum of Understandings with the State of Maryland involving bicycle paths and the inmate work crews.The first resolution on the table was for the City of Salisbury to authorize Mayor Jim Ireton to sign an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Public Agencies Offer Halloween Safety Reminders
OCEAN CITY – As witches and goblins prepare to hit the streets this Halloween, local public safety departments are sending out friendly warnings and reminders to keep it fun and safe.The Ocean City Fire Department (OCFD) reminds the public that when choosing a costume, stay away from billowing or long, trailing fabric. If you are making… Read more »
Ocean City Strategic Plan Process Begins
OCEAN CITY — With early work starting this week on the city’s new strategic plan initiative, City Manager David Recor made it clear it will not be another endeavor that ends up on a shelf alongside other costly studies and reports.In an interview in May, after officially accepting the job as the resort’s new city… Read more »
‘Silver Sizzle Revue’ Eyes Resort
OCEAN CITY — If you are looking for an evening full of fun and entertainment, then next month’s “Silver Sizzle Revue” is for you.With live performances at the Ocean City Convention Center on Nov. 8-11, “Silver Sizzles” is 90 minutes of glitzy and glamorous Vegas style revue.Featuring former Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, the eight-person… Read more »
Council’s Inaction May Jeopardize Skate Park Grant
SALISBURY — Complaints that the Salisbury City Council and the public were left out of the loop in applying for a grant for a new skate park, as well as the desire for a better location, continued this week with the City Council still divided during their second work session discussing the issue. However, as… Read more »
Ocean City’s Winterfest Of Lights Kicks Off Nov. 15
OCEAN CITY — The Town of Ocean City will be a bit brighter beginning Nov. 15, when the Winterfest of Lights celebrates its 20th year illuminating Northside Park.Named a prestigious Top 100 Event for 2011 by American Bus Association and voted “Maryland’s Finest Holiday Tradition” by Maryland Life Magazine, Winterfest of Lights is a winter… Read more »
Worcester Authorities Make Large Heron Bust
OCEAN PINES — Two Ocean Pines residents were arrested on heroin distribution and other charges last week after a months-long investigation into the trafficking of the drug in the north end of Worcester resulted in the largest heroin bust in recent history in the county.Over the last several months, the Worcester County Criminal Enforcement Team,… Read more »
Local Woman Relishing ‘Second Chance At Life’
OCEAN CITY – Using an alternative approach of meditation in healing herself after two heart surgeries to avoid cardiac death, Chrissy Ehrhart-Knight finds herself back to her everyday life only weeks later.In the summer of 2011 Ehrhart-Knight, 37, of Berlin was diagnosed with Lyme’s Disease and in the months following she began to experience a… Read more »
Farmers Market Relocation Delayed Due To Protests
BERLIN — Extraordinary opposition from vendors at Berlin’s Farmers Market sidelined a potential re-location of the event, at least for the next few months.However, when agreeing to allow the market to remain in downtown Berlin, town officials made it clear that they are expecting more cooperation and communication between the Chamber of Commerce and the… Read more »
Engagements
Parker-MorrisBERLIN — Cristi and Steve Graham of Bishopville and Mark and Lori Parker of York, Pa. announce the engagement of their daughter Katelyn Marie Parker to Richard Allen Morris of Red Lion, Pa., son of Charles Wilmore Morris and James and Linda Dawson.The bride-to-be is a 2010 graduate of Stephen Decatur High School and a… Read more »