OCEAN CITY — Less than a week after the new ballroom at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center was officially opened, the newly remodeled area was officially broken in on Tuesday with the annual Neighborhood Watch Association’s Ocean City Police “Officer of the Year” banquet.Pfc. Chris Snyder, who joined the OCPD as a full-time officer… Read more »
Monthly Archives: January 2013
OC Fire Dept. Scores $383K Grant
OCEAN CITY — The Ocean City Fire Department this week got a fiscal shot in the arm in the form of a $383,000-plus federal grant through homeland security to purchase lifesaving rescue equipment.U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin this week announced the Ocean City Fire Department will receive the federal funding through the U.S…. Read more »
Salisbury Seeking Lower Alarm Fines
SALISBURY – To have false alarm fees become more equitable with today’s cost for fire and police response, the Salisbury City Council is looking to revamp the fine structure.According to City Administrator John Pick, the city’s police and fire departments experience a severe drain on their resources making repeated responses to the same properties in… Read more »
OC’s Last Homicide Still ‘Open Case’
OCEAN CITY — While a homicide investigation involving the death of a local man and the arrest of another unfolds, the eighth anniversary of Ocean City’s last murder in 2005 quietly arrived this week and remains an unsolved case.Eight years ago this weekend, a Virginia man was apparently murdered in his family’s Ocean City condominium,… Read more »
Resident Outcry Leads Berlin To Relocate Wind Turbine
BERLIN — With the discomfort of residents clear, the Berlin Town Council reached a consensus this week that a new wind turbine, which would be the town’s first, will not be located on Schoolfield Street. Instead, a property on Old Ocean City Boulevard will be pitched to the council as an alternative site.“After the last… Read more »
Shark Data Questioned At Hearing; Anglers Propose Catch Alternatives
OCEAN CITY — Better identification and more accurate statistics would be a better alternative to protecting the dusky shark population than an umbrella catch size limit increase for all species of sharks caught off the coast of Ocean City, according to many area anglers.That was the opinion and common theme of several other suggestions to… Read more »
More Laser Shows, Fireworks Planned In OC
OCEAN CITY – The popular laser light and firework shows downtown last summer have been given the go-ahead to continue on into the summer of 2013.Tourism Director Donna Abbott presented the Mayor and City Council with a request to approve the recommendation made by the Tourism Advisory Board (TAB) to continue last summer’s weekly fireworks… Read more »
Ocean City Proclaims Today As ‘Purple Friday’
OCEAN CITY – The Town of Ocean City proudly proclaimed today as Purple Friday in support of the Baltimore Ravens.On Tuesday afternoon, Council Chambers at City Hall was filled with black and purple as Mayor Rick Meehan presented Ravens Roost #44 with a proclamation stating today, Friday, Feb. 1, as Baltimore Ravens Day Purple Friday.“It… Read more »
Man’s Death Ruled A Homicide
OCEAN CITY — One local man is dead and another behind bars on manslaughter and other charges after an altercation last weekend outside a downtown Ocean City bar.Around 1:30 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Police and paramedics responded to the area of Somerset Street in reference to a male individual who was found unconscious on… Read more »
Local Veterans Gather To Observe Tet Anniversary
OCEAN PINES — In a solemn, quiet ceremony yesterday, about a dozen U.S. veterans and their supporters gathered at the wind-swept Worcester County Veterans Memorial at Ocean Pines to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, a major attack by communist forces on South Vietnam in 1968 that helped escalate the ill-fated conflict.After a… Read more »