OCEAN CITY — A bill that will create a task force to study the issue of moving the start date for public schools across Maryland back until after Labor Day passed both chambers as the General Assembly session expired on Monday.For decades, the public school year in Maryland always started after Labor Day, the symbolic… Read more »
Daily Archives: 04/11/2013
Ocean City Buses To Begin Accepting Plastic Payments
OCEAN CITY – It is out with the old and in with the new when it comes to the town’s transit system as discount coupon books were terminated and a new mobile app is in the works to offer credit/debit card payments on the buses.Finance Administrator Martha Bennett was excited to share with the Mayor… Read more »
City Staff To Work Closely With Proposed Country Music Festival
OCEAN CITY – City officials are becoming skeptical of next summer’s proposed High Tide Music Festival, asking this week for staff to work closely with the event organizers to get the facts straight.On Tuesday afternoon, Tom Russell of Founders Entertainment presented an update of the long-awaited High Tide Music Festival and asked the Mayor and… Read more »
Major Issues Dominated This Year’s Legislative Session
BERLIN — The 2013 Maryland General Assembly Session closed out on Monday after a whirlwind 90 days during which several weighty, emotional issues were debated and ultimately approved from gun control to offshore wind and from the death penalty to a significant hike in the state’s gas tax.The 2013 session will largely be remembered for… Read more »
‘Tough Bill’ Ends Liquor Monopoly Two Years Early
BERLIN — Compromise legislation that will allow the Casino at Ocean Downs to serve alcohol until 4 a.m. while moving up the sunset provision in the county’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) wholesale operation was unanimously passed by both the House and Senate late last week and now awaits the governor’s signature for becoming the… Read more »
ACLU Challenges New Ocean City Noise Law
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City’s street performer laws are under attack again this week after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in U.S. District Court on behalf of a Boardwalk violinist, alleging the town’s 30-foot noise ordinance on the historic promenade is unconstitutional.The ACLU filed suit in federal court on Wednesday on behalf… Read more »
Ocean City Makes ‘Cigar Tree’ Centerpiece Of New Parking Lot
OCEAN CITY — An old tree with “a lot of character” was spared the bulldozer recently when town officials decided to save it when paving a new municipal parking lot at 4th Street and as a result it has become a rather unique piece of natural art in the downtown area.Ocean City recently acquired three… Read more »
New Safety Markings Added To Highway
OCEAN CITY — Prior to the peak tourism season in Ocean City, the State Highway Administration (SHA) in partnership with the Town of Ocean City is installing curb-top markings along Coastal Highway between 52nd and 59th streets.About 100 yellow and black stencils advise “No Pedestrian X’ing” along Coastal Highway between marked crosswalks, where pedestrians may… Read more »
Downtown Armed Robber Pleads Guilty
SNOW HILL — An Ocean City man arrested last year after attempting to rob a downtown business at knife point before being subdued with a Taser by resort police pleaded guilty this week and was sentenced to eight years in jail, all but 18 months of which was then suspended.In late November, confidential information obtained… Read more »
County Looks To Block Local Store’s Liquor License Upgrade
OCEAN CITY — The relocation of a county-owned liquor outlet from its current location has prompted a neighboring business to seek an upgraded liquor license and an expansion into the vacant space.While the owners of the Green Room, David and Sara Hambury, will go before the Board of License Commissions next Thursday seeking the license… Read more »