OCEAN CITY — Like many other communities throughout the country, the coastal region is battling a very real and dangerous proliferation of heroin usage.All of it is shocking and heartbreaking, and the community is rife with concern and fear. The statistical data is alarming, like the fact that in 2014, more people died of heroin… Read more »
BERLIN– Six students and one college student were thrown out of James M. Bennett High School’s annual prom in Wicomico County last week for failing breathalyzer tests after being suspected of consuming alcohol.Five seniors, one junior and a college student, who was the guest of a current student at James M. Bennett high, were told… Read more »
BERLIN — Autumn Kramer didn’t even know where to find Berlin on the map of Maryland when she reluctantly agreed to come and help her mother look for a new beach house two years ago; now Kramer calls it home both personally and professionally.“I had always wanted to open up my own flower shop after… Read more »
ASSATEAGUE ISLAND — The harsh realities of sea level rise and climate change have forced Assateague Island National Seashore to admit that it is at a proverbial crossroads.Yet, as the beloved local and federally owned landmark enjoys its 50th anniversary, it also faces real questions about its future. Over the course of the last 90… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – The six-month contract dispute between the Casino at Ocean Downs and almost 100 union employees has finally come to an end.After several recent weeks of stalemate both sides met at the bargaining table, struck a compromise and thusly ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that runs until October 2017.“This deal is a… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – A friendly invitation from a third grade student prompted Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to stop and chat with students and teachers at Ocean City Elementary School on Friday morning.In the midst of his short tour of the lower Eastern Shore, with Friday stops at Assateague Island, Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke planned,… Read more »
BERLIN — To say that current Wicomico County Assistant State’s Attorney and former Worcester County State’s Attorney Joel Todd has longstanding local roots is a vast understatement. His family can be traced back in Worcester County to 1743, just one year after the county was officially founded.Yet, Todd, who was involved in trying some of… Read more »
SALISBURY — As the final numbers came in for the Democratic side of Maryland’s 1st Congressional district primary on Tuesday night, Salisbury’s former Mayor Jim Ireton says he could do nothing else but let out a slightly ironic chuckle. “I had to laugh because it was less that I lost, and more that I was… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Polling places were slow to fill on Tuesday morning as local voters colored in their paper ballots with general ease in Worcester County.After record numbers of Marylanders turned out for early voting in the state, the long lines of voters seen at polling places across the country were almost non-existent around the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – A friendly invitation from a third grade student prompted Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to stop and chat with students and teachers at Ocean City Elementary School on Friday morning.In the midst of his short tour of the lower Eastern Shore, with Friday stops at Assateague Island, Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke planned,… Read more »