OCEAN CITY – As completion of the newly renovated Tarry-A-While house on Dorchester Street finishes up this month, plans for the Ocean City Development Corporation (OCDC) to move in to its new home are already underway.At the Mayor and City Council meeting Monday night, council members voted unanimously to approve the leasing of the building… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Planners Back Showell Plant Conversion
SNOW HILL – The conversion of the Perdue wastewater plant in Showell for residential use got a positive recommendation from the Worcester County Planning Commission last week, with modifications which could be the basis for a new model of wastewater management.ADC Builders plans to use 1,000 EDUs of 4,000 projected units of sewer, to be… Read more »
Slots Not An Issue This Year
ANNAPOLIS – With much of the focus of the General Assembly this year focused on major issues such as the smoking ban, improved health care, stronger sex offender laws and others, the effort to approve slots in Maryland barely got out of the box this year after dominating the legislature for the last four years,… Read more »
Commissioners Get First Look At School Budget
SNOW HILL – The Board of Education has asked for a $7 million increase in the Worcester County schools budget for fiscal year 2008.The $87,306,346 requested budget is 9.6 percent higher than the approved FY 2007 budget.The increase comes mainly from salary and operational costs, said Worcester County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jon Andes. School… Read more »
OC Beach Patrol Anything But A “Just Add Water” Operation
BERLIN – If you last visited the beach sometime before Sunfest weekend last year and plan on returning for Memorial Day this year, it would be no surprise to see the same lifeguard stands on the beach, each manned by a surf rescue technician (lifeguard) wearing the familiar red uniform of the Ocean City Beach… Read more »
OCPD Probe Leads To Drug Bust
OCEAN CITY – Surveillance conducted by members of the Ocean City Police Department’s Narcotics Unit led to the arrest of a suspected drug dealer Friday night as well as the confiscation of a large amount of crack and powder cocaine that has an estimated street value of $3,500.According to police records, members of the OCPD… Read more »
Resort Moves Ahead With CO Mandate As State Bill Dies
OCEAN CITY – Although a bill looking to mandate the use of carbon monoxide detectors in certain single-family and multi-family homes across the state died last week after it moved to the Senate and received an unfavorable report by the Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, a similar piece of legislation for the town of… Read more »
West OC Cabbie Robber Convicted
SNOW HILL – A local man arrested in November for holding up a resort cab driver at knife point in the parking lot of a West Ocean City bar pleaded guilty this week to armed robbery and now faces up to 20 years in jail pending the outcome of the pre-sentence investigation.Franklin Paul Adams, 48,… Read more »
Commissioners Get First Look At School Budget
SNOW HILL – The Board of Education has asked for a $7 million increase in the Worcester County schools budget for fiscal year 2008.The $87,306,346 requested budget is 9.6 percent higher than the approved FY 2007 budget.The increase comes mainly from salary and operational costs, said Worcester County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jon Andes. School… Read more »
Team Attitude Drives Assateague Island Oasis Owner
BERLIN – Just out of reach of Ocean City and all that takes place in the resort is the relatively new establishment serving up big meals from its little kitchen alongside a vast selection of brews capable of making any lager lover weak in the knees.Since its doors opened in June of last year, Assateague… Read more »