BERLIN – A Berlin man was arrested for first-degree rape and first- and second-degree assault late last week just over two weeks after receiving a suspended jail sentence for an assault on the same victim after a year-long pattern of abuse.Last Thursday, detectives with the Worcester County Bureau of Investigations (WCBI) responded to Peninsula Regional… Read more »
Monthly Archives: August 2007
ACT Establishes Permanent Endowment Fund
BERLIN – Assateague Coastal Trust (ACT) announced on Monday the establishment of a permanent endowment fund at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore to benefit its programs in perpetuity.The creation of the “Assateague Coastal Trust Founders’ Endowment” was made possible by recent memorial donations in honor of two ACT founders who passed away this… Read more »
280 New Homes Okayed For River Run Community
SNOW HILL – River Run will gain 280 homes, not the 408 originally approved, in the final build out of the community.The Worcester County Planning Commission approved the planned unit development plan last week. The plan includes single-family homes, townhouses, a reconstructed clubhouse and a driving range.“We think we’ve come up with a fairly good… Read more »
Tourism Commission Renews Opposition To Slots In Md.
OCEAN CITY – It is no secret that Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and Governor Martin O’Malley have been proponents of slots in Maryland, and it is also no secret that slots have been both lauded and vehemently opposed by people all over the state as well as in Ocean City. With this in… Read more »
SHA To Let County Look At Route 113 Phase Plans
SNOW HILL – The next phase of the Route 113 dualization will begin in March 2008, and before then the County Commissioners would like to vet the design to avoid problems like the median at the highway’s Route 12 intersection.After some prodding during an appearance in front of the Commissioners Tuesday, State Highway Administration (SHA)… Read more »
Moped Accident On Route 50 Kills Man
BERLIN – A 56-year-old Cambridge man was killed last Saturday when the moped he was operating failed to yield the right-of-way and collided with an oncoming vehicle on Route 50 at Route 346. Around 8:30 p.m. last Saturday, Berlin Police responded to an accident involving a moped on Route 50 at its intersection with Route… Read more »
Freeman Admits To Letting Baby Die In Toilet
OCEAN CITY – Armed with what essentially amounts to a jailhouse confession, prosecutors are moving forward this week with first-degree murder charges against an Ocean City woman who has admitted letting her full-term or near full term infant die in the toilet she was sitting on when she gave birth to it in 2004.Now two… Read more »
State Says Route 589 Work Could Start As Late as 2011
SNOW HILL – Work on an expanded, safer Route 589 may not begin until 2011, state highway officials said Tuesday.“Keep in mind, this schedule is the worse-case scenario,” said assistant project manager Tessa Young of the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA).District Engineer Donnie Drewer confirmed that the 2011 construction start is a worst-case schedule, but… Read more »
OC Council Upholds Project’s Stop Work Order
OCEAN CITY – The Rivendell project has seen its fair share of problems along the road to completion and faced several issues of contention, but the controversy reached a pinnacle this week with the Mayor and Council denying the request to lift the stop work order on the building.At the end of July, it came… Read more »
City Votes To Hold On To Robin Drive Property
OCEAN CITY – After hearing the opinions of numerous residents of Robin Drive at a public hearing Tuesday, the Mayor and Council decided to not sell a piece of municipal property on the road.Wayne Hartman came before the Mayor and Council in June to request to purchase the municipal property that is adjacent to 333… Read more »