OCEAN CITY –The flea market will be returning to Ocean City again this summer, but instead of setting up shop in the Worcester Street parking lot, vendors will be selling their treasures at the 65th Street Public Safety Building parking lot. The flea markets were held at the Convention Center parking lot for many years… Read more »

OCEAN CITY –Residents of Ocean City turned out to a public hearing Monday night to discuss the constant yield tax rate in Ocean City, with several residents complaining about rising property taxes. According to town officials, starting July 1, the estimated real property assessable tax base will increase in Ocean City by 15.5 percent, rising… Read more »

SNOW HILL – Trimper’s Rides will not pursue a tax credit from Worcester County to offset high property taxes, the company has informed the county.A letter Doug Trimper, Vice President of Trimper’s Rides and Windsor Resort, wrote to the County Commissioners reads, “Never having desired preferential treatment on this issue, we will not be asking… Read more »

BERLIN- The nascent Berlin Performing Arts Center (BPAC) will have to look elsewhere for seed money, after the Worcester County Commissioners this week declined to assign the $200,000 requested to the project.BPAC supporters had hoped to use the money from the county to get work begun on the $2.5 million project.“It’s not going to make… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- The first batch of retired New York City “Red Bird” subway cars found a permanent home off the coast of Ocean City last Friday when 44 of cars were carefully dropped from a barge over a permitted site near the famous “Jackspot” about 19 miles offshore, creating the new Susan J. Power Reef… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- The civil suit filed in federal court against the town of Ocean City over a year ago citing a laundry list of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) infractions throughout the resort was dismissed with prejudice this week with a consent decree requiring the town to make the modifications required to make its public… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- A single-vehicle accident last Sunday morning at 6th Street and Baltimore Ave. knocked out power for a large portion of the south end of the resort for over six hours.Around 10:22 a.m. last Sunday, a vehicle traveling northbound on Baltimore Ave. in a far right lane left the roadway and collided first with… Read more »

BERLIN – The Route 113 dualization must continue, the Worcester County Commissioners told State Highway Administration (SHA) officials this week, and some were equally emphatic that the dangerous intersection of Routes 113 and 12 must be fixed.SHA Administrator Neil Pedersen and District Engineer Donnie Drewer appeared before the County Commissioners on Tuesday to discuss the… Read more »

BERLIN- A former local resident forced by the court last December to pay $75,000 in restitution to his now ex-wife after absconding with over a hundred thousands of dollars from her before heading out west and assuming a new name and new life nearly a decade ago was arrested again last week in Arizona and… Read more »