BERLIN – Convicted killer Erika Sifrit, who along with her husband Benjamin, brutally murdered and dismembered a Virginia couple vacationing in Ocean City on Memorial Day weekend in 2002, will get another day in court after the Frederick County Circuit Court where she was tried and convicted agreed this week to schedule hearings on her… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2008
County’s ELL Student Rate Continues To Climb
NEWARK – The number of English Language Learner (ELL) students in Worcester County public schools has nearly tripled since 2001.“The population continues to grow,” said Diane Stulz, who runs the ELL program for the Worcester County Board of Education. “We went up by 10.4 percent over last year.”Worcester County schools teach 233 ELL students currently,… Read more »
Report Finds Slots Revenue Projection Unrealistic
BERLIN – An independent report on the potential economic impact of slots in Maryland released last week reveals the state might be overestimating the amount of revenue derived from the five sites identified in the referendum including Worcester, where the state’s Department of Legislative Services (DLS) expects the 2,500 machines to generate as much as… Read more »
Officials Unanimously Support Land Buy For Senior Center
SNOW HILL – The official vote by the County Commissioners to go ahead with the purchase of the former Tyson chicken plant administration building to be transformed into the new Berlin senior center was unanimous Tuesday.The county had already signed a contract to purchase the property before the formal vote and set a settlement date… Read more »
OC Officer Files Complaint With State Over Suspension
OCEAN CITY – Harsh accusations by a 23-year-old resort woman were directed at the Ocean City Police Department this week, raising questions about how much a role the department should play in the personal lives of its officers.Resident Brandie Plumb claims that her girlfriend, an 11-year veteran to the OCPD, was slapped with a “No… Read more »
Merits Of Single-Shot Voting Questioned
OCEAN CITY – A growing trend in Ocean City elections appears to be for voters to leave some slots blank on their ballot boxes, raising the question if this small town election is being influenced at all by the votes that weren’t cast.In Tuesday’s election, a record low percentage of voters, 23.5 percent, showed up… Read more »
County School Board Appeals $1.1M Lawsuit Ruling
SNOW HILL – Less than two weeks after a visiting Worcester County Circuit Court judge ruled against the Worcester County Board of Education in a $1.3 million-plus lawsuit filed last year by a private contractor replaced mid-way through the construction of the new Ocean City Elementary School over two years ago, the defeated defendants have… Read more »
Friday, October 24–Without Slots, State Says 589 Dualization Will Wait
SNOW HILL – The dualization of Route 113 will continue with the current and next phase of the long-awaited work, but Route 589 will have to wait unless slots come to Ocean Downs, elected officials heard this week.Route 113 was one of the few projects that escaped state cuts in the capital projects program, according… Read more »
Friday, October 24–Sinking Pump Prices A Bright Spot In Concerning Economy
OCEAN CITY – It may have taken a bigger calamity to make the astronomical gas prices plaguing Americans finally start to come down to earth.One of the few bright spots in the last few weeks of the ongoing epic saga of the American economy was once one of the largest sore spots in the minds… Read more »
Friday, October 24–Officials Air Bay Bridge Concerns
SNOW HILL – State elected officials called for something to be done to prevent future serious congestion on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge during the Maryland Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) annual tour meeting with Worcester County elected officials.State Sen. Lowell Stoltzfus, co-chair of a recent Bay Bridge study conducted under former Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s administration, said… Read more »