OCEAN CITY – Now that the lights have gone out, where do all the lights go?As the Winterfest of Lights pulled the plug on yet another year of widespread holiday “oohs” and “aahs” from onlookers both young and old, the arduous task of tearing down and storing over 100,000 lights and large displays that illuminate… Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Some Bizarre News From 2008
OCEAN CITY – Throughout the course of each year, hundreds of criminals are arrested and prosecuted in the resort area for a wide variety of offenses ranging from the gravely serious to the downright silly, and 2008 was certainly no exception. Crime is rarely funny and often tragic, but there are those occasions when the… Read more »
Route 50 Bridge Stuck Up For Hours
OCEAN CITY – The traffic headache that was supposed to last six hours during Monday’s Route 50 Bridge malfunction consequently only lasted three.According to Wayne Weichman of the Snow Hill division of the Maryland State Highway Administration, one of the four tail-locks, which bond the two moving parts of the drawbridge together, broke loose and… Read more »
New Councilman Maintains Role Of Quiet Researcher
OCEAN CITY – Doug Cymek might be the newest voice on the City Council, but don’t expect to hear him make a big fuss about it.Cymek, who gained a seat at City Hall in his third try, has been the quietest of the council members in his first few months since the election, opting rather… Read more »
High Court Denies School Board’s Relief Request
SNOW HILL – It was three strikes, you’re out this week for the Worcester County Board of Education when the state’s highest court denied a last minute effort to provide relief from paying the $1.1 million settlement lost to a private contractor in a civil suit over a dispute about work done at the new… Read more »
Fisheries Task Force Seeks Stronger Protection Laws
OCEAN CITY – Charged with developing new strategies to better manage Maryland’s valuable fishery resources, the state’s Task Force on Fisheries Management last week released its 2008 legislative report offering over 30 specific recommendations on habitat preservation and restoration across the state including the waters around Worcester County.Gov. Martin O’Malley last November established the 17-member… Read more »
Easton Lawyer Appointed To Fill Vacant Court Seat
BERLIN – A major reshuffling of seats on the benches of the state’s highest courts for the first appellate district, which includes Worcester County and much of the lower Eastern Shore, was completed last week when Gov. Martin O’Malley appointed Christopher B. Kehoe to the Court of Special Appeals.The first domino fell when Berlin resident… Read more »
Broken Pipe Damages Boardwalk Condos
OCEAN CITY – Despite mild weather in the resort earlier this week, winter’s cold blast is still causing problems in some areas, including a high-rise condominium in downtown Ocean City where a pipe froze and burst last week causing serious damage to dozens of units.On Dec. 23, the Ocean City Fire Company responded to the… Read more »
Berlin Comp Plan Draft Headed To Town Planner
BERLIN – Berlin should see a draft of the new town comprehensive plan in February after waiting years for a viable version of the new document.Consultant Tim Bourcier, of engineers Davis Bowen and Friedel, who is writing the plan, said this week that the draft of the entire plan would be turned in to the… Read more »
Agents Report Interest In Berlin Housing Market
BERLIN – While some in Berlin are worried that their property may be assessed this year at a lower value than previous years, local experts say the market is actually returning to a normal level after a price boom and that recent higher prices were anomalies.“In the boom, that was not a normal market,” said… Read more »