OCEAN CITY – Although Ocean City is known as the White Marlin Capital of the World, you’ll probably never see it on a menu in a local restaurant.What could be considered sacrilege by some in the local fishing community to see the area’s number one sport fish and part of the town’s claim to fame… Read more »

 OCEAN CITY — Now that consumers can speak of astronomical fuel prices in the past tense, can they say the same for those pesky fuel surcharges?When fuel surcharges started popping up on invoices of restaurant food orders all over the country, sometimes adding 4 percent to 7 percent to the bill itself, many businesses could… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – It’s almost time for the 15th Annual Penguin Swim, which will be held on New Years Day to benefit the Atlantic General Hospital Foundation.In 2008, the Penguin Swim raised over $67,000 in support of the hospital’s mission: “To provide quality care, personalized service and education to improve individual and community health.” The… Read more »

 BERLIN – In February 2007, Berlin-based Atlantic General Hospital launched an initiative brand-new to the area’s healthcare market: a time promise for services in their ER. Through grand-scale efforts to streamline procedures that involved all departments from housekeeping to intensive care, the healthcare facility’s 30 Minute ER Promise was born.Atlantic General has not stopped with… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The third of three man charged in the murder of a local woman in Pocomoke in January 2007 last week pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and now awaits his sentencingDavid K. Justice, 20, of Pocomoke appeared in Worcester County Circuit Court last week to face charges of first- and second-degree murder, first-… Read more »

SNOW HILL – It was good news, bad news last week for the Worcester County Board of Education when the state’s Court of Special Appeals ruled it would not have to begin 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 »

BERLIN – Changes sought in Maryland’s slot machine legislation by the Worcester County Commissioners have both surprised and concerned Berlin’s elected officials, who approved a letter to state legislators this week in an attempt to preserve the town’s right under the slots law to 10 percent of slots revenue in the county.Last week, the commissioners… Read more »

OCEAN PINES – Everyone in northern Worcester County wants their piece of the slots pie, and the Ocean Pines Association (OPA) moved to protect its own interests in future slot machine gambling revenue in a letter to state elected officials early this month.The letter, dated Dec. 5 but released to the public just this week,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Balancing the budget might be the most difficult task the Mayor and City Council has to undertake each year; Yet with 2009’s economic forecast looking anything but sunny, is the task facing local government more like: Mission: Impossible?Mayor Rick Meehan said that the 2009 Ocean City budget, like every year, must be… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Less than a month after a long-time Ocean City Police sergeant filed a discrimination civil suit against the town and its police department alleging he was by-passed for promotion to lieutenant when he was activated into service as a U.S. Coast Guard reserve officer following the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks, Ocean City… Read more »