BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s young swimming team earned a split with host Cape Henlopen this week, with the boys winning their meet and the girls dropping theirs, but it was the latter that made the biggest splash on Tuesday. The Seahawk boys’ team beat the Vikings on Tuesday behind a strong performance by Stephen Kosicki, who… Read more »
BERLIN- The Berlin Little League will hold sign-ups for the 2009 season next Friday and Saturday, January 23-24 at Town Hall.On Friday, players can sign up at Town Hall from 6-8 p.m., while registration on Saturday will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost for players ages 5-12 will be $40, while… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – A Baltimore woman involved in a fight in downtown Ocean City was arrested for assaulting an officer attempting to help her after she claimed she had been “raped and murdered” earlier that night.Around 12:40 a.m. on Sunday, an OCPD officer on patrol responded to assist other officers with a fight in the… Read more »
Group Thinks PinesDeserves Slots MoneyEditor:(The following letter was addressed to Delegate Norman H. Conway.)We are writing as co-chairpersons of Citizens for Ocean Pines Equity (C.O.P.E.), a diverse and non-partisan group of Ocean Pines citizens.C.O.P.E. is seeking equitable treatment for Ocean Pines in the distribution of slots impact funds. To that end, we respectfully request legislation… Read more »
The County Commissioners’ recent letter to the local state delegation seeking specific changes to the slots legislation has agitated officials in Ocean Pines, Berlin and Ocean City.A little background: On Dec. 22, 2008, the County Commissioners wrote Gov. Martin O’Malley, Senator Lowell Stoltzfus and Delegates Jim Mathias and Norman Conway asking for “some changes to… Read more »
In the days leading up to this week’s Maryland General Assembly session, there was a lot of bipartisanship talk. Both sides of the aisle were quoted in media outlets as saying it will take a team approach to work on balancing the state’s budget and address the $1.9 billion shortfall. State Senate leader Mike Miller… Read more »
Brownie Troop 1399 at Worcester Preparatory School includes second and third grade students. The Brownies enjoyed creating their own Brownie Bear outfits. First row, from left, are Emilee Dorey, Samantha Wolpin and Olivia Parker; second row, Virginia Bateman, Julia Godwin, Maya Zia-Shakeri, Abby Bright and Grace Nichols; third row, Cameron Sofronski, Grace Schwartz and Mette… Read more »
For the second time this semester, Stephen Decatur High School art teacher Cynthia Pilchard and her students went to the Emergency Room of Atlantic General Hospital to paint the windows. Pilchard and her students have brought beauty through art to the local hospital. Above are Ben Kelleher, April Aliangan and Heidi Gunzelman
ELL students in Janet Baunhofer’s class at Ocean City Elementary School make sure they track while they are reading. The first grade students in the picture are Leslie Zamora-Espinoza, William Melgar-Mejia, German Cordero, and Julissa Astudillo-Cuevas
Worcester Prep students in grades 4-5 who were tops in their classes in geography recently competed for the Lower School Championship. They were, kneeling from left, Jonathan Ruddo and Grace Schwartz; middle, Isabel Dashiell, Celeste Bunting, Head of the Lower School, and Rayne Parker; back, Ross Deckmann, Caleb McCurdy, Alan Bross and Elio Telo. The… Read more »