BERLIN – At a time when state funding for highway projects has become doubtful, Maryland’s U.S. Senators this week announced nearly $1 million has been included for the ongoing Route 113 dualization project in a recently approved federal transportation appropriations bill.Maryland Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin this week announced the federal Transportation, Housing and… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A planned gated development of 15 homes has prompted the Worcester County Commissioners to call for regulations to govern gated access to local communities to ensure that emergency responders can open those gates.“We need to have some rules,” County Commissioner Virgil Shockley said Tuesday during a brief discussion of the Aramis community… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — All things considered, the town of Ocean City’s budget is still holding a reasonably strong line.During the first of two annual budget amendments, which was presented by Budget Manager Jennie Knapp on Tuesday afternoon at City Hall, Knapp told the Mayor and City Council that she was able to move some things… Read more »

In the article “Three Local Families Growing Through Adoption” in the Dec. 4 issue, it was incorrectly implied that adopted children Jessie and Keri Tinker have no other family aside from their adoptive parents. The children are still in contact with their birth mother, Cristi Ann Shankland. The Dispatch regrets the error.Editor.

BERLIN – Local green advocacy group Assateague Coastal Trust (ACT) and the national  Waterkeepers Alliance plan to file suit against a Berlin chicken farm and Perdue Farms, Inc. over manure pollution in local waters.Farm owners Alan and Kristin Hudson, contract growers for Perdue, and Perdue Farms, have been served notice of ACT and the alliance’s… Read more »

BERLIN – The Berlin Mayor and Council discussed several topics at their first December meeting Monday night, such as the design of and funding for the town’s new spray irrigation space in Newark, a water rate study and new town-supplied garbage cans for residents.——-The council has authorized the beginning of the design process for the… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Millions of people walk on the Ocean City Boardwalk each year, and presumably, only a mere few have ever cast more than a passing thought to what really lies underneath the town’s most treasured tourist attraction.With town officials hinting at a possible massive reconstruction of the Boardwalk in the next several years,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – A cross section of elected officials, business leaders and environmentalists came together in Ocean City this week in support of an expedited effort to develop offshore wind farms off the coast of the resort.Environment Maryland, a private sector conservation group, this week released its new report entitled “The Power of Offshore Wind:… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Tempers may have started to flare, but town officials are trying to keep their cool and assure the taxi industry that any changes made to the town’s cab service is in the name of improvement and not a hostile takeover.Since City Manger Dennis Dare’s mere mention of the idea to create a… Read more »