SNOW HILL – Plans to dredge the channel from the Ocean City Inlet to the West Ocean City Harbor and the harbor turning basins will have to wait until Worcester County staff identifies a suitable site for the dredge spoil.The Federal Navigation Project calls for the dredging of a 10-foot deep and 150-foot wide channel… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Friday, March 19–County Land Preservation Buys In Jeopardy
SNOW HILL – Funding for two land preservation projects might have to come from elsewhere, the Worcester County Commissioners decided this week.More than 400 acres of Holly Grove Swamp, on the way to preservation in perpetuity, still faces serious funding obstacles.The purchase of the Ayres Creek-Holly Grove Swamp Phase II project has been assigned $1,375,000… Read more »
Inlet Parking Fee Hike OK’d
OCEAN CITY — After letting the opportunity slip through their hands last year, the Mayor and City Council were poised to not make the same mistake twice on Monday.It took about a minute and a half for the council to unanimously pass the new Hugh T. Cropper Inlet Parking Lot rates through first reading, and… Read more »
Purse Thrower Arrested
BERLIN – A Berlin woman was arrested on disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges last week after a pair of incidents during which she threw her purse at a police car and later an ambulance.Around 12:17 p.m. last Wednesday, Berlin police received several complaints about a female suspect throwing her purse at passing vehicles near… Read more »
Seahawks Fall in State Semifinals
BERLIN- Perhaps it was the huge crowd or the bright lights at the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, but Stephen Decatur’s boys’ varsity basketball team got off to a slow start and never recovered last week in the state Final Four, falling to eventual champion Milford Mill, 69-41.Playing on the… Read more »
Decatur Lacrosse Feature Intro’d
BERLIN- The Stephen Decatur boys’ varsity lacrosse team gets its regular season underway next week and two local businesses will sponsor a Player of the Week award each week during the regular season with a new feature in The Dispatch.The Bliss Salon and Spa in West Ocean City and WOC Fitness each week will spotlight… Read more »
Former Seahawk Named Conference Player of Week
BERLIN- Former Stephen Decatur softball standout Shae Nottingham is already making her mark at the next level at Washington College, collecting the Centennial Conference Player of the Week award last week as a freshman after leading the Shorewomen to a quick 4-0 start early in the season.Nottingham, who plays both first base and outfield at… Read more »
Worcester’s Sanchez Navy Bound
BERLIN- Worcester Prep soccer standout Martin Sanchez last week committed to the U.S. Naval Academy and will take his game to Annapolis next year.Sanchez, who was named the Mallards’ most valuable player after a stellar senior season last fall, has accepted an appointment to the Naval Academy and will play soccer for the Middies next… Read more »
We Remember Those We Have Lost
Jacqueline Kay PetersonBERLIN – Jacqueline Kay Peterson, age 66, died Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. Born in York, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Earl and Mary Catherine Newcomer. She is survived by her husband, John M. Peterson.Peterson had worked in sales as a decorator with Sears and… Read more »
Fatherhood Adventures
It’s all going by too fast for me.When I first became a dad, the most common piece of advice I received was something along the lines of, ‘enjoy it while it lasts because they grow up so fast.’ I heard it so many times I admit to growing a bit weary of the expression.At the… Read more »