OCEAN CITY – A handful of local boaters enjoying a perfect Easter Sunday afternoon on the water this week were treated to a rare encounter with an ocean legend when the so-called Dolphin 56 swam up to their vessel near the mouth of the commercial harbor in West Ocean City and put on a brief… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
City Manager Ironing Out Difficult Budget’s Details
OCEAN CITY — Seemingly everyone who follows local politics knows that City Manager Dennis Dare is trying to “right-size” the local government.The question is: what is the right size for Ocean City’s government to operate efficiently and effectively?Dare may not have necessarily coined the phrase “right-sizing”, but he’s been literally showing town officials and tax… Read more »
Friday, April 9–Rabies Spike Prompts Request For More Clinics
SNOW HILL – Eleven cases of rabies have been confirmed so far this year, showing that the rabies epidemic has not abated despite the winter weather.Rabies continues to increase and threaten humans and animals in Worcester County, Health Officer Debbie Goeller told the County Commissioners Tuesday.Worcester County sees between 10 and 20 cases of rabies… Read more »
Friday, April 9–No Swimming During Boat Races
OCEAN CITY – The grand spectacle and sheer energy of offshore powerboat racing returns to the resort in May with the arrival of the first leg of the 2010 Geico Offshore Grand Prix, but fans will once again have to clear out of the ocean during the event.Race officials came before the Mayor and Council… Read more »
Friday, April 9–Inlet Parking Hike Approved
OCEAN CITY – Ocean City officials this week formally approved an increase in the Inlet parking lot rates during the peak summer season, but not before a brief discussion about relaxing the rules for downtown parking in general during the shoulder months.In what was essentially a mere formality, the Mayor and Council on Monday voted… Read more »
Friday, April 9–Berlin Budget To Shrink 10%
By Cara DahlStaff WriterBERLIN – Berlin will have $1.3 million less to spend in fiscal year 2011, with revenues estimated at $12.4 million. In the current fiscal year, Berlin has $13.7 million in revenues to work with, but that number has dropped 10 percent overall for the next fiscal year. “We do not see any… Read more »
Fatherhood Adventures
Easter is one of those days when my boys get to be taken advantage of by their mother.Both my kids are still young enough not to have any say or even care what they wear at any given moment. As a matter of fact, Beckett is clearly at his happiest running around without any clothes… Read more »
A Lame Threat By State Legislators
Legislators wisely decided this week leave intact state funding of the University of Maryland School of Law’s environmental clinic. Public funds to the tune of $500,000 or more were in jeopardy after some leading lawmakers criticized law students being used to file a Clean Water Act lawsuit against a local poultry farm and Perdue Farms,… Read more »
Voices From The Readers
Support For CountyTourism Funding ShiftEditor:As president of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, I’d like to express my thanks to Lisa Challenger and the Worcester County Department of Tourism.We are a small organization that works to help our business community succeed and the Tourism Department has been a wonderful tool to help with this goal.Lisa and… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
You can’t make this stuff up. As part of an ordinance this week drafted as a result of the controversial dollar taxi medallion sale, the Ocean City Mayor and Council added an amendment requiring a taxi operator issue a public apology regarding the comment he made last week in this newspaper. Classic Taxi’s Ray Godman… Read more »