OCEAN CITY – Hammering home a consistent message about the ominous challenges they face and a reliance on them to tackle those challenges, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Wednesday addressed Stephen Decatur High School’s 2010 graduation class at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City.With evidence of Senior Week in Ocean City sprouting… Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Friday, June 4–Annual Tire Recycling Day Falls To Budget Axe
SNOW HILL – There is no money for the popular used tire recycling day, staff told the Worcester County Commissioners this week during hearings on the solid waste budget.A state tire recycling fund called the Maryland Scrap Tire Program usually pays for the tire recycling day. All new tire purchasers pay a small fee to… Read more »
Flying Over Ocean City With A World Champion
You’ve never really seen Ocean City until you are inverted over the Atlantic Ocean a few thousand feet in the air or flipping about in the midst of a head-spinning aerobatic stunt over Assateague Island.For world champion aerobatics pilot Rob Holland, who is one of the many featured acts in this weekend’s 3rd Annual Ocean… Read more »
Stabbing Over Dinner Plans
Stabbing Over Dinner PlansWEST OCEAN CITY – A West Ocean City woman was arrested on assault and reckless endangerment charges last weekend after allegedly slashing her live-in girlfriend during an argument over what he was preparing for dinner.Around 3:30 p.m. last Sunday, a Maryland State Police (MSP) trooper went back to the MSP Berlin barrack… Read more »
People in Society
We Remember Those We Have Lost
Ann Lockhart Showell OCEAN CITY – Ann Lockhart Showell died peacefully at her home on Friday, May 28, 2010. She was born in Wadesboro, N.C. and was the daughter of the late Adam Lockhart and Elizabeth Hardison Lockhart.She graduated from Duke University in 1946 and in 1947 married John Dale Showell III. She and her… Read more »
Fish ‘N OC
“I’m going to need a coffee,” I thought to myself. I had woken up early, gathered my gear, and made haste to get to one of my favorite spots on the Route 50 Bridge. There was a full moon out and I hoped to catch the last stages of the outgoing tide and also to… Read more »
A Week in Business
New Outlets TenantWEST OCEAN CITY – Ocean City Factory Outlets and the Cordish Company announced the leasing of a 2,870-square-foot store to Book Warehouse. A national leader among discount booksellers, Book Warehouse is now open.Drawing from an inventory provided by the largest wholesale distributor of promotional, closeout, remainder and bargain-priced books in the United States,… Read more »
Worcester Prep Students Capture National Prizes
BIS Students Show Off Lego Creations
Berlin Intermediate School students Zach O’Hara and Zach Davis show off their soccer player and goalie robots they constructed out of Legos through the WeDO Robotics program in the BIS and Beyond Afterschool program.