OCEAN CITY — City Solicitor Guy Ayres has reportedly responded to a so-called grievance filed several months ago by the local lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) contesting the town’s recent decision to take away a longtime perk from several public safety workers.Ayres said this week that prior to the new year, he… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A positive financial report from Worcester County’s auditors triggered a discussion of an uncertain future in the next fiscal year among the Worcester County Commissioners, following a decline in the assessable base of the county for the first time in 22 years.Worcester County saw revenues come in $2.2 million higher than expenses… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The current cold snap that has gripped the resort for well over a week and will likely continue several more days has created a lot of problems in the area with broken pipes and other weather-related issues, but the worse could be yet to come.With daytime temperatures rarely nudging past the freezing… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — City Solicitor Guy Ayres has been petitioned by the Ocean City Police Department to draw up a local ordinance that would make it unlawful to improperly bury or dispose of a body in Ocean City.Ayres said this week that he had been approached by members of the Ocean City Police Department to… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Downtown bar employees last weekend helped nab the suspect in a Boardwalk jewelry store break-in during which windows were smashed and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise was stolen.Around 1:20 a.m. on Jan. 2, Ocean City police responded to the Somerset South Jewelry store on the south end of the Boardwalk in… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Ocean City finished up “two for two” in Annapolis on Wednesday as the Board of Public Works approved the beach replenishment project in a unanimous decision.The town saw first hand how valuable the beach replenishment project is after the November Nor’Ida storm damaged large portions of the sand dune, but worked well… Read more »

SNOW HILL – Another $162,000 could be shaved off the Worcester County budget if cost-saving measures suggested by the county’s Government Efficiency Committee are successful.During this week’s presentation, staff reported that the county has already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by improving efficiency in county government.“We’re proud to report there’s documented savings of more… Read more »