OCEAN CITY – The Art League of Ocean City (ALOC) moved another step toward the facility of its dreams on Tuesday, as the Mayor and City Council approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and lease of the new venue.The ALOC originated in the 1960’s and has been working out of the same building located on… Read more »
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Restaurants Retain Outdoor Dining Exemption
OCEAN CITY – Restaurants will remain exempt from providing additional parking if their outdoor dining area is considered to be 51 percent open on all sides.The Mayor and City Council have decided to approve a code amendment recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission onto first reading regarding outdoor dining space and a restaurant’s required… Read more »
Seaside Dance Academy Marks 10-Year Anniversary
BERLIN – Seaside Dance Academy in Berlin is setting a successful pace for students in dance and also in life.Owner and director of Seaside Dance Academy, Lisa Tingle, opened her doors in September of 2001.Tingle settled in the area with her new husband, James Tingle, after graduating with a dance degree from Point Place College… Read more »
Citizens Rally Focuses On Motivating Resort Voters
OCEAN CITY – A message rang loud and clear to have more citizens step up and vote during a rally held on Monday morning in which hundreds attended, organized by the Citizens For Ocean City.Resident have turned out in outrage ever since the majority of the council, Brent Ashley, Jim Hall, Joe Hall and Margaret… Read more »
Pink Ribbon Classic Events On Tap
by Steven Green
BERLIN — The American Cancer Society of North Worcester County has burst out of the starting gate with a series of Pink Ribbon Classic events held in conjunction with October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month, an international health campaign designed to increase awareness of the causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of breast cancer.Bahia Marina in… Read more »
Farming Community Rallies To Fund Legal Battle
BERLIN — A Berlin farm family embroiled in a legal battle with an environmental group over alleged pollution violations got the support of some agricultural heavyweights, including its co-defendant last week with the launch of a website and associated fund raising effort.The Maryland Farm Bureau, the Wicomico County Young Farmers and Ranchers and Perdue last… Read more »
OC Store Owner, Employee Charged In Boardwalk Raid
OCEAN CITY — A Boardwalk business owner and his employee were charged last week with possession and distribution of synthetic drugs banned by the town of Ocean City after a raid on the establishment earlier this month.Ocean City police last Friday charged Fransisco Rico Hernandez, 48, of West Ocean City, and Blen Giday Berhani, 24,… Read more »
Berlin Residents May Have To Wait For Street Work
BERLIN — Wondering whether it might be better to kill the proverbial two birds with one stone, the Berlin Mayor and Council may delay a resurfacing project till the town can afford to address stormwater issues on the road as well.“Can we afford to do it all?” asked Mayor Gee Williams. The plan to resurface… Read more »
Jewish Community To Mark Yom Kippur
by Steven Green
At sundown on Friday, Oct. 7, Jews around the world will mark the start of the holiest day of the Jewish calendar: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.Congregations across the Lower Eastern Shore will gather for a spiritually powerful experience that, according to Rabbi Arnold Bienstock of Beth Israel Congregation, a Conservative synagogue in Salisbury,… Read more »
Buying Local A Tradition For Dolle’s
OCEAN CITY — More than a century after opening on the Boardwalk, Dolle’s Candyland is still making candy in Ocean City and considering expanding to new areas.According to co-owner Anna Dolle Bushnell, however, even if the company reaches out to new markets, it will never leave Ocean City.“We’ll continue to be a staple in Ocean… Read more »