OCEAN CITY – Habitat for Humanity Worcester County dedicated another home to a deserving family this past Saturday.“It is part of our ongoing mission to provide decent affordable homes for deserving families in the area,” Habitat Humanity of Worcester County President Clint Houser said on Saturday.Worcester County is a local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity… Read more »

SNOW HILL — Even without any state funding this year, Worcester County Tourism Director Lisa Challenger asserted that the Pocomoke Visitor’s Center was in good shape and might soon expand.“The welcome center is doing great and performing under budget,” said Challenger at a county budget review Tuesday.Last year was the first that the center operated… Read more »

SNOW HILL — One Worcester County Commissioner has decided to try and make natural gas a more viable substitute for propane on the Eastern Shore.Commissioner Judy Boggs made it a point to question department heads about propane usage during a budget review Tuesday.“It’s a special mission of mine,” she told the assembly. Boggs expressed surprise… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — A petition drive is underway, led by a grassroots recreational fishermen’s organization based in the resort area, to urge the government to reverse a decades-old moratorium on fishing for striped bass in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), a 200-mile swath of open ocean just outside the state’s three-mile band closest to the… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The Mayor and City Council voted unanimously on first reading, with no discussion, to ban smoking in public parks and playgrounds.The ordinance defines “environmental tobacco smoke” as the complex mixture formed from escaping smoke of a burning tobacco product or smoke exhaled by the smoker. “Smoking” means the burning of a lighted… Read more »

SALISBURY — Salisbury Police this week are looking for suspects in three seemingly unrelated armed robbery cases about 18 hours apart from Sunday night to Monday afternoon including just minutes apart on Sunday.Around 9:54 p.m. on Sunday, Salisbury Police responded to the McDonald’s restaurant on South Salisbury Blvd. for a reported robbery. Responding officers met… Read more »

Berlin To Disband Utilities CommissionTravis Brown Staff WriterBERLIN — The Berlin Mayor and Council’s decision to disband the Berlin Utilities Commission (BUC) has not been well received by all of those involved.
“I am disappointed with the apparent decision of Mayor and Council to ‘disband’ the BUC,” Erik Quisgard, the commission’s current president, told The Dispatch.According… Read more »