OCEAN CITY – Police Chief Bernadette DiPino provided an update to the Mayor and City Council last week as the department prepares for the upcoming summer season.“When I became chief nine years ago, one of the long-term strategic plans was to utilize technology as much as possible,” she said. “Social media is a big deal… Read more »

BERLIN — Md. Sen. Barbara Mikulski again this week made her feelings known about the proposed closure of the U.S. Postal Service Mail Processing Center in Easton, which serves the entire Eastern Shore, and was even able to attach some amendments to the bill, but the legislation cleared a procedural hurdle on the way to… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Rather than voting prematurely to add a centralized booking system to the town’s website, the Mayor and City Council delayed the move to consider the impact it would have on the resort area’s lodging industry.Ann McGinnis Hillyer of oceancity.com proposed this week to the Mayor and City Council, RezEZ, a central reservations… Read more »

BERLIN — Unseasonably warm and dry weather have resulted in persistent drought conditions across the Lower Shore, forcing officials in Worcester and Wicomico counties this week to issue a ban on most outdoor burning for an indefinite period.On Monday, Worcester County Fire Marshal Jeff McMahon issued a burn ban on outdoor burning for an indefinite… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – A series of new events received its final approval this week from the Mayor and Council and is slated to begin Memorial Day weekend.Since December, there has been much discussion over a new series of events proposed to come to Ocean City this summer. At that time, the Tourism Advisory Board (TAB)… Read more »

BERLIN — While there may be trouble at the county level, the budget picture for the town of Berlin is largely positive and contains a property tax decrease, a $500 one-time bonus for employees and a more than $500,000 budget surplus with revenues coming in higher than expenditures.Totaling $13,333,164 million, the proposed budget is $328,680,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The number of participants for the Inaugural Komen Maryland Ocean City Race for the Cure continued to rise throughout the week as Ocean City turns pin to support Susan G. Komen coming to town.As of Monday, the number of participants registered for the Race for the Cure on Sunday, April 22, had… Read more »

BERLIN — A discussion on proposed revisions to the town’s comprehensive re-zoning prompted the Berlin Planning Commission to set goals for how it will look to affect zoning in the future, including a desire to be more flexible with legal non-conforming use properties.However, the commission expressed a “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” attitude… Read more »