SALISBURY — Peninsula Regional Medical Center and the Wicomico County Board of Education invite everyone on the Delmarva Peninsula to join them for HealthFest: An event for all ages, on Saturday, April 6, from 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.This year’s event, a showcase of healthy exhibits and health screenings, is free and open to the public at… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Third Weekend Surf Beach Eyed For Summer
OCEAN CITY – The newly established Surfing Beach Sub-Committee met for the first time Monday to discuss modernizing Ocean City’s surfing laws, including the establishment of a third designated surfing beach on the weekends during the summer.Ocean City Recreation and Parks Director Tom Shuster presented the Mayor and City Council last year the 2013 Surfing… Read more »
Outcry Leads Salisbury To Lower False Alarm Fines
SALISBURY — In response to apprehension from Salisbury residents and businesses, the City Council plans to cut false alarm fines in half by billing everything on a half-hour response time instead of the original one-hour response time benchmark.With that new direction announced one day before this week’s election, Alarm Engineering representative Ron Boltz warned the… Read more »
St. Jude Benefit Walk This Weekend
OCEAN CITY — For the 10th year, participants can raise money for the treatment of cancer-stricken children and research for a cancer cure by walking the Boards in Ocean City.The Annual Let’s Walk the Boards for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital takes place on Saturday, April 6, 2013, on the Ocean City Boardwalk. Registration starts… Read more »
Roadside Protest Creates A Stir In Downtown OC
OCEAN CITY — An otherwise quiet and peaceful post-holiday afternoon was marked by a rather unusual protest even for Ocean City standards when representatives of the “Bloodstained Men” activist group set up shop at the foot of the Route 50 bridge to get their message out.Passersby on Route 50 at N. Division Street on Tuesday… Read more »
Flounder Season Opens With Reduced Size, Creel Limits
OCEAN CITY — After years of season closures and shrinking keeper size limits and creel limits, Maryland’s summer flounder season opened last Thursday with some of the loosest regulations in recent memory.The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported the flounder season opened in state waters just after midnight on Thursday, March 28 and will… Read more »
Council Approves More Tasers One Week After Tabling Vote
OCEAN CITY –The Ocean City Police Department received the go-ahead this week to purchase eight more Taser devices only days after the request was tabled for more details.Last week the City Council debated the purchase of eight additional Tasers for the Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) while Mayor Rick Meehan, Council President Lloyd Martin and… Read more »
George’s Forms Partnership With Finlandia Vodka
BERLIN — One Bloody Mary mix with local roots is catching fire and edging towards a host of expansions in the next few months with an eye on becoming a national brand within five years.George’s Bloody Mary Mix, released last May by Greg David, a bartender at the Globe in Berlin, has enjoyed statewide distribution… Read more »
Grants Boost Berlin Library Garden
SNOW HILL — The arrival of spring 2013 finds volunteer gardeners preparing the Berlin Branch Library garden for the coming growing season, thanks in part to a few grants recently awarded to it.A highly competitive grant of $500 along with $50 worth of seeds from Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) was recently announced, in addition to… Read more »
Worcester Prep Ignites Interest In Engineering With 3-D Printer
A digital device that ignites interest in engineering and design that is destined in some form to make its way into most American homes in years to come is the digital replicator or 3-D printer. The “printer” works by reading designs developed by students and then producing them through a layering process with a plastic-type… Read more »