OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will host the 12th Annual Longboard Team Challenge this weekend with a longboard competition sandwiched between other events all weekend at different venues around the resort.The annual event gets underway today with a Legends’ Party at the Pirate’s Galley. The centerpiece of the weekend-long festival,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Beach Lacrosse Girls Win Lax Splash Title
BERLIN- The Beach Lacrosse program made a great showing at the Lax Splash tournament in Baltimore last weekend with the girls’ 9-10 team winning the championship in its division and several others reaching the semifinals and quarterfinals.The Beach Lacrosse 9-10 girls’ team, coached by Gary Dutton and Denny Leonard, swept six games to win the… Read more »
We Remember Those We Have Lost
Timothy P. Hofman OCEAN CITY — Timothy Patrick Hofman, age 52, died on May 29, 2013 at his home.Born the seventh of nine children, he was raised on the colonial Gittings Ha Ha estate in Brookeville, Md. He was the son of Gloria Ann Haverty Hofman and the late Leo Charles Hofman, and is survived… Read more »
Who’s Playing When And Where
28th Street Pit and Pub 410-289-2020 • 28th St. & Coastal Hwy. Friday, June 7: Phantom Limbs Every Thursday: DJ Dance Party45th Street Taphouse 443-664-2201 • 45th St. & Coastal Hwy. Friday, June 7: Pompous Pie, Too Much Stuff with Joe Smooth, 8 p.m.-midnight Saturday, June 8: Lauren Glick & The Moodswingers, Galaxy Collective, 8… Read more »
Best Bites On The Beach
Fruitland-SalisburyRestaurant 213 213 N. Fruitland Blvd., Fruitland 410-677-4880 • www.restaurant213.comJust 20 minutes from Ocean Pines and Berlin, Restaurant 213 is worth the drive! Chef Jim Hughes has been serving celebrities worldwide for 25 years and was named a 2009 inductee to the coveted Distinguished Restaurants of North America awards, one of only 220 in North… Read more »
Woman Rescued From Ocean
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City Fire Department rescue swimmers made an early morning rescue on Tuesday, pulling an allegedly suicidal woman from the ocean about 100 yards off the beach between 1st and 2nd Streets.Around 2:40 a.m. on Tuesday, Ocean City Communications received a call for an unidentified suicidal woman on the beach in the… Read more »
NEW FOR WEDNESDAY: Whale Came Ashore Twice On Assateague, Then Again On Jersey Beach
ASSATEAGUE — The efforts of one Good Samaritan helped a beached pilot whale get back into the ocean last Saturday after it had washed ashore on Assateague’s Federal beach. Unfortunately, the story did not have a happy ending, with the same whale again washing ashore hours later and not surviving its second stranding.Officials commended the… Read more »
A Week In Business
Seacrets Honey Mustard Now Offered RegionallyOCEAN CITY – Seacrets has bottled its honey mustard sauce to bring a taste of an Ocean City summer to Giant grocery stores throughout Delaware, Maryland, D.C., and Virginia.For 25 years, Seacrets Honey Mustard has been a staple at the Eastern Shore hot spot, and now it’s available at more… Read more »
NEW FOR TUESDAY: Suspected Drunk Driver Runs Into OC Bus
OCEAN CITY — For the second time in three weeks, an Ocean City municipal vehicle was struck by an alleged drunk driver when an apparently intoxicated Stevensville man ran a stop sign at 7th Street and collided with a municipal bus before fleeing the scene early Sunday morning.Around 2:45 a.m. on Sunday, Ocean City Police… Read more »
NARFE Chapter 2274 Holds Annual Picnic At White Horse Park
NARFE Chapter 2274 had its annual picnic at White Horse Park with members of the Pine Steppers square dance group as entertainment. Pictured are Ed and Mary Jolly, Bruce and Peggy Barrett, Phil and Louise Lassiter, Square Dance Caller/Instructor Ed Shaffer, Allen and Martha Todd, Don and Sandy Clark and Joe and Marylou McNerney.