OCEAN CITY- With fall high school sports teams in the area hitting the fields over the last week or so in preparation for the upcoming season, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) last week issued a series of recommendations to limit contact in certain “collision” sports such as football to reduce concussions for student-athletes…. Read more »
Monthly Archives: August 2013
New Boardwalk Comfort Station Not Expected To Be Complete For Another Month
OCEAN CITY — With August heading into its final stretch and Labor Day weekend near, the new Caroline Street Performing Arts Stage and Comfort Station is still far from completion, and the contractor is now into its penalty phase for missing the deadline. The old underground restrooms at Caroline Street and the Boardwalk were demolished… Read more »
Arrest In June Sex Assault
OCEAN CITY — A Gaithersburg, Md. man last week was charged with multiple sex offenses following an investigation into an alleged sexual assault in Ocean City in June. During the week of June 10, Ocean City police detectives began investigating a sex offense that had allegedly occurred on June 8. Detectives met with a 20-year-old… Read more »
Adventures Of Fatherhood
There are some conversations that just deserve to be bottled and read years later as a reminder of a distant snapshot in time. Since I would worry about placing that bottle in a safe place somewhere and never finding it again, the next best thing is preserving it in this weekly rambling. While in the… Read more »
20th Poor Girls’ Open a Big Success
OCEAN CITY- The 20th Annual Captain Steve Harman Poor Girl’s Open last weekend was once again a huge success with a record number of boats and lady anglers participating, nearly $100,000 in prize money doled out to the winners in several categories and perhaps most importantly, thousands more raised for breast cancer research and awareness…. Read more »
Brown Box Theatre Project Eyes Return In September
BERLIN — The Brown Box Theatre Project’s 3rd Annual Free Shakespeare at the Beach tour will wind its way around Delmarva in September, stopping to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream for area schools and local communities. Shakespeare at the Beach is the flagship production of Brown Box Theatre Project, a non-profit theatre collaborative founded in… Read more »
Council Accused Of Slowing City’s Petition Process; Motion To Temporarily Shutter New Paid Parking Area Shot Down
OCEAN CITY – Petition organizers opposed to the expansion of paid parking are becoming frustrated with the lengthy verification, accusing the Mayor and City Council this week of foul play and muddying the process. In the spring, the majority of the City Council voted to approve an ordinance that enacted new areas of paid parking… Read more »
Local Boats Dominate Early MA500
OCEAN CITY- With plenty of fishing still to go, the 22nd Annual Mid-Atlantic $500,000, which got underway on Monday, had a decidedly Ocean City flavor as of mid-week with fish weighed at tournament co-headquarters Sunset Marina in West Ocean City filling out many of the top spots on the early leaderboard including a white marlin… Read more »
Feds Propose New Bluefin Regs
OCEAN CITY — Federal fisheries officials this week opened the public comment period on a series of recommendations aimed at further protecting Atlantic bluefin tuna, a stable of Ocean City’s commercial and recreational fishery. NOAA Fisheries is considering a rule change and associated draft environmental assessment aimed at reducing discards of Atlantic bluefin tuna and… Read more »
Berlin Police Chief Forced To Shoot Rabid Raccoon
BERLIN — Providing clear evidence of an ongoing, summer-long rabies problem in northern Worcester County, an aggressive raccoon shot and killed by Berlin Police Chief Arnold Downing in a residential backyard on Burley Street on Tuesday morning has tested positive for the disease. Police began tracking the aggressive raccoon early Tuesday morning in the area… Read more »