WEST OCEAN CITY — Amid hints of coercion, long-time Worcester County Humane Society Director Kenille Davies last weekend announced she was stepping down after 37 years on the job at the West Ocean City facility during an impassioned speech at an annual fundraising dinner.Davies announced last Friday at the dinner at Adolfo’s she was stepping… Read more »
SNOW HILL — A Salisbury women charged in June with hit-and-run and leaving the scene of an accident involving bodily injury after striking a 6-year-old child on Baltimore Ave. pleaded guilty to an amended felony count on Wednesday and now faces as many as five years in jail.Around 1:45 p.m. on June 1, Ocean City… Read more »
WEST OCEAN CITY — Amid allegations of coercion and duress, long-time Worcester County Humane Society Director Kenille Davies last weekend confirmed she was stepping down after 37 years on the job at the West Ocean City facility during an impassioned speech at the organization’s annual fundraising dinner.At the annual fundraising dinner at Adolfo’s, Davies addressed… Read more »
CAR Holds Installation OCEAN CITY — The Coastal Association of Realtors® (CAR) recently held its 2013 Annual Meeting and Installation with more than 100 members in attendance. New officers and directors were officially instated into office for the association. Officers installed included President Susan Megaree, RE/MAX Crossroads; President-Elect Vicki Harmon, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage; Vice… Read more »
SNOW HILL — Failing cell gates in the maximum security wing of the Snow Hill jail will be receiving an emergency replacement. Warden Gary Mumford met with the Worcester County Commissioners Tuesday to discuss the malfunctioning locks, which have already allowed prisoners more movement than they are permitted to have. “Over the past two months,… Read more »
SALISBURY — The Eastern Shore needs more time. That was the unanimous message sent when elected officials from Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset counties met with Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Buddy Hance Wednesday to discuss the new Phosphorous Management Tool (PMT). The consensus from the shore was that the regulations should be delayed for 36 months… Read more »
BERLIN — The October revenue figures for Maryland’s four operating casinos were released this week, revealing the Casino at Ocean Downs in Berlin continues to make significant gains. The Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency on Tuesday announced the four casinos up and running in Maryland generated over $66 million combined during the month of… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – An intense battle, rooted in allegations of misconceptions, continues to play out in Ocean City over a petition opposing the bond to fund the new Performing Arts Center (PAC) addition at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center.Tony Christ, spokesperson for the Ocean City Taxpayers for Social Justice (OCTSJ), last month received approval… Read more »
ASSATEAGUE — More details emerged this week on the phantom “ghost boat,” an unoccupied house boat that was cut loose by its new owner who was towing it from New Jersey to South Carolina last week on the eve of Halloween.Last Wednesday evening, a 40-foot house boat washed ashore on the beach in the Assateague… Read more »
SNOW HILL — The first-degree murder case against Matthew Burton was moved from Maryland to Delaware in August but the accused killer remains behind bars in Worcester County this week after another extradition hearing in Snow Hill last Friday. Burton was indicted by a Worcester County grand jury on first-degree murder and first-degree rape charges… Read more »