OCEAN CITY – Although fundraising totals are preliminary, the 20th Annual Penguin Swim, held on New Year’s Day in Ocean City, appears to have surpassed its previous record in support of Atlantic General Hospital. The event took place on Wednesday with 750 participants diving into the Atlantic Ocean with the water temperature being in the… Read more »
BERLIN — With the opening of the 2014 Maryland General Assembly now less than a week away, hundreds of pieces of legislation of local and state importance have already been filed in advance of the session. The Maryland General Assembly reconvenes at noon next Wednesday and before the 90-day session is over, state lawmakers will… Read more »
Summer of 1968 Volume XIV Edition 3Issue HighlightsThis week’s Resorter Girl was Chris Corddry, who was also featured in this issue’s full-page Hess Apparel advertisement.Among the amenities at the Surf and Sands Motel were “free all channel television,” “golf privileges” and “background music in all rooms.”The live racing season at Ocean Downs Raceway was from… Read more »
Every Saturday & Sunday, Jan. 11-April 27: Pancake Breakfast 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Ocean City Municpal Airport Terminal Building. To benefit the Huey Veteran’s Memorial Dis-play. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage. Suggested donation is $5. For more information, 410-213-2471 or 410-726-7207.Every Sunday: Morning Worship 8:30 a.m., contemporary; 10 a.m., traditional, Atlantic United Methodist Church, 105 4th St.,… Read more »
Before the Christmas Concert at Worcester Prep some of the members of the Upper School Chorus pose for a photo, including, from left, Lily Zechiel, Regan Lingo, Amy Lizas, Bethany Wolpin and Lauren Meoli.
Worcester Prep senior Saqib Khan was part of a group of students from Colleen McGuire’s programming class who served as guides for Lower School children in order to help them develop the thinking skills needed for coding. Above, kindergartners Lynden Prosser, left, and Lena Parker show intense concentration as they work out the coding game… Read more »
BERLIN — There was some movement this month in the ongoing $8 million civil suit filed against the Berlin Fire Company alleging malfeasance from leadership over a former employee’s perceived sexual orientation, including the winnowing of the list of individual defendants from four to two and a demand for a jury trial. In August, former… Read more »
The Tanger Outlet Center in Ocean City raised and donated $6,396.07 for the battle against breast cancer. Tanger made its local donation to the Eunice Q. Sorin Women’s Diagnostic Center at Atlantic General Hospital. Tanger’s 2013 PinkStyle Campaign ran Sept. 12-Oct. 25 with funds being raised through the sale of the popular TangerStyle Pink Card…. Read more »
The Ground Observer Corps was made up of civilian volunteers in the early years of World War II. Part of the “Aircraft Warning Service,” spotters used visual aids such as silhouettes and spotter cards to identify potential enemy aircraft along the coastline in 1942 and 1943. No enemy aircraft were ever spotted off the Maryland… Read more »
Showell second graders, Abby West, Joshua Blume and Maddie Shirk select books under the guidance of Book Swap volunteers Sanji Ramnarain and Constance Boyd. Students brought in good condition, age-appropriate, slightly used, reading books from home and other students took these slightly loved books home.