The local Kiwanis Club for elementary school children at Buckingham Elementary School, known as K-Kids, is committed to community service projects. One of the latest was the Valentine Candy-Gram Fundraiser. Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines – Ocean City members donated the Tootsie POPS and helped the K-Kids tie red or pink ribbons onto the Tootsie… Read more »
The General Levin Winder Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) annually sponsors an American History essay contest in area schools. Winners were invited to the Chapter’s luncheon meeting on Feb. 19 to read excerpts and receive their awards from American History Committee Chairman Joan Chambers. The winners were all from Worcester Prep…. Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Fresco’s introduced a new style of Italian fine dining to Ocean City over 14 years ago and plans are in the works to open a second location in West Ocean City to serve a more casual and rustic Italian cuisine.Giovanni “Pino” Tomasello moved from Italy to Ocean City in 1978 to live… Read more »
BERLIN — Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services (WYFCS) will be partnering with the Worcester County Commission on Women’s “Suddenly Single” group for a goal setting session this Saturday in Snow Hill.Participants will learn new ways to set benchmarks for themselves that should help them overcome the challenges of becoming suddenly single.This will be the… Read more »
SNOW HILL — Students from Worcester Technical High School (WTHS) visited Austin, Texas this month to present their entry in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest.The project is already considered one of the 15 best in the nation but the top five schools will soon be chosen, a designation that would come with both bragging… Read more »
SALISBURY — A Maryland appeals court last week ruled a Salisbury man’s jailhouse messages sent through family members to his nephew, instructing him to eliminate a witness expected to testify against him, did not violate his Sixth Amendment protections against hearsay.In December 2011, Marcus Smiley, 54, was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and other charges… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – The Caroline Street Comfort Station is experiencing ongoing construction issues this winter that will be addressed through an outside contractor.“The only problem we are experiencing right now is leaking in the towers,” City Engineer Terry McGean said on Wednesday. “I had a third party come in and do a leak test, and… Read more »
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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s boys’ varsity basketball team cruised past visiting Northern of Calvert County in the first-round of the state 3A-South regional on Wednesday to advance in the tournament.The Seahawks, seeded first in their sectional in the 3A-South got a huge performance from their big man, center Tyler Hunter, to start to third quarter to… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — While the effort to develop an offshore wind energy farm just 30 miles off the coast of Ocean City continues to plod steadily forward, a new study released last week suggests offshore wind farms of a considerably greater size than the one proposed off Maryland’s coast could significantly lessen the power and… Read more »