BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s girls’ varsity basketball team’s remarkable season came to a close with a 67-42 loss to visiting Westlake in the state 3A-South regional championship game in front of a packed house on Monday.The Seahawks, who went 22-1 in the regular season and won their first Bayside Conference championship since 1977, swept its first… Read more »
SNOW HILL — Two local men involved in the death of a Pennsylvania man last summer were sentenced on Thursday to the maximum amount of jail time allowable under a plea agreement reached in January.In January, Caleb Edwin-Earl Ochse, 28, of Ocean City, and Christopher Blake Kendall, 22, also of Ocean City, entered a plea… Read more »
BERLIN – Gwen Lehman never set out to become a teacher.When she graduated from Hood College in 1968, she saw herself making a living as a writer. The senatorial scholarship she had received, however, committed her to two years in the classroom first.A few months of teaching high school English convinced her that wasn’t such… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – The Town of Ocean City is planning to collect proposals for a pay-by-phone smart phone app for parking in the hopes of having it active by this summer season.The Transportation Commission met on Tuesday morning to discuss the potential of a parking pay-by-phone smart phone app. Following the presentation, the commission was… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Local officials dove Monday morning further into how to go about regulating the car service Uber in Ocean City, despite the company’s claim of having no immediate plans in coming to the resort.Last month the Ocean City Police Commission discussed if and when the car service Uber comes to Ocean City how… Read more »
SNOW HILL — This year’s Snow Hill Blues Jam on Saturday, March 14 is a tribute to the late Burley Strand, who passed away in November of 2014.Lovingly known as “Mr. B.,” he was a driving force of the Snow Hill All Stars whose guitar and voice graced the stage every year since the Snow… Read more »
Ready for the Worcester Prep Winter Formal, pictured clockwise from left, are students Alex Abbott, Emily Dignan, Zach Wilson, Isabel Dashiell, Davis Mears, Riley Dickerson, Ali Van Orden, Anthony Rilling, Clare Riley, Chris Rilling and Kathleen Emche.
A certificate of recognition was recently presented to Delanie Spear of Northwestern Elementary School for raising $7,775 for the American Heart Association in the past two years through Jump Rope for Heart. As a kindergarten student last year, she raised $2,215 in donations. This year, as a first grader, she collected $5,560 in donations. Submitted… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Appeals for funding support in the areas of public safety and tourism highlighted municipal budget requests presented to the Worcester County Commissioners this week.While Ocean City officials asked county leaders to consider a new funding formula as an alternative to a tax differential, other local towns presented requests in line with those… Read more »
BERLIN — The adage “old enough to go to war but not old enough to have a beer” will remain true in Maryland after a bill in the General Assembly failed to make it out of committee this week.Senate Bill 213 would have allowed bars and restaurants in Maryland to serve beer and wine to… Read more »