OCEAN CITY — For several months, Ocean City public safety officials have been getting out in front of this weekend’s planned beach week event that has a troubled past including discussions with the event promoter and bringing in extra law enforcement resources.Local businesses officially learned of the planned “College Beach Week” event in early May… Read more »
SNOW HILL – In spite of recent protests from local educators, the Worcester County Commissioners on Tuesday adopted a budget with no pay increases for teachers or any other county employees.The $182 million budget does include a 6.5-cent property tax increase as well as a higher income tax rate —1.75 percent.Commissioner Chip Bertino, who made… Read more »
BERLIN – Officials from a Pocomoke company whose plans to build a Dollar General in Berlin were denied approval by the town are taking the case to court.Representatives from Oxford Chase Development, the company that proposed plans for a 9,000 square-foot Dollar General near the intersection of Route 113 and Route 346 in Berlin, filed… Read more »
ASSATEAGUE — An injured grey seal rescued from the Delaware coast on Easter has completed its rehabilitation at the National Aquarium’s Animal Rescue Program and will return to the wild next week as the program’s 150th successful release.Lilly, a juvenile grey seal, was rescued on the Delaware coast on Easter in early April after suffering… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Local residents stood strong this week in demanding Ocean City officials make a difference when it comes to increasingly rowdy behavior associated with car rally events.Last month Cruisin hit Ocean City with 3,400 classic cars officially registered for the event and an in-kind number of hangers-on, or “wannabes” as the event promoter… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Some Boardwalk performers submitted last-minute concerns this week over a new ordinance regulating busking on the Boardwalk.This week an ordinance regulating street performers on the Boardwalk that will force buskers to sign up for designated locations from the Inlet to 9th Street, among other things, came before the Mayor and City Council… Read more »
SNOW HILL – In spite of recent protests from local educators, the Worcester County Commissioners on Tuesday adopted a budget with no pay increases for teachers or any other county employees.The $182 million budget does include a 6.5-cent property tax increase as well as a higher income tax rate —1.75 percent.Commissioner Chip Bertino, who made… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – A Flow Rider surf machine, to be known as OC Big Wave, hopes to be in operation downtown by the 4th of July.Last Thursday The Lazy Lizard LLC came before the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) requesting a special use exception to allow construction and operation of a Flow Rider surfing machine… Read more »
BERLIN – Local leaders celebrated the start of a first-of-its-kind project for the Eastern Shore as work at Cannery Village got underway last week.Town leaders, officials from Osprey Property Company and representatives from Habitat for Humanity attended a groundbreaking ceremony for Cannery Village, the rent-to-own community to be built on Flower Street on May 28.“This… Read more »