Council Looks For Short-Term Solution, But Aims To Wrap Rental Concerns Into New Comp Plan

Council Looks For Short-Term Solution, But Aims To Wrap Rental Concerns Into New Comp Plan

OCEAN CITY – The discussion over implementing a R1A Single-Family Residential District has reached the Mayor and City Council, and it seems the immediate track will be finding a short-term solution until the update of the Comprehensive Plan is complete.At the end of last summer, Ocean City experienced a growing number of rental concerns and… Read more »

What’s Your Sign?

What’s Your Sign?

ARIES (March 21 to April 19): Don’t gnash those pearly whites because you might have to delay your plans. This could give the Lucky Lamb a better perspective of what’s been done, and what still needs doing.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): Scoring financial bull’s-eyes is easy for the focused Bovine who knows the ins… Read more »

Voices From The Readers

Voices From The Readers

The Cause Of Renters?Editor:Usually when neighborhoods start to change for the worse, it is not often easy to identify the cause. Yet failure to identify the cause insures that the prescription will eventually fail. Discovering the proper cause of the decline in the neighborhood of Mallard Island is required to avoid applying the wrong cure.The… Read more »

Bank Of America Foundation Donates $3,000 To Hope And Life Outreach Program

Bank Of America Foundation Donates $3,000 To Hope And Life Outreach Program

The Bank of America Foundation recently donated $3,000 to the Hope And Life Outreach (HALO) program to help fund its café, which offers daily breakfast, lunch and dinner for those less fortunate. The program also provides day and overnight shelter for women for several years and, recently, opened a men’s shelter. Above, Merrill Lynch Salisbury office… Read more »

The Resorter … Revisited

The Resorter … Revisited

Summer of 1963Volume VIIIIEdition 10Issue HighlightsAn editorial, “The Vacant 8 Months,” read, “Late last spring the Mayor and Council were practically forced into hiring a much needed publicity man for Ocean City. Now that the resort has a publicity bureau of sorts we’d like to see town officials vote a small winter budget to the… Read more »

Mission Accomplished On OC Boardwalk

Mission Accomplished On OC Boardwalk

All the complaints heard this week from the street performers were predictable and should have been music to the ears to those who crafted the new ordinance. The buskers’ issues with the new regulations were exactly the intent.“The system they implemented is not working whatsoever … It has segregated us to the point of first-come,… Read more »

Street Performers Allege ‘Freedoms Being Stepped On’; New Regs Took Effect Monday

Street Performers Allege ‘Freedoms Being Stepped On’; New Regs Took Effect Monday

OCEAN CITY – Street performers have banded together in protest as the town’s newly implemented regulations governing them went into effect.On Monday morning, performers lined up at City Hall signing up for designated spaces to perform on the Boardwalk Monday, Aug. 3, through Thursday, Aug. 6. However, a group of street performers have become disgruntled… Read more »