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 »
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Memorable Offshore Trip Includes Swordfish, Lost Finger, Nice Payday
OCEAN CITY — Offshore fishing is often filled with adventure to varying degrees, but few fish stories in recent memory will top the harrowing 37-hour trip the crew on the “Sea Prowler” experienced last weekend during the 2nd Annual Big Fish Classic.The Big Fish Classic features boats and teams of anglers fishing in one of… Read more »
Berlin Police Station Design Funds OK’d; Town Eyes New Site Off Route 113
BERLIN – A new affordable housing development. Royal Farms. Apartments on Seahawk Road.While many are excited about the array of impending projects slated for Berlin, it’s safe to say they won’t come without a cost. Each will add to the strain on the town’s infrastructure — its water and sewer system, its roadways and its… Read more »
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
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 »
‘Lased’ Coast Guard Crew Members Can Delay Critical Missions
OCEAN CITY — While Ocean City has banned the sale of laser pointers, they continue to create problems for aviation, including Coast Guard helicopter search and rescue missions in the resort area and along the coast.The crew on a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter landed at Coast Guard Station Ocean City on Tuesday morning to… Read more »
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
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
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
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 »