OCEAN CITY — Surfers Healing returned to Ocean City today, providing a day-long surfing camp and a lifetime of memories for kids with special needs and their families.Surfers Healing is a national organization featuring teams of surfers traveling to coastal communities all over the country to provide a day of surfing for kids with autism… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — There was a measure of closure this week in a news media outlet’s suit against the Town of Ocean City and its police department over the release of the name of a teenage drowning victim when The Daily Times and its parent Gannett Company, Inc. officially dropped its appeal.Last September, Gannett filed… Read more »
BERLIN – The town’s purchase of the former Tyson plant moves closer to reality this week as Berlin officials agreed to hire a nationally known consultant to perform a feasibility study for the 60-acre property.Following a clean environmental report, the Berlin Town Council voted to spend $34,500 to have EDSA, a Florida-based architectural services company,… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — One local artist participating in an Art League of Ocean City event near the Inlet on Sunday is credited for initiating the rescue of a body-boarder in distress, while a second artist instantly captured the emergency situation on canvas.Sunday morning was a typical one in downtown Ocean City in August with fishermen… Read more »
BERLIN – Ocean Pines voters elected residents Tom Herrick and Cheryl Jacobs to three-year terms on the homeowners association’s board of directors.At the annual meeting of the Ocean Pines Association Aug. 8, Herrick and Jacobs were named the top vote getters in this summer’s election. They will replace Marty Clarke and Sharyn O’Hare on the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — “We hope that our donation will encourage others in the business community and the private sector to step up and share the good fortune they’ve found in Ocean City and Worcester County by ‘giving back’ to something that impacts our future — education.”That’s what Macky Stansell had to say after he and… Read more »
BERLIN – Community residents can expect a variety of changes at Manklin Meadows in the coming months.Manklin Meadows, home to the Ocean Pines Association’s racquet sports complex, dog park and children’s playground, will soon include pickleball courts.“As our membership continues to expand, having the ability to offer more activities for them to participate in only… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — While the Army Corps of Engineers will return to the resort area later this month for a short-term dredging project to temporarily fix the chronic shoaling problem in the Ocean City Inlet and commercial harbor, state and local officials continue to push for a long term solution.The Inlet and the channels in… Read more »
Among the honorees at this year’s Coastal Association of REALTORS® 2015 Annual Awards Ceremony were, from left, Mike Ciorrocco of Universal Mortgage & Finance, Rhonda Evans of ERA Martin & Associates, Edie Brennan of RE/MAX Crossroads, Vicki Harmon of Coldwell Banker, Marlene Ott of RE/MAX Crossroads, Brandon Johnson of ERA Martin & Associates and Paul… Read more »
BERLIN — Earlier this year, hundreds of kayak activists took to the water in Seattle to protest Shell’s oil drilling in the Artic. Just last week a similar on-the-water (and from the bridge) gathering kept a drilling rig supply ship from leaving for the Artic from Portland. In light of the pending proposal to open… Read more »