Salisbury University faculty and staff are giving back to others during the 2015 Maryland Charity Campaign. A celebratory kick-off event in the Great Hall of Holloway Hall featured Sammy the Sea Gull, the SU cheerleaders and refreshments. Those who already had donated won giveaways and prizes, including gift certificates, a Fitbit and a Microsoft Surface… Read more »
Summer of 1978Volume XXIVEdition 3Issue Highlights• This week’s “Resorter Girl” was Terry Wooten.• An ad featuring Ames Discount Department Stores promoted two stores – one on Route 50 in Berlin and another on Route 1 in Rehoboth.• Among the features being advertised at the Hurricane on 71st Street was a Best Looking Bathing Suit contest, Best… Read more »
Beckett and I spent a memorable night in the woods last weekend.It was part of a Cub Scouts family weekend at the Henson Reservation in Rhodesdale, Md. (near Sharptown). As I drove on the dirt road to the camp area, I had one of those special parenting moments. There Beckett, 7, was in the back… Read more »
Students at Buckingham Elementary enjoyed activities at a recent Reading/Writing night. Above, Miralena Smith and Jordan Bredenberg try out the typewriters that author Jeff Smith used in his presentation about the career of a writer.
Bank of Ocean City’s Earl Conley presents a weekly award and a donation to the Boosters in the name of the week’s Stephen Decatur High School football MVP. This week’s MVP was Gus Esham, who is pictured with Conley and Head Coach Bob Knox. Esham had 11 tackles and two sacks against Queen Anne’s.
SNOW HILL – County government will lose a long-time employee as Worcester County Board of License Commissioners investigator Jeff Mayne retires this month.After more than four decades of working to make sure local businesses adhere to alcoholic beverage laws, Mayne, who turns 65 in December, will spend his last day as a county employee Oct…. Read more »
The major surge in corporate hotels coming to Ocean City as well as Route 50 in West Ocean City should not be viewed as a negative. It should be embraced as a natural evolution of the industry in a prospering area.For many traditionalists, this gradual change from the old “mom and pop” or “bedspread” motels… Read more »
The guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City on Oct. 14 in the Ocean Pines Community Center was Ocean Pines General Manager Bob Thompson, who talked about what is happening in the Pines and then fielded questions from the membership. He is pictured with President Mark Joseph after the… Read more »
BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s varsity football team dropped another one to a tough Bayside North opponent last week, falling to visiting Queen Anne’s, 34-6, on Thursday.The game started well enough for the Seahawks, who went 63 yards on 14 plays on their first possession to take an early 6-0 lead. The drive consumed much of the… Read more »
SNOW HILL – County officials continue to have questions about plans for the construction of a new Showell Elementary School.When presented with the school system’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) this week, the Worcester County Commissioners agreed to ask education officials to return to them to explain the school’s proposed enrollment and inflation costs associated with… Read more »