Summer of 1972Volume XVIIIEdition 7Issue HighlightsRow boat rentals were available from Capt. William Bunting & Son on Talbot Street.Weekly rentals for $175 were being offered at Three Cheers condominium on Baltimore Ave. at 31st Street.Jolly Roger was offering a coupon for free gas at any BP dealer in the country. With each BP fill-up, the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Ocean City’s largest bar, restaurant and nightclub is getting even bigger with high hopes of growing its most recent business venture: distilling.Ground was broken Monday on 49th Street, just steps from the main entrance of Seacrets, on a new three-story, 12,000-square-foot distillery that will house the creation of Seacrets’ new line of… Read more »
Sixty-four Stephen Decatur High School students received the Presidential Service Award for community service, including 19 gold recipients for volunteering over 250 hours. SDHS students logged over 12,000 volunteer hours this past school year. Nineteen students received the Presidential Service Gold Award for volunteering over 250 hours. Pictured, back, are Katelyn Norman, Ian Waggoner, Hailey… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The 2016 Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast will be presented by the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, the Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce, the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, the Snow Hill Chamber of Commerce and the Pocomoke Chamber of Commerce.It was announced last year that after 25 years Bruce Spangler would be retiring… Read more »
BERLIN- Worcester Prep’s varsity golf team last week captured its ninth straight Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference (ESIAC) championship and collected a lot of post-season accolades along the way.The Mallards finished the conference championship match at GlenRiddle with a low team score of 167 to claim the title. Salisbury Christian finished second with a team… Read more »
BERLIN- Worcester Prep’s girls’ varsity soccer team completed its rare perfect season last week, beating old rival Saints Peter and Paul, 4-0, on Friday to claim the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference championship and finish with an unblemished 11-0 record.Last Wednesday, the Mallards dispensed with Salisbury Christian, 6-0, in the ESIAC semifinals to earn a… Read more »
BERLIN – An edible forest is the latest sustainable initiative coming to Berlin.Through a partnership with Assateague Coastal Trust, eighth-grade students from Stephen Decatur Middle School will spend the next several years designing and planting an edible forest garden in Stephen Decatur Park. The effort will not only provide students with a community service opportunity… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – For most of Frankie Knight’s life, she’s been going to local events and fundraisers with her Ocean City council member mother, Mary, and her father, Frank, a retired local dentist.She says she often quietly asked herself the same question over and over: “where are all the young people?”Knight, now 27, is trying… Read more »
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(Editor’s Note: The following is the second in a three-part series on the hotel boom being experienced in the resort area with the spotlight shined on West Ocean City this week. Next week we take a look at what all this new type of economic development means for the region.)WEST OCEAN CITY – Route 50… Read more »