OCEAN CITY- While all who participated in and attended the 35th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Ocean City on Saturday were winners, the Delmarva Irish-American Club recognized several entries with special awards.Despite gray skies and cooler temperatures, well over 100,000 revelers young and old crammed into Ocean City on Saturday for the 35th Annual… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Adventures Of Fatherhood
(Editor’s Note: The writer is on vacation this week and therefore this is a reproduction of the column that ran six years ago this week.)It’s all going by too fast for me.When I first became a dad, the most common piece of advice I received was something along the lines of, “Enjoy it while it… Read more »
Seasonal Housing Shortage In Resort Soon Critical
OCEAN CITY- While a number of factors play into the fact that the resort faces a potential housing shortage for many of its foreign students this summer, the longtime concern with overcrowding in rental units has surfaced once again.Increased regulations from the U.S. Department of State concerning the J-1 Visa Program has slightly decreased the… Read more »
St. Pat’s Boardwalk 5K A Huge Success
OCEAN CITY- With huge crowds cramming into the resort for the parade last weekend, the annual St. Patrick’s Boardwalk 5K was once again a huge success with over 1,000 runners braving cool temps and gray skies for the annual event.The St. Patrick’s Boardwalk 5K was held last Saturday morning as planned despite drizzly rain. The… Read more »
Pocomoke Boys Cruise To State Championship
BERLIN- Pocomoke’s boys’ varsity basketball team completed its return to the state championship game in style last weekend, beating Baltimore’s Lake Clifton, 64-56, for its first title since 2002.The Warriors cruised through the regional playoffs and captured the 1A-East region championship to advance to the state’s Final Four and a trip to the University of… Read more »
Relocation Plan for West Salisbury Students Approved
SALISBURY- The Wicomico County Board of Education and Wicomico County Public Schools took an important step forward on the replacement West Salisbury Elementary School project this week, approving a plan to temporarily relocate its students to two other elementary schools to make way for the start of construction in the 2016-2017 school year.Starting in August… Read more »
Legendary OCPD Captain Laid To Rest Amid Stories Of Courage
OCEAN CITY- The resort community on Tuesday laid to rest an iconic law enforcement officer with a huge stature and a bigger heart, who patrolled the streets of Ocean City for decades with courage and aplomb including one particular incident during which he likely saved several lives including his fellow officers.Retired Ocean City Police Department… Read more »
Second-graders Hear Four-graders Opinion Essays They Wrote For Writer’s Workshop
Students in Mrs. Julie Justice’s fourth-grade classroom hosted second-graders from Mrs. Cindy Leitgeb’s class for a writing celebration. The second-graders came to hear the fourth-graders read the opinion essays that wrote during the writer’s workshop. Pictured above are Jasmine Gooch and Madelyn Kinavey.
Worcester Prep Juniors Receive School Rings
Worcester Prep juniors last month got their school rings in a special ceremony at the Guerreri Library. As part of the tradition, WPS seniors present the school rings to the juniors along with a few insightful and inspirational words of wisdom. Pictured above, from left: Karlie Southcomb, Reid Carey, Lily Zeichel, junior class faculty sponsor… Read more »
County Liquor Department Chief Resigning
SNOW HILL- Bobby Cowger showed the Worcester County Commissioners that he had his own exit strategy from the liquor business- resignation.In the latest twist of the ongoing saga to dissolve the county-run Department of Liquor Control, Cowger, who has run the DLC since 2011, handed in his letter of resignation to the county and will… Read more »