Every Friday: FORGE Youth And Family Meetings 6:30-8:30 p.m. House of Mercy Sanctuary, behind House of Mercy Thrift Shop, Route 113, Selbyville. Small meal, music, games and life lessons. All are welcome. 443-513-1048.Every 1st Friday: Star Charities Volunteers Meet 10 a.m., Ocean Pines Library. 410-641-7667.Every 2nd Friday: Food Pantry New Bethel United Methodist Church, 10203… Read more »
Worcester Preparatory School eighth graders bonded with nature and each other on a three-day, rustic adventure at Echo Hill Outdoor School (EHOS), Oct. 9-11. Echo Hill, located on the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland, has served as a platform for educating children about nature and the environment for more than 100 years. WPS students have been… Read more »
This week’s Bank of Ocean City MVP for Stephen Decatur’s varsity football team was quarterback Hayden Frazier, who led a second half rally that fell short by scoring two touchdowns in the third quarter and rushing for over 100 yards in Decatur’s loss to Parkside. Pictured with Frazier are Coach Bob Knox and Bank of… Read more »
OCEAN CITY- With another successful summer season in the books, the Ocean City Marlin Club last weekend handed out its seasonal awards to the winners in several categories.The award for the first white marlin of the season caught by an OCMC member went to angler Ian Schwing on the Fish Whistle. Schwing also won the… Read more »
OCEAN PINES – Ocean Pines Association officials kicked off budget discussions with acknowledgment of the deficit expected at the end of the current fiscal year.While they declined to speculate as to how much of a deficit the homeowners association was facing, board members asked the Ocean Pines Budget and Finance Advisory Committee to take it… Read more »
Summer of 1961Volume VIIEdition 6Issue HighlightsNew this year at Frontier Town was the Longhorn Saloon & Beef House.The Diplomat Motor Hotel on 26th Street billed itself as “Ocean City’s Smartest Holiday Address.” You could reach them at “Atlantic 9-7148.In an editorial, Dick Lohmeyer wrote, “Cullens Jenkins is dead. And with his passing Ocean City loses… Read more »
BERLIN – Municipal officials welcomed a pair of international environmental professionals at this week’s meeting of the Berlin Town Council.In addition to hosting a reception in their honor last week, officials recognized Pradnya Rahmani and Xyla Gualberto at Monday’s council meeting. Rahmani, who is from Indonesia, and Gualberto, who is from the Philippines, will spend… Read more »
NEWARK – Students at Worcester Technical High School gained an appreciation of the work going on right outside their doors this week as they met with members of the team widening Route 113.A variety of Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) officials working on the Route 113 widening project spoke to pre-engineering students at Worcester Tech… Read more »
Janice Ward, Lower Shore Coordinator for the Maryland Bluebird Society, recently gave an informative presentation on bluebirds to members of the General Levin Winder Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Pictured with Ward, left, is chapter Regent Patricia Ayers.
The Paddock was one of Ocean City’s most popular nightclubs for 60 years. Built by Gabby Mancini, Sr. on the corner of 18th Street and Philadelphia Avenue in 1953, it featured live entertainment. The Saturday afternoon jam sessions were legendary and drew crowds to what in that era was considered “way up the beach.”The original building… Read more »