WILLARDS – An artist-in-residence shared his love of music and steel drums to students at Willards Elementary School this week as part of an arts integration program.On Monday, steel drum builder and musician Kevin Martin introduced second grade students at Willards Elementary School to the art of steel drum music as part of a week-long… Read more »
Teacher Charged With Heroin DistributionSALISBURY — A Parkside High School teacher has been arrested and charged with distributing heroin on school property.Monica Snee, 51, a special education teacher at Parkside, was charged by the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday with possession of heroin, possession with intent to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin on… Read more »
BERLIN- Worcester Prep’s girls’ varsity basketball team has some big shoes to fill as it prepares for the 2017-2018 campaign with several senior starters from last year’s Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference (ESIAC) runner-up, but with a talented flock of underclassmen, the transition should be an easy one.Last year’s team opened the season with nine… Read more »
BERLIN – Town officials formally created a committee this week to develop tattoo shop regulations for Berlin.On Monday the Berlin Town Council approved the formation of a six-member tattoo ordinance development committee. The committee members, who were nominated by Mayor Gee Williams, will be tattoo artists Matthew Amey and Dana Helmuth, who both have art… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — If resort officials are serious about rebranding Ocean City’s image after the recent backlash over some of the motorized events, they got off to a good start this week with the approval of three cultural and youth sports-related special events.During a Mayor and Council work session on Tuesday, Greg Shockley of the… Read more »
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NEWARK – Parents of students in Worcester County’s public schools have just a few days left to share their input with school system officials.Parents have until Nov. 21 to complete the annual parent survey issued by Worcester County Public Schools (WCPS). The survey gauges parents’ satisfaction with local schools and gives them the chance to… Read more »
SNOW HILL — A Columbia, Md. man, arrested in June after stabbing another man in a downtown convenience store, pleaded guilty last week to second-degree assault and was sentenced to three years in jail, all but one of which was then suspended.Just after midnight on June 9, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers responded to… Read more »
The George Washington Hotel was one of the few old wooden hotels not lost to fire along the Boardwalk. A series of blazes in the 1960s and early 1970s had destroyed the Plimhimmon, Hamilton, Colonial, Rideau and Roosevelt hotels. The George Washington was demolished in January 1990 because it no longer met building codes and… Read more »
The Ocean City lodging industry is extremely dependent on the motorized vehicle events for revenue in the shoulder months. That fact is why the city will be hard pressed to ever do away with them entirely without a major revolt from the business community.The hope here is that Ocean City will by introducing new special… Read more »