Jay Bosley, co-owner of de Lazy Lizard, presented students at Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School with a check for $1,000 for the school’s Home School Association. The donation is from proceeds from a lunch sponsored by the popular downtown Ocean City restaurant on the last day of school. Submitted Photos
SALISBURY – An audit of the county’s purchase and travel card program revealed issues with inactive cards, sales tax and more, according to a report presented this week.On Tuesday, representatives with the Wicomico County Internal Auditor’s Office presented findings of a year-long examination into the county’s purchase and travel card program to the Wicomico County… Read more »
BERLIN- Worcester Prep’s varsity golf team swept its first tri-meet of the season this week, beating Nandua and Chincoteague in a battle with the two Virginia schools.The Mallards shot 385 as a team, beating Nandua, which shot a team score of 412, and Chincoteague, which finished with a 446 team score. Colin Miller led Worcester… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — With the summer-long effort to retrieve and collect potentially harmful balloons from the ocean heading into its final stretch, the Town of Ocean City started talking about how to honor the young siblings that created the successful project.Back in June, local brother and sister Josh Blume, 12, and Emily Blumer, 10, launched… Read more »
The recent Downtown Association Boardwalk Narwhal hunt delighted several hundred children. They had to find the narwhal at each participating merchant, get their card stamped and return it to the Information Booth for a prize. Above, in the Life-Saving Station Museum boat room, Board member Lauren Taylor instructs Philadelphia area youngsters Anna Sareyka, Morgan Mullen… Read more »
SALISBURY – Officials in Wicomico County are looking to lease office space for the health department while its facility undergoes an investigative project.On Tuesday, county staff came before the Wicomico County Council in an open work session to present a potential lease agreement between the Wicomico County Health Department and E.S. Adkins LLC.The county plans… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Huk Big Fish Classic tournament founders presented Ocean City-based charity, Raymond A. Wood Foundation (RAWF), with a donation of $4,500 this week.Founded in honor of Alex Wood, a 7 year-old Ocean City Elementary second grader, RAWF provides quality-of-life support to pediatric brain tumor survivors and their caregivers.Studies show that brain tumors have… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A Delaware man was arrested on first-degree assault and weapons charges last weekend after allegedly threatening his fiancé with a handgun during a domestic incident.Around 3:15 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers were dispatched to a hotel lobby at 25th Street for a reported domestic assault that had already… Read more »
ARIES (March 21 to April 19): With your Arian charm quotient at an almost all-time high this week, plus all the facts to back you up, you just might win over the last doubters to your proposal.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): You might be in line for that job change you applied for. But… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A former hotel assistant manager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to embezzlement and other charges after paying herself and family members through various schemes over a three-year period.On Wednesday, Gilenia Garcia, 36, of Frankford, Del., plead guilty to embezzlement and theft scheme from $10,000 to under $100,000 in Worcester County Circuit Court. Garcia… Read more »