OCEAN CITY — The long-simmering issue of the legality of women going topless in the same areas where men are allowed bubbled to the surface this week with the filing of a federal suit challenging Ocean City’s ordinance prohibiting the practice last summer.Last June, the Ocean City Mayor and Council passed an emergency ordinance prohibiting… Read more »
SNOW HILL — A Baltimore man, arrested in June after pulling a switchblade on an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer who nearly had to shoot him, was found guilty Tuesday on assault and weapons charges and now faces as many as 10 years in jail.It took a Worcester County Circuit Court jury a little… Read more »
SNOW HILL – A proposal to increase salaries for county jobs with a high rate of turnover failed this week after a split vote by the Worcester County Commissioners.The commissioners voted 3-3 on a motion to approve a salary reclassification plan proposed by Human Resources Director Stacey Norton. Norton and several of the commissioners argued… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – A Bicycle Friendly Community program could help to make Ocean City’s streets safer and more accessible for bicyclists.In a Coastal Resources Legislative Committee, or Green Team, meeting on Jan. 10, Paul Mauser, engineering manager for the town of Ocean City, presented committee members with a national designation program that provides guidance for… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Town officials approved a second 120-day moratorium on the establishment of tattoo shops in Berlin.The Berlin Town Council approved last week a 120-day moratorium to give the newly established tattoo ordinance development committee time to create regulations for Berlin.“We’re looking for fantastic things out of this committee,” Councilman Dean Burrell said.In September,… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City could get the alternative post-Labor Day special event it is looking for next fall when it piggybacks on the major National Folk Festival in Salisbury.During last week’s Tourism Committee meeting, members got an overview of the National Folk Festival coming to Salisbury this September. For decades, the National Folk Festival… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Efforts to manage short-term online rentals in Ocean City could get a boost from some outside help to track down scofflaws.For at least the last two years, Ocean City officials have been monitoring the proliferation of short-term vacation rentals in the resort brokered by online platforms Airbnb and VRBO, for example. The… Read more »
For the second time in less than three years, Worcester County has lost its economic development director.Back in September 2015, Bill Badger resigned after four years on the job, saying county government was not supportive and he “realized that wasn’t going to change.” He said the commissioners did back his office and his efforts but… Read more »
It’s often said when people die after a cancer diagnosis that they lost their fight or battle.I remember many years ago writing something to that effect while memorializing on these pages an influential local resident who had just passed. I received a nice card from a family member who explained why that’s the wrong word… Read more »
OC’s Message On Recycling DisturbingEditor:I am once again writing about Ocean City’s lack of a curbside recycling program. I was told several years ago by members of the OC Council that Ocean City pays to have its trash transported to Pennsylvania to be incinerated. I was told that it is cheaper to send all Ocean… Read more »