BERLIN — Atlantic General Hospital has received a Certificate of Need (CON) from the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) to move forward with building an ambulatory surgery center on Route 589, near the south end of Ocean Pines.It’s the first time a certificate of need has been granted for a healthcare facility in Worcester County,… Read more »
Taylor Bank’s Margaret Mudron shared Junior Achievement’s “Our Region” lesson this month with Mrs. Scafone’s fourth grade class at Buckingham Elementary School.
Nine Worcester Prep seniors last week earned commemorative plaques for joining the 12-Letter Club after earning letters in three varsity sports in each of their four-year upper school careers. Pictured from left are Cameron Hill, Colin Miller, Cooper Richins, Cole Berry, Gracie Gardner Delaney Abercrombie, Hannah Merritt and Hailey Merritt. Not pictured is Alannah Curtis.Submitted… Read more »
BERLIN – The owners of a shaved ice truck are doing their part to give back to the community.Owners A-Jay and Marina Minieri are new franchisees of a Kona Ice truck. Together, they serve towns along coastal Sussex County, as well as Ocean City, West Ocean City, Berlin, Snow Hill and surrounding areas.But for them,… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — In a rare double-header, two rehabilitated grey seals rescued earlier this winter and spring were successfully released from the beach in Ocean City on Thursday morning.National Aquarium Animal Rescue and Health officials on Thursday morning released George Washington Carver and Edwin Hubble from the beach at 40th Street with a big crowd… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Worcester County officials are moving forward with a budget that includes a one-cent property tax increase as well as a slight income tax rate increase.Though county staff initially proposed increasing the existing $.835 property tax rate by two cents, the Worcester County Commissioners during the past two weeks have cut proposed spending… Read more »
BERLIN – Last year, 21 Stephen Decatur Middle School students were referred to Peninsula Regional Medical Center for mental health evaluation through emergency petition.Just what does that mean? They were talking about suicide.“Last year we really started to notice mental health issues in our children,” Principal Lynne Barton said. “Obviously middle school students have their… Read more »
BERLIN — One Berlin teen has died and another is being held on first-degree murder charges after an apparent fight behind an apartment complex off Route 113 on Wednesday evening.Maryland State Police (MSP) Homicide Unit investigators have a suspect in custody while actively investigating the murder of a teenage boy in Berlin on Wednesday. The… Read more »
It was absolutely picture perfect beautiful today!! The wind was blowing a little, but by late morning it had laid out and it was sunny and warm and reely, reely nice. Too good in fact to deliver magazines so I postponed that until tomorrow and got on the water with my bride like lots of… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Resort officials this week approved the fiscal year 2020 budget after rationalizing the constant property tax rate, which for some will represent a modest increase.When the fiscal year 2020 budget was presented in April, the property tax rate was set at the constant yield rate of .4585, which was actually lower than… Read more »