OCEAN CITY – Contention over the Rivendell project reached its pinnacle Tuesday night at the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting as several of the key players in the Rivendell debate gathered to hash out the dispute over the five-foot height differential and to hear the commission’s ruling on the requested height amendments. Several voices and… Read more »
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Free Prescription Discount Card Coming To Worcester
SNOW HILL – A free prescription drug discount card is coming to Worcester County, staff revealed this week at the County Commissioners meeting.“The county is in the process of having that plan ready for commissioner approval,” said Worcester County Chief Administrator Gerry Mason on Tuesday.The card, like the one recently introduced in Sussex County, will… Read more »
Business License Ordinance Nears Approval In OC
OCEAN CITY – The ordinance outlining amendments to hearings and appeals of business license fines, suspensions and revocations was discussed and passed on first reading at Monday evenings Mayor and Council meeting. The ordinance will amend Chapter 14 entitled businesses and aims to add more teeth to the ordinance governing the suspension and revocation of… Read more »
Woman Cleared Of Wrongdoing In Murder Probe
SNOW HILL – In a stunning turn of events this week, prosecutors dropped all charges against the Ocean City woman charged with first-degree murder in the death of her newborn child sometime in 2004 after the state Medical Examiner’s Office reported there was inconclusive evidence the fetus, or any of the other three fetuses found… Read more »
Live Bands And DJs
Assateague Island Oasis: 410-629-1492, Rt. 611; Friday, Sept. 21: Patrick McAllorum; Saturday, Sept. 22: Jon Pheasant; Thursday, Sept. 27: Phil Knight; All entertainment 6:30-9:30 p.m.Blue Ox & Babe’s Lounge: 410-250-6440, 127th St. & Coastal Hwy.; Friday, Sept. 21: Nancy Micciulla; Saturday, Sept. 22: Rick Kennedy.Buxy’s Salty Dog: 410-289-0973, 28th St. & Coastal Hwy.; Friday, Sept…. Read more »
West Ocean City – Berlin – Ocean Pines – DE – VA
WEST OCEAN CITY Sailor’s Watch Golf Course Road Daily 10-4 New 3BR, 3.5BA Luxury Townhouses Coldwell BankerVIRGINIA Captain’s Cove Daily 9 – 5 Resort Community With Amenities Coldwell Banker Eastern Shore 800-258-5843OCEAN PINES 6 High Sheriff Trail Sat 1-3 Cape Cod on Cul-de-Sac Cam Bunting Bunting Realty 410-641-3313BERLIN 102 Bay Street Sat 12-3 4BR Split… Read more »
Ocean City
OCEAN CITY Tern Port #28 Bayside 28th St. 2BR/2BA Townhome Sat 1-4 Time Meadowcroft Long & Foster 443-235-7266OCEAN CITY The Quay Saturday 10-2 2 & 3BR Condos Mary McCracken Long & Foster 410-430-7302OCEAN CITY Pelican Perch Weekends 11-3 4BR, 4.5BA, & Loft Coldwell Banker 410-723-1000OCEAN CITY Solara 64th Street Sat&Sun 10-3 3BR/2.5BA Oceanblock Della &… Read more »
Voices From The Readers
Here’s Hoping For Other Tax ReductionsEditor: It was thought that the appeal would take years, but in record time the State of Maryland granted a reduction in the assessed value of 15 of the Trimper family’s 24 properties, but those that did not see any change were the lots where the amusement rides sit at… Read more »
10-year Sentence In 1993 Sex Assault Ca
SNOW HILL – A Whaleyville man accused of sexually abusing his granddaughter 14 years ago pleaded guilty last week in Worcester County Circuit Court to second-degree assault and was sentenced to 10 years in jail.James Henry Tyre, 69, of Whaleyville, was in Worcester County Circuit Court last week facing several charges including child abuse, third-… Read more »
We Remember Those Who Have Passed
Frances Lorraine Sprankle KennedyBERLIN – Frances Lorraine Sprankle Kennedy, 79, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury from complications from heart surgery.She was the wife of John H. “Jack” Kennedy for 48 years. He preceded her in death in July 1999.Born Feb. 16, 1929, she was the daughter of the… Read more »