BERLIN – If you last visited the beach sometime before Sunfest weekend last year and plan on returning for Memorial Day this year, it would be no surprise to see the same lifeguard stands on the beach, each manned by a surf rescue technician (lifeguard) wearing the familiar red uniform of the Ocean City Beach… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Surveillance conducted by members of the Ocean City Police Department’s Narcotics Unit led to the arrest of a suspected drug dealer Friday night as well as the confiscation of a large amount of crack and powder cocaine that has an estimated street value of $3,500.According to police records, members of the OCPD… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Although a bill looking to mandate the use of carbon monoxide detectors in certain single-family and multi-family homes across the state died last week after it moved to the Senate and received an unfavorable report by the Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, a similar piece of legislation for the town of… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A local man arrested in November for holding up a resort cab driver at knife point in the parking lot of a West Ocean City bar pleaded guilty this week to armed robbery and now faces up to 20 years in jail pending the outcome of the pre-sentence investigation.Franklin Paul Adams, 48,… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The Board of Education has asked for a $7 million increase in the Worcester County schools budget for fiscal year 2008.The $87,306,346 requested budget is 9.6 percent higher than the approved FY 2007 budget.The increase comes mainly from salary and operational costs, said Worcester County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jon Andes. School… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – After weeks of trials and tribulations, the Mayor and City Council was finally able to put something concrete into the books that would prevent any type of adult oriented retail stores from obtaining a business license for a period of six months or until the Planning and Zoning Commission is able to… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The conversion of the Perdue wastewater plant in Showell for residential use got a positive recommendation from the Worcester County Planning Commission last week, with modifications which could be the basis for a new model of wastewater management.ADC Builders plans to use 1,000 EDUs of 4,000 projected units of sewer, to be… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – One of Ocean City’s finest recently found out he had become a nominee in a contest organized by one of the United States’ most well-known television programs.It was a couple weeks ago when 14-year Ocean City Police Department Lieutenant Mark Pacini, a supervisor in the Criminal Investigation Division and 1998 Officer of… Read more »

SNOW HILL – Ocean City asked for the least county funds of any of the municipalities when town representatives went before the County Commissioners this week with their budget requests.Ocean City made specific requests totaling $989,000.“If you look at our requests, they pretty much parallel last year’s,” Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan told the commissioners…. Read more »