OCEAN CITY — With an eye on tightening security and limiting entry points on the Boardwalk, the Ocean City Mayor and Council approved funding for the preliminary design work on a vehicle access control project for the famed promenade.After a handful of events in the U.S. and around the world when terrorists killed and injured… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Despite the most recent bids coming in much lower than expected, an expansion of the resort’s canal dredging operation could be stalled by the lack of an appropriate material placement site.In December, bids for the next phase of Ocean City’s ongoing canal dredging initiative were opened, revealing the low bid came in… Read more »
OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City Surf Club has hosting its next major membership drive event on Saturday, January 27 at the Greene Turtle in West Ocean City.As its name implies, the Ocean City Surf Club, reformed in 2014 after 50 years, is all about promoting the sport in the resort and beyond with contests, clinics… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Legislation creating special enforcement zones to help stem some of the issues associated with the mobilized special events in Ocean City will be introduced in this General Assembly session.After several troubling motorized special events in Ocean City, resort officials began exploring ways to curb some of the illicit activity associated with the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Despite the most recent bids coming in much lower than expected, an expansion of the resort’s canal dredging operation could be stalled by the lack of an appropriate material placement site.In December, bids for the next phase of Ocean City’s ongoing canal dredging initiative were opened, revealing the low bid came in… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The battle against opening the ocean to drilling for oil began anew this week after the Trump administration announced a plan to consider vast areas of coastline for the controversial practice.President Trump last week signed an executive order reopening vast areas of the nation’s coastline, including the mid-Atlantic region to offshore oil… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Following last week’s conviction of a Maryland man of homicide while driving impaired, the victim’s family released a statement expressing relief for the guilty verdict while admitting, “justice can never and will never be served.”In June, the grand jury indicted Stanley Faison, 51, of Waldorf, on multiple felony counts including homicide by… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — An uptown hotel was evacuated on a chilly Tuesday morning after three cars in the parking lot caught fire.Around 9:13 a.m. on Tuesday, the Ocean City Fire Department was dispatched to the front parking lot of the Carousel Hotel at 117th Street for a reported vehicle fire. Ocean City Police Department officers… Read more »
SNOW HILL — A Honduran man, who was convicted of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of a popular local woman in April 2008 and sentenced to life in prison, was denied a chance at a second trial last week, but will have the opportunity to seek a sentence modification.In April 2008, Roberto Murillo, now… Read more »
BERLIN — The new and and rebranded Ocean Downs Casino opened its long-awaited table games expansion last weekend to rave reviews, starting a new chapter for the gaming facility near Berlin.For the last several months, casino officials had been scrambling to complete the new 35,000-square-foot expansion to accommodate real table games at the Casino at… Read more »