BERLIN — A federal Department of Justice employee indicted last fall on charges of traveling interstate to have sex with a minor pleaded guilty last week and now faces 30 years in jail.According to the federal indictment handed down last October in U.S. District Court, last August 15, a suspect later identified as James Cicala,… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Satisfied the bill covers all of the major thoroughfares in the resort, Ocean City officials this week passed an ordinance extending a sunset provision for non-conforming business signs for another six years while addressing the issue of certain signs that block sight lines for motorists.In May, dozens of non-conforming signs along Baltimore… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — It was boom, boom, fizzle and finally boom again on Fourth of July weekend in the resort, starting with a couple of sunny days, followed by a period of dreary gray weather in the middle and reaching a crescendo with an epic fireworks display as planned on Monday night.The Fourth of July… Read more »
BERLIN — An aggressive groundhog who scratched at a Berlin doctor’s office window last week before focusing its attention on police officers had to be put down and has since tested positive for rabies.Last Monday, Berlin Police responded to a doctor’s office on Old Ocean City Boulevard for a reported groundhog attempting to scratch at… Read more »
OCEAN CITY- The Eastern Surfing Association’s Delmarva District held its second amateur surfing contest of the ESA 2016 Summer Series last week at 30th Street in near perfect conditions.Dozens of surfers competed in the Chauncey’s Surfabout last weekend at the 30th Street with the surf conditions knee- to waist-high on a choppy northeast swell. In… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — If it’s true beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and aesthetics are subjective, it appears the resort’s planning commission and the developers of a major chain hotel along one of the main entrances to Ocean City couldn’t be further apart on the issue of a final design.In 2014, the Planning… Read more »
OCEAN CITY- The Ocean Games and corresponding East Coast SUP Cup return to the resort next weekend with hundreds of participants expected to compete in various long-distance swimming events all for a good cause.The fourth annual event set for next Saturday features a nine-mile open ocean swim, a three-mile ocean swim and a one-mile ocean… Read more »
SELBYVILLE — A holiday weekend concert featuring a nationally-known country band at The Freeman Stage at Bayside was cancelled abruptly after two suspects, one of whom is now in custody, made a terroristic threat at the popular venue in Selbyville.Around 2:55 p.m. last Sunday, two male suspects entered the Welcome Center at Americana Bayside in… Read more »
OCEAN CITY- The 29th Annual Ocean City Tuna Tournament is underway with dozens of boats and hundreds of anglers descending on the resort area for a three-day search for the burly behemoths in the canyons off the coast.The tuna bite has been red hot over the last few weeks with Ocean City’s sportfishing fleet returning… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — After a particularly tragic May in the resort, including two fatalities within the span of three days, what appeared on the surface to be a summer season desperately in need of a mulligan is now cruising comfortably down the middle of the fairway.The start of the summer season in May was epically… Read more »