OCEAN CITY — While the Town of Ocean City’s new ordinance regulating Boardwalk street performers has eased the friction between buskers and the business community to some degree, underlying tensions still simmer and were on display during a review of last summer on Monday.On Monday, the Boardwalk Task Force held a public hearing to receive… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City officials this week approved increases in the parking fee structure for planes at the municipal airport in an attempt to make the chronic “loss leader” closer to profitable.During budget deliberations last April, the Mayor and Council expressed interest in changes to the various fees charged at the Ocean City Municipal… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Most Ocean City municipal employees will be getting a modest pay hike starting next year, many for the first time since 2008.The Mayor and Council on Tuesday approved the implementation of a modification in the town’s pay structure for municipal employees, many of whom will see a 2-percent increase on their paychecks… Read more »
SALISBURY — Regardless of the outcome, Salisbury’s city government will look dramatically different after Tuesday’s municipal election, the first under the city’s new five-member district system.Salisbury will hold its municipal elections Tuesday, Nov. 3 and there will almost certainly be a significant change in the dynamics for the Mayor and City Council. For example, current… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Basel Ramadan, ringleader of a vast, multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring indicted along with 15 others after raids on their resort area properties in May 2013, was sentenced on Wednesday to a broad range of four to 12 years and will be forced to forfeit $1.2 million in ill-gotten gains, according to… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — It remains to be seen if a collection of Ocean City Boardwalk street performers will be successful in challenging the city’s ordinance regulating buskers in federal court, but the challenge won’t be piggybacked on another federal case closed in August.On Tuesday, a group of six Boardwalk street performers filed a motion in… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — While the Town of Ocean City’s new ordinance regulating Boardwalk street performers has eased the friction between buskers and the business community to some degree, underlying tensions still simmer and were on display during a review of last summer on Monday.On Monday, the Boardwalk Task Force held a public hearing to receive… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City got an unexpected ally in its opposition to a federal proposal to open a vast section of ocean off the mid-Atlantic coast for seismic testing and offshore drilling this week when the city of Baltimore passed its own formal measure opposing the measure.The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Just a week after the dilapidated “New Hope,” a fixture on the West Ocean City commercial harbor landscape for years, was dismantled, much of its steel and salvageable material found its new home on the ocean floor at the Bob Gower Artificial Reef site this week.Last week, Captain Jeremiah Kogon and the… Read more »
SALISBURY — The Lower Shore community lost a valued leader last weekend when Rob Schultheis was struck and killed by a pick-up truck while running.Schultheis, 37, was well known in the resort area and across the shore for his tireless dedication to Salisbury University and as a district sales manager for Sysco Eastern Maryland, where… Read more »