OCEAN CITY — An Ocean City charter boat recovered one of seven lifeguard stands reported missing from Rehoboth Beach last week about five miles off the resort coast on Sunday.Last Thursday, beach sweepers in Rehoboth reported seven of the beach patrol’s lifeguard chairs, or more than a third of the Delaware resort town’s stands, were… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — An Ocean City local humbly donned the mantle of hero last week when he rescued a family of three caught in a rip current on a beach in Nantucket.Ocean City local Tommy Vach was on vacation in Nantucket last week when the lifetime surfer was quickly called into duty. The Johns family,… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The New York trial of West Ocean City resident Basel Ramadan, alleged ringleader of a vast multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring who was later charged with attempted “murder for hire” from behind bars, has dragged into its fourth week and will now pause while the judge vacations.In May 2013, federal officials concluded… Read more »
WALLOPS — NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility, south of Ocean City and Assateague Island, successfully launched a five-story-high suborbital rocket Tuesday morning.Around 6:15 a.m. on Tuesday, the Wallops Island Flight Facility along the Virginia shore launched a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket, carrying two space technology demonstration projects. The suborbital rocket carried its… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The unexpected back-ups reported on Route 90 throughout the morning on Wednesday were caused by the final phase of a paving project along the highway this spring.The State Highway Administration (SHA) this spring hired a private contractor to repave a long section of Route 90 heading into Ocean City. The contractor returned… Read more »
ASSATEAGUE — The invasion of thumbnail-sized, clear little jellies that raided the beaches at Assateague and in Ocean City to some degree last weekend continued this week, but the creatures are harmless and pose no danger to swimmers in the resort area.Last week, thousands of tiny blobs of clear gelatinous creatures appeared in the ocean… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Five years ago this week, a Baltimore woman was severely injured when she was impaled by a flying beach umbrella on the beach in Ocean City, providing the backdrop of a reminder about the importance of properly installing the shade providers.On June 30, 2010, Lynn Stevens was enjoying a windy but hot… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A sandy spit in the Isle of Wight Bay became an unlikely site of spontaneous patriotism on Sunday afternoon when a determined Selbyville man, with the help of new friends, raised an American flag on the recently restored island.On Sunday afternoon, Captain Glen Smith of Selbyville waded from his boat onto the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The Maryland Coastal Bays Program this week is asking the boating public to reduce or eliminate wakes around a small, sandy island near the Route 50 Bridge that is the only location for nesting endangered Black Skimmers in the entire state of Maryland.The small, unnamed island, referred to by many unofficially as… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Three successfully rehabilitated Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles were re-released from the beach in Ocean City early last Friday morning, but National Aquarium staffers are now dealing with a different threat to the endangered species.Last Friday morning, National Aquarium staffers released three endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles from the beach near the Inlet… Read more »