OCEAN CITY – With the summer season rapidly approaching, despite the continued dreary weather, the town is still struggling to fill out its transportation department workforce.During Tuesday’s Ocean City Transportation Committee meeting, members got their typical briefing on bus driver and Boardwalk tram driver recruitment and retention efforts.It’s no secret Ocean City, like most jurisdictions… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The addition of some late changes to the agreement for the inaugural professional bull riding event in the resort in June did not prevent resort officials from signing off on it, although there will be more discussion about the late addition of a concert.The Mayor and Council had before them on Tuesday… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – On the heels of last month’s vote by the Worcester County Commissioners to approve a land buy for a future sports complex, an Ocean City councilman used his comment time this week to soapbox on the subject.Last week, the county commissioners voted 4-3 to proceed with buying a 95-acre parcel west of… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- After serving the youth of the community for five decades, the Ocean City-Berlin Optimist Club was presented a proclamation by town officials this week.At the outset of Monday’s meeting, Mayor Rick Meehan read into the record a proclamation in honor of the Ocean City-Berlin Optimist Club’s 50th anniversary. Club members held a special… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — The male half of the most notorious couple’s in resort history was denied parole last week nearly 20 years after a grisly double homicide.Benjamin Sifrit, now 44, and his wife Erika killed and dismembered a Virginia couple in a north-end condo in Ocean City on Memorial Day weekend in 2002. Benjamin Sifrit… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – With the summer season rapidly approaching, resort officials on Monday issued a proclamation proclaiming this week as National Hurricane Preparedness Week.During Monday’s meeting, Mayor Rick Meehan read into the record and presented a proclamation to Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald declaring this week ending Saturday as National Hurricane Preparedness Week. Meehan urged… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Resort planners this week continued informal discussions on a variety of proposed code amendments, from the amount of living space required in seasonal workforce housing to off-street parking requirements for new development projects.Over the last several months, the Ocean City Planning Commission has been discussing various proposed code amendments to address a… Read more »