Boxing was once one of America’s most popular sports and Ocean City offered both amateur and professional fights in the late 1920s and 1930s. Captain W.B.S Powell — prominent businessman and former Ocean City mayor — was the local boxing promoter. Bouts were held in an outdoor arena between South Division Street and S. 1st… Read more »
Members of the local Kiwanis recently helped Showell Elementary with its science fair by judging the projects. Doris Lloyd and Irene Daly are pictured as they judge the first-grade projects.
Second-graders at Showell Elementary School are using iPads to create Keynote multimedia presentations. Pictured are students from Debbie Schrawder’s class: Keenan Sandifet, Tyler Walsh, Seamus Orth, Summer Derry and Mazie Cropper-Timmons.
Hot chocolate after playing outside in the snow with my kidsThe first couple days of a vacationHow quickly OC cleans up after a stormA hot tub in the snowSunny FridaysThat my kids love the beach any time of yearShort, productive phone callsAfter the sidewalks have been shoveledA short power outage4-wheel-drive in the snowMy wife’s love… Read more »
The Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines -Ocean City recently donated $4,000 for the purchase of 15 iPads for students at the Cedar Chapel Special School as part of Gov. Larry Hogan’s “Day to Serve” initiative. Pictured above, Cedar Chapel students Gabby and Josh show off their new iPads courtesy of the Kiwanis.
Playing in the snow with my kidsDinner with my son at Mione’s in between his many activitiesThe sand at Siesta Key beach in FloridaWhen my kids are excited to see meAn uplifting message at churchTaking off the occasional FridayOld childhood photosThat one week my desk is cleanObserving a skilled lawyer in courtHumble teensBreakfast at the… Read more »
No, that’s not a scene from an early Cruisin weekend — it’s the original “State Roads Bridge,” a narrow two-lane span built to handle Ocean City’s automotive traffic in 1916.The bridge entered town at Worcester Street and was just a block north of the railroad’s trestle bridge that spanned the Sinepuxent Bay from the mainland… Read more »
Carson lost his second tooth amid last Friday’s bomb threat situation at his school.That’s a sentence I never thought I would ever write.It happened as we were walking to our car from a field. When it fell out, he let me know, and it just so happened to be in the grass where the students… Read more »
Summer of 1965Volume XIEdition 2Issue Highlights• In his City Hall Report, Councilman C.H. Shuey wrote, “Since you were here last summer, Ocean City has come of age – no longer is it a narrow strip of sand confined between the Inlet and 41st Street, with but little room to grow. Annexation of former North Ocean City,… Read more »
The headline read, “Why it’s good to have a strong-willed child, and why you should let up on them.”I admit a guilty pleasure of mine is reading parenting articles. I read a few of the self-help variety before becoming a father, but it was after Beckett, 7, was born when I started reading them routinely…. Read more »