Senator Jim Mathias visited Laura Black’s kindergarten classroom at Ocean City Elementary School for American Education Week. He is pictured with Principal Dawn Rogers and students Lillian Roe and Gabriel Rodriguez.
For a non-verbal child, making a verbal presentation obviously has its challenges.However, Carson, our 6-year-old kindergartener, pulled it off last week at school during American Education Week with the help of a tablet device that served as his voice and some newfound confidence.One year ago, a similar presentation was to be made just down the… Read more »
Everett Fisher and Edmund Pusey opened a popcorn stand on the Boardwalk at Talbot Street in the summer of 1937. Known as Pixton’s Popcorn (Pixton was the maiden name of Mr. Pusey’s wife) they used a secret recipe developed by Mr. Fisher and sold hot buttered popcorn for 5 cents a bag.When Pusey left the… Read more »
Third graders Koen Watts and Charlie Pearce investigate glue in the Food, Fiber, and You mobile science lab at Showell Elementary.
Stephen Decatur High School newspaper students attended the 76th Annual Columbia Scholastic Press Association Fall Conference held at Columbia University in New York City in early November. The conference participants learned techniques and strategies in news reporting, broadcast journalism and publishing. Pictured, back from left, are Tifanee Mask, teacher Ellen Masters, newspaper adviser Brittany Tracy,… Read more »
Scientists in Abby Harrison’s third grade class at Ocean City Elementary conducted an “egg- speriment” to determine what makes something float. Above, Ryan Taylor and Aarnav Tiwari learn objects float more readily in salt water because it has greater density than fresh water.
American Legion Post #166 Commander Sarge Garlitz, back right, and other American Legion members joined Stephen Decatur High School club representatives during the third annual presentation of Packages for our Troops. Students and faculty collected various toiletries and other amenities. Submitted Photos
Summer of 1968Volume XIVEdition 7Issue HighlightsThose interested in the “historic churches” or “antique shoppes” could write to the Delmarva Antique Dealers Association for a free map to all forty of their shops.Surf and Sands Motel at 22nd street on the boardwalk advertised “background music in all rooms”The Twenty-Twenty Boardwalk becomes the first boardwalk high rise… Read more »
Summer of 1971Volume XVIIEdition 1This was the first year in 18 that The Resorter published 15 issues rather than the usual seven.Singer Jimmy Holmes was set to perform at the Ships Café Lounge for the beginning of the season celebration.Dick Lohmeyer featured Councilman John Dale Showell and his wife, Anne, out to dinner “following the… Read more »
Ocean City’s first hotel was built by the Atlantic Hotel Company on the beach between Wicomico and Somerset streets. There was no bridge from the mainland at that time so all construction materials were floated across the Sinepuxent Bay on flat bottom scows and small boats. The grand opening of the Atlantic Hotel on July… Read more »