No-jacket days in the winterWater slides my family can ride togetherHow my kids were excited for school on MondayJimmy’s Kitchen after soccer at Northside ParkFree shippingSock-less vacationsLong lines that move surprisingly fastNice police officersHigh-scoring college football gamesA pizza, salad and a football gameThe unmistakable smell of an old book
Category: Beach Living
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann
The Midnight Football League was a popular activity for Ocean City’s summer workers in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Young men from local establishments, such as Phillips Crab House, Frontier Town, the Ocean City Police Department and The Embers, played a rough and tumble brand of touch football for glory, beer and bragging… Read more »
Adventures Of Fatherhood
As it seems to be each year, the Christmas season is a fun and exhausting whirlwind.This is particularly so with both kids off school for two full weeks. That so-called “break” turns into a two-week Christmas mania of special events, family activities and lots of gifts.My boys don’t fully realize it at their young ages… Read more »
Princess Anne Elementary School Contributes Over $4,800 To United Way
Princess Anne Elementary School recently contributed over $4,800 to United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore as part of the Somerset County Board of Education Campaign. A significant amount of the contribution totaling over $3,100 came from creative student-led fundraisers such as United Way Wednesday Casual Days, a Community Scavenger Hunt, “Kiss the Pig” Penny… Read more »
The Resorter … Revisited
Summer of 1975 Volume XXI Edition VIIssue Highlights• This week’s Resorter Girl was 22-year-old Diane Simpson, an Ocean City resident who spent the summer of 1975 working as a cocktail waitress at the Sand Bar, where her husband, Ken, worked as a bartender.• At the new Sea Colony in Bethany Beach, two- and three-bedroom condominiums were… Read more »
SD High School National Honor Society Presents Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation With Check
Members of the Stephen Decatur High School National Honor Society recently presented Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation Coordinator Wayne Littleton with $1,500. The SDHS NHS has a decade long tradition of giving to Believe in Tomorrow and has donated more than $15,000 since 2005. Pictured, back, are Principal Tom Zimmer, Michaela Mitchell, Jake Lathroum, Conor… Read more »
Adventures Of Fatherhood
Life with a special needs child is challenging.It’s frustrating, demanding and exhausting at times, but it can also be equally unique and special in many instances.One thing Carson’s disabilities, which include lack of speech and major developmental delays, among other things, has done is force us to live day to day.With a special needs child,… Read more »
Worcester Prep Grades 6-12 Hold Christmas Choral Concert
Some of Worcester’s seniors having fun after the school’s Grades 6-12 Christmas Choral Concert on Dec. 11 were, front, Mark Wilson; second row, Amanda Gabriel, Mikalah Potvin, Jenny Rosales, Will Pedigo, Molly Soule´ and Tatjana Kondrashow; and, back, Jarad Godwin, Mattie Maull, Raphael DeJesus, Caroline Lewes, Gracie Riley, Fiona Reid, Carolyn Dorey, Emmi Shockley, Shelby… Read more »
Things I Like
A good night’s sleep on Christmas nightPulling off surprises for our kidsA beach with fine sandCooking in a big kitchenSeeing someone using a disposable camera these daysHow deer on Assateague are not shyKeeping tiny conch shellsWhen something too good to be true turns out to beRealizing my stepfather was right about most things I fought… Read more »
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann
For nearly 40 years, Dale’s Esso Center was the first thing people saw when entering Ocean City.The gas station at the foot of the Route 50 Bridge was one of just a handful of local businesses to stay open year-round in the 1940s and 1950s.William Dale started the business in 1941 but it was taken… Read more »