Fifty-five contestants took part in this year’s OC-Berlin Optimist Oratorical Contest, representing the eighth grade at Stephen Decatur Middle School, the seventh grade at Snow Hill Middle, the ninthth grade at Stephen Decatur High School and the elementary and middle schools at Worcester Prep. The female winners were Claire Dorey, first place and a cash… Read more »

Students from Worcester County recently inducted into the Alpha Nu Omicron chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Wor-Wic Community College are, front from left, Michelle Davenport, Julie Seager and Adam Walker of Berlin; back, from left, Morgan Iacona of Bishopville, Victoria Overholt and Tiffany Sterling of Pocomoke City and Elizabeth Moyer of Snow Hill. Not… Read more »

Skate Park Fund Raising Committee Treasurer Barbara Kissel is pictured accepting a $250 donation from the Ocean Pines Golf Community and the Board of Golf Governor’s representative Ralph Menton to help fund the skate park project.

The Ocean City-Berlin Leo Club has spread some spring “sunshine” to the Berlin Nursing Home with its first Daffodil Delivery. The club, based out of Stephen Decatur High School, is a youth-based group sponsored by the Ocean City Lions Club. Pictured, from left, are Cate DeCicco, Alex Clagett, Leo President Lindsey Bankert and Peter Andes.

Rick Baldwin, manager of the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at Wallops Island, Va. is pictured with Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City President Corky Widerman after he spoke to the club at their weekly meeting at the Ocean Pines Country Club. 

Stephen Decatur High School teacher Mary Candeloro receives a letter of appreciation and a Fager’s Island gift card from Ocean City-Berlin Optimist Youth Foundation Lottery Coordinator George Balunis. Candelero, a former youth foundation scholarship winner and a 2002 graduate of Deactur, assisted the foundation in picking the winning $100,000 ticket for the Optimist Youth Foundation… Read more »

The Lower Shore Child Care Resource Center at Salisbury University has been awarded a $5,842 Community Needs Program grant from the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) to help support the center’s Mobile Science Museum. Pictured accepting the grant are Dr. Ed Robeck, Salisbury University faculty member, left, and Karen Goldman-Karten, Center Director, center,… Read more »

The Lions Clubs of Multiple District 22 provide free vision screening for all public school pre-kindergarteners and newly enrolled kindergarteners. Among the 60 Snow Hill Elementary School students screened were, from left, Austin Hicks, Emme Goddard and Tymere Shockley. Representing the Lions Club are, from left, Claude Hall, Bill Dennis, Donnie Shockley, Bill Kahler Chuck… Read more »

The Art League of Ocean City recognized its Corporate Sponsors at this month’s First Friday reception kickoff for Artist Choice, the current exhibit that runs through May 2. Pictured, from left, are Pam Stansell of Macky’s Bar & Grill; John Gehrig of D3Corp; Ruth Waters of Harrison Group; Michael James of the Carousel Hotel; John… Read more »

VFW Post 8296, in Ocean City, recently hosted a CPR Training Course for Veterans and their families at the VFW Post Hall on 66th Street. Atlantic General Hospital Community Education Coordinator Dawn Denton taught the class Adult, Child, and Infant CPR. In addition to learning CPR, veterans also learned to handle special situations, such as… Read more »