OCEAN CITY — With a big crowd watching, a fully-rehabbed male juvenile harbor seal reluctantly peaked out of his temporary cage on the beach at 40th Street on Thursday morning and then made a beeline straight to his ocean home.On a picture-perfect Thursday morning in June, “Marmalade” was released from the beach at 40th Street… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Satisfied potential noise issues won’t become problematic, resort officials agreed to bend the rules and allow an earlier start time for a mid-town hotel construction project.The Mayor and Council on Monday had before them a request to relax the ordinance that prohibits construction work around Ocean City before 9 a.m. during the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The ongoing dispute over the cause of unfilled firefighter-paramedic shifts spilled over to Monday’s Mayor and Council meeting with the firefighter-paramedic union making an impassioned plea for help from the town’s elected officials.The Ocean City Fire Department has reported a vast number of shifts listed as unfilled in the department’s schedule, first… Read more »
SNOW HILL – The Worcester County Commissioners approved a $190 million budget for the coming fiscal year this week.The commissioners voted 6-1, with Commissioner Joe Mitrecic opposed, to approve the budget after lengthy discussion regarding the county’s practice of providing grants to certain nonprofits.“This budget has been very hard…,” Commissioner Diana Purnell said. “We’ve done… Read more »
BERLIN – The town’s board of zoning appeals is set to consider a request that would pave the way for a recovery house on Old Ocean City Boulevard in Berlin.On Wednesday, the Berlin Board of Zoning appeals is set to consider a conditional use request from Hope4Recovery Inc. for the property at 10226 Old Ocean… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A wetlands mitigation project at the Ocean City Municipal Airport came in with just one acceptable bid at $1.4 million, or over two times budgeted, resort officials learned this week.As part of the town of Ocean City’s capital improvement plan for its municipal airport, a two-phase project to expand the facility and… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — It’s clear the Ocean City Fire Department is facing scheduling challenges, but resort officials and the firefighter-paramedic union certainly differ on the reasons for the vast number of unfilled shifts.A couple of internal emails circulated throughout the Ocean City Fire Department over the last several weeks illustrates numerous shifts listed as unfilled… Read more »
BERLIN – Plans for a bike path along the railroad tracks through Berlin continue to move forward.On Monday, the Berlin Town Council voted unanimously to seek a grant to aid in construction costs for the first phase of a bike trail that would run beside the railroad track through town. As designed, the 1.8-mile trail… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The ever-growing artificial reef system off the coast of Ocean City got its newest addition last Friday when a 60-foot barge was sunk on an established reef site about 10 miles offshore.The Ocean City Reef Foundation (OCRF), with the help of support vessels, towed the 60-foot barge offshore to the Bass Grounds… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The issue of a $1.2 million study to determine a long-term solution to the chronic Inlet shoaling problem arose anew this week and Ocean City officials again weren’t keen on helping to fund it.The Inlet and other channels in and around the commercial harbor naturally fill in and require constant maintenance dredging,… Read more »