OCEAN CITY — The Harry W. Kelley Memorial Bridge, or Route 50 drawbridge into Ocean City, will be closed from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night starting Sunday, April 15 and throughout much of the following week.Last weekend, the bridge was closed from 10 p.m. on Friday to 8 a.m. on Saturday as State… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Local officials crowned Cedar Chapel Special School’s Karen Holland as Worcester County’s top educator at Friday’s 2018 Teacher of the Year banquet.The ballroom at the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel erupted with applause following the announcement that Holland, a Stephen Decatur High School graduate, was this year’s Teacher of the Year.“I’m very honored,”… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — For want of a half a parking space, site plan approval for a proposed seven-unit multi-family development in the ocean block at 125th Street was shelved again this week after a hearing with the Ocean City Planning Commission.In March, the developers of the proposed Island Wave condominium, a new project proposed for… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The Stephen Decatur varsity baseball team’s game next Thursday will have a special meaning for one local kid battling leukemia and the players.During the Seahawks’ scheduled game against Snow Hill at home next Thursday, April 12, the players are holding a fundraiser for four-year-old Max Long, a local boy who is battling… Read more »
ASSATEAGUE — The March survey of the wild horse population on the Maryland side of Assateague Island revealed the size of the herd stands at a healthy 82 despite six dying this year.The National Park Service has completed its March 2018 population census of the wild horses on Assateague Island, revealing the total population of… Read more »
BERLIN – After an extensive search process, the Worcester Preparatory School (WPS) Board of Trustees has announced Randal Brown as its new Head of School effective July 1, following the retirement of Headmaster Dr. Barry W. Tull.Last June, Tull announced he would retire after the 2018 school year. Tull has served WPS since it was… Read more »
BERLIN – While planning continues, a long-term solution to Inlet depth concerns is at least five years away.In a meeting last Thursday, representatives from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Army Corps of Engineers reviewed with local representatives the process for study and design of a major project to address the shoaling… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A Washington, D.C. area family is seeking the local community’s help in locating a beloved pet bird that got away during a vacation stay in Ocean City last weekend.Sandy Collado and her family spent Easter weekend in Ocean City at the Plaza condominium uptown in high-rise row along their beloved pet cockatiel… Read more »
BERLIN – Dozens of community members honored the eight Worcester County men killed during the Vietnam War with a ceremony last week.On March 30, the date that marks “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day” each year, members of Vietnam Veterans Chapter 1091 of Ocean City dedicated a bench at the Worcester County Veterans Memorial. The bench… Read more »
BERLIN — Thursday’s annual backyard brawl between Worcester Prep’s boys’ varsity lacrosse team and neighborhood rival Stephen Decatur produced another classic in the long series with the Mallards winning in overtime.It’s always special when crosstown rivals Stephen Decatur and Worcester Prep face off and this year produced another classic. The Seahawks hosted the Mallards on… Read more »