SNOW HILL – Requests for funding teacher salary increases and technology for local schools again highlighted Worcester County’s annual budget hearing.On Tuesday evening, dozens of county residents attended a public hearing on Worcester County’s proposed $194 million budget for fiscal year 2017. Comments from those present focused primarily on the need to support education funding.“The… Read more »
ASSATEAGUE ISLAND — The harsh realities of sea level rise and climate change have forced Assateague Island National Seashore to admit that it is at a proverbial crossroads.Yet, as the beloved local and federally owned landmark enjoys its 50th anniversary, it also faces real questions about its future. Over the course of the last 90… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Just one week after Ocean City officials learned an apparent error in federal flood zone mapping has left some oceanfront property owners facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in flood insurance premiums, State Senator Jim Mathias (D-38) has reached out to the state’s congressional leaders to intercede on the resort’s behalf.Last July,… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Weather permitting, an expanded Hometown Heroes military banner program including for the first time this year living World War II veterans from in and around the resort area will be officially dedicated with a special ceremony at the Fireman’s Memorial on the Boardwalk at North Division Street on Thursday.In 2014, the Ocean… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – The six-month contract dispute between the Casino at Ocean Downs and almost 100 union employees has finally come to an end.After several recent weeks of stalemate both sides met at the bargaining table, struck a compromise and thusly ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that runs until October 2017.“This deal is a… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City will celebrate the start of the season with the 26th annual production of Springfest, which takes place May 5-8.Set for Mother’s Day weekend, families looking to make mom’s day with a trip to Ocean City can enjoy the amenities of Springfest, one of the top Arts and Crafts Shows in… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Students at Snow Hill Elementary School celebrated the culmination of a schoolwide reading project with a sweet treat this week.The end of the One Book, One School program at Snow Hill Elementary provided students with the chance to turn their principal into an ice cream sundae on Monday.Principal Mary Anne Cooper sat… Read more »
SALISBURY — As part of the ongoing effort to restore a long-neglected War Memorial in Salisbury, a decades-old time capsule was removed and opened last week, revealing scrolls listing the county’s war dead from World Wars I and II and the Korean War.In 1955, the Wicomico County War Memorial was completed and dedicated by the… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A quick-thinking Coast Guard crew got creative in the rescue of an unidentified man injured in a personal watercraft accident just off the north end of Assateague on Saturday.On Saturday, an unidentified man and his friends were enjoying some early season personal watercraft activity in and around Ocean City when an accident… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — The resort’s Fire/EMS union this week wants to use a favorable arbitration ruling in a disciplinary action against a paramedic for a delayed response last summer as leverage in the ongoing debate about the elimination of the 24-hour shifts, but city officials are saying not so fast.Last July, a three-member paramedic team… Read more »