OCEAN CITY — As health care costs rise and debates over employee compensation packages continue, it seems like it will only be a matter of time before someone questions the benefits and salaries given to the Mayor and City Council of Ocean City.Councilman Joe Hall and Jim Hall have been vehemently outspoken in their quest… Read more »
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OC’s Illegal Hiring Now An Epidemic
OCEAN CITY—Some local businesses are hiring foreign workers who are not lawfully allowed to work in Ocean City, and those businesses may not even know it.Foreign students and workers have been a part of the Ocean City workforce for decades, but resort businesses might not realize that they are technically breaking the law by hiring… Read more »
Flying Over Ocean City With A World Champion
You’ve never really seen Ocean City until you are inverted over the Atlantic Ocean a few thousand feet in the air or flipping about in the midst of a head-spinning aerobatic stunt over Assateague Island.For world champion aerobatics pilot Rob Holland, who is one of the many featured acts in this weekend’s 3rd Annual Ocean… Read more »
Teen Credited With Saving Toddler’s Life
WEST OCEAN CITY — Two local teens are being called heroes this week after helping to save an 18-month-old girl’s life.When 16-year-old Austin Deppe heard cries for help outside his West Ocean City home last Saturday, he said he wasn’t sure what was going on, but he knew that he had to help in any… Read more »
Council Divided Over OC Budget
OCEAN CITY — Despite keeping the tax rate the same as last year in Ocean City, potentially lowering the median property owners’ tax bill by about 2.5 percent, the City Council was split 4-3 in passing the FY2011 budget through first reading on Monday night.Heading into the final two weeks of budget hearings, certain council… Read more »
Rare Whale Found In Coastal Bays
OCEAN CITY— A rare sighting of what has been called the world’s most elusive species of whale turned into a failed rescue attempt last Saturday in the Assawoman Bay, as divers tried in vain to save an 11-foot, 1,000-pound Gervais’ Beaked Whale that had strayed far from its natural habitat.At approximately 12:30 p.m. last Saturday,… Read more »
Resort Mulling Paid Parking For All Of Downtown
OCEAN CITY — As the City Council continues to look for the ace in the hole in regards to saving more money in the budget, the issue of more paid parking throughout the resort continues to be proverbially sitting at the table.This week, a new idea was pitched and it appears to make a lot… Read more »
Study Underway To ID Bones Found On Beach
OCEAN CITY – There were more questions than answers late yesterday as Ocean City police continued to attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding skeletal remains found on the beach near the high tide line starting Wednesday afternoon.Shortly before 2 p.m. on Wednesday, police responded to the beach at North Division Street in reference to a… Read more »
OC Feeling Heat For Dropping Recycling Program
OCEAN CITY — When it came to dropping the town’s recycling program, saving the money was the easy part for town officials. It’s trying to save face that is proving to be another story.Town officials have been taking some heat for their recent decision to halt the town’s recycling program in favor of burning the… Read more »
Ocean City Dumps Recycling
OCEAN CITY — Citing a recycling program that was moving too far into the red, the City Council unanimously axed its most well known green program on Tuesday.Although officials say Ocean City is not totally abandoning the popular “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra, but rather outsourcing the program in a “rethinking” strategy that will save the… Read more »