The field for the four open City Council seats became more congested this week and that’s not good news for any of the individual candidates.If this election’s outcome was uncertain before this week, it became further clouded with the council field now up to 10 candidates.What happens in large fields like this is the voters… Read more »
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Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
Call me a pessimist, but I don’t see how lowering the speed limit 5 mph on a 30-block portion of Coastal Highway will make anyone any safer. However, it can’t hurt to give it a shot.Rather than this proposed reduction, which will most likely happen between 33rd and 62nd streets, what was more exciting to… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
With the expected departure of Police Chief Bernadette DiPino within the next year, the next Mayor and Council will be tasked with appointing the next chief, reinforcing the importance of the fall election.No matter what happens with her aspirations to be the next chief of Sarasota, Fla., DiPino’s successor will be named by the next… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
We are currently in the midst of profiling Ocean City Council hopefuls, and we will eventually get to each and every one who runs. This week I sat down with former Council President Joe Mitrecic (see the article on pg. 15A). Candidate Robert Baker’s profile can be found on page 21A.During these articles, candidates often… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
There were more theatrics at Silly Hall in Ocean City on Tuesday.Emotions ran high once again this week after Councilmen Brent Ashley and Joe Hall motioned for the City Council to vote to officially oppose this fall’s referendum on whether general employees can form a union.The motion was awkward and poorly timed and even their… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
Being in a coastal area, storms are nothing new to us who call this area home. However, last Saturday’s string of thunderstorms was unlike anything I have ever seen, particularly for those of us who live in Berlin.It was known a string of serious thunderstorms were coming this way most of Saturday, a cloudy, rainy… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
The forecast for this weekend looks stellar and that would be good news for Ocean City on any weekend of the year, but particularly this year because one year ago Hurricane Irene closed Ocean City for the entire weekend.Subsequently, business owners saw a huge zero in their books for the weekend and that crushed the… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
Is it a big deal that Ocean City Councilman Joe Hall billed the city $3,300 for 220 meals his restaurant served to emergency responders during Hurricane Irene?Some say yes, some say no. Some even bashed me when the story was produced electronically on Wednesday for even finding the transaction newsworthy in the first place. That’s… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
Time will tell if it’s a good political move or not, but Ocean City Councilman Joe Hall has made himself a pivotal figure in the town’s upcoming election that will see four seats up for grabs as well as the mayor’s post.Councilmembers seeking re-election in November officially are Doug Cymek, Joe Hall and Mary Knight…. Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
Eight months after the horrific accident on Coastal Highway, the Baby Ava case came to a quiet close on Wednesday when the man responsible accepted fault, plead guilty and immediately went to jail.As is the case with many court cases of this magnitude, the judge ordered a pre-sentence investigation that will hopefully result in Andre… Read more »