The national firestorm surrounding U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh spilled over into Ocean City this week when a new accuser came forward and alluded to the nominee’s alleged illicit activity in the resort during “beach week” in the early 1980s.Over the last month, the firestorm surrounding President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh… Read more »
Although it’s unclear the scope of the conversation, it’s known the Worcester County Commissioners talked this week in closed session on some level about property acquisition for a sports complex.This week’s agenda included the text, “meet in closed session to discuss potential acquisition of Real Property for Public Purposes.” During his explanation as to why… Read more »
Ocean City should not under any condition put a beach ball design on the water tower on 64th Street. I think I wrote that same thing about the 1st Street tower a couple years ago.My distaste for that silly beach ball water tower on 1st Street has nothing to do with aesthetics. It looks decent… Read more »
With Labor Day’s passing, the race is on toward the November general election. It’s clear some of the contests, including the battle for Senate District 38 and the governor’s seat, are about to ramp up their messages. The question is how negative will the Senate and governor’s races become through dueling marketing campaigns.As it has… Read more »
Fish Powell was one of a kind.I don’t have a lot of personal stories to share about Fish. His last year as mayor of Ocean City was my last year in college. Additionally, his long career in elected office took place while I was growing up. Therefore, my direct interactions with him were limited. However,… Read more »
The promises have been made and the pressure is now on the promoters to pull it off.The Ocean City Mayor and Council officially signed off on committing nearly $200,000 to the first-ever Jellyfish Festival next June. The event is a hybrid of the extreme sports event known as the Dew Tour, which was held in… Read more »
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan must be amazed at how fortunate he has been on the political front. Hogan, a Republican, won four years ago by appealing to voters on the left and right with his pragmatic management style and common sense economic strategies. Hogan’s bi-partisan support appears to have only grown during his first term.As… Read more »
The amount of money Ocean City is spending on legal fees for the topless issue is no laughing matter, but I must admit I giggled several times reading through court documents this week.After the pro-topless women filed a request for a preliminary injunction against the town’s ordinance forbidding breast nudity, the town submitted this week… Read more »
Umbrellas come loose on the beach every day and at least once a summer a visitor is injured. It’s a shame, but even on the calmest of wind days the cheap umbrellas, which are not made for the beach, blow around the beach and become dangerous.What made last weekend’s situation so unique was it involved… Read more »
Berlin is taking the right step in spending some money on a parking evaluation.The study, which was put out to bid this week, will also include a look at mobility within the town. That will surely come back with a conclusion that many town streets are too narrow, and that parking should consequently be prohibited… Read more »
