The Ocean City/Berlin Leo Club elected new officers for the 2017/2018 year. The Leo Club is a youth group sponsored by the Ocean City Lions Club and is based at Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin. Pictured, from left, are Treasurer Logan Townsend, President Kennedy Duke, Vice President Hattie Brous and Secretary Hallie Friedman.

Stephen Decatur High School sophomore Jude Al-Hamad, a member of the school Connections volunteer group, organized a successful beach gear drive for the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s House by the Sea. Teacher Laurie Chetelat is the Connections advisor.

Stephen Decatur High School students Daletez Smith, left, and Michael Hardy pose with Principal Tom Zimmer during the annual Students Thrive on Achievement and Recognition (STAR) recognition ceremony. Students earn STAR status by demonstrating significant academic improvement and the principles of the Decatur Way: pride, achievement, respect and responsibility. The Berlin-Ocean City Optimists sponsor the… Read more »

Berlin Intermediate School’s Kiwanis Builder’s Club made 25 blankets to donate to the residents of Diakonia on Mother’s and Father’s Day.  Above, Diakonia’s Anna O’Neill, Builder’s Club advisor Lynne McAllorum, BIS Kiwanis Club’s Faculty advisor Jane Slotter, and students Tabitha Glenn, Barbara Hartman, Nathan Niessner, Chase Ponton, Jayden Rivera, Bryan Saucedo-Castro and Chloe Waggoner are… Read more »

Each year, the National American Legion Auxiliary sponsors an Americanism Essay Contest for students in grades 3-12. This year’s theme for the essay was, “How does learning about government and our America help you become a future guardian of the liberties of our country?” Winners from Ocean City Elementary School were, from left, Melih Unal,… Read more »

Berlin Intermediate School hosted the annual Soup Bowl Project & Passport to Learning Night last month. Student-made bowls were on sale for $5 and filled with soup donated from local restaurants. Along with this fundraiser, BIS also celebrated Passport to Learning night, which is designed to showcase activities, projects and lessons students are doing in… Read more »

Fourth grade students at Ocean City Elementary School participated in a Boardwalk fitness walk along the Ocean City Boardwalk. Pictured are students from Mrs. Wendi Eitel’s class, Chloe Kohut, Emma Zajdel, Rori Holland and Tara Fohner.

Stephen Decatur Middle School student Rachel Peretz, a seventh grader in Jamie Ridgely’s Phoenix class, entered a poetry contest for the local Worcester County Garden Club. From the local level she progressed and won first place in Maryland for seventh grade.  Rachel’s poem is now headed for the seven-state district level contest. The Phoenix class… Read more »

Salisbury University intern Veronica Turley brought history to life in Melissa Vit’s fifth grade classroom at Berlin Intermediate School through a lesson involving embroidery techniques of the 18th and 19th century. Students were taught how to embroider their names or initials to demonstrate their understanding of how women recorded stories of their lives during the… Read more »