BERLIN – The town’s board of appeals denied approval to a Dollar General proposed for a busy Berlin intersection in a special hearing this week.The Berlin Board of Appeals voted 3-1 to uphold the decision of the town’s planning director to deny a zoning certificate for a Dollar General store proposed near the intersection of… Read more »
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Bungalow Love Finds New, Larger Home Around Corner
BERLIN – With a move to Main Street, Bungalow Love is offering customers twice the selection of handmade and fair trade items.On May 2, Bungalow Love opened in its new location at 9 S. Main St. After more than five years in a small shop on William Street, Bungalow Love owner Heather Layton said she… Read more »
Handmade Soap Hobby Turns Into Berlin Business
BERLIN – A few years ago, Jon Conley’s wife asked him to try making her some laundry soap.A few weeks later, she asked him to try bath soap. Within months, he was selling it at farmer’s markets throughout the region. Now he’s taken it a step farther. On May 1, Conley opened Uncle Jon’s Soaps… Read more »
City To Add Designated Smoking Area To Northside Park
OCEAN CITY – Designated smoking areas will be recommended at Northside Park rather than an outright ban.The Recreation and Parks Commission continued a discussion this week regarding designated smoking areas in town parks.Last month Recreation and Parks Director Susan Petito brought attention to a discrepancy between the Town of Ocean City’s smoking regulations in parks… Read more »
Men Arrested After Allegedly Killing Bird, Using It As Bait
OCEAN CITY — In what appears to be an early candidate for knucklehead crime of the year, a Pennsylvania man was arrested on animal cruelty, escape and other charges early Wednesday morning when he was found him on the beach with another man attempting to fish with a dead bird on a fishing line attached… Read more »
Rally Planned In Resort Against Offshore Drilling
OCEAN CITY — The battle against the federal government’s proposal to open a vast area off the mid-Atlantic coast to offshore oil and natural gas drilling will hit close to home this week with a “Hands Across the Sand” event planned for the beach in Ocean City on Saturday.In January, the federal Bureau of Ocean… Read more »
OCDC Presents Awards At 15th Annual Meeting
OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Development Corporation (OCDC) celebrated 15 years of success by looking back at all that has been accomplished at its annual meeting last week.“This has been quite an eventful year for the OCDC. It was only 16 years ago, in 1999, that the Town of Ocean City established a working… Read more »
Three Va. Residents Die In Single-Vehicle Accident
BERLIN — Three Chincoteague, Va. residents were killed in a single-vehicle accident on a rural road in southern Worcester County last night.Around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Maryland State Police from the Berlin barrack were called to respond to the scene of a single vehicle crash on Route 12, south on Onley Rd. Fire and rescue… Read more »
25th Annual Spring Cruisin Event Underway In Ocean City
OCEAN CITY — The 25th Annual Cruisin Ocean City, presented by Miller Welders, began yesterday in Ocean City and continues through Sunday, May 17.This nationally recognized event attracts more than 3,500 customs, hot rods, street machines, classics and more from over 20 states plus Canada. The 25th Annual Cruisin will have more than 10,000 event… Read more »
On Landmark Demolition, Property Owner: ‘It’s Sad To See Another Historic Building Get Torn Down, But The Times Move On’
OCEAN CITY — After two fires in the span of a little over a month this winter, the old Melvin’s Steakhouse and most recently de Lazy Lizard Brew Pub building was torn down on Wednesday.On Feb. 10, a major fire occurred at the historic building on the corner of 1st Street and Philadelphia Avenue, injuring… Read more »