OCEAN CITY — For the second time in three weeks, an Ocean City municipal vehicle was struck by an alleged drunk driver when an apparently intoxicated Stevensville man ran a stop sign at 7th Street and collided with a municipal bus before fleeing the scene early Sunday morning.Around 2:45 a.m. on Sunday, Ocean City Police… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A Salisbury woman faces numerous charges, including leaving the scene of an accident involving bodily injury, after striking a 6-year-old girl with a vehicle on Baltimore Ave. on Saturday afternoon and attempting to flee across the Route 50 bridge.Around 1:45 p.m. on Saturday, Ocean City Police and EMS responded to the area… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — With a June 10 hearing looming on the temporary future of Ocean City’s enforcement of its noise ordinance on the Boardwalk, town attorneys this week filed a motion in opposing a preliminary injunction in an attempt to stave off a halt to the ordinance while a civil suit proceeds.On April 10, the… Read more »
BERLIN — The Maryland Transportation Authority (MTA) is embarking on an environmental impact study for a potential third span over the Chesapeake.According to the MTA, about 366,000 vehicles crossed over the dual Chesapeake Bay bridges from Friday to Monday during the Memorial Day weekend and the first official weekend of the summer season. According to… Read more »
BERLIN — The worn mural at Stephen Decatur Park will be getting a facelift next year when the town replaces it with a design comprised of multiple pictures chosen through a high school contest.“Rather than try to design an entire mural, we’ll take winning pieces and incorporate it into a mural,” said Deputy Town Administrator… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — On the cusp of another hurricane season in the resort area, Delmarva Power officials said this week the company has learned lessons from Super Storm Sandy and other major storms in recent months and has a plan in place to minimize prolonged outages should the mid-Atlantic area be struck again this year.When… Read more »
SALISBURY – Officials are making progress in cleaning up Salisbury’s neighborhoods by taking charge of blighted property with irresponsible owners.The Salisbury City Council approved an ordinance in first reading this week to add a chapter to the City Code to create a procedure under which the city may petition the Circuit Court for appointment of… Read more »
BERLIN — An increase to the town’s portion of the employee health care program caused one member of the Town Council to lament what she sees as a growing trend of Berlin always being left holding the short end of the stick with rising health care costs.The actual increase to the insurance premium for next… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Two local business owners, indicted by a New York grand jury earlier this month for allegedly being the “ringleader” and “enterprise treasurer” for a vast cigarette smuggling and money laundering scheme with possible links to terrorism, have plead not guilty and are being held in the New York’s Department of Corrections without… Read more »
BERLIN — Recent concern over what merchants can put on sidewalks has the town of Berlin amending its rules to provide for exceptions in what is considered a sidewalk “obstruction.”The new ordinance would require merchants to get permission from the Mayor and Council to put tables or chairs on the sidewalk in front of their… Read more »