SALISBURY – By the end of Monday evening’s meeting, city attorney Mark Tilghman didn’t know whether he would return to work the next day as an ordinance approving his pay through the end of the fiscal year stopped in its tracks.The last ordinance discussed that night was to approve an amendment to the current fiscal… Read more »

SNOW HILL — With the Maryland General Assembly unable to agree on a budget by Monday, Worcester and Wicomico County officials are predicting that Gov. Martin O’Malley will call for a special session within the next three weeks.However, while Wicomico Executive Rick Pollitt warned that the current default budget automatically adopted Monday, nicknamed the “doomsday… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Fire Chief Chris Larmore came before the Mayor and Council this week to justify bond funding for repairs and improvements to fire stations.“I came before the council when the council decided it would be a possibility to go to the bond market and I asked that you insert a project that would… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Lawrence (Larry) Noccolino has been appointed to the position of Director of Ocean City’s Roland Powell Convention Center.   Noccolino’s appointment was approved at the April 10 meeting of the Ocean City Mayor and City Council.  His appointment comes following the resignation of Rick Hamilton in late November 2011 and a national recruitment… Read more »

BERLIN — In the midst of the swirling controversy at the end of the General Assembly session this week, state lawmakers did pass a couple of pieces of legislation about how and where sewage goes into the ground and ultimately into the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays and who should pay for it.The legislature last week… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Despite coming much closer to prior efforts, the latest effort to develop a vast offshore wind energy farm off the coast of Ocean City failed to pass again this year.The House of Delegates had approved Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2012, which would open the door for the development… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — An Ocean City man, arrested on child pornography charges last year after an investigation into his alleged illicit activities dating back to June 2010, was formally indicted last week in U.S. District Court by a Maryland state grand jury.In December, Ocean City Police arrested Laurence John Bode, 60, of Ocean City after… Read more »

SALISBURY — In light of concerns raised over the election redistricting proposals last week by the Maryland branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Salisbury City Council intends to meet with the organization’s representatives to go through a “more formalized process,” according to Council President Terry Cohen.The council hopes to iron out any… Read more »

BERLIN — While the 2012 General Assembly session is being considered an epic failure by many because state lawmakers were unable to reach a balanced budget before the 90-day session expired on Monday, triggering the so-called “doomsday budget,” local representatives this week said the session was productive in terms of legislation germane to the shore.While… Read more »