BERLIN — The other shoe dropped late last Thursday for Berlin businessman Bill Scott, president of Scott and Company, advertised as a full-service accounting and property management firm, when a Worcester County Grand Jury indicted him on six counts of theft and theft scheme for allegedly bilking several resort area condominium associations and individuals out… Read more »

SNOW HILL — Turnout at Tuesday’s annual Worcester County budget hearing was light, and the majority of those who commented asked only that the County Commissioners accept the Board of Education’s proposed spending plan.However, some attention was given to how the overall county budget would be balanced, and whether or not that would mean a… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – This is the seventh year for the “Please Leave Only Your Footprints” campaign by the Surfriders Foundation, which is hoping to continue to make Ocean City’s beach a cleaner place over the next year.“The please leave your footprints campaign is to educate tourists and citizens alike in our efforts to try to… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The Mayor and City Council overlooked the Planning and Zoning Commission’s favorable recommendation of a parasail business in north Ocean City this week by voting to deny the applicant.The Planning and Zoning Commission conducted a public hearing last month to consider a parasail business to be operated out of the boat basin… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Record numbers of runners turned out last Saturday for the 7th Annual Island to Island Half Marathon and 5K races with near perfect conditions leading to low finish times.Over 1,300 runners from all over the country competed in the half marathon with another 600-plus in the associated 5K race, pushing the total… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — The venerable Ocean City Marlin Club, officially founded in 1936, although its roots date back a few years earlier to the creation of the Ocean City Inlet during a cataclysmic 1933 storm, turns 75 this week and will fete its decades-long history of fishing and conservation with a special celebration at its… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The Maryland Coastal Bays Program briefed the Mayor and City Council last week on what the program has been accomplishing of late.The Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) was created in 1996 as a part of the National Estuary Program, which was developed in 1987 under the Clean Water Act to protect economically… Read more »

BERLIN — The April figures for the Casino at Ocean Downs were released this week, revealing a continued pattern of gradual increase in the revenue taken in at the video gaming facility in Berlin.The Casino at Ocean Downs grossed just over $3.5 million in April, up slightly from the $3.25 million the facility generated in… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Local residents and visitors to the area are encouraged not to “Fear the Turtle” but help chart their numbers and protect their future with a new Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) initiative to track diamondback terrapin numbers in and around the resort area.The MCBP is partnering with the Terrapin Work Group, an… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — One month after his most recent sighting in Ocean City, the famous “Dolphin 56” made another appearance in the area this week, swimming up to and showing off for a group of local boaters near the Inlet on Tuesday.For over three decades, the friendly dolphin has been turning up in the waters… Read more »