SALISBURY — Regardless of the outcome, Salisbury’s City Council will get a dramatic makeover next Tuesday when as many as three new faces could join the town’s five-member elected body.Six candidates will vie for three open seats during Salisbury’s City Council Election on Tuesday. Salisbury’s city government includes a mayor and five council members. The… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The SEED School of Maryland is reaching out to the Eastern Shore to provide students with a supportive structural academic environment.The school is located in Baltimore and is a five-day-a-week boarding school. It was opened through the SEED Foundation, which opens and supports college-preparatory, public boarding schools that provide a 24-hour-a-day nurturing environment… Read more »

SALISBURY — The Mayor and City Council discussed at this week’s meeting proposed ordinances to clean up the streets and properties of rubbish and nuisance trees and plants throughout the city.The first ordinance discussed defined rubbish as “trash from normal household living conditions…tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matters, glass, abandoned or inoperable… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — A local man’s fatal fall from a sixth-floor room at a north-end hotel in Ocean City early last Wednesday morning was officially ruled an accident this week by the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.Shortly after 4 a.m. last Wednesday, a local man, later identified as Gregory Sean Pierce, 46, of Berlin, fell to… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Last week’s tragic accident involving a local man falling through a sixth-floor hotel window to his death below highlighted the need for a close examination of the resort’s testing and inspection process for the countless similar hotel and condominium windows throughout Ocean City, and it appears there are safeguards in place.Last Wednesday,… Read more »

SALISBURY – During this week’s Mayor and City Council meeting, several agenda points including bids, ordinances and resolutions were approved.Bids Awarded To Purchase Police Department EquipmentThe council approved the police department’s request for property room evidence lockers at the expense of $14,306 and equipment to support two automated license plate recognition systems at the expense… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — A West Ocean City man indicted in February on federal child pornography possession charges pleaded guilty this week in U.S. District Court and now faces as many as 20 years in prison.Lawrence King III, 41, was arrested last October and charged with 13 counts of possession of child pornography when members of… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Last week, the City Council decided on new city employee retiree health benefits and a couple weeks before that new starting pay was approved. This week, the council checked off the list new employee pension plans as well.Mary Jo Gary of Mercer returned to the Mayor and City Council this week with… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — After 14 years of dedicated service, one of the Ocean City Police Department’s most decorated and beloved mounted patrol horses, Sundancer Royal, better known as “Roy,” is retiring, OCPD officials announced this week.Roy came to the OCPD in 1997 at the young age of just four, but has become a fixture with… Read more »