OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Police Department’s 2010 year-end report showed a mixed bag, as some crimes decreased and others increased.Ocean City experienced a 13 percent increase in robbery, aggravated assault, breaking and entering, and larceny and theft offenses. However, crimes against persons increased 43 percent, while crimes against property increased 12 percent.The only… Read more »
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Community Rallies For Displaced Family
WEST OCEAN CITY — The generous resort community is being called on again this week to rally in support of a local family displaced by an early morning fire at their West Ocean City home on Monday.The greater Ocean City community has a great reputation for rallying the troops on behalf of local residents in… Read more »
OC Shark Tourney Partners With Conservation Foundation
OCEAN CITY — In an effort to build on an already solid conservation ethic, organizers of the annual Ocean City Shark Tournament are partnering this year with the well-known Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation to increase payouts and prize packages for the release division of the popular event in June.The Ocean City Shark Tournament returns to… Read more »
Agencies Partner To Conserve Ayers Creek Property
BERLIN — The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has conserved a large, forested wetlands property along a half-mile of Ayers Creek, the conservation group, Worcester County, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced this week.The property is within the 4,000-acre Holly Grove Swamp area and will be the first large wooded area available for… Read more »
Council Decides On Retiree Health Care Issue
OCEAN CITY – The City Council has decided to eliminate retiree health care for new hires unless the employee chooses the new health care option of a high deductible plan with a Health Savings Account (HSA) to be accrued towards retirement.A few weeks ago, Kay Moran of Bolton Partners Inc., presented the Mayor and City… Read more »
Utilities Eye Natural Gas Pipeline In Worcester
BERLIN — One week after a local utility company reported it has spent decades putting in place the infrastructure needed to make the transition from propane to natural gas in Worcester County, another regional company this week announced it was continuing its push south through Delaware toward Maryland to potentially make the changeover possible as… Read more »
Council Working On Policy For Trouble Properties
SALISBURY — The Salisbury City Council was presented with multiple options for dealing with its vacant and unsellable properties at a work-session Monday.While each option could have been implemented as a stand-alone policy, the council chose to move ahead with all four options simultaneously, depending on the circumstances of the case.City Attorney Paul Wilber, along… Read more »
Salisbury Police Seeking School Zone Cameras
SALISBURY — Speeders in Salisbury will find it harder to avoid tickets now that the city is moving ahead with plans to install traffic cameras in school zones.“It allows us to use technology to multiply what we are able to do,” said Salisbury Chief of Police Barbara Duncan of the proposed camera network. Duncan came… Read more »
NASA Internship Program Getting Rave Reviews
SNOW HILL — Six years after first offering Worcester County students the chance to intern at NASA, the program is still going strong and getting results.At a budget review earlier this month, County Commissioner Judy Boggs announced that nine graduates of the county NASA Internship program have been hired as engineers for a variety of… Read more »
Home Invasion Leads To Victim Being Shot
BERLIN — A local woman was shot in the leg with her own gun during an altercation with a pair of home invaders in her Glen Riddle community residence early last Saturday morning.Around 4:45 a.m. last Saturday, Maryland State Police troopers and a Worcester County Sheriff’s deputy were dispatched to a residence on Maid at… Read more »