OCEAN CITY – Brilliant paint, bright chrome and tricked out American street rides will be showcased in the Ocean City Convention Center at the 31st Annual Ocean City Hot Rod and Custom Car Show Feb. 12-13.From wild customs to cool classics, extreme trick trucks to hot muscle cars, come experience the Hot Rod Show World… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The Mayor and City Council offered this week to paint a portion of the Boardwalk pink in attempts to compromise on a race route for Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure event proposed for 2012.The organization has already turned the Rockefeller Center, cruise ships and even the pyramids pink, and now… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Lovers of sweets from all around are keeping the “Death by Chocolate” event growing every year.The 4th Annual “Death by Chocolate” event takes place on Sunday, Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.The owners of CraZy LadyZ in West Ocean City, Jan Patterson and Louise Reardon, created the event to promote… Read more »

BERLIN — The first batch of revenue numbers for the Casino at Ocean Downs were released this week with the state’s newest slots venue generating a little over $3 million in its first month.Maryland Lottery officials this week released the January revenue figures for the Casino at Ocean Downs, which opened to the public on… Read more »

BERLIN — The Town Creek Foundation recently awarded a $50,000 grant to the Maryland Assateague Costal Trust (ACT).While the foundation has provided funding to ACT in the past, this is the first year that such a large grant has been given entirely to ACT’s Coastkeeper Program.Kathy Phillips, who serves as Assateague Coastkeeper and as ACT’s… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — While an online poll on the future of Ocean City’s Boardwalk surface rolls on, extensive repairs to the famous promenade continued this week.According to Ocean City Public Works Director Hal Adkins, the town has around $127,000 in its current budget for Boardwalk maintenance and the funding is being used to repair several… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Discussion over the Race for the Cure event to raise money for breast cancer continued this week during the Police Commission meeting yesterday, and the opportunity opened for comments to be made on the police department’s current hiring freeze.Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure received a date hold for April 22,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — A routine traffic stop in Ocean City last weekend led to the arrest of a Selbyville man wanted in connection with a condo burglary in the resort dating back to 2005.Around 1:30 a.m. last Sunday, an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer on routine patrol observed a vehicle leave a north-end convenience… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Tips from a few anonymous concerned citizens this week helped the Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) nab the suspect in a string of residential burglaries and the burglary of a downtown pharmacy.On Monday, an OCPD detective met with the victim of a burglary on Pacific Ave. that had occurred sometime between Jan…. Read more »