OCEAN CITY — The City Council voted unanimously to trim the benefits package offered to new employees, thus saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process to the town’s annual bottom line.As a result of the second part of Human Resources Director Wayne Evans’ salary and benefits study, the council moved to trim a… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – In the wake of allegations of the Liquor Control Board for Worcester County’s (LCB) fiscal malfeasance at worst or poor management at best, the association of liquor license holders in the county this week held a meeting to begin to determine their own course of action should the agency be abolished.The Worcester… Read more »

WEST OCEAN CITY – A growing number of rented personal watercrafts (PWCs) finding their way into the shallow creeks and streams in and around the coastal bays has led to a discussion about limiting their access in resort area waterways.The issue came to light in recent weeks when a West Ocean City property owner raised… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — The comptroller’s investigation into the Liquor Control Board for Worcester County’s (LCB) Stoli promotion has sparked a renewed interest in another controversial liquor promotion that saw the LCB on the other side of the allegations last year.For several weeks in July of 2009, no licensee in Worcester County was able to purchase… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Finance Administrator Martha Bennett Lucey is being credited with finding a way for the town to save a substantial amount of money as it moves forward with plans to improve its infrastructure and readies some big projects to the tune of $18 million.With capital projects, such as street repairs, being essentially tabled… Read more »

NEWARK – This year’s graduating seniors at Worcester County high schools were mostly satisfied with their education, the annual senior survey shows.The Worcester County school board’s annual survey of graduating seniors showed that 84 percent of the nearly 400 graduates were “satisfied or very satisfied” with the education they got in Worcester County schools. Thirteen… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The latest significant salvo in area law enforcement’s renewed battle to rid Berlin’s neighborhoods of open-air drug dealing scored a direct hit last week when a local man was sentenced to 15 years on a pair of cocaine distribution convictions, just weeks after a dozen new suspects were indicted by a Worcester… Read more »

SNOW HILL – Five soft shoreline projects in northern Worcester County would be part of implementing the coastal bays management plan, according to county staff, and would protect land from wave erosion.The county hopes to get a $5,000 mini-grant from the Maryland Coastal Bays Program to pay for part of the work. An in-kind match… Read more »

BERLIN – Time is slipping away for local political parties to find candidates to run in races where they do not already have a candidate.The District 2 County Commissioner race lacks a Republican candidate, while Districts 3 and 6 lack Democratic candidates.By law, the political party central committees are allowed to nominate a contender from… Read more »