BERLIN – The Berlin Mayor and Council introduced an ordinance Monday night to sell a $1.7 million bond to repair and improve three roads, although one elected official expressed concern over the amount of the bond to be issued.The funding is meant to refurbish and improve Harrison Avenue and Grice and Vine streets.The council will… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Ironically, on the same day another resort hotel was evacuated because of the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning, town attorneys filed a motion to dismiss a $20 million civil suit filed by the family of two Pennsylvania tourists who died of CO poisoning in June 2006 against Ocean City paramedics who allegedly… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — One half of an Ocean City couple arrested in February on a nine-count federal indictment after an eight-year pattern of utilizing credit accounts of deceased relatives to purchase vacations, luxury goods and services and furnishings for their two resort homes totaling thousands of dollars pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to commit… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Some may have taken it as a threat to leave, but town officials say it was a cry for help.Firefighters are usually the ones lending a hand rather than asking for one, and that fact could make the Maryland State Firemen’s Association’s (MSFA) request for help all the more alarming for local… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Continuing a white hot streak that started back in May with the first mako shark caught in the waters off the coast of Ocean City and also included the first white marlin of the season and a new state record mako in the Ocean City Shark Tournament, Captain Terry Layton and the… Read more »

SNOW HILL – Property owners along the path of the planned Route 50 service road between Holly Grove and Seahawk roads are asking the county to consider a different alignment that, they say, would not detrimentally affect their ability to develop their commercial sites.Land use attorney Mark Cropper, representing 10 property owners whose land would… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The Wal-Mart Super Center slated for construction behind the existing Berlin Wal-Mart received site plan approval last week.The Worcester County Planning Commission required several changes in the site plan before approving the project.The new, 193,000-square-foot Super Wal-Mart, including a grocery store and drive-up pharmacy, will replace the roughly 100,000-square-foot existing store. The… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Undoubtedly, there are few in the town of Ocean City that would claim that Demoflush statistics are 100 percent spot on, but there are some people who say that its finally time to flush the entire system down the proverbial drain.Discussion about the credibility of Demoflush statistics, or to perhaps what those… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A Delaware man arrested in Berlin in April after holding up another man at gunpoint before fleeing pleaded guilty this week in Worcester County Circuit Court to an amended armed robbery charge and was sentenced to eight years in jail.Around 3 p.m. on April 12, Berlin police responded to the Union Station… Read more »

SNOW HILL – County attorneys last week filed a motion to dismiss a $125,000 civil suit filed in June by an Ocean Pines man against the County Commissioners, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office and its public information officer over an erroneous press release issued to local media outlets identifying the plaintiff as a suspect, not… Read more »