OCEAN CITY – In the brief this week, the downtown water tower is about to get a much needed makeover, albeit a pricey one, and the topic of raising the inlet parking lot’s rates has come up once again.Hefty Price For Water Tower BidsPublic Works Director Hal Adkins rarely looks surprised or taken aback when… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Resort police this week closed the books on the investigation of an armed robbery at a downtown hotel in June with the arrests of two of the three suspects still wanted in the case after tracking them to Pennsylvania.Around 5:45 a.m. on June 11, Ocean City police responded to the Americana Hotel… Read more »

SNOW HILL – Another motor vehicle accident at the locally notorious intersection of Routes113 and 12 sent two people to the hospital Wednesday morning.Around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, a Chevy Camaro traveling south on Rt. 12 failed to yield to oncoming traffic when attempting to cross Route 113. A van traveling south on Route 113 then… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The 36th Annual White Marlin Open, the World’s Largest Billfish Tournament, based out of Harbour Island Marina on 14th Street for the better part of the last four decades, gets underway on Monday with the first of five official fishing days.Each year, over 300 boats vie for millions of dollars in prize… Read more »

BERLIN – A federal judge this week again rejected a motion to dismiss a civil suit filed in January by the County Commissioners against a host of Internet-based travel booking companies seeking what could be millions of dollars in unpaid hotel room taxes, allowing the case to continue to move forward.In January, attorneys for the… Read more »

BERLIN – A Maryland Court of Special Appeals judge this week upheld the conviction of a Berlin man sentenced in January 2008 to 40-plus years in jail for the first-degree rape and assault of his long-time girlfriend and mother of his child, denying the convicted felon’s appeal of the case on two major fronts.In December… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – For the second straight year, Ocean City will play host to a multi-agency rally of sorts for missing and unidentified persons in Maryland with a public awareness event planned on the south end of the Boardwalk scheduled all day tomorrow, Saturday, July 25.A coalition of Maryland missing persons organizations, advocates, law enforcement… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – In the brief this week, there were some reports of brown water in the mid-town area of Ocean City and a Boardwalk body piercing company questioned the ethics of several others.Brown In The Water?Despite reports from the mid-town area of Ocean City in late June complaining of “brown spots” in the drinking… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- The 5th Annual Sammy Wilkinson Memorial Golf Tournament is set for next Friday, July 31 at the Newport Bay course of the Ocean City Golf Club in South Point.The Sammy Wilkinson Memorial Foundation was created as part of the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) worldwide initiative to lend a hand to countries… Read more »

SNOW HILL – With one caveat, Worcester County elected officials signed off on the proposed annexation of part of the old Tyson Chicken Plant into Berlin town limits.During their meeting Tuesday, the County Commissioners made sure to note that the rear boundary of the annexation, which would bring 3.9 acres of a multi-acre property into… Read more »