OCEAN CITY – With Mike Noah’s exit, the nationwide search has begun to find his replacement.Noah, who worked for 13 years as the town’s tourism director and executive director of the Roland E. Powell Convention Center, resigned this week, leaving town officials with the task of finding someone to play a role that is extremely… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – In the brief this week, the City Council told an uptown construction project to “keep on rolling” and stressed that they wanted to have the final say on what happens with a new resolution they created.Jamestown Work To ContinueResidents of Jamestown Road in north Ocean City have been dealing with construction work… Read more »

BERLIN – A peach festival, sponsored and hosted by the Calvin B. Taylor House Museum, will come to the town of Berlin this summer to honor Berlin’s past as home of Harrison nurseries.The Taylor House Museum is now in the planning stages of the festival, to be held the second Sunday in August.“We’re trying to… Read more »

WEST OCEAN CITY – A West Ocean City homeowner has pioneered a new approach to energy generation at his Selsey Rd. home with the addition of a wind turbine on his bayside property.Monty and Sara Lewis installed an electricity-generating wind turbine over the winter to defray energy costs.“It’s very exciting. We’re quite pleased,” said Sara… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – In staying true to its old-fashioned roots, restaurateur John Fager has restored Berlin’s greatest landmark into something that can be truly deemed as both new and improved.The town of Berlin has been on the cusp of some sort of renaissance for several years, and its re-emergence into the forefront of nostalgic tourism… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – As level of a playing field as ever has been laid out by the City Council in regards to outdoor displays on the Boardwalk this week, but all the merchants might not welcome the change with open arms.Stricter guidelines were set in place by the council in a 4-1-1 vote, Joe Hall… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Unsatisfied with simply being appointed to the county’s local development council on slots, which will ultimately oversee many aspects of the impacts of the gaming machines at Ocean Downs, Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan this week re-asserted his belief the resort’s top elected official should remain an appointer and not an appointee.Three… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Although the terms remain strictly confidential and may never be known, a settlement was reached late last week in the $30 million wrongful death lawsuit filed last February by the family of two Pennsylvania tourists who perished from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in the Boardwalk motel room in June 2006.The original suit… Read more »

NEWARK – The Worcester County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose a request to the state by the County Commissioners to allocate less funding to the local school system.“I thought that they might have a change of heart,” said County Commission President Louise Gulyas. “I thought they might see the economic strain on… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Ocean City Recreation and Parks Director Tom Shuster thought he was coming in front of the City Council on Tuesday for a routine report outlining the town’s free events for the summer season, but, in reality, a few officials thought that a couple of those events needed to be placed under the… Read more »