OCEAN CITY – The Worcester County Public Library’s new Ocean City branch turns one next week, and if the success of the first year is any indication, year number two won’t be terrible.The new, state-of-the-art Ocean City public library opened on 100th Street last March 19 to rave reviews, and despite reservations by some about… Read more »

BERLIN – Ethics questions first posed during a mid-December election over new Berlin Town Councilman Troy Purnell have resurfaced after a discussion of wastewater allocation payments.The question came up again after the Feb. 23 town council meeting discussion on wastewater capacity fees, when Purnell expressed concern over a wastewater application fee. During that meeting, Purnell… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – By coming up with a slogan to inform people about the importance of keeping Ocean City’s beaches clean, the Surfrider Foundation inadvertently came up with what has proven to be a lasting brand.“Please Leave Only Your Footprints” was a campaign started almost five years ago after members of the Ocean City chapter… Read more »

SNOW HILL – One of three Baltimore teens arrested in August on armed robbery, assault and other serious charges stemming from an incident in mid-July when they bound and gagged a man and threatened to kill him in an Ocean City motel room during an apparent drug deal gone bad pleaded guilty this week to… Read more »

SNOW HILL – In four years, student participation in NASA internships at Wallops Island Flight Facility has increased, from an initial group of nine interns to 33.“It has really grown,” said said Goddard Space Flight Center Director of Equal Opportunity Employment Brenda Dingwall, who directs the Step Up internship program, to the Worcester County Commissioners… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – An Ocean City couple arrested last week on a nine-count federal indictment alleging 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 tens of thousands of dollars went on the defensive this week as more information… Read more »

SNOW HILL – It took two days last week, but a Worcester County Circuit Court jury returned a verdict in favor of a Boardwalk amusement park sued by a Severn, Md. couple for over $1 million for an alleged errant basketball, called by the victim’s husband during his pre-trial deposition a “one in a million”… Read more »

ANNAPOLIS – This week’s debate over the proposed repeal of the death penalty in Maryland produced one of the most contentious discussions thus far during the current General Assembly session, but local representatives in Annapolis are clearly of one mind over the passionate issue.Governor Martin O’Malley’s push for a complete repeal of the death penalty… Read more »

NEWARK – Cuts to next year’s school budget will send Worcester County schools “backward,” several Board of Education members said this week during a budget work session, in which staff confirmed that another $1.6 million in cuts still needed to be made.“We’re going backward, not forward,” said Sara Thompson, a member of the Worcester County… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Citing severely flawed catch data, local anglers this week protested the first season closure for summer flounder in several years in the resort proposed by Maryland fisheries officials for the coming year in an effort to bring the state’s catch totals within the prescribed target number.According to state Department of Natural Resources… Read more »