OC Council News In Brief

OCEAN CITY – Things at City Hall this week kind of sounded like the lyrics of a Stevie Wonder song, in that the runners can keep on running, the turbines can start their spinning and St. Patty can keep on parading. The Race Will Go On….One of the cuts in City Manager Dennis Dare’s first… Read more »

OC Fire Chief Seeks Uniformity In Future

OCEAN CITY – Once money becomes available, Ocean City Fire Chief Chris Larmore hopes to extend the new look of the department to the equipment as well.During Tuesday’s monthly report to the Mayor and City Council, Larmore said that a commission of volunteer and career firefighters unanimously approved a new logo that would be placed… Read more »

Test Scores Show Local Achievement Gap Narrowing

NEWARK – While local African American students still lag behind white and Hispanic students in state testing scores, the achievement gap is narrowing steadily, Worcester County school officials said this week.The decreasing difference between black and white students shows in both reading and math scores on Maryland School Assessment (MSA) tests.In 2003, reading scores for… Read more »

City To Examine Take Home Vehicle Use

OCEAN CITY – Employee take home vehicles might be next on the proverbial chopping block as town officials continue to exhaust all options to cut expenditures.City Manager Dennis Dare hinted this week that a “vehicle study” will be released soon that may alter the current usage of take home vehicles used by some of the… Read more »

Liquor Head Comes Clean On Past Misconduct

BERLIN – It has come to light recently the Liquor Control Board (LCB) for Worcester County’s executive director, charged with setting policy and negotiating contracts among other things for all issues related to liquor distribution and sales in the county, has a sordid past including felony convictions for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud… Read more »