SNOW HILL – Two changes made to sewer policy in Worcester County this week will reduce the discharge of nitrogen into the coastal bays from point sources in the critical area.The Worcester County Commissioners voted to accept two amendments to the Worcester County water and sewer plan, one to require that new septic systems in… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A Pennsylvania man arrested in June in connection to a double stabbing in Ocean City pleaded guilty last week to second-degree assault and was sentenced to 18 months in jail with all but roughly six months suspended.Edward Michael Cockrell, 18, of Lancaster, Pa., appeared in Circuit Court on Wednesday to face a… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – A Seaford man killed early Monday morning in a fiery crash along Route 1 in Bethany Beach had been detained briefly by Ocean City police just minutes before fleeing north in his vehicle.Elijah J. Foreman, 21, of Seaford, died in a crash early Monday morning when he failed to negotiate a turn… Read more »

BERLIN – The suggested two-hour Berlin downtown parking limit is now mandatory, after the Berlin Mayor and Council voted unanimously to restrict on-street parking on and near downtown Main Street.Vehicles on Main Street between Donoway Furniture and Town Center Antiques, and on roughly the first block of Jefferson, Pitt and Commerce streets, may only remain… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Pedestrians will only have to look over their shoulder for the lurching Boardwalk tram during the summer months after Tuesday’s City Council work session.The Boardwalk tram is breaking down more often and costing the town more money than ever, so when the service went under Public Works Director Hal Adkins’ “cost cutting”… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The U.S. District Court judge presiding over the $30 million wrongful death lawsuit filed earlier this year by the family of two Pennsylvania tourists who perished from carbon monoxide poisoning in a Boardwalk motel room in June 2006 admonished attorneys on both sides yesterday in letter expressing her disappointment in the slow… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Some seniors have been vocal about the town extending their Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) bus service “off the island,” but now, they might be vocal about a new proposal raising the costs to use those buses “on the island.”The “low hanging fruit” may have been trimmed from the Ocean City budget,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – MGH Advertising got the gig to design the town’s website, but now it may have to fight to keep their job as the town’s advertising agency.No sooner had the dust settled from the controversial 4-3 decision granting MGH the $178,000 job to redesign the www.ococean.com site was it proposed by Councilman Joe… Read more »

BERLIN – Budget cuts are coming to the town of Berlin, but the Mayor is reluctant to impose a uniform, across-the-board reduction, as the town is not in budget trouble.“The interesting thing is we don’t have a budget crisis of any sort,” said Berlin Mayor Gee Williams in a phone interview this week. “We’re basically… Read more »

BERLIN – Worcester County public schools officials last week were successful, albeit briefly, in avoiding paying a $1.1 million award lost to a private contractor in a civil suit over a dispute about work done at the new Ocean City Elementary School after convincing the state’s Court of Special Appeals making the payments while the… Read more »