OCEAN CITY – A well-known local woman lost her life last Friday in a mysterious accident aboard a boat in the Delaware Bay.According to The Press of Atlantic City, Elizabeth Garliss, 39, was aboard the Soggy Dollar, a 52-foot cabin cruiser, when she apparently slipped and hit her head at 2:52 p.m. The U.S. Coast… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan was among those involved in a four-car crash on Coastal Highway on Tuesday morning that also included an ambulance carrying a patient, a county Liquor Control Board (LCB) van and a tourist’s vehicle.Around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, an Ocean City Fire/EMS ambulance carrying a patient bound for… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City trolley will be taking a different route from now on, in an effort to increase ridership on the town’s most recent addition to the transportation fleet. The Maryland Transit Authority-funded trolley service began just three years ago, with the goal of increasing downtown travel. The current route runs from… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Plans for a 160-unit hotel at 26th Street were reviewed this week, with the Planning and Zoning Commission approving the site plans, but with concern over density on the half residential, half commercially-zoned property.  The Ocean Harbor Hotelwill stand on the north side of 25th Street and to the south of 26th… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – When President Bush this week lifted a decades-long moratorium on offshore drilling for oil along the nation’s coastlines including right here in Maryland, the move was quickly viewed by many as merely a symbolic gesture to address rising gas prices and the U.S. dependence of foreign oil, but the measure is being… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Beer prices will reflect a $1 increase from now on at Sprinfest and Sunfest, after a unanimous decision by the Recreation and Parks Committee and the City Council this week to increase the price of beer. “We have not increased the price of beer in five years,” reported Special Events Director John… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Governor Martin O’Malley this week named Ocean City Police Chief Bernadette DiPino to the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, a diverse 22-member body charged with exploring the state’s death penalty policy and making a recommendation to the General Assembly on the controversial issue in December.DiPino was chosen for the commission because she… Read more »

NEWARK – County elected officials need to keep their fingers out of the school system’s financial pie, the Worcester County school board said this week, balking at what they called micromanagement of school programs funded by grant money.The June 25 budget transmittal letter from the County Commissioners to the Worcester County Board of Education informed… Read more »

NEWARK – With $1.2 million in proposed education funding cuts, the Worcester County Board of Education has identified money from its budget to create a contingency fund to handle future budget overruns.“The County Commissioners have advised us that additional funds will not be available at the end of the year if we expect unanticipated costs,”… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – U.S. Navy officials were in Ocean City this week to outline proposed increases in warfare training in a vast area off the mid-Atlantic coast including Ocean City, but allayed any fears about negative impacts on the environment, fishing activities, fish and marine mammals and other impacts on the resort area.U.S. Navy officials… Read more »