OCEAN CITY – Local business owners, citizens, and interested parties gathered on Saturday morning for the Stop Slots Rally in Ocean City an effort to send the clear message that many people of Ocean City do not want slots infiltrating the resort town. The rally, held at the end of the Boardwalk at the Inlet,… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – The Rivendell project seems to have reached the end of its contentious journey this week, with the City Council voting unanimously to accept the favorable recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission to approve the amendments to the project. The 88-unit Rivendell condominium project, located between 80th and 81st streets on the… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Resistance to possible slot machines at Ocean Downs Racetrack may keep the popular one-armed bandits from descending on Worcester County en masse, but local fraternal organizations have just begun lobbying to bring them into their lodges in a small way.Commissioners Bobby Cowger, Jim Purnell and Virgil Shockley reported to their fellow commissioners… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – A brief crime analysis of the 2007 summer season was given at a Police Commission meeting last week, with the conclusions the numbers were as expected.Ocean City Police Chief Bernadette DiPino and Corporal Glen McIntyre, who will be acting as a crime analyst for the department, made the presentation to the Police… Read more »
SNOW HILL – The way is now clear for a half percent hike in the Worcester County room tax after the County Commissioners passed enabling legislation this week raising the tax’s upper limit.The legislation raising and putting into effect the actual tax on hotel room and condominium rentals will be considered on Nov. 6, at… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – It came to light last week a New Jersey-based alternative energy company is exploring the possibility of developing a wind farm off the coast of Ocean City, following the lead of its already approved projects in Delaware, New York and Rhode Island.Bluewater Wind, one of the nation’s leading developers of offshore wind… Read more »
OCEAN CITY – Trimper’s Rides, the beleaguered Ocean City landmark and cornerstone of the downtown area, will be open for business as usual next summer, just has it has for nearly the last 120 years, but unresolved issues continue to curb any enthusiasm for its future beyond 2008.Trimper’s Rides officials announced yesterday the historic amusement… Read more »
WEST OCEAN CITY – When West Ocean City property owners retrieve their reassessment notices from their mail boxes in December, they will likely be relieved the anticipated increases have returned to levels not seen since the big real estate boom in the area started several years ago.While all of the final figures have not been… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Another serious accident at the dangerous Route 113 and Route 12 intersection in Snow Hill occurred yesterday morning, just two days after the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) visited the county on its annual tour.The Routes 113 and 12 intersection has been a point of contention between Worcester County and MDOT since… Read more »
SNOW HILL – In a bit of a surprise move, the attorney for the former Worcester County man accused of embezzling over $100,000 from his now ex-wife before assuming a new name and a new life out west in Arizona, will try his case in District Court.Attorney J. Harrison Phillips, who represents former Ocean Pines… Read more »