A master plan focuses on how to practically achieve what the comprehensive plan envisions. The zoning code will need to be revamped to match the new comprehensive plan.“This is what I really need,” said Berlin Planning and Zoning Superintendent Stacey Weisner. “We don’t have any meat without the code.”The code is so outdated, Weisner said,… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A Rite Aid pharmacy planned for West Ocean City met a delay last week when the Worcester County Planning Commission tabled a decision on the site plan.The proposed pharmacy, at the southeast corner of Route 50 and Keyser Point Rd., engendered an at times contentious discussion between project planners and commission members,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – After what could have been a deadly series of events last week, a LaPlata man was arrested last Friday for driving while intoxicated and soon found to be a wanted felon when officers conducted a warrant check on the individual.According to police records, it was approximately 9:37 p.m. when OCPD Officer Joseph… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Blinding snow and frigid temperatures did not prevent hundreds of runners from all over the country from competing in last Saturday’s 3rd Annual Ocean City Factory Outlets Marathon, which resulted in the familiar face crossing the finish line first.A rare Easter weekend snowstorm blew through the area last Saturday morning and continued… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A local man arrested in November for holding up a resort cab driver at knife point in the parking lot of a West Ocean City bar pleaded guilty this week to armed robbery and now faces up to 20 years in jail pending the outcome of the pre-sentence investigation.Franklin Paul Adams, 48,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Although a bill looking to mandate the use of carbon monoxide detectors in certain single-family and multi-family homes across the state died last week after it moved to the Senate and received an unfavorable report by the Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, a similar piece of legislation for the town of… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Surveillance conducted by members of the Ocean City Police Department’s Narcotics Unit led to the arrest of a suspected drug dealer Friday night as well as the confiscation of a large amount of crack and powder cocaine that has an estimated street value of $3,500.According to police records, members of the OCPD… Read more »

BERLIN – If you last visited the beach sometime before Sunfest weekend last year and plan on returning for Memorial Day this year, it would be no surprise to see the same lifeguard stands on the beach, each manned by a surf rescue technician (lifeguard) wearing the familiar red uniform of the Ocean City Beach… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The Board of Education has asked for a $7 million increase in the Worcester County schools budget for fiscal year 2008.The $87,306,346 requested budget is 9.6 percent higher than the approved FY 2007 budget.The increase comes mainly from salary and operational costs, said Worcester County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jon Andes. School… Read more »

ANNAPOLIS – With much of the focus of the General Assembly this year focused on major issues such as the smoking ban, improved health care, stronger sex offender laws and others, the effort to approve slots in Maryland barely got out of the box this year after dominating the legislature for the last four years,… Read more »