ASSATEAGUE — A female harp seal, rescued from the beach in Ocean City in January, was successfully released back into the wild on Friday from the beach at Assateague State Park.The harp seal, known affectionately as Marie Tharp, was admitted on Jan. 29 to the National Aquarium’s animal care and rescue center in Baltimore. She… Read more »
SALISBURY – A request for additional funds to fix a deteriorating electrical system at the Salisbury airport this week highlighted the need for extensive capital improvements at the facility.On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council approved a request from Airport Manager Dawn Veatch to use $46,770 from contingency funds to repair electrical panel boxes in the… Read more »
SNOW HILL – Education and public safety funding requests highlighted a budget work session hosted by the Worcester County Commissioners this week.On Tuesday, various county department directors presented their proposed fiscal year 2020 budgets to the commissioners in the first of several work sessions. As initially proposed, the overall budget includes a shortfall of $6.8… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — Replacing aging wooden bridges at the town-owned Eagle’s Landing golf course was one of the first planks of the fiscal year 2020 budget this week.The town’s fiscal year 2020 budget was introduced in full on Tuesday and individual departmental budget discussions began in earnest on Wednesday. One of the first departments to… Read more »
SALISBURY – A Wicomico County student has been recognized as one of 16 people from around the world to earn a perfect score on an Advanced Placement exam.Last week, Wicomico County Public Schools announced Marvin Li, a sophomore at James M. Bennett High School, earned a score of 5 – the highest possible score –… Read more »
OCEAN CITY — A seemingly innocuous measure this week to dispose of various vehicles and other town-owned property via auction sparked a larger debate about expanding the police department’s take-home policy.The Mayor and Council had before them on Monday a list of vehicles, power tools and other town-owned property deemed to have outlived their useful… Read more »
SALISBURY – Wicomico’s housing market showed signs of improvement in 2018, according to the latest data from the Coastal Association of Realtors.In a meeting of the Wicomico County Council Tuesday, representatives from the Coastal Association of Realtors (CAR) presented the most recent trends in Wicomico County’s real estate market.“In the last three years, we have… Read more »
BERLIN – The Berlin Fire Company is asking the town for more than $900,000 in funding for the coming fiscal year.While town staff presented a proposed fiscal year 2020 budget that included $544,500 for the fire company — a reduction of 10 percent over the current year — fire company officials presented a budget request… Read more »
SNOW HILL — In what is viewed a groundbreaking case, a Worcester County first-degree murder conviction was upheld this week by the Maryland Court of Appeals after the high court ruled text messages between defendants were admissible in court.On May 2, 2015, a Virginia couple dropped off their son at the Pocomoke home of Kevin… Read more »
BERLIN – A book signing and meet-and-greet event in Berlin drew a crowd of supporters last week as the author of a new biography presented his work to the Eastern Shore.Last Friday, retired Johns Hopkins University Vice President Ross Jones spent the afternoon hours speaking to locals and visitors alike and signing copies of his… Read more »
