Officials Cut Meeting Short Over Poor Audio

BERLIN – Officials cut this week’s Berlin Town Council meeting short upon learning of audio problems with the livestream video.The council voted unanimously to end Monday’s meeting a...

Council Approves Modified OC Air Show Agreement

OCEAN CITY — An amended Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the 2020 OC Air Show, including some contingency language if state directives on large gathering sizes or other COVID-19-related re...

Berlin Board Talks Oct. Election

BERLIN – The Berlin Board of Supervisors of Elections met this week as preparations for the municipal election have begun.Mary Bohlen, deputy town administrator, welcomed the board’s new m...

Voices From The Readers – July 17, 2020

Crop Insurance Critical During Pandemic TimesEditor:My family started out with a subsistence farm like many of our neighbors in this part of Maryland.The dairy closed in the 1960s and we moved i...

Children’s Book Aims To Provide Positive Messages

BERLIN – A Maryland author is using her love of the Chesapeake Bay and Eastern Shore region to promote kindness, bravery and conservation in her new children’s book.Earlier this year, aut...

Police Probe Shots Fired In Berlin

BERLIN — Local law enforcement officials this week are looking for the suspect or suspects who fired gunshots at a residence in the Flower Street area in Berlin.Around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, the Wo...

Obituaries – July 17, 2020

Norma May FerreseMILLSBORO, Del. — Norma May (Shockley) Ferrese, 87, of Millsboro, Del., went peacefully at her home, to be with the Lord, July 3, 2020.She was the daughter of the late John Shoc...

Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk – July 17, 2020

Based on the critical metrics associated with COVID-19 in Worcester and Wicomico counties, it would seem implausible public schools will be entirely closed this fall. A hybrid schedule of in-school a...

Council Insists Comcast Store Remain Open In New Deal

OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Mayor and Council took a stand for the long-term existence of the brick-and-mortar Comcast store in Ocean City as the town moves closer to reaching a renewed franchis...

Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – July 17, 2020

Shantytown Village was developed by Daniel Trimper IV and opened in 1976 next to the Route 50 Bridge in West Ocean City. It was designed to resemble a New England fishing village and was modeled on p...