OPA Board Focused On Serious Short-Term Rental Issues

OCEAN PINES – Ocean Pines Association officials are exploring ways to tighten controls on short-term rentals to ensure they don’t become a problem for neighbors.The Ocean Pines Associatio...

Fenwick Committee Sends $2.39M Budget To Council

FENWICK ISLAND – The fiscal year 2021 budget will go before the town council for approval after a lengthy review process concluded at the committee level this week.On Tuesday, Town Manager Terry...

OCBP Alumni Of The Week, Greg Pittman, Innovative Lifeguard

(Editor’s Note: The following is a series on the men and women who have spent their summers protecting all those who came to Ocean City for fun and safe vacation.)OCEAN CITY — Greg Pittma...

Brother Committed To Seeking Justice In Fatal 2013 Accident

BERLIN – The brother of a teenager struck and killed by a Maryland State Trooper on Route 113 continues to seek justice seven years after the accident.Tyheim Bowen, whose 16-year-old brother Ty...

A Week In Business – June 26, 2020

Home Awards PresentedLEWES, Del. – Capstone Homes, a Lewes-based custom home building company, won one of the few coveted Regal Awards for Custom Home Builder of the Year for Sussex County....

Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 26, 2020

The Sinepxuent Bay Bridge (now known as the Harry Kelley Memorial Bridge or more commonly the Route 50 Bridge) was under construction in this 1942 photo. This bridge replaced the original single lane...

The Adventures Of Fatherhood – June 26, 2020

This is going to be a different summer for sure.Due to quarantine, my kids have become so accustomed to social isolation they seem content hanging at home most of the time. In pre-pandemic life, we wo...

Voices From The Readers – June 26, 2020

Transparency Issues ContinueEditor:On Tuesday, June 23, the Ocean City Council voted to go into closed session. One of the topics reported on the Notice of Closed Session form was “Open Meeting...

Cops & Courts – June 26, 2020

First-Degree Assault For Knife ThreatOCEAN CITY — A Virginia man was arrested on first-degree assault and other charges earlier this month after allegedly threatening a local man with a knife o...

Obituaries – June 26, 2020

Melville Gail HallBERLIN — Melville Gail Hall, Jr went to be with our Lord on June 16, 2020. Gail, as he was known, was born in Baltimore on March 27, 1935.He was a loving and devoted husba...