Ocean City To Start 2020 With Bond Sale

OCEAN CITY — Shortly after the end of the year, Ocean City will go back to the bond market to sell $17.3 million in general obligation bonds for various projects after the sale was approved this...

High Marks For County In Annual Audit Evaluation

SNOW HILL – Outside auditors gave Worcester County a clean opinion on financial statements for the fiscal year that ended in June of 2019.On Tuesday, Chris Hall of TGM Group presented the Worces...

County, Resort Officials Will Meet To Talk Tax Differential

SNOW HILL – Worcester County representatives will meet with Town of Ocean City leadership in the beginning of 2020 to discuss the municipality’s annual request for a tax differential.Follo...

Star Charities’ members toast Foultz legacy

Despite being disbanded after founder’s death, group holds final holiday festivity (Dec. 19, 2019) Longtime members of Star Charities gathered last week for a holiday luncheon to honor the memory of...

Ocean Pines library to hold Lego build challenge Saturday at 1 p.m.

(Dec. 19, 2019) Interest continues to mount in the Ocean Pines library monthly Lego building challenge slated for Saturday at 1 p.m. Karen Earp, library youth services specialist, said the creative bu...

Viola continues successful path

(Dec. 19, 2019) Ocean Pines Association General Manager John Viola, who stepped up to take the reins after a leadership upheaval last spring and signed a six-month contract in June, can now continue t...

Election committee weighs changes to vote validation

Group members mull over resolution M-06 amended language before board vets (Dec. 19, 2019) Seeking to define election validation processes, the Ocean Pines Elections Committee reached agreement on upd...

Choptank eyes broadband service

Electric cooperative asking for regulatory flexibility with proposed state legislation (Dec. 19, 2019) Choptank Electric Cooperative, which began providing power to homes and businesses on Maryland’...

Maryland DNR grants gateway streamlines funding

(Dec. 19, 2019) Aiming to simplify the qualification process for environmental project funding, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources last year instituted its Chesapeake and Coastal Grants Gate...

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas? Is this country going to hell in a secular handcart? No, and it’s because the annual “war on Christmas” argument is humbug. For a real war on Christmas...