County Satisfied With Existing Animal Control Law

SNOW HILL –  The Worcester County Commissioners opted to make no changes to the county’s animal control ordinance this week.While recent cold weather has prompted calls for Worcester ...

Voices From The Readers – February 8, 2019

Time To Move On With Boardwalk CaseEditor:One of the difficulties that any person faces when taking legal action to protect their rights is the taxpayers’ money that a governmental agency can u...

Beach Music Festival Worth OC Investment

There were mixed reactions to this week’s announced entertainment lineup for the inaugural Jellyfish Festival in Ocean City.While we were generally underwhelmed by the lineup based on the build...

Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk – February 8, 2019

A quality lead on a newspaper piece is important, but one recently in an editorial in The Baltimore Sun takes that concept way too far. An editorial by Deputy Editorial Director Tricia Bishop began w...

Seahawks Rebound With Win Over Warriors

BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s boys’ varsity basketball team beat Mardela, 88-62, on the road this week to get back over the .500 mark.After two straight losses last week dropped Decatur to 8-8...

Seahawks Make Splash In Bayside Meet

BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s varsity swim teams made a big splash in the first-ever Bayside Conference championship meet last weekend with the girls finishing first and the boys finishing second.Th...

Knappenberger Wins State Title For Seahawks

BERLIN- Stephen Decatur varsity wrestler Anya Knappenberger won the school’s first-ever girls’ state wrestling championship last week, sweeping three matches to claim the title.Knappenber...

Ocean Pines man killed during car crash on Tuesday

(Feb. 7, 2019) A single-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning claimed the life of a 19-year-old Ocean Pines man and shut down portions of Route 50 for several hours. The lone occupant, Tyler William Bir...

GM Bailey: ‘I certainly got your attention’

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 7, 2019) Ocean Pines General Manager John Bailey opened his presentation of the latest fiscal 2020 budget draft to a large audience last Saturday by thanking eve...

Group effort helped create shore’s first running scholarship

By Morgan Pilz, Staff Writer (Feb. 7, 2019) The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore and Eastern Shore Running Club have established a scholarship for high school seniors in organized track or c...