Ortt, DeAngelus pledge fresh start for OP restaurants

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (April 26, 2018) A full house at the Ocean Pines Community Center last Thursday ate up much of what new food and beverage consultant Matt Ortt Companies had to say. Th...

Board, Bailey meet with ownership

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (April 26, 2018) Questions during a first of its kind Ocean Pines Association town hall meeting last Thursday took on a wide range of tone and topics, as General Manag...

Berlin blaze damages downtown

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (April 26, 2018) A fire in downtown Berlin on Monday devastated a local business and shut down portions of Main Street for several hours. Fire alarms sounded at about ...

A.M. mindfulness program targeted by Berlin pastor

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (April 26, 2018) A “mindfulness” program at a Worcester County school has drawn the ire of a local church, whose pastor has condemned the yoga-based exercise as a ...

Residents rally against poultry farm

By Brian Gilliland, Associate Editor (April 26, 2018) Besides an overwhelmingly negative attitude toward a proposed concentrated feeding operation off Peerless Road in Showell that received prelimina...

The sandwich that almost broke Suplee

By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 The following column originally ran in a May 5, 2016 edition of the Bayside Gazette: There are times in a man’s life when he must face his biggest challenges head-on, ...

Gazette Editorial: Town hall was minefield

Going into a question-and-answer session with a hostile agenda, which some members of the audience did at the Ocean Pines town hall meeting last Thursday, is one of those increasingly disagreeable dev...

DMV Birding Weekend returns for 23rd year

By Brian Gilliland, Associate Editor (April 27, 2018) While it may have crept up on longtime attendees and some of the organizers, it’s once again the weekend in Ocean City where birds rule as the ...

Decatur band hits high notes in Ohio comp

By Kara Hallissey, Staff Writer (April 27, 2018) The Stephen Decatur High School band took home first-place awards in orchestra, marching band/color guard and concert band divisions during the Music i...

Clubs cmte talks about ‘meeting’

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (April 26, 2018) Members of the Ocean Pines Clubs Committee last Thursday addressed a controversial unscheduled meeting with the Matt Ortt Companies, which has been hi...