Steady Tax Rate Proposed In Ocean City As Budget Review Underway

OCEAN CITY — Ocean City officials this week unveiled the proposed fiscal year 2019 budget at a little over $127 million, but despite shortfalls in some key areas including less-than-anticipated ...

SD High School Varsity Baseball Team Spends Day At OC Elementary As Part Of “Read Aloud” Day

In what has become an annual tradition, members of the Stephen Decatur High School varsity baseball team spent a day at Ocean City Elementary Schoool as part of the “Read Aloud” day. Students are...

Worcester Departments Outline Budget Wants, Needs

SNOW HILL – County officials continued their review of the proposed $211 million budget this week. Following an initial work session last week, the Worcester County Commissioners on Tuesday went on ...

Amendment Proposed To OC Smoking Ordinance

OCEAN CITY – Efforts to amend a smoking ban on the beach and Boardwalk were initiated at a resort committee meeting this week. In an Ocean City Police Commission meeting Monday, Councilman Wayne Har...

Record 109 Students Inducted Into SD High School National Honor Society

A record 109 students were inducted into the Stephen Decatur High School chapter of the National Honor Society during the annual Induction Ceremony on April 4. To gain admittance, students must satis...

Author, Non-Profit Founder Deliver Kindness Message

BERLIN – A bestselling author returned to Worcester Preparatory School this week with the founder of a national nonprofit to speak on kindness. On Tuesday, Laura Schroff, author of The New York Tim...

Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – April 13, 2018

This rare photo shows the efforts made by the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge a channel on the bayside in 1947. The white building next to the marina was the famous Ship Café and the adjoining vac...

OC Drone Program Moving Forward

OCEAN CITY – Plans to implement a drone program in Ocean City are “moving in the right direction,” according to resort officials this week. In the city’s Police Commission meeting Monday, Emer...

Teacher’s Financial Literacy Efforts Honored

SALISBURY – A Wicomico County teacher has been awarded a statewide honor for her efforts to incorporate financial literacy lessons in the classroom. Emily Shank, a family and consumer science teach...

Guilty Plea In Major Cop Assault

SNOW HILL — A Seaford, Del. man, indicted by a Worcester County grand jury for the attempted first-degree murder of an Ocean City police officer, has pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and a...