Berlin Fire Company Requesting $786K From Town

BERLIN – The Berlin Fire Company outlined equipment needs, proposed building repairs and various other requests during a budget presentation this week. David Fitzgerald, president of the Berlin Fire...

Decatur Boys Fall To Kent Island, 13-8

BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s boys’ varsity lacrosse team fell to old nemesis Kent Island, 13-8, halting a four-game winning streak for the Seahawks. Since dropping a tight, overtime game to Worcester...

D’Ann Danse Studios Perform At 2018 National Cherry Blossom Festival’s Parade

D’Ann Danse Studios, under the artistic direction of Debbie Wehlan, recently performed in the 2018 National Cherry Blossom Festival’s parade in Washington, DC. Pictured, from left, are Olivia Bat...

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...