Teacher Step Increases Proposed For Education Budget

NEWARK – Worcester County school officials have proposed additional expenditures to next year’s budget that will address salary raises and five other areas of need within the school system. In a W...

Robber Apprehended 3 Hours After West OC Bank Holdup; Charging Documents Recount Timeline

WEST OCEAN CITY — A local woman, arrested this week after allegedly holding up a West Ocean City bank on Monday, had a busy morning in the hours leading up to the crime including changing clothe...

OC Armed Robbery Suspect Apprehended In Pa.

OCEAN CITY — Ocean City police have charged a Pennsylvania man with two armed robberies in the north end of the resort in late January after locating the suspect in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Th...

Counties Asked To Help Wor-Wic With $600K Shortage Due To Enrollment Dip, Rising Health Care

SNOW HILL – A decline in enrollment and the rising cost of medical benefits forced Wor-Wic Community College to seek financial help from Worcester and Wicomico counties this week. On Tuesday Murray ...

Council Okay With Overpaying For $2M Property For Public Works Uses

OCEAN CITY — Despite the presentation of some last-minute statistical data, Ocean City officials were not inclined to rescind a deal to purchase a downtown parcel that will ultimately be used as...

Voices From The Readers – February 10, 2017

Proposed Cuts Merit Opposition Editor: Thank you for your article regarding Growing Hope’s efforts to bring Michael DeLeon to the resort to speak about the epidemic of substance abuse and addictions...

Minimal Impact With Inlet Parking Lot Move

This week’s decision by the Ocean City Mayor and Council to lower the free roam time at the Inlet Parking Lot from 30 minutes to 20 is not a big deal. Although it’s been labeled as a money grab by...

Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk – February 10, 2017

One year after Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan ordered all school systems must ring their first bell after the Labor Day holiday, Delaware and Pennsylvania are in the process of trying to do the same thing....

Cops And Courts – February 10, 2017

Shoplifting Leads To Drugs OCEAN CITY — A Frankford, Del. man was arrested last week on theft and drug charges after an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer allegedly observed him swiping...

We Remember Those We Have Lost – February 10, 2017

James Robert Pond BERLIN — Jim Pond, born in 1939, died Dec. 2, 2016. He was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Falls Church, Va. He graduated from George Mason High School. He bought Mister...