School Launches App Hoping For Attendance Boost

POCOMOKE CITY – Pocomoke High School leaders are hoping a new smartphone app will increase attendance at school functions. Pocomoke High School (PHS) has launched its own Pocomoke Warriors smartphon...

Pines Planning Ahead For 50th Anniversary Year

BERLIN – Though it doesn’t occur until 2018, plans are already underway for the Ocean Pines Association’s 50th anniversary celebration. Last week the Ocean Pines Association (OPA) Board of Direc...

Land Trust, State Partner On Conservation Easement

BERLIN – Officials with the Lower Shore Land Trust recently announced the completion of a decade-long conservation easement project between the non-profit and the Maryland Environmental Trust that w...

Young Professionals Address Economic Committee

OCEAN CITY – The Young Professionals of Ocean City met with members of the Economic Development Committee (EDC) at a meeting Wednesday in an effort to attract millennials and support from local busi...

Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk – February 3, 2017

What’s new in Ocean City for this summer? That’s a question Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan and tourism officials get asked often on marketing trips and media interviews in advance of the summer seas...

City Weighs Elevating Private Lots To Combat Flooding Woes

OCEAN CITY — Resort officials this week approved an updated hazard mitigation plan related to pending sea level rise, but not before a broader discussion about the chronic flooding issues in cer...

Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – February 3, 2017

The Sinepxuent Bay Bridge (now known as the Harry Kelley Memorial Bridge or more commonly the Route 50 Bridge) was under construction in this 1942 photo. This bridge replaced the original single lane ...

Fenwick To Use Recycled Lumber For Guard Stands, Bike Rack

FENWICK ISLAND – Officials with the Town of Fenwick Island have given the Public Works Department approval to build beach and park structures from leftover materials. In a town council meeting last ...

Commission Seeks Role In New Berlin Park’s Future

BERLIN – Members of the Berlin Parks Commission voiced their commitment to being involved in the future of the town’s newest park this week. After meeting David Deutsch, the newly hired project co...

Right Call Made On Canyon Effort

The National Aquarium in Baltimore deserves credit for being receptive and responsive to the arguments months against its proposed Urban National Marine Sanctuary designation for the Baltimore Canyon,...