Proposed Reg Would Ban Bow-Riding In State Waters; Change Likely To Take Effect Before Summer

OCEAN CITY — New regulations prohibiting bow-riding on vessels could be in place as soon as next spring after a productive meeting last week between the area’s representatives in Annapolis and...

Worcester Schools, Advocacy Center Partner On Health Education Overhaul Focused On Child Advocacy

SNOW HILL – The Worcester County Board of Education will soon work with a child advocacy center to create new curriculum that will engage students in certain prevention practices. Recently, the scho...

Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk – December 9, 2016

Taking the regulatory approach to address boat bow-riding over the legislative route means the law can be changed in time for next summer. That’s a big deal. If officials had gone through the Maryla...

Voices From The Readers – December 9, 2016

Column In Poor Taste Editor: I am not a resident of Berlin. However I have many friends who reside there. I found the tone of Editor Steve Green’s Between The Lines column on Dec. 2 regarding the na...

Canyon Effort Could Hinge On New Administration

The economic risk for hundreds of local families associated with a federal sanctuary designation for an offshore fishing canyon far outweighs in significance the potential environmental and conservati...

Council Relaxes Plumbing Permit Requirements

OCEAN CITY — After months of often contentious debate, the Mayor and Council this week finally put to rest an ordinance change that will relax the permitting and inspection process for the simpl...

Mallards Split Pair To Start Season

BERLIN- Worcester Prep’s boys’ varsity basketball split its first two games of the 2016-2017 season this week, beating Holly Grove and falling to Laurel with both games on the road. The veteran Ma...

Second Graders At OC Elementary Exchange Pen-Pal Letters With Children From Maui

Linda Brown’s second graders at Ocean City Elementary School are exchanging pen-pal letters with children at Kihei Elementary School in Maui. Their teacher is Mrs. Bentley, who happens to be B...

Ocean Pines fiber pitch fouled off

(Dec. 8, 2016) Representatives from FTS Fiber and ThinkBig Networks briefed a few dozen homeowners and members of the Ocean Pines Board of Directors on Monday on the possibility of installing infrastr...

Shore Gives More lives up to name

(Dec. 8, 2016) Close to 60 local nonprofits received more than $88,000 through the Shore Gives More campaign held in conjunction with Giving Tuesday. The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore over...