OC Council Supports Expanding Holiday Decorations

OCEAN CITY — With the holiday season in the books and decorations around Ocean City quietly going away, resort officials this week turned their attention to expanding the town’s Light Up OC ca...

We Remember Those We Have Lost – January 6, 2017

Gary Joel Grazioso BERLIN — Gary Joel Grazioso, 72, of Berlin, passed away Dec. 30 at Gilchrist hospice in Columbia Maryland after a courageous battle with cancer. Born on Sept. 6, 1944 in Brook...

The Knickerbocker Ferry Experiment

The Knickerbocker Ferry passes through the Route 50 Bridge in February 1971. Planned as a floating shopping mall with two restaurants and a 200-seat movie theater, the former Staten Island, N.Y., Ferr...

Stockton Bridge Repairs Deemed Critical

SNOW HILL – County leaders agreed to seek the support of the Eastern Shore delegation as they work to replace a bridge damaged during an October storm. On Tuesday, the Worcester County Commissioners...

Things I Like – January 6, 2017

Feeling fine on New Year’s Day The costumes at AGH’s Penguin Swim When snow and rain is in the forecast and it snows Penn State’s simple uniforms Holiday weekend crowds Supportive people That my...

Another mgmt shakeup in Pines

(Jan. 5, 2017) Capping off a year that included the firing of former General Manager Bob Thompson and the resignation or termination of directors of finance, marketing, and parks and recreation, the O...

Anti-campground meeting in Pines draws big crowd

(Jan. 5, 2017) More than 100 people, including several standing in the open doorway, squeezed into the small assembly space in the Ocean Pines Library last Wednesday night for the first meeting of a n...

Snow Hill Fire seeks add’l station

(Jan. 5, 2017) The flooding of late 2016 demonstrated to the Snow Hill Volunteer Fire Company that a new station at the north end of its response area is necessary. As a result, the company will prese...

Let’s hope it’s a good one

The year 2016 was a mess: rough weather, flooding, bomb threats, lawsuits, ugly politics, the loss of good citizens, and business that was OK, but not so wonderful that it overshadowed the year’...

Ocean City To Pursue Legal Action Against County Over Tax Issue

OCEAN CITY — Resort officials on Tuesday took their first step toward pursuing legal action against Worcester County after the County Commissioners summarily rejected the town’s tax differenti...