Summer Sand Lax Tourney Okayed After Concerns Eased

OCEAN CITY — Resort officials last week approved a first-ever sand lacrosse tournament on the downtown beach in Ocean City, but not before resolving some concerns about the type of balls propose...

ShoreBilly’s Swill: Not a Great Start…Part VI

I pull into the parking lot of my local grocery store with great trepidation. It’s dark out, it’s very cold, and it’s raining. I have a mental list of what I need to purchase and I’m calculati...

ShoreBilly’s Swill: Not a Great Start, Part V

So with the three youngest of my five offspring in the car, I frantically made my way to the school of my 11-year-old for pick up. Needless to say, I caught every red light along the way. I jumped off...

Q&A With Doug Miller, Getting To Know Ocean City’s Newest City Manager

OCEAN CITY — After a nationwide search that stretched five months, there’s a new city manager in Ocean City. Doug Miller was the Mayor and City Council’s unanimous choice to assume the position ...

Seaford High School ProStart Program Receives $1,000 Check From SoDel Concepts

Students from the Seaford High School ProStart program recently visited the offices of SoDel Concepts, a Rehoboth Beach-based restaurant group. They also toured two SoDel Concepts’ restaurants and r...

Summer Survey Confirms Most OC Visitors From Pennsylvania

OCEAN CITY — Tourism officials reviewed the results of last year’s zip code collection last week to attempt to determine where the resort’s visitors are coming from and also received good ne...

Guilty Plea In OC Stabbing

SNOW HILL — A Westminster man, arrested in September after stabbing another man in the chest during an altercation near a mid-town Ocean City hotel, pleaded guilty last week to first-degree assa...

Church’s Plans For Addition Where Tragic Fire Occurred Approved By Commission

OCEAN CITY — Perhaps symbolic of the continued recovery, literally and spiritually, from a fatal fire that claimed the lives of two individuals and critically injured a third, the historic St. P...

Retired Reverend, A Berlin Resident, Recalls Civil Rights Leader’s Early Passion; ‘He Knew That It Was His Path, And He Took That Path’

(Editor’s Note: The following is another installment of an ongoing series during Black History Month.) BERLIN — Years before the world knew Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as the leader of the Civil R...

Eagle Scout Projects Help Area In Different Ways

OCEAN CITY — A pair of local Boy Scouts are making significant contributions to the resort community with one Eagle Scout service project already well underway and another gaining approval from ...