Worcester Prep Students Named Commended Students In 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program

Worcester Preparatory School Headmaster Dr. Barry W. Tull recently announced Lucas Baier, Sara Freund, Claire Stickler and Jamie Welch have been named Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Sch...

Lower Shore Teams Earn High Seeds In States

BERLIN- The state playoffs brackets were announced this week with Decatur and many of the Lower Shore fall sports teams earning high seeds in their respective tournaments. In the newly configured 3A-S...

Bond Ordinance Petition Seeks To Derail Resort’s Performing Arts Center

OCEAN CITY – Proponents of the performing arts center in Ocean City are taking a stand against Tony Christ and the Ocean City Taxpayers for Social Justice group that has organized a petition opposin...

Construction On OC’s New Performing Arts Auditorium Underway; City Eyes November 2014 Completion

OCEAN CITY — The construction of the new performing arts center in the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City began in earnest Monday with an aggressive completion timetable and perhap...

OC Announces Beginning Of St. Louis Ave. Project’s 2nd Phase; Closures From 4th to 10th Streets Expected

OCEAN CITY — The Town of Ocean City’s Public Works Department will be beginning work on the second phase of the St. Louis Avenue water, sewer and roadway project on Monday, October 21.  The p...

Ramadan Attorneys Dispute Terrorism Link, To Fight Murder-For-Hire Charges

OCEAN CITY — Less than a week after an Ocean City man was indicted in an murder-for-hire plot, his lawyers this week responded, saying there is no strong evidence to support the latest charges a...

OC Boardwalk Hotel Fire Started In Basement Store

OCEAN CITY — A fire at the historic Majestic Hotel on the Boardwalk at 7th Street around mid-day on Friday appears to have originated in the ground-level stores beneath the Boardwalk although sm...

Fire At Majestic Hotel On Boardwalk

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UPDATE: ‘Several’ Witnesses Allegedly Targeted By Ramadan From Jail

OCEAN CITY — More details have emerged in the indictment released on Thursday charging an Ocean City man in a murder-for-hire plot launched from a jail cell in New York, including information th...

Five Firms Lined Up For Showell Elementary Work

BERLIN — A feasibility study for Showell Elementary School (SES) took another step this week when the Worcester County Board of Education approved a list of five finalists to design the school a...