Funding Shift Prevents Airport Tower Shutdown

SALISBURY -- The planned closure of the air traffic control tower at the Salisbury-Ocean City-Wicomico Regional Airport slated for next month has been put on hold after Congress authorized the shiftin...

Wicomico Selects Transfer Station Site

SALISBURY -- Despite some misgivings about potential traffic and noise problems, Wicomico officials last week voted to approve the acquisition of roughly 23 acres near Fruitland for a new solid waste ...

Two More Arrests In OC Stabbing Incident

OCEAN CITY -- Ocean City Police this week charged two more suspects with assault for their roles in an April incident involving a stabbing during a fight that began at a downtown convenience store. On...

Officials Provide Legislative Update To OC Leaders

OCEAN CITY -- Lower Shore lawmakers this week briefed resort business leaders on a variety of issues that came out of the 2013 General Assembly session, including several that will likely impact the s...

Worcester Sheriff Makes Plea For School Safety Funds

BERLIN -- As the county continues to move forward with fiscal year 2014 budget deliberations, Worcester County Sheriff Reggie Mason this week made an impassioned plea for funding for an ambitious scho...

NEW FOR THURSDAY: Army Corps To Let Nature Address Inlet Jetty Beach

OCEAN CITY -- A rarely-seen “anomaly” in the Ocean City Inlet reappeared this week in the form of a wide, sandy beach on the south side of the north jetty in an area typically under water ...

Shooter’s Sports Pub opens doors on Route 589

OCEAN PINES — Shooter’s Sports Pub on Racetrack Road opened just in time for Kentucky Derby weekend last Friday. The venture attracted 200 customers in its maiden run and is the brainchil...

Worcester Prep Headmaster’s List: Term 3, 2012-13

Term 3 Headmaster’s List 2012-13 Grade 6: Delaney Abercrombie, Salisbury; Dominic Anthony, Seaford; Cole Berry, Bishopville; Alexander Canakis, Bishopville; Maria Deckmann, Milton; Matthew Durk...

‘Great moms’ sometimes are volunteers who simply care

WORCESTER COUNTY —With the annual commemoration of gratitude for the caring and selflessness of biological mothers and grandmothers in recognition of Mother’s Day on May 12, a canvassing o...

Casino funds will aid small business

The recent announcement that the Maryland Board of Public Works has designated Worcester County one of three fund managers to oversee distribution of casino monies set aside to provide loans to small,...