Tourism Metrics Talk Continues In Ocean City

OCEAN CITY – How to define Ocean City’s tool to measure tourism and where tourists are coming from was further discussed this week. During a Tourism Commission meeting a couple of weeks ag...

School Start Date Study OK’d By Legislature

OCEAN CITY -- A bill that will create a task force to study the issue of moving the start date for public schools across Maryland back until after Labor Day passed both chambers as the General Assembl...

Ocean City Buses To Begin Accepting Plastic Payments

OCEAN CITY – It is out with the old and in with the new when it comes to the town’s transit system as discount coupon books were terminated and a new mobile app is in the works to offer cr...

City Staff To Work Closely With Proposed Country Music Festival

OCEAN CITY – City officials are becoming skeptical of next summer’s proposed High Tide Music Festival, asking this week for staff to work closely with the event organizers to get the facts...

Major Issues Dominated This Year’s Legislative Session

BERLIN -- The 2013 Maryland General Assembly Session closed out on Monday after a whirlwind 90 days during which several weighty, emotional issues were debated and ultimately approved from gun control...

‘Tough Bill’ Ends Liquor Monopoly Two Years Early

BERLIN -- Compromise legislation that will allow the Casino at Ocean Downs to serve alcohol until 4 a.m. while moving up the sunset provision in the county’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) w...

ACLU Challenges New Ocean City Noise Law

OCEAN CITY -- Ocean City’s street performer laws are under attack again this week after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in U.S. District Court on behalf of a Boardwalk violi...

Ocean City Makes ‘Cigar Tree’ Centerpiece Of New Parking Lot

OCEAN CITY -- An old tree with “a lot of character” was spared the bulldozer recently when town officials decided to save it when paving a new municipal parking lot at 4th Street and as a ...

New Safety Markings Added To Highway

OCEAN CITY -- Prior to the peak tourism season in Ocean City, the State Highway Administration (SHA) in partnership with the Town of Ocean City is installing curb-top markings along Coastal Highway be...

Downtown Armed Robber Pleads Guilty

SNOW HILL -- An Ocean City man arrested last year after attempting to rob a downtown business at knife point before being subdued with a Taser by resort police pleaded guilty this week and was sentenc...