We Remember Those We Have Lost

James Ryan VanSciver BISHOPVILLE -- James Ryan VanSciver, age 34, died Tuesday March 26, 2013 in Baltimore. Born in Salisbury, he was the son of James Van Sciver and Christine Waters Wenker. He is als...

NEW FOR TUESDAY: Third Weekend Surfing Beach Eyed In Ocean City; Beach Patrol To Presented Proposed Schedule

OCEAN CITY – The newly established Surfing Beach Sub-Committee met for the first time yesterday to discuss modernizing Ocean City’s surfing laws, including the establishment of a third des...

NEW FOR WEDNESDAY: Protesters Draw Attention In Ocean City

OCEAN CITY -- An otherwise quiet and peaceful post-holiday afternoon was marked by a rather unusual protest even for Ocean City standards when representatives of the “Bloodstained Men” act...

NEW FOR MONDAY: Flounder Season Now Open In Maryland; Captains Happy With Reduced Size Minimum

OCEAN CITY -- After years of season closures and shrinking keeper size limits and creel limits, Maryland’s summer flounder season opened last Thursday with some of the loosest regulations in rec...

Independent Report Confirms Divide In OC Public Safety Operations

OCEAN CITY -- An independent review of Ocean City’s emergency services dispatch system has confirmed the town has a major communication problem involving two key public safety departments. The I...

Shelter Mourns Mayor

Editor: We lost our mayor today. Not one of the human mayors of the local towns, rather the anointed mayor of the Worcester County Humane Society. His name is Shawnee. For the many of us whose lives h...

Voices From Our Readers

Wasteful Laboring Editor: I visited Ocean City this past week and while walking the boardwalk I witnessed severe waste of tax dollars. The crew rebuilding the Caroline Street comfort station spent mos...

Thoughts From The Publisher's Desk

Disturbing is the best way to describe the recent report by the IMCA Center for Public Safety Management that chronicles the “very poor” communication that exists between the Ocean City Fi...

Cops & Courts

OCPD Busts Pot Growing Operation OCEAN CITY -- An Ocean City man faces numerous drug charges this week after an OCPD narcotics unit raid on his residence Tuesday evening revealed an alleged marijuana...

Senate OKs Bill Exempting OC From Recycling Measure

OCEAN CITY -- Legislation that would provide an exemption for the countless condominiums and apartment buildings in Ocean City from placing mandatory recycling bins on their properties cruised through...