Ocean City Proclaims Today As ‘Purple Friday’

OCEAN CITY – The Town of Ocean City proudly proclaimed today as Purple Friday in support of the Baltimore Ravens. On Tuesday afternoon, Council Chambers at City Hall was filled with black and pu...

Man’s Death Ruled A Homicide

OCEAN CITY -- One local man is dead and another behind bars on manslaughter and other charges after an altercation last weekend outside a downtown Ocean City bar. Around 1:30 a.m. last Saturday, Ocean...

Local Veterans Gather To Observe Tet Anniversary

OCEAN PINES -- In a solemn, quiet ceremony yesterday, about a dozen U.S. veterans and their supporters gathered at the wind-swept Worcester County Veterans Memorial at Ocean Pines to commemorate the 4...

Voices From The Readers

Berlin Reflections Editor: I had the unfortunate experience of attending an exercise in futility - the public hearing on the Berlin stormwater utility. It was a standing-room only meeting. There were ...

Marylanders Do Not Need More Taxes

The Maryland legislature reconvened this month and it only took about a week before talk of tax increases started dominating the headlines. The state’s budget situation in Annapolis is much impr...

Thoughts From The Publisher's Desk

In Ocean City, it’s going to be interesting to see how the re-emergence of the town’s subcommittees works out in the long term.At this point, it’s known subcommittees will be formed ...

We Remember Those We Have Lost

James Philip Couillard PITTSVILLE -- James Philip Couillard, 16, of Pittsville, passed away after a long illness at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Born in Salisbury, he is survived by his fa...

NEW FOR WEDNESDAY: Nightclub Cleared In $1M Civil Lawsuit

OCEAN CITY -- A popular Ocean City nightclub this week was cleared in a $1 million civil lawsuit by a plaintiff who was brutally raped on a private parking area away from the establishment in 2008. Af...

A Week In Business

Bank Appointment SALISBURY – Shore Bank President and Chief Executive Officer W. Thomas Mears announced that Jean H. Sewell, CPA, CGMA, CFMP has been appointed to Senior Vice President and Direc...

Delmarva Education Foundation Holds Ribbon Cutting

The Delmarva Education Foundation held a ribbon cutting for its annual Scholarship Fair at The Centre at Salisbury on Jan. 12. More than 500 students from 20 high schools attended. Scholarship Fair sp...