Downtown Ocean City Hoping To Light Up For Holidays, Again

OCEAN CITY – The Downtown Association is looking to return the holiday spirit to downtown Ocean City by adding a celebration to Sunset Park this year, while keeping a goal to collect contributio...

Driver Gets Five Years In OC Pedestrian Fatality

SNOW HILL -- A Virginia man who struck and killed a pedestrian on Coastal Highway last Memorial Day weekend while driving drunk and then fled the scene was sentenced last week to five years in jail. A...

Clean Water Act Suit Enters Final Stretch

BERLIN -- The latest milestone in the ongoing landmark civil suit filed against a Berlin farm family and Perdue over alleged pollution violations passed this week with parties on both sides filing the...

County Shelter Thankful For Renovation Help

WEST OCEAN CITY -- A team of contractors and their crews, led by the local Home Depot, helped give a facelift to the Worcester County Humane Society (WCHS) last week. “We had so many different p...

Two Sentenced In Raceway Citgo Store Armed Robbery

SNOW HILL -- Two of the four suspects indicted by a Worcester County grand jury for their roles in the armed hold-up of a Route 50 convenience store and subsequent high speed chase in Ocean City in Au...

Worcester’s Drop-Out Rate Far Below ‘Acceptable’ Standard

BERLIN -- Flexible programs and support tailored to the individual student are the main reasons why Worcester County constantly sports some of the lowest drop-out and highest graduation rates in the s...

Track Repairs Bring Trains Back To Berlin

BERLIN -- The blaring train horn so familiar to Berlin residents and visitors silenced for months after a major August storm has returned. For decades, the loud, shrill whistle of the Maryland and Del...

Resort Expected To Soon Name Interim Police Chief

OCEAN CITY -- With the clock ticking on Ocean City Police Chief Bernadette DiPino’s tenure as head of the department, resort officials are now undertaking the process of finding her replacement,...

Proposed Music Festival Moving To Country Genre

OCEAN CITY – Although the presentation before the Mayor and Council was unexpectedly delayed this week, documentation shows the High Tide Music Festival’s genre has been transferred from r...

Salisbury Police Awarded Grants

SALISBURY – The City Council faced a lengthy consent agenda this week but was happy to accept the list of donations and grant funds to benefit the city’s fire and police department. The Ci...