Mallards Fall To Sabres 16-11

BERLIN- A five-goal outburst by visiting Saints Peter and Paul early in the second quarter on Tuesday proved to be the difference in the Sabres’ 16-11 win over Worcester Prep, which otherwise pl...

Council Mulls Adding Booking System To Website

OCEAN CITY – Rather than voting prematurely to add a centralized booking system to the town’s website, the Mayor and City Council delayed the move to consider the impact it would have on t...

City Council Approves $1,000 Worker Bonus

OCEAN CITY – Ocean City employees are slated to receive a $1,000 bonus in July, but the Mayor and Council had some initial differences of opinion to work through before making that decision. Las...

ATM Loophole Lawsuits Filed; Businesses Warned To Comply

OCEAN CITY -- Resort business owners and operators this week are being warned about posting clearly marked signs about transaction fees for ATM machines after a rash of lawsuits exploiting a little kn...

County Liquor Control On Pace For $556K Profit

SNOW HILL -- The Department of Liquor Control (DLC) is on track to meet its year-end profit goal of $556,500, according to officials. When Worcester decided to absorb the then quasi-governmental Liquo...

Diakonia Named First Recipient Of Schaefer Award

WEST OCEAN CITY -- Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot was in West Ocean City yesterday morning to present the first-ever William Donald Schaefer Helping People Award for Worcester County to Diakonia,...

Post-Labor Day School Start Pushed

OCEAN CITY -- State Comptroller Peter Franchot met with resort business leaders yesterday morning to announce his initiative to push the start date for public schools across Maryland back until after ...

Area Businesses Score RAM Awards

OCEAN CITY -- The Restaurant Association of Maryland held its 58th Annual McCormick and Company Stars of the Industry Awards gala on Monday, recognizing the top restaurants and bars across the state i...

Voices From The Readers

Stop The Subsidizing Editor: The proposed increase in the OC tax rate from $.395 to $.4685 represents a tax rate increase of 18.6 percent. My assessed value didn't decrease by that percentage. The Cit...

Employee Bonus Concept Popular

As part of budget deliberations, government officials in Ocean City and Berlin were weighing the allocation of one-time employee bonuses this week as a way, they say, to show appreciation for their em...