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...

Thoughts From The Publisher's Desk

State Comptroller Peter Franchot continued his unofficial bid for governor during a few stops on the lower shore yesterday, including an announcement of his desire for a new state policy forbidding sc...

City Council Moves Forward With New Scooter Regs

OCEAN CITY – Regulations placed on the resort’s scooter rental industry in town to improve public safety moved one step closer to final approval this week with just a couple of tweaks made...

WOC Cat Situation May Spark Changes

SNOW HILL -- In the wake of public outcry over the euthanasia of three West Ocean City cats, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office and Animal Control tried to clear the air Tuesday, presenting a...