By Kara Hallissey, Staff Writer (Dec. 7, 2017) Screen-printing T-shirts and making ornaments and wreaths are a few of the projects children can create during Artfest at Berlin Intermediate School, this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The art department is slated to have 23 holiday-inspired stations set up for children 3-12 years old,… Read more »
Community
Annual Christmas dinner moves to Holy Savior in OC
(Dec. 7, 2017) The N.O.E.L. (Nothing Other than Eating and Loving) Community will present its 20th annual Christmas Dinner on Dec. 25 at Holy Savior Catholic Church on 17th Street and Coastal Highway. It will take place at Holy Savior this year because of renovations at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, where the event is normally… Read more »
Holiday Maker’s Market in Berlin
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Dec. 7, 2017) A Holiday Maker’s Market in downtown Berlin from 5-8 p.m. Friday will highlight the final 2nd Friday art stroll of 2017. Heather Layton, chairwoman of the Berlin Arts and Entertainment Committee, which oversees the event, said the portion of Jefferson Street at the corner of Main Street… Read more »
Ocean Pines Association Briefs
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Dec. 7, 2017) The Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors discussed the following items during a meeting in the community center last Thursday: Prez’s remarks on pool Association President Doug Parks gave a “shout out” to the Oasis Pool Working Group and its recommendations for usage of the formerly adult-only… Read more »
Winners of Snow Hill’s Christmas parade announced
(Dec. 7, 2017) The Snow Hill Lions Club announces the winners of the Snow Hill Christmas parade, held in the downtown area on Dec. 4. The winners are: Best Color Guard: Duncan Showell American Legion Post 231 Best Marching Band: Pocomoke High School Best Senior Commercial Float: Walmart of Pocomoke Best Fire Company: Pocomoke City… Read more »
Pines nonprofit benefits soldiers serving overseas
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Dec. 7, 2017) A Maryland Army National Guard truck pulled up to Anna Foultz’s home in Ocean Pines last Thursday to haul away dozens of bags of items donated for soldiers serving overseas. Foultz and her late husband, Carl, started the “Holiday Gifts for Our Soldiers Overseas” drive two decades… Read more »
Snow Hill’s model train garden open through December
By Greg Ellison, Staff Writer (Dec. 7, 2017) Smoking locomotives, albeit of the scale-model variety, will be chugging around the tracks of a Snow Hill-themed train garden running upstairs at the Pocomoke River Canoe Company from 1-4 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday during December. For the past quarter century, the Corddry Company Crossing Model Railroad… Read more »
Retriever Bruce fetches coveted ‘Pup of the Pines’
(Dec. 7, 2017) The winner of the Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks Department’s third annual “Pup of the Pines” photo contest is Bruce, a 90-pound golden retriever. He received the greatest number of votes from attendees at the Ocean Pines Halloween fall festival on Oct. 28. He was recognized as the winner during the community’s… Read more »
Hazardous Waste Collection Day
(Nov. 30, 2017) The Worcester County Public Works Recycling Division will host Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, Dec. 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Showell Elementary School on Route 589 (Racetrack Road). Household hazardous waste and computers/laptops may be dropped off, but no other electronics will be accepted. Household hazardous waste… Read more »
Ocean Pines Players to perform
(Nov. 30, 2017) The Ocean Pines Players welcome all to usher in the Christmas season by watching the group spoof time-honored holiday traditions. The play by Michael Carlton, Jim FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez, with original music by Will Knapp, will be performed as an interactive dramatic reading. The energetic cast offers alternative interpretations of… Read more »