Diakonia perseveres and moves forward Diakonia, the West Ocean City-based provider of services to the homeless, knows something about adversity as well as how to overcome it through perseverance. The nonprofit organization demonstrated the latter last Wednesday at the groundbreaking for a project that at one time appeared to be forever doomed. It’s not clear… Read more »
Editorial
Letter To The Editor: Local reps there for Berlin couple’s issue
Local reps there for Berlin couple’s issue Editor, We are writing this letter to let our fellow citizens know how our local government representatives from the offices of Delegate Wayne Hartman, Senator Mary Beth Carozza and Congressman Andy Harris, were there for us when my husband and I needed some help dealing with some medical… Read more »
Letter To The Editor: Spending too high for county workers
Spending too high for county workers Editor, It seems like our local police and county workers are behind the wheel of our economic development, literally. In about five short years, both the sheriff vehicles and the county staff vehicles have turned over three times. I have found out what the last two Chevrolet Tahoe models… Read more »
Letter To The Editor: Snow Hill looks for equitable funding
Snow Hill looks for equitable funding Editor, (The following letter was addressed to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore with a copy sent for publication.) We, the undersigned elected officials representing the Town of Snow Hill, respectfully write to express our concern regarding the equitable distribution of State funding to our community—specifically as it impacts Snow Hill’s… Read more »
08/14/2025 Bayside Editorial: Voters like way board handles OPA business
Voters like way board handles OPA business No big news is good news in the minds of Ocean Pines voters, who took a “no-changes” approach to this year’s Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors election. Rather than make headlines by shaking up the board despite a strong challenge by Amy Peck, a majority of voters… Read more »
Letter To The Editor: One Big Beautiful Bill yields benefits
One Big Beautiful Bill yields benefits Editor, I, and many others here on the Shore, are very excited about the many benefits for us and all Americans in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump. First and foremost is the provision which makes the tax… Read more »
08/07/2025 Bayside Editorial: What happens when systems aren’t ‘go’
What happens when systems aren’t ‘go’ To quote an old land use aphorism, development goes where the sewer flows, meaning the days have long since passed when developers could build a house just about anywhere if they could plop a septic tank in the backyard to handle the bathroom waste. Those systems seemed to work… Read more »
07/31/2025 Bayside Editorial: Town’s tax challenge not wrong, but …
Town’s tax challenge not wrong, but … Well, that was awkward. So it might be said of the Town of Berlin’s appeal of a state property tax assessment that it believed was lower than the property owner deserved. Although the argument by town staff didn’t say that exactly, that was the implication when they formally… Read more »
07/24/2025 Bayside Editorial: Reliable cell service vital for Ocean Pines
Reliable cell service vital for Ocean Pines Some cell phone service is better than no cell phone service, which is what many Ocean Pines residents frequently encounter when they try to use their mobile phones in and around the community. For reasons understood best by scientists, engineering types and experts in wireless communications, Ocean Pines… Read more »
07/17/2025 Bayside Editorial: Town should be able to revoke licenses
Town should be able to revoke licenses Being able to revoke a business’s license makes sense according to the laws of nature: for every action, there is an opposite reaction. Although it’s highly doubtful that Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion is nestled deep within the Berlin Town Code, it remains applicable to the… Read more »