Tidal Health, Atlantic put patient care first Congratulations to the leadership at Tidal Health and Atlantic General Hospital for bringing the two institutions together after years of competing for the loyalty and support of the coastal population. By formally merging last week, the hospitals’ boards of directors and executives put an end to a relationship… Read more »
Editorial
5/02/2025 Gazette Editorial: Water, sewer rates another fine mess
Water, sewer rates another fine mess It’s another fine mess the Worcester County Commissioners have gotten themselves into, and now they have little choice but to make another mess getting out of it. That mess would be the millions of dollars in debt on the books in some of county’s water and sewer district accounts,… Read more »
4/24/2025 Gazette Editorial: Solar farm hearing chance to speak up
Solar farm hearing chance to speak up Opponents and proponents of a solar energy farm on the edge of the Town of Berlin will have an opportunity to express their opinions on the project in a May 6 virtual hearing. An announcement by the Maryland Public Service Commission on Tuesday invited members of the public… Read more »
04/17/2025 Bayside Editorial: Hill verdict reaction
Hill verdict reaction The spectacular rise and fall of former Ocean Pines Association General Manager Brett Hill is the subject of numerous conversations this week, following his conviction in federal court on 16 counts of withholding payroll taxes but not paying it to the IRS. Hill became interim general manager in 2016 and resigned in… Read more »
04/17/2025 Bayside Editorial: Finally, deal is done
Finally, deal is done It took over three years to get the deal done, but the town’s sale of one of the uglier pieces of the Heron Park property to developers Palmer and Sandy Gillis should prove to be worth the wait. Sooner would have been better, but you take what you can get and… Read more »
04/10/2025 Bayside Editorial: School super choice will be first for county
School super choice will be first for county Worcester County’s public school system is about to make history, locally at least, as the board of education is on the verge of naming its first female superintendent of schools. With local candidate Annette Wallace and Baltimore County’s Monique Wheatley-Phillip the finalists in the school board’s selection… Read more »
04/03/2025 Bayside Editorial: Federal funding cut flows down to schools
Federal funding cut flows down to schools As if the State of Maryland didn’t already have enough problems scrounging up money to bridge the great divide between revenues and expenditures for the year ahead, now it must find a way to cover the loss of $418 million in federal education funds it thought it already… Read more »
Letter To The Editor: County must follow own current code
County must follow own current code Editor, (The following is a copy of a letter sent to the Worcester County Commissioners and requested for publication.) Thank you for your efforts on the behalf of Worcester County residents. I am proud to be a long term, voting, tax paying resident whose address for the past 33… Read more »
03/27/2025 Bayside Editorial: No good options exist for covering deficits
No good options exist for covering deficits It isn’t the current Worcester County Commissioners’ fault that they inherited a hodgepodge of independent sanitary districts of various sizes and purposes, or that past accounting of each district’s theoretically separate enterprise fund drew money from one to balance the budget of another. Although it is somewhat ironic… Read more »
03/20/2025 Bayside Editorial: Exempting shelters makes perfect sense
Exempting shelters makes perfect sense Not every piece of legislation introduced in the Maryland General Assembly makes sense. Wait, let’s amend that. Now and then, out of the torrent of filings introduced in the legislature each year there emerges one that makes perfect sense. One such measure this year is House Bill 1414 sponsored by… Read more »