Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
Double congratulations are merited this week in two separate circumstances that nevertheless reflect the constant evolution of the Berlin community. In one instance, Debbie and Steve Frene, owners of Victorian Charm on Main Street, have decided to move on after more than two decades as a mainstay of the town’s commercial revival. Opened in 1996,… Read more »
Among the subjects that could come up at this Saturday’s Town Hall meeting in Ocean Pines is the current situation with the petitions that were rejected by the board of directors. One called for a referendum on whether to build the golf clubhouse, and the other on limiting board spending. While the board’s denial of… Read more »
Short-term rentals, seasonal versus year-round occupancy — Worcester County and its communities have full agendas of residential zoning matters that, more often than not, seem to operate according to the honor system. As zoning becomes more complicated, as it combines the practical, technical and cultural aspects of what can go where, the enforcement contingents of… Read more »
The active shooter course offered in Ocean Pines demonstrates just how strange our lives have become. It wasn’t that many years ago, after all, that even the suggestion of such a class would have been derided as the product of paranoia at worst, and an overactive imagination at best. Now, unnerving as it is to… Read more »
This has not been the Town of Berlin’s year. Although everyone generally accepts the principle that nothing stays positive forever, as the laws of the universe dictate, no one could have foreseen or expected that so many negatives would arrive one after the other on Town Hall’s doorstep. This is especially so considering the town’s… Read more »
They didn’t roll out the red carpet, but the Red Knights did roll out themselves to escort Berlin’s Junior League baseball team back to town after their stint in the World Series in Michigan last week. In addition to members of the motorcycle club, fire trucks from Berlin led the team home from Salisbury Monday… Read more »
Ocean Pines Association members have every reason to expect good things out of the new board of directors, which will assume its duties officially next week. With the election of three candidates who have expressed their support for the board’s successful approach to business in the past two years — and especially in recent months… Read more »
As the final day of balloting in the Ocean Pines election approaches, property owners who have yet to vote might be selecting three members of the board of directors on Wednesday, but they face only one real decision — how to keep the board on its current course. Essentially, considering yet another positive monthly financial… Read more »
Although no one has said why Berlin’s new park is closed temporarily — or how a relatively small patch of the hazardous chemical sodium hydroxide turned up between the park’s two ponds — a reasonable conclusion would be that the town took the action out of an abundance of caution. Although chances are the spill… Read more »
It’s not quite a take-it-or-leave-it proposition, but the State Highway Administration’s proposal to build a roundabout between Ocean Parkway and Route 589 at the North Gate comes close. As well-intentioned as demands for a formal hearing on this proposal might be, no state requirement exists for anything beyond an informational session on a suggested project… Read more »