You can’t blame a guy for trying. At least that’s how Berlin Mayor Zack Tyndall might feel after attempting to unite the county’s towns and Ocean Pines in asking the county commissioners for more money for the fiscal year ahead. Tyndall’s strategy was to convince the other jurisdictions to make a unified pitch for $500,000… Read more »
Editorial
Data breaches rising, so take extra caution
The internet is not your friend. No matter how much we depend on it for communication, shopping, research, data transfers and other seemingly benign uses, it remains a soulless network of wires, signals, servers and switches that is capable of improving our lives or ruining them. It is both a front door to the world… Read more »
Housing woes driving solicitations to sell
Having people knocking your door down to buy your property might sound like a good problem to have, especially if the price exceeds your expectations. But as tantalizing as some of these offers might be, accepting them means having to find another place to live at a price that the sales proceeds will allow. In… Read more »
Berlin should protect its trees, but carefully
Berlin should protect its trees, but carefully I think that I shall never see. A poem lovely as a tree … So wrote American poet Joyce Kilmer in February 1913, as he reportedly looked out the window at his wooded lawn. This poem, which has been criticized as too simple and has been parodied endlessly,… Read more »
Affordable housing needs attention too
As the Town of Berlin joins Ocean City’s pursuit of a major sports complex in northern Worcester County, it also needs to help provide an answer to the continuously overlooked question of where the employees of a sports complex and its service providers will live. Although this athletic facility is not expected to employ a… Read more »
Commissioners facing business-friendly test
With the state’s reassessment of property values in the Ocean City tax area this year, the public will get to see just how business-friendly the Worcester County Commissioners are. The stunning spike in valuations — a 47.7 percent increase for residential properties and 32.5 percent for commercial real estate — offers mouth-watering financial possibilities for… Read more »
Letter to the Editor
The following is a letter that Ocean City resident Vince Gisriel recently sent to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore regarding a proposed sports complex in Worcester County. The letter references another letter Gisriel sent to members of the Ocean City Sports Complex Task Force opposing the project. Dear Governor Moore, Enclosed you will find a… Read more »
12/21/2023 Editorial
Letter from the Editor
Just so there’s no misunderstanding … When it comes to social media, it is one aspect of our current technology that I have never used and don’t want to use, since I blame it for many of the ills of society. It is, in my view, more of an anti-social media because it allows cowardly… Read more »
Call it what you want, it’s still OP’s chamber
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked in “Romeo and Juliet” to show that what we call something doesn’t change what it is. That perspective is applicable in the case of the newly minted Worcester County Chamber of Commerce, which, for all purposes, is still the Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce. It will continue serving its… Read more »