The unofficial report this week is that the Worcester County Commissioners canceled this year’s cordial wine-and-dine get-together with the Ocean Pines Board of Directors because they weren’t feeling so cordial after hearing the community’s surprising request for much more county financial support that what it normally receives every year. The official report, meanwhile, is the… Read more »
Editorial
Drilling ban good for all
It’s rare in these tumultuous times that news comes out of Washington that doesn’t generate a divided response from the public, but that was the case with the announcement Tuesday by the Department of the Interior that offshore exploration for oil will not be taking place in the southeastern section of the Atlantic Ocean. When… Read more »
Is county shorting OPA?
Ocean Pines Association General Manager Bob Thompson made a good point in the association’s request last week for a major increase in the amount of money Worcester County government gives it in the county’s annual allocation to communities. Of the five major residential areas — Pocomoke, Snow Hill, Berlin, Ocean City, and Ocean Pines, the… Read more »
For voters, how it happens not as important as results
The problem with government is that most people don’t care who’s in charge, as long as they get what they want, while elected officials concern themselves first with who’s in charge and then worry about the results. Were that not the case, the nation wouldn’t be witnessing the huge mess that is Congress, which devotes… Read more »
M. Day, Pocomoke River key to Snow Hill growth
Where Michael Day goes, the resurgence flows. Or so it would surely appear, given the turn his latest project is taking. Day, who supposedly retired last year as the director of economic development for Berlin, took on the revitalization of the Town of Snow Hill as – one might assume — something to keep him… Read more »
Electric hike not shocking
The flap over Berlin’s electric rate miscue turned out to be somewhat less exciting than the major municipal malfunction it originally appeared to be. This was a case of a misunderstanding between town officials and Booth & Associates, the company with which it contracts to advise it on the operation 0f its electric utility. That… Read more »
Traffic could jam future
Palmer Gillis, of Gillis Gilkerson, the builder and developer of the Delmarva Health Pavilion in Ocean Pines, has a point. Although he refrained from saying it bluntly when he met with residents last Friday to discuss his project’s traffic flow problems, that facility is there to stay, like it or not. That won’t be the… Read more »
Bargain of assessments
The release this week of the Ocean Pines Association reserve study, coupled with comments made by General Manager Bob Thompson at his town hall meeting Saturdy, should provide residents with plenty to think about — and argue over — should they be so inclined. The reserve study, conducted by Design Management Associates Inc. of Richmond,… Read more »
Case of motion sickness
Although the matter was discussed Thursday and whatever resolution might have resulted occurred after this publication went to press, the philosophy behind the proposal to form a committee to study the Ocean Pines Association’s management situation by itself deserves some discussion. The short question, obviously, is why the OPA Board of Directors needs a committee… Read more »
Ask your own questions
Even though writing about budgets is part of reporting, there’s no way to present a story with sufficient detail to give the public anything more than a general idea of how a proposed financial package is going to work. Or not work, as the case may be. Even on the local level — never mind… Read more »