By Tara Fischer Staff Writer Ocean Pines residents could experience a significant increase in fees if a proposed water and wastewater budget presented at a Worcester County Commissioners meeting last week is passed. The fiscal year 2026 Water/ Wastewater Enterprise Funds budget was presented at a meeting of the Worcester County Commissioners on March 18…. Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer As spring approaches, the Ocean Pines golf community is gearing up for its season kickoff event to welcome the warmer, golf-playing months. The 2025 Ocean Pines Opening Day Scramble is set for Saturday, April 5 with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. The community’s Men’s Golf Association and the Ladies’… Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer The Ocean Pines Association has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a contractor to handle this summer’s OPA Board of Directors election. The selected vendor will print and mail ballots and election materials such as candidate biographies, photographs, an annual meeting notice, and ballot instructions to all eligible voters…. Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer A new chicken restaurant option has come to the coastal area, this time with a southern twist. Crimson Coward, a Nashville hot chicken franchise based in California, opened its doors in Berlin last month. Morad Ramadan, the owner of the Berlin location and a 2001 Stephen Decatur High School graduate,… Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer Berlin’s Calvin B. Taylor House Museum will welcome visitors to its exhibits again this spring as the facility gears up to reopen its doors officially on Wednesday, April 2. According to Taylor House President Melissa Reid, the museum opens annually in early May. This season, however, the exhibition has moved… Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer  Friends of the Ocean Pines library recognized the branch’s youth director this week as the “Staff Member of the Year.” received the award at a March 11 luncheon following two weeks of voting by library staff members. Jim Meckley, the president of the library support group, said that this process… Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer Berlin’s largest well, located at Powellton Avenue, is set to undergo replacement. The Town Council unanimously approved awarding the project work to East Coast Contracting for approximately $409,955. The motion to proceed with the well upgrade was agreed upon at the municipality’s March 10 Mayor and Council meeting. Officials said… Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer Touch of Italy will take over the Ocean Pines Association’s food and beverage services at the Yacht Club, the Beach Club in Ocean City, and the Clubhouse Bar and Grille earlier than originally planned. Instead of assuming control of the operations on May 1, after the agreement with the previous… Read more »

By Tara Fischer Staff Writer Opponents of the  Microtel Inn and Suites by Wyndham, planned for the east side of Route 113 near Franklin Avenue in Berlin, are collecting signatures on a petition to bolster their claim that the project would create a safety hazard. The hotel, a planned four-story, 78-unit Microtel Inn and Suites,… Read more »

By Brian Shane Staff Writer Worcester County officials this week stopped short of tweaking the zoning code in order to prevent an offshore wind developer from legally operating as a public utility in the West Ocean City fishing harbor. The county’s Board of Commissioners at its Feb. 18 meeting considered a bill that would make… Read more »