WHALEYVILLE — In an effort to boost mutual tourism opportunities the Maryland Wineries Association has initiated a program to entice regular travelers to consider adding local winery visits to their itineraries. The Maryland Wine Passport is a book that looks just like a passport, with blank pages that can be stamped at each winery visited…. Read more »
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Young whippersnapper at Frontier Town
BERLIN — Shane Karson stood in the dooryard of his childhood home at the center of Frontier Town admonishing his 3-year-old son, Clay, to pay attention. Clay was swinging his bull whip above his head and preparing to snap a target out of his father’s hands, pretty much as Karson had done in that very… Read more »
Local Leaders Learn Lessons from Local Management Board
BERLIN – The Local Management Board held an educational event at Worcester County Youth and Family Services Monday afternoon aimed at educating their local and state representatives about the LMB’s mission, programs and progress. The plan was to hold a lunch event after the election as a way to reach out to the various people… Read more »
Java Bay Café opens in Ocean Pines Yacht Club
OCEAN PINES – Looking around the recently-opened Java Bay Cafe at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club it is immediately apparent that Ocean Pines Association General Manager Bob Thompson is right to be proud of his team’s accomplishment in the facility’s new concept and operation. The experience is improved just inside the Yacht Club entrance where… Read more »
Learn Some Ocean City History on Sunday
OCEAN CITY – One of the great advantages to year-round residence is the ability to take advantage of tourist attractions in the relative peace and quiet of the winter months, especially those experiences enhanced by quiet and the space to enjoy them at your leisure. With the goal of increasing locals’ access to and familiarity… Read more »
Two Rooms Opens at The Globe
BERLIN — The Brown Box Theater Project will return to the Globe on the heels of it’s very successful performance of Belly Full of Stones in September for a limited engagement of Lee Blessing’s politically charged, two-act drama “Two Rooms.” The success of their first performance — Septembers production of Kimberly Barrante’s absurdist “Belly Full… Read more »
Water’s Edge Gallery to hold symposium
BERLIN – The central question for artists revolves around the nature of reality opposed with and compared to its representation. Working within this kind of constant questioning is what makes painters also philosophers; attempting to evoke ideas, messages and emotions through images that connote words rather than the reverse. It is no surprise, then, that… Read more »
It’s magic touring with Disney Live
SALISBURY – Proportionately, it’s easier to make it as a rock star than as a magician so when Brad Ross found a steady gig at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., right out of college it was a job with which he was pretty happy. Ross was captivated by the magician’s performance at his… Read more »
Remembering the fallen
OCEAN PINES — Last year, Members of the Worcester County Veterans Memorial Foundation (WCVMF) engaged in their first real participation in the Wreaths Across America although many of them had been participating in the program for longer than that. WCVMF secretary, Marie Gilmore helped to organize the drive that places nearly 300 wreaths on the… Read more »
‘Is Your Life Worth Half a Second?’
BERLIN – Driving safety expert and author Herb Simon will skeptically grant it is conceivable that you can text while driving, exceed the speed limit by 10 miles per hour, or perform any of the other acts that people believe they can safely add to the number of things they can do while driving. But… Read more »