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Free Lunches

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MORGAN PILZ/BAYSIDE GAZETTE Berlin residents came together to create bagged lunches at Baked Dessert Café in Berlin on March 16. Pictured, in front, from left, are Kyleith Powell, 13, Olivia Donovan, 15, Abby Melito, 14, and Sarah Reid, 17, and in back, Baked Dessert owner Robin Tomaselli, Pino Tomasello, Karen Bush- Purnell and Melissa Reid…. Read more »

Water Valve Repair

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PHOTO COURTESY THOM GULYAS Crews work well into the early hours of the morning on Feb. 2 to replace an aging water valve that failed on the intersection of Broad and West streets in Berlin.

Heron Park Cleanup

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MORGAN PILZ/BAYSIDE GAZETTE Staff from various Berlin town departments work on Jan. 29 to clean up residual debris following the discovery last year of a caustic soda spill at Heron Park and prepare to reopen the property to the public. Chesapeake Environmental Services handled the bulk of the cleanup for $283,000. Other work was done… Read more »

Skate Pros

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PHOTO BY GREG ELLISON Rehoboth Beach quad skaters, from left, Alyse Ritzler, Phalin Flynn, 9, and Delilah Curry school a mob of skateboarders at the Ocean Pines Skatepark in February.

Budget Vote

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PHOTO BY GREG ELLISON The Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors approved by a 6-1 vote the fiscal 2020/2021 operating budget during a public hearing in late February 2020, with vice president Steve Tuttle abstaining.

Bulkhead Repairs

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PHOTO BY GREG ELLISON Fisher Marine Construction crews inspect heavy equipment prior to undertaking bulk head repairs in February in Ocean Pines.

Showell Construction

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PHOTO COURTESY WORCESTER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Worcester County Board of Education authorized a $2.5 million requisition to continue construction at the replacement Showell Elementary School site on Showell School Road off Route 589 in Berlin during a meeting on Dec. 17. The project began on Sept. 29, 2018 and was expected to be complete… Read more »

New Showell Elementary

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MORGAN PILZ/BAYSIDE GAZETTE Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the construction of the new Showell Elementary School off Route 589 in Berlin continued as scheduled according to a report by the county school system’s Chief Financial Officer Vince Tolbert during the Worcester County Public Schools Board of Education teleconference meeting held on May 19. Work was being… Read more »

Measure Twice

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PHOTO BY GREG ELLISON During the first week of January 2020, workers with Federalsburg-based Accutrench Contracting kick off prep work as Comcast begins to run cables for individual homes along Ocean Parkway in northern Ocean Pines.

Enraptured

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PHOTO BY GREG ELLISON Ocean Pines resident Alexis Vickers enraptures Leah Ever- son, 6, and Declan Boyle, 4 with soap bubbles in White Horse Park as a multitude of children take advantage of mild weekend temperatures during mid-January in 2020.