By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) New twists on several classic oyster dishes will highlight the 8th annual Snow Hill Oyster Roast on Sunday, Feb. 25 from 1-5 p.m., downtown. Tickets, which went on sale Jan.1, sold out in six days. Sponsored by the Snow Hill Chamber of Commerce, the event was limited… Read more »

Engineers brief public and business owners; one-way conversion appears unlikely By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) A larger-than-expected crowd came away mostly satisfied with plans for waterline, road and sidewalk improvements on Gay Street at a meeting on the project last Wednesday night in Berlin. Josh Taylor, a senior engineer with Davis, Bowen… Read more »

Director says $2M budget shortfall more than 27-year total from 1990 to 2016 By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) The projected $2 million operational deficit accumulated during the last two years is “the worst financial hole Ocean Pines has ever been in,” Ocean Pines Association Director Ted Moroney said in a public meeting… Read more »

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) Pocomoke City Councilwoman Esther Troast is seeking support to help #FixLocalRoads. Troast attended a recent Mayor’s Association Conference in Annapolis on behalf of ailing Mayor Bruce Morrison, and said she came back with a many new contacts and information. The most important, she said, was the Maryland… Read more »

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) Management of the Ocean Pines Association yacht and beach clubs is reportedly down to just two contenders: the Matt Ortt Companies, which run establishments such as Rare & Rye in Ocean City, and a group led by former Ocean Pines Food and Beverage Director Joe Reinhart. The… Read more »

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) While Atlantic General Hospital President and CEO Michael Franklin recently made the rounds of public meetings in Worcester County, Ocean City and Pocomoke, his visit to the Berlin mayor and Town Council Monday night was different. For this session, he accompanied by Jack Burbage, the force behind… Read more »

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) The Pocomoke City Council discussed the following items during a meeting at Town Hall last Monday. Discovery Center The City Council agreed to waive 12 months in loan fees, about $7,000, for the Delmarva Discovery Center. Discover Center Director Stacey Weisner said she recently had to replace… Read more »

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) In the next five years, Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services in Berlin would like to increase grant and donation funding by at least $5,000, expand existing services and staffing, develop a marketing plan, and expand programs into Pocomoke. The nonprofit on Tuesday released its five-year strategic… Read more »

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) After meeting with Town of Berlin officials on Tuesday, representatives said an effort to replace some sandwich-board signs downtown was tabled indefinitely. About six months ago, Robin Tomaselli of the Berlin Arts and Entertainment Committee spearheaded a pilot program to test planter boxes with small, rectangular shingles… Read more »

By Brian Gilliland, Associate Editor (Feb. 15, 2018) For the past three years, regular attendees of county commissioner meetings fell into one of four groups: county staff, local attorneys, two reporters from local weekly newspapers and Josh Nordstrom. Nordstrom, 45, makes no bones about his intentions — he wants to be Pocomoke City’s representative on… Read more »