Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Hunter Hine, Staff Writer Circuit court motions filed but judge has yet to decide on request from accused (July 6, 2023) July 11 will mark one year since the hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of 14-year-old Ocean Pines resident Gavin Knupp. In the months since, the Knupp family has formed a charity… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 6, 2023) The Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee provided a report to the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors on the conditions of the community’s parks. The report contained a substantial list of recommendations. Based on a survey of residents conducted in the fall of 2022, the committee reviewed the… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 6, 2023) When the future of Heron Park came up for discussion at the June 24 mayor and council meeting in Berlin, some members of the public seemed unsure of the details included in Coastal Ventures Properties’ proposal for the property’s development. That is about to change, as the… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman (June 29, 2023) The Berlin Town council conducted a first reading of an ordinance this week that would provide for the use of speed cameras in designated school zones. A school zone is a half-mile radius around a public or private school. The speed zone would operate between 6 a.m and 8… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (June 29, 2023) People who are looking for quirky gifts, unique jewelry, antiques and fashion for the home or clothing, and love a little adventure, Love Letters is it. Shop owner Brandi Mellinger has settled into this unusual shop on the grounds of Mariner’s Country Down at 11341 Sinepuxent Road… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (June 29, 2023) The Berlin mayor and council got into a fiery debate with the Berlin Fire Company President David Fitzgerald during the council mayor meeting on Monday night. What was on the table was discussed in the last council meeting: the town says it does not have the funding… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer Town still undecided on ways to develop 17-acre property (June 29, 2023) The continuing discussion of what to do with Heron Park resumed at the Berlin mayor and Town Council meeting Monday night, with officials still debating how to proceed with the development of a portion of it. The former… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (June 29, 2023) Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman took time out of the Maryland Municipal League conference in Ocean City to visit Mayor Zach Tyndall and get a tour of Berlin on Monday. Lierman, who is from Baltimore City, had never visited Berlin before, so when Tyndall offered to give her… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (June 29, 2023) Ocean Pines recently introduced a new couples membership to the community pools and it has paid off. Funds from membership have increased from $249,460 last May to $270,780 in May 2023. “While we saw a reduction in the number of family members, enough couples signed up, which… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (June 29, 2023) Barbara Parnell remembers butterflies in the fall. The entire area was filled with butterflies, she recalled from her student days at Germantown School in the 1950s. The two-room school house on Trappe Road was built in 1923 by the Rosenwald Foundation Rural School Building Program as part… Read more »