The National Title I Association announced Pocomoke Elementary School (PES) has been named a National Title I Distinguished School by the Maryland State Department of Education. Pocomoke Elementary is one of up to 100 schools throughout the country that is being nationally recognized for exceptional student achievement in 2016. A project of the National Title… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) A Worcester County Circuit Court jury took less than 45 minutes last Thursday to find all parties negligent in the fatal Nov. 8, 2013 accident on Route 113, where State Police Trooper Nicholas Hager ran into teenagers Tymeir Dennis and Tyheim Bowen with his unmarked patrol car. No damages were awarded to… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) The Ocean Pines Association announced on Tuesday it had parted ways with golf management company Landscapes Unlimited and would self-manage the golf course. The association ousted former golf manager company Billy Casper Golf in February 2015. Landscapes Unlimited, based in Nebraska, took over in May 2015. The company’s 36-month contract reportedly included… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) As the legislation that got the wheel turning on Project 25 — a radio interoperability requirement that would allow local, state, federal and other officials to talk to each other in an emergency — was signed by former Gov. Martin O’Malley, Snow Hill and Pocomoke can’t argue they didn’t see it coming…. Read more »

(March 2, 2017) Though the official town budget is set to be voted on later this spring, Snow Hill has begun the process by preparing its request to be heard by the county commissioners next Tuesday by collecting wish lists from selected department heads. Though the numbers are likely to change between now and final… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) District 3 residents have until next Tuesday to register to vote in the April 4 contest between incumbent Dale Trotter or challenger Monna Van Ess for a seat on the city council — if they had been previously unregistered or allowed existing registrations to expire. In Worcester County, registrations expire after a… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) The lesson in Deborah Newell’s book, “Memories in a Daughter’s Heart,” is that dealing with grief can take many forms. For Newell it came as writing a book about dealing with the loss of her mother. Newell, a Snow Hill native now residing in Virginia Beach, lost her mother, Rachel Chapman, about… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) The Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors approved a $13.5 million fiscal year budget for 2018 during a meeting, Saturday. In the document, total projected revenues are $11.8 million, equal to the amount of operating expenses and transfers. New capital from reserves was about $1.7 million. Two late changes to the budget… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) A pair of 4-3 votes on Saturday cleared the final two hurdles in passing the fiscal year 2018 budget for Ocean Pines. Four directors, Brett Hill, Cheryl Jacobs, Pat Supik and Board President Tom Herrick, voted to approve a $25 increase in the annual fee for beach club parking passes. The fee… Read more »

(March 2, 2017) Anna Foultz and friends will host a spaghetti dinner to benefit the local Girl Scouts on Monday, March 13 at DeNovo’s Trattoria in Ocean Pines, at 5 p.m. Foultz, 91, is recognized as the oldest Girl Scout in the U.S. and said the event would support girls who cannot afford scouting activities…. Read more »