(April 14, 2016) For the third year running, a two-block section of Downtown Pocomoke will be closed to vehicle traffic as the town welcomes the return of warmer weather during the Downtown Pocomoke Spring Festival this Saturday. The festival and live entertainment will begin at 11 a.m. and continue until about 4 p.m. “It’s similar… Read more »

 (April 14, 2016) The Town of Berlin is reminding residents of its spring yard waste collection schedule. If normal trash day is a Tuesday or a Wednesday, yard waste pick up day is Wednesday, April 20. If normal trash day is a Thursday, yard waste pick up day will be Wednesday, April 27. Residents are… Read more »

(April 14, 2016) For 38-year-old Ashton, Maryland native Barb Mowery, Paint Snow Hill was the gateway drug to her fondness for plein air painting. The popular annual event returns this week, April 14-17. “It’s all Snow Hill’s fault,” she said. “We lived in Ocean City and I remember seeing a flyer for Paint Snow Hill,… Read more »

(April 14, 2016) Registration is still being accepted for Ocean Pines Aquatics’ Super Sprint Tri to be held on Saturday, April 23 at 8 a.m. at the Sports Core Pool, located at 11443 Cathell Road in Ocean Pines. The event will consist of a quarter-mile swim, a 6.2-mile bike ride and a 1.5-mile run. Twelve… Read more »

(April 14, 2016) Snow Hill and Laurel, Delaware will join this fall for a new two-state event that has been dubbed Delmarva Paddling Weekend. The watersports happening is being modeled after the successful Delmarva Birding Weekend, April 21-24, which includes activities along the Chesapeake and Delaware bays and their tributaries as well as the coastal… Read more »

(April 14, 2016) Berlin Little League play opened last weekend, with three Major League baseball games, and one Major League softball game. Major League baseball (Friday) Blue Jays 5 Royals 3 Berlin Little League, Majors division, opened the 2016 season on Friday. Both teams battled through the chilly night, but Blue Jays pitching prevailed 5-3,… Read more »

(April 14, 2016) As health plan deductibles rise and the portion of the hospital bill patients are responsible for only continues to increase, the value of price transparency to individuals considering their healthcare options is also rising. Gone are the days when most insured individuals could expect to pay – and therefore plan for –… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) For years, Jackie Ball and Heidi McNeeley have shared the terrible bond of having a family member who struggles with heroin addiction.   Today, Thursday, April 7, they will host the first meeting of a new group, Worcester County Warriors Against Opiate Addiction, at the Ocean Pines Library at 6:30 p.m., designed… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) Before the elections last Tuesday, City Clerk Carol Sullivan said results would only take 15 to 30 minutes before they were posted online, and she’d have been right too, if a discrepancy hadn’t surfaced. As of Wednesday morning and press time, no winner had been declared in an election where 132 total… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) Phase one of a public mural unveiled last month and hanging outside the Berlin Visitor’s Center involved second and third-grade students from nearby Buckingham Elementary School. Painting of the second phase will include children from three programs at Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc. in Berlin. Muralist John Donato will continue… Read more »