(July 30, 2015) Combines are a familiar sight on the Eastern Shore, moving purposefully and efficiently through fields of grain, corn and soy beans, offloading their harvest into waiting trucks. But seeing a combine from afar is very different from being close enough to touch one. Snow Hill is the Home of the Blessing of… Read more »

(July 30, 2015) The Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce will host its eighth annual Flounder Fishing Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 1. Cash prizes will be awarded for the largest flounder caught. The first-place winner will receive $500 and a trophy. The anger who reels in the second largest flounder will take home $300 and the… Read more »

(July 30, 2015) Assateague Island Alliance (AIA), the friends group of Assateague Island National Seashore, announces the first Resident Artist Program, Oct. 26 through Nov. 8.   Based in Arizona, Karen McLain’s extensive body of work captures the wild horses of the west on canvas. She will bring her expertise painting en plein air to… Read more »

(July 30, 2015) Students from technical education programs in Newark-area high schools and colleges won the nation’s highest awards at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills conference. Industry leaders representing more than 600 businesses, corporations, trade associations and unions recognized the students for demonstrating excellence in 100 hands-on occupational and leadership competitions such as robotics,… Read more »

(July 30, 2015) The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore announces the 2015 deadline for the Education Awards Grant Program. Public and private schools on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore must submit proposals no later than Friday, Aug. 21 at 4 p.m.   In 2014, the Community Foundation awarded more than $50,000 for programs benefiting local… Read more »

(July 23, 2015) It says something about a small town when three grown men wearing bathrobes and shower caps can lead a parade of makeshift bathtubs down Main Street on a Friday evening and not one of the hundreds of people in attendance seemed at all fazed. Such was the scene during the 2015 Bathtub… Read more »

(July 23, 2015) The Berlin Fire Company’s motion for a partial summary judgment in the Zackary Tyndall case that alleges that he was harassed was denied last Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander. Hollander’s rejection of the motion came just short of two years after Tyndall, a former fire company employee, filed… Read more »

(July 23, 2015) Ocean Pines continued to move toward a formal study of how to build and maintain its reserve fund, along with how much that fund should be, as it met last Friday with representatives of three companies that perform that service for homeowners Each company provided a roughly 30-minute presentation on how it… Read more »

(July 23, 2015) Berlin Mayor Gee Williams and Pocomoke Mayor Bruce Morrison relived their recent High Heel Race rivalry, exchanging several playful jibes – and challenging another local leader – during the July meeting of the Lower Eastern Shore Mayor’s Association, held at Leaky Pete’s in Berlin last Thursday. In June, the pair faced off… Read more »

(July 23, 2015) The Friends of the Ocean Pines Library announces two art exhibits for the coming months.   In the main common areas of the library, July artist of the month is watercolorist Marcy Snyder. She discovered her love and passion for the arts in high school. She attended Colorado Women’s College and graduated… Read more »