Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Aug. 10, 2023) On June 17, the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors approved the appointment of Amy Peck to the Rec and Parks Committee. On Aug. 1, the board voted in an emergency session to remove her from the same committee. The vote was 4-2, with directors Steve Jacobs… Read more »
Best laid plans didn’t work, forcing association to delay ballot counting to Aug. 24 By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Aug. 10, 2023) After a troubled start, Election Trust, the Washington State company that the Election Committee entrusted with the 2023 Ocean Pines Association elections, has begun receiving and counting ballots. Election Trust has counted 1,519 … Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Aug. 3, 2023) Due to delays by this year’s election contractor, Washington State-based Election Trust, to mail ballots in a timely fashion, the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors decided at an emergency meeting Tuesday night to move back by two weeks all the dates related to the elections and… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer Time running out on grant to help cover cost of razing old poultry plant buildings (Aug. 3, 2023) The town of Berlin needs to make a decision by the end of August on what it wants to do with the Heron Park property, and as Mayor Zack Tyndall sees it,… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 27, 2023) The Berlin Fire Company delivered its quarterly update to the Berlin mayor and Town Council at their meeting on Monday. From July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, the company responded to 155 in-town calls and 215 calls from out of town. Seventy nine of those calls occurred… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 27, 2023) The Berlin Town Council approved a number of permits and expenses during their Monday meeting. The council approved special event permits for the Walnut Hill 20th Anniversary Block Party on Sept.16 and an “Enlightening Women” event at Henry Park for Oct. 15. The second event is planned… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer Meetings, greetings, trying to be seen in community (July 27, 2023) The election for the OPA board of directors is in its final weeks and candidates are doing the last of their campaigning. Jeff Heavner and John Latham are campaigning while exercising, with campaign signs stationed on their bikes as they… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer Council OK’s property’s reappraisal while original development deal left in limbo (July 27, 2023) The Berlin mayor and Town Council on Monday night discussed the future of Heron Park properties … again. They also went over what they did and didn’t want to happen on the 60-plus-acre former poultry processing… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 27, 2023) Doug Parks has spent the past seven years serving the residents of Ocean Pines on the Board of Directors. He was elected president four times including this past year. July was his last board meeting as a director and president. He has two achievements of which he… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 27, 2023) Colette Horn retires from the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors after two consecutive three-year terms and eight months as its president in 2022. During those six years, the board has been able to improve the financial health of the association. “We brought the organization out of… Read more »