OCEAN PINES—The Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Music Director Julien Benichou will raise the baton for a 2013-2014 season premiere performance on Oct. 13 with French violinist Arnaud Sussmann performing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35. Benichou said he had wanted very much to conduct the classical favorite by Tchaikovsky and thought it… Read more »

This article was published on Oct. 10, 2013. Phil Jacobs, a newspaper veteran of more than 30 years, has been named editor of Ocean City Today and its sister paper, Bayside Gazette, company Publisher Stewart Dobson announced this week. Jacobs, who began his journalism career in Ocean City in 1974 as an intern and returned… Read more »

Ocean City’s Pink Ribbon Classic series, which provides an assortment of local activities each October designed to raise awareness while garnering money for the American Cancer Society, continues tonight, with a big party. The annual Jammin’ Out Cancer celebration will take place at Seacrets on 49th Street from 5-9 p.m. The theme of the party… Read more »

BERLIN—An amended complaint filed against the Berlin Fire Company by a former paramedic and volunteer firefighter on Sept. 16, removed one plaintiff from a list individuals he had charged with either committing or failing to halt workplace harassment and intimidation. The documents also added additional details about the allegations to an ongoing $8 million lawsuit…. Read more »

BERLIN—The pastor of a Main Street church took issue with the way the town has implemented its stormwater management policy because it does not exempt churches. He called the fee the church has been charged for its covered surfaces a tax during a Sept. 23 meeting of the mayor and town council. Rev. John Abent,… Read more »

OCEAN PINES – BJ’s Wholesale Club is partnering with the Ocean Pines Association to bring a special membership offer to benefit the Worcester County Veterans Memorial at Ocean Pines Foundation through Oct. 7. In addition to offering special benefits for new and renewing members, BJ’s will donate $5 of each membership fee to the foundation…. Read more »

Berlin – Raymond M. Thompson, President and CEO of Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company in Berlin, has announced that William H. Mitchell, Executive Vice President Chief Operating Officer will be retiring from the bank on Sept. 30. Mitchell joined Taylor Bank on June 01, 1970 and spent 43 years dedicated to Taylor Bank customers, stockholders… Read more »

BERLIN—The weather worked out great and local youth musicians were beginning to participate in Berlin’s annual Fiddlers Convention, organizer Frank Nanna said on Sept. 24 when asked to comment on the events that occurred over the weekend. Nanna is a longtime Berlin resident, and is a performer and manager. In the beginning he had to… Read more »

BERLIN—Fiddlers of various stripes are preparing to take the stage as Berlin’s 21st annual Fiddler’s Convention begins on Sept. 20. The sponsor list for the two-day bluegrass music fest reads like a who’s-who of Main Street’s top businesses, leading with Bergey & Company, PNC Bank, SiCuli and Tex-Mex & Beyond. Frank Nana, originally from Kingwood,… Read more »

OCEAN PINES–Atlantic General Hospital and Peninsula Regional Medical Center are collaborating with the Ocean Pines Association’s Communications Advisory Committee to offer a Health Fair to the community. The event will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, from 8 a.m. to noon, in the Ocean Pines Community Center at 235 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines, Md. Atlantic General… Read more »