Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Sept. 28, 2023) If it snows this winter, the Town of Berlin will have plenty of salt for its roads, following the Town Council’s approval Monday night of a three-year agreements with the state department of transportation. The agreement will allow the town to obtain salt from the State Highway Administration… Read more »
Position seemed unlikely back when he was suing to validate his candidacy By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Sept. 21, 2023) Ocean Pines Association’s new president, Rick Farr, has come a long way since his rocky election to the board of directors in 2021, when he was disqualified because the property in which he lived was held… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Sept. 21, 2023) After 18 years as the executive director of the Lower Shore Land Trust, Kate Patton is passing the torch to the next generation of leadership. Patton was a businesswoman in Berlin, where she owned and operated the Globe Theatre until 2006, when she chose a different direction… Read more »
By Stewart Dobson, Editor (Sept. 21, 2023) In 2020, it was the coronavirus. In 2023, the most likely cause of the cancelation of the Berlin Fiddlers Convention is nimbostratus. Those would be the heavy storm clouds that deliver prolonged rain, which is what the National Weather Service is predicting locally for Friday night and Saturday in… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Sept. 21, 2023) The Berlin Board of Zoning Appeals last Wednesday agreed to grant the Assateague Landing Apartments project the conditional use zoning designation its owner needs to proceed with the development. The site plan, which showed single-story townhouse dwellings consisting of 20 apartments at 534 Bay Street, was approved… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Sept. 21, 2023) The Berlin Planning Commission unanimously approved plans for a multi-use business and residential building at 19 Gay Street on Tuesday. Occupying the property currently are a house and shed that will be demolished to make way for a three-story building, with the first story available for businesses… Read more »
By Remy Andersen, Staff Writer (Sept. 14, 2023) A study of the Ocean City inlet that was conducted 25 years ago was given a long overdue update with a letter sent recently to the US Army Corp of Engineers in Baltimore. The 1998 Ocean City, Maryland Water Resources Study, Feasibility Report and Integrated Environmental Impact Statement… Read more »
By Remy Andersen, Staff Writer (Sept. 14, 2023) Multiple provisions related to cannabis consumption can advance, following three separate unanimous votes from the Worcester County Commissioners last week. The votes included one for zoning, one for distancing, and one for on-site consumption. Jennifer Keener, the county’s director of Developmental Review and Permitting, presented the proposed cannabis… Read more »
Knerr said to agree on deal but then moved to scuttle it By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Sept. 14, 2023) There was a glimmer of hope that the Heron Park development proposal by Palmer Gillis of Coastal Ventures Properties (CVP) might still be possible, but that hope died Monday night when Councilman Jay Knerr demanded Gillis… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Sept. 14, 2023) The Berlin Council agreed to enact a policy for naming and renaming public facilities such as structures, parks and recreational facilities Monday night. The motion to establish the policy, one of four to come before the council, called for gathering ideas and encouraging community participation in the… Read more »