Homestead cap projects residents Editor, Your article “Local Property Assessments Jump” in the January 10 edition left out a very important piece of information. The statewide Homestead Tax exemption credit allows both counties and cities to adopt a lower ceiling for the exemption than the state standard of 10%. The exemption applies only if the… Read more »
Opinion
01/09/2025 Bayside Editorial: Policy on tree removal should be made clear
Policy on tree removal should be made clear It’s not called “Ocean Pines” for nothing. When the idea of the planned community was conceived in the late 1960s, its developers, Boise Cascade, wisely concluded that a peaceful bayside residential development in the woods would sell better under that name than it would as a 3,000-acre… Read more »
Letter To The Editor: Technical basis for wind opposition
Technical basis for wind opposition Editor, As an engineer with more than 40 years of experience in the development, construction, operation, and maintenance of power plants including wind farms, I need to express my concerns regarding Maryland offshore wind turbine development. There is clearly a lack of electric power generation understanding from our Maryland State… Read more »
01/02/2025 Bayside Editorial: Keep on keeping on, but with aspirations
It’s a new year and another 12 months to keep on keeping on, as the saying goes, although most people aspire to do much more than merely get through another annual cycle. In Ocean Pines, for instance, many of the projects being worked on in the past year will pick up steam in the year… Read more »
12/19/2024 Bayside Editorial: Skate park banking on local generosity
Skate park banking on local generosity It’s difficult to say how Tony Weeg’s appeal for contributions toward the cost of building Berlin’s skate park will go, although this area’s generous nature suggests that donations will be made. How much the total might be and how long it will take to get to a number of… Read more »
12/12/2024 Bayside Editorial: Design standards will serve town … for now
Design standards will serve town … for now The Town of Berlin made a major move in a positive direction this week when the Town Council agreed to adopt Worcester County’s building design guidelines and standards for commercial properties. By doing so, town government has given contractors and developers a foundation, as it were, on… Read more »
Letter to the Editor: Offshore wind positives ignored
Offshore wind positives ignored Editor, On the issue of offshore wind for Ocean City, each person’s viewpoint is colored by a personal agenda or individual experience. It might be the lens of business and economics, tourism, the environment and ecosystems, climate change, local livelihoods, etc. The dominant theme of local opinion has been driven by… Read more »
Letter to the Editor: Teacher responds to concerning letters
Teacher responds to concerning letters Editor, I am a teacher in Worcester County and I recently read some Bayside Gazette Letters to the Editor that concerned me. Both letters were in relation to the recent Board of Education elections in Worcester County, and both letters had questionable material in it. In one letter, Susan Ostrowski… Read more »
Bayside Gazette Editorial 12/5/2024: Public schools again rank high in Maryland
Public schools again rank high in Maryland Congratulations to Worcester County Public Schools, which this week were recognized — again — as one of the top-performing school systems in the state. That’s based on the annual report card the state issues annually to each Maryland school districts, and this year Worcester’s institutions garnered consistently high… Read more »
Bayside Gazette Editorial 11/28/2024: Count your blessings
Count your blessings The one thing for which most of us are grateful in 2024 is that it’s almost over. Soon, we will flip the page on the calendar, leave this difficult year behind and start anew. Or so we like to tell ourselves. The question then is how do we count our blessings while… Read more »