School super choice will be first for county Worcester County’s public school system is about to make history, locally at least, as the board of education is on the verge of naming its first female superintendent of schools. With local candidate Annette Wallace and Baltimore County’s Monique Wheatley-Phillip the finalists in the school board’s selection… Read more »
Opinion
Letter To The Editor: Yard maintenance policy goes too far
Yard maintenance policy goes too far Editor, (The following letter was sent to the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors with a copy forwarded for publication.) I am reaching out to respectfully request that the Board re-evaluate its approach to yard maintenance regarding the use of leaves as ground cover. As I shared during my… Read more »
Letter To The Editor: OPA Board opposes county’s proposal
OPA Board opposes county’s proposal Editor, (The following letter was sent to the Worcester County Commissioners with a copy sent to this newspaper for publication.) This letter is in response to the FY2026 budget draft that was put forward for the Water/Wastewater Enterprise Funds during your Commissioners’ meeting on Tuesday, March 18th. We find your proposal… Read more »
04/03/2025 Bayside Editorial: Federal funding cut flows down to schools
Federal funding cut flows down to schools As if the State of Maryland didn’t already have enough problems scrounging up money to bridge the great divide between revenues and expenditures for the year ahead, now it must find a way to cover the loss of $418 million in federal education funds it thought it already… Read more »
Letter To The Editor: County must follow own current code
County must follow own current code Editor, (The following is a copy of a letter sent to the Worcester County Commissioners and requested for publication.) Thank you for your efforts on the behalf of Worcester County residents. I am proud to be a long term, voting, tax paying resident whose address for the past 33… Read more »
03/27/2025 Bayside Editorial: No good options exist for covering deficits
No good options exist for covering deficits It isn’t the current Worcester County Commissioners’ fault that they inherited a hodgepodge of independent sanitary districts of various sizes and purposes, or that past accounting of each district’s theoretically separate enterprise fund drew money from one to balance the budget of another. Although it is somewhat ironic… Read more »
03/20/2025 Bayside Editorial: Exempting shelters makes perfect sense
Exempting shelters makes perfect sense Not every piece of legislation introduced in the Maryland General Assembly makes sense. Wait, let’s amend that. Now and then, out of the torrent of filings introduced in the legislature each year there emerges one that makes perfect sense. One such measure this year is House Bill 1414 sponsored by… Read more »
03/13/2025 Bayside Editorial: Ortt did great work, so will Touch of Italy
Ortt did great work, so will Touch of Italy What a difference eight years make. Plagued by rotating management, declining patronage, big plans and grand failures, the Ocean Pines Yacht Club and Beach Club had pretty much bottomed out in Fiscal Year 2018, missing their budget by somewhere around a million dollars. Revenue projections were… Read more »
03/06/2025 Bayside Editorial: Tariffs hit newsprint, we won’t pass it on
The 25 percent tariffs President Trump imposed yesterday on imported goods from Canada and Mexico have hit home. Next week, our newspapers, Bayside Gazette and OC Today-Dispatch, will begin to feel the pinch of the tariff on the Canadian newsprint our printer uses for all our products. In addition to our main publications, this will… Read more »
02/27/2025 Bayside Editorial: Guilty plea first step in closing sad chapter
Guilty plea first step in closing sad chapter A heartbreaking chapter that left friends, families and members of the public saddened and outraged over the exceedingly slow grind of justice ended Tuesday when Tyler Mailloux, 24, of Berlin pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of the July 11, 2022, accident that claimed the life of… Read more »