Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
The Berlin Community Improvement Association has two choices: it can improve the community, or it can talk about improving the community. That assessment is about as blunt as County Commissioner Diana Purnell was last week at a community meeting on the future of the failing multipurpose building. At issue was whether the BCIA should accept… Read more »
With its hundreds of nonprofit organizations that can use some assistance, Worcester County should experience a different kind of checks and balances next Tuesday. What it should see is people checking their balances and then sending their checks to a charity or a nonprofit organization whose good works they believe deserve support. Nov. 27 is,… Read more »
As an unpaid volunteer, John Viola, Ocean Pines’ chief financial officer, appears to be getting a little weary of trying to explain there’s no such thing as a free lunch, while also fending off crazy accusations about people taking advantage of the system. That would be anyone’s take on Viola’s rant Saturday that covered a… Read more »
Worcester County Democrats may have had the blues Tuesday, but the county’s Republicans rode a wave of scarlet fever on election day to give the county its first all-GOP state delegation in years, and maybe ever. Once a Democratic stronghold — albeit conservative Democrats — the county has sent Republicans to the State Senate and… Read more »
As we evaluate candidates for endorsements going into next Tuesday’s election, we consider a number of factors: knowledge of the area, knowledge of government, potential influence to be wielded on the job, vision, the ability to work with the bodies they seek to join, and whether there’s a compelling need to replace an incumbent seeking… Read more »
It just can’t be that a quarter of the country’s voting population is evil, or Marxists, fascists, racists or unpatriotic. Yes, plenty of each exist in a country with a population of 325 million. That’s just the law of averages, which also accounts for the 2.3 million felons, thugs, liars and cheats serving time in… Read more »
Nobody doesn’t like a good mystery, which is what the forensic audit of the Ocean Pines Association’s finances has become as it enters its second, and possibly final, phase. Association members know — or can find out on the community’s web page — what the auditors have accomplished to date, but they won’t learn anything… Read more »