I’m sitting down to write my Bayside Gazette Editor’s Notebook. I was going to write about this being my favorite time of the year. My Jewish family and friends are preparing for Passover. While my Christian friends and extended family are getting ready for the beautiful Easter holiday. Instead, I’m stopped before I sit down… Read more »

We think that the Ocean Pines Golf Club should be given the “one year of solid operation” to determine if it can be turned financially turned around. The suggestion by OPA President Tom Terry and GM Bob Thompson and the majority of the board is a sound one. Also, we agree that any sort of… Read more »

It’s an educational innovation that will really be of help to Worcester County Public School students. The program is called “Naviance,” and it’s a combination of the words “navigation” and “guidance.” It uses four components, including college and career planning, preparing for success, determining which courses to take and using e-documents when applying to college… Read more »

Sometime earlier this winter, we started seeing news articles and hearing reports that the snow we’d been experiencing might threaten to extend the school year into the summer. That was in January. Spring started today, March 20. Yet last Sunday night into Monday, a snowstorm caused dangerous travel even along main thoroughfares in Worcester County,… Read more »

Editor, I have been living in the Pines for over 15 years and continue to love the area, the people and the environment (recent cold notwithstanding). Seeing the local fauna – the squirrels, rabbits, deer, occasional fox, and the various birds – are part of this enjoyment. However, when the animals/birds become a problem to… Read more »

When Monday turned into Tuesday earlier this week, Berlin had become the winner of Budget Travel Magazine’s Coolest Small Town in America contest. Berlin collected 28 percent of the contest’s 137,819 votes for a total of 39,285 votes. Finishing second was Cazenovia, N.Y., a town located fairly close to Syracuse. It’s too early to tell… Read more »

In later summer of 2003, my neighborhood was part of an area losing power as a result of Tropical Storm Isabelle.  It was still hot and sticky, and after about two days of outages, it was getting to us. We were just way too used to turning on the lights, opening the fridge, enjoying air… Read more »

While the rest of the state is still concentrating more on the possible snow and ice storms it faces in February, many Worcester County residents have their minds on a different issue. Oh, it has everything to do with storms, but instead of digging out of snow, we’re looking at how to dig out of… Read more »

Last weekend Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Oscar award-winning actor, was found dead in his Greenwich Village home. He was 46 years old. Early word is that he died from an apparent heroin overdose. Hoffman had been, according to reports, “clean” for some 25 years. In July 2013, Cory Monteith, an actor on the TV show… Read more »

Leon? Really, the storm’s name was Leon? Leon? Are you kidding me? Leon could be anyone’s uncle; the never married accountant with the sebaceous cyst that always needs draining. I know Leon is Greek for lion. But the regal cat doesn’t apply to the Leons I know. Why not just go for Sheldon, Seymour, Fred… Read more »