BERLIN – If you know anything at all about the smoking cessation drug Chantix it’s that taking it can cause vivid dreams and that one of the side effects is severe depression. When I elected to use this method to help me quit smoking I was counting on the former and discounting the possibility of… Read more »
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A little something for everyone at Stuarts’ Antiques
BERLIN – A little more than two decades ago Toni Stuart was in town visiting a friend who suggested lunch at King’s Pub. He’d recently left the U.S. Forest Service, where she was still employed, to sell real estate down here but the trip and the visit were purely social. So impressed was Stuart by… Read more »
Slots pull in big crowds
BERLIN – Ocean City resident Beckie Jolliff was on line for the Casino at Ocean Downs’ grand opening at 9 a.m., a full four hours before the scheduled opening. She’d bonded with Salisbury resident Jo Siminski, who rolled in at 9:30 but despite the cold the locals were happy to wait. It was an opening… Read more »
Casino to open today
BERLIN – Gov. Martin O’Malley and several state and local dignitaries will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11:30 a.m. today to help inaugurate the $45 million gaming facility on Route 589 in Berlin. The casino features more than 700 video lottery terminals (slot machines), nearly 34,000 square feet of gaming space and new food… Read more »
Pork belly with corn spoonbread and teriyaki sauce glaze
I had an offal weekend; an awfully offal weekend. Finding myself in Frederick at Mick’s New American Bistro where my nephew is doing his internship for culinary school, the chef gave me course after course of his favorite foods; snout to tail. It started with lamb’s heart tartare, served with a pullet egg yolk and… Read more »
Chickens roost in Berlin; OPA drops a GM; and elections fuel the year
BERLIN – It is time to buckle down and take a look at what got done this year. Since 2010 was an election year the best way to conceive of it is: lots of motion, little of it forward. In addition to the elections that played a part in nearly every issue this year there… Read more »
Seahawks lose home opener
BERLIN – Stephen Decatur started slow against Parkside on Tuesday evening and never really recovered losing to the Rams 52-25. The Seahawks spotted Parkside an 11-0 lead before Jamie Parker scored Decatur’s first two points with less than two minutes in the first quarter. Trailing 15-5 to start the second quarter, Decatur used a zone… Read more »
Gertrude R. Howard
BERLIN – Gertrude Rose Howard, age 86, died Friday Dec. 10, 2010. Born in Washington D.C., she was the daughter of the late Antonino and Gertrude Pedone. She is survived by her daughters, Nancy Howard, and Diane Howard and her husband Ted. No service is planned at this time. Arrangements are in the care of… Read more »
Jeannette Patricia Huesman
OCEAN CITY – Jeannette Patricia Huesman, age 91, died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 at Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Baltimore she was the daughter of the late Edward Malstron and Bessie Webster Malstron. She was preceded in death by her husband Frederick David Huesman. Mrs. Huesman was a member of the Optimist Club… Read more »
The Palette Bistro and Bar
SNOW HILL – During the 10 days between hearing the Palette was available and taking day-to-day ownership of the establishment, Phillip Cropper generated an immense amount of interest in the eatery. The Berlin resident was working as the pastry chef at the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin at the time and word that he intended to… Read more »