Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Cindy Hoffman Staff Reporter (March 9, 2023) Free roaming, feral and abandoned cats that live in Worcester County and surrounding areas have been lucky to have Town Cats around for the last 25 years. Many summer visitors regularly feed the cats they find outside, but when they leave in the fall, most of these… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman Staff Reporter (March 9, 2023) Whet your appetite for the second annual Ocean Pines Restaurant Week, which begins Friday and runs through next Thursday. Seventeen Ocean Pines restaurants will offer food and drink specials throughout the promotion. In addition, prospective diners will be encouraged to pick up a restaurant week card at… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman Staff Reporter (March 9, 2023) The Ocean Pines Anglers Club is asking local anglers to log and submit their catch data to help make recreational fishing statistics more complete. The catch data is part of the NOAA Fisheries’ Marine Recreational Information Program, a state, regional and federal partnership that develops, implements, and… Read more »
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
When Worcester County Commissioner Chip Bertino said one of the budget requests from the Town of Berlin on Tuesday shouldn’t fall on the shoulders of county taxpayers, he overlooked a significant point — Berlin taxpayers are county taxpayers too. All taxpayers in Worcester’s municipalities are also county taxpayers, and they contribute a huge portion of… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, or as many of us in the area call it, “Amateur Night.” It is an evening, and in some instances an entire day, of drinking and shenanigans. Why do we celebrate the day in the first place? Well, it has something… Read more »
Speed camera spot suggestion Editor, Since the Town of Berlin is exploring locations for speed control cameras, I believe Old Ocean City Boulevard between Route 113 and Route 50 should be added to the list. The road is less than half a mile from Stephen Decatur high and middle schools. Also on the street are… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Reporter (March 2, 2023) Ocean Pines will no longer use the leaf vacuum truck to remove leaves from the ditches in neighborhoods in the next fiscal year, obligating residents to remove the leaves from the ditches and bag them with the rest of their yard waste for pickup. Ocean Pines will… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Reporter (March 2, 2023) Members of the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department hit the streets this week to talk to neighbors on Moby Dick Drive and Seafarer Lane after the deadly fire took the life of the home’s sole occupant at the time, 62-year-old Timothy Cooper. “We are here to answer… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Reporter (March 2,2023) Worcester County Public Schools and Worcester Goes Purple hosted a week-long series of health events featuring the MEGA Brain and MEGA Lungs at area schools to raise awareness among county middle and high school students about substance abuse. The inflatable MEGA brain and MEGA lungs provide students and… Read more »