Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
OPA Board of Directors member Amy Peck responded this week to the public letter written by Ralph DeAngelus concerning Peck’s email to him advising him that Tom Janasek should be banned from the Ocean Pines Yacht Club. She said her private email to him was leaked and she only learned of his response when she… Read more »
By Stewart Dobson Editor The ramifications of a May 20 confrontation at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club between former Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors member Tom Janasek and current member Josette Wheatley continued this week with a board hearing scheduled, an ultimatum emailed and the yacht club management’s response to what it perceived as… Read more »
By Greg Wehner (June 9, 2022) Jets and all manner of aircraft will scream and soar over Ocean City this weekend, giving visitors and residents an opportunity to witness high-flying, death-defying aerial acrobatics and an idea of why this nation’s military pilots are the best in the world. The 2022 Ocean City Air Show is… Read more »
By Greg Wehner (June 9, 2022) The purchase of a 95.6-acre property in Berlin for $7.15 million could face a challenge at the ballot box as a committee operating under a fiscal responsibility banner is closing in on the required number of signatures to take the acquisition to referendum. The People for Fiscal Responsibility committee… Read more »
By Greg Wehner (June 9, 2022) The 301 members of Stephen Decatur High School’s class of 2022 ended their final year last week with a graduation on the football field filled with families, friends and fireworks. Just before walking through the field’s ticket booth, through the rows and rows of family and friends, and to… Read more »
By Greg Wehner (June 9, 2022) A man was hospitalized after a reported shooting in Snow Hill on Saturday evening. Snow Hill police responded to the area after the Worcester County 911 center received multiple calls for shots fired on Cypress Lane near Byrd Park. According to reports heard over the scanner, the person who… Read more »
By Greg Wehner (June 9, 2022) Two Berlin Intermediate School students were arrested this week and charged with conspiring to commit first-degree murder. According to a press release that followed a press conference on Friday, Worcester County Public School officials contacted the Sheriff’s office about a potential threat several students reported to administrators. After investigating… Read more »
By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer The Ocean Pines Elections Committee is dotting every i and crossing every t in the lead-up to the first candidate forum for the six board of directors hopefuls on June 22. The candidates are Paula Gray, Stephen Jacobs, Stuart Lakernick, Monica Rakowski, Amy Peck and Josette Wheatley. On Friday, the… Read more »
By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer The bathtubs are back for the 32nd year. Tomorrow night, in front of fans and television cameras, at least a dozen teams will line up on Main Street and strap into self-built, wheeled vessels that likely are not NHTSA-certified. Then, as Capt. Jimmy Wilder said in the 1996 box-office hit… Read more »
By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer Talk is circulating in Berlin that the short-term rental ordinance could be delayed until 2023. The town set the impldmentation date for July 1 after the town council narrowly passed the ordinance, which allows short-term rentals in residential units in all residential districts (R-1-4) and where they are allowed on… Read more »