Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 13, 2023) Much of the July Historic Commission meeting was taken up with the proposal by Ray Robinson of Taylor Bank to install a new ATM machine. The Taylor Bank building is an historic building in the town of Berlin. Built in 1907, the building has maintained its original… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 13, 2023) The Ocean Pines Association Rec and Parks Department is looking for individuals, community groups, and businesses interested in adopting a local park. All it takes to participate is a love of nature and an interest in helping to beautify a local park by picking up trash, planting… Read more »
The one thing missing from the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors election this summer is drama. Consequently, it has exactly what voters need: four qualified candidates who are not vowing to turn operations upside down. This absence of controversy allows association members to concentrate on what’s important — the attributes of the candidates, instead… Read more »
Editor, I am writing in response to the Worcester County Commissioners’ latest vote to form a commission to oversee local public school construction. One of the reasons Mr. Joe Mitrecic voting no for the formation of this commission was because of the existence of the Buckingham Planning Committee that has already been working on planning… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I spent a few days last week prepping and executing a wedding. While it went off quite successfully, it came at a price. Since the Real-Feel was 96 degrees, we were all soaked to the core, sweating out any of our sins from the day prior, which was my… Read more »
(July 13, 2023) As a painter, illustrator and newspaper publisher, Jim Adcock has quietly been one of the most influential figures in the Ocean Pines community over the last three decades. His fingerprints remained, until recently, in the Bayside Gazette through publication of original weekly cartoons, and his vibrant, beachy paintings are ubiquitous with local… Read more »
By Hunter Hine, Staff Writer Circuit court motions filed but judge has yet to decide on request from accused (July 6, 2023) July 11 will mark one year since the hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of 14-year-old Ocean Pines resident Gavin Knupp. In the months since, the Knupp family has formed a charity… Read more »
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 (Reprint from July 11, 2019) This heat wave has once again brought out the best in us Marylanders, or is it ‘we’ Marylanders? I can never remember. But I digress. For as long as I can remember, Mid-Atlantic folk have tended to complain all winter long that it is… Read more »
The Town of Berlin has been trying to figure what to do with the Tyson poultry plant property for seven years now after buying the 63-acre parcel in 2016 for $2.5 million. It also has spent nearly as long looking for a way to get out from under that debt, especially since the cost of… Read more »