(Dec. 15, 2022) The Worcester County Commissioners discussed the following during their Dec. 6 meeting: Police protection The commissioners approved the FY2023 state aid for police protection fund application. The grant is “ongoing and is intended to be used exclusively to provide adequate police protection throughout the counties and subdivisions of Maryland,” read a memo… Read more »
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Rough waters ahead for Black Eyed Susan
Hope floats. The Black Eyed Susan doesn’t. At least not as a passenger vessel. That’s how it’s been since the Town of Snow Hill bought the 111-foot paddlewheeler in 2021 for roughly $350,000 with the help of a no-interest loan from county government. Since that time, it’s been one thing after another for the riverboat,… Read more »
Reminiscing about BLTs while growing up
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Sometimes it pays to keep it simple. As I had written a few weeks ago about Anton Ego’s ratatouille and my own childhood reminiscence with Chef Kern’s souse (reminding me of my dear old dad), it can be the simplest of things that take us back to a bygone era… Read more »
Parks: Online participation not an issue
By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer (Dec. 8, 2022) There are still nine days left before the next regular meeting of the Ocean Pines Association’s Board of Directors, but right now there seems to be no reason to believe the OPA will accommodate remote public speakers during the monthly gatherings. In an email to OPA President… Read more »
Ocean City Comic Con returns in fifth year
(Dec. 8, 2022) Ocean City Comic Con and its own universe of out-of-this-world characters will return for its fifth year on Saturday at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City. Also returning to this celebration will be the panels and events that have led to the gathering’s exponential growth. Among these will be… Read more »
Strategic Planning discussing what’s next for OP
By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer (Dec. 8, 2022) The Ocean Pines Strategic Planning Committee is looking to the year ahead now that the 2023 strategic plan is nearing passage. During the committee’s meeting on Friday, committee chair Bernie McGorry led an agenda that included a discussion of the plan and the lessons the committee has… Read more »
‘It’s done’: Commissioner vote kills sports complex
By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer (Dec. 9, 2022) Ocean City officials could only shake their heads in disappointment this week as the Worcester County Commisioners swiftly and unceremoniously killed their hopes of city-county effort to develop a sports complex on the edge of town. In a 4-2 vote Tuesday with Commissioner Ted Elder abstaining, the… Read more »
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Commissioners’ stand puts them in spotlight
Now that the new board of county commissioners has shown it knows how not to spend public money, the question it faces is whether it knows how to produce more of it and remain in the public’s good graces. That is the territory the commissioners staked out for themselves this week when they issued a… Read more »