Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
Virginia seaside community changing its management structure, creates new post By Greg Ellison (March 4, 2021) After recently resigning following more than a decade with the Ocean Pines Association, Colby Phillips is heading south to become senior general manager at Captain’s Cove Golf & Yacht Club in Greenbackville, Virginia. Phillips is set to take the… Read more »
By Ally Lanasa, Staff Writer (March 4, 2021) The Worcester County Board of Education unanimously approved the school system’s Fiscal Year 2022 proposed operating budget of $118.13 million during the board meeting on Feb. 16. The FY22 budget process began last September, as principals were asked to submit a list of budget priorities for their schools,… Read more »
By Ally Lanasa, Staff Writer (March 4, 2021) James (Jimmy) Charles will step into the full-time role of the Berlin Public Works Department superintendent when Dave Wheaton retires near the end of March. Charles, 50, is originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and worked for a printing company for 15 years. “I’ve had little side businesses of… Read more »
By Greg Ellison (March 4, 2021) Despite talk of transparency, the Ocean Pines Board opted this week not to release two recent B-08 ethics complaints against sitting directors. Board member Frank Daly withdrew an earlier motion to publish related investigative reports during a special board meeting on Monday. The board voted unanimously to enter closed… Read more »
By Greg Ellison (March 4, 2021) After a lingering medical condition was finally diagnosed correctly as a rare internal tumor, Ocean Pines resident Dave Baker is headed to Baltimore for surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on Friday. Baker said the diagnosis came in mid-January when doctors at Atlantic General Hospital located an internal mass later… Read more »
By Greg Ellison (March 4, 2021) Ocean Pines resident and bicycle enthusiast Patti Stevens is uniting area partners to improve safety and accessibility for two-wheeled peddlers or two-footed pedestrians throughout Worcester County. Last spring, Stevens teamed with longtime area bicycle advocate, and Pines neighbor, Tres Denk to establish the Worcester County Bike and Pedestrian Coalition…. Read more »
Women’s History Month reflection Editor, At the beginning of Women’s History Month it is important for us to reflect on those intrepid women who stood, and stand, for equity and equality. This is particularly important in view of the most recent Ocean Pines Board of Directors nonsense reported in the Bayside Gazette last week. It… Read more »
OP has a problem, but don’t worry about it After acknowledging that it has a problem, the Ocean Pines Board of Directors this week went on to lose whatever marbles it has left by committing publicly to work privately on a concern it won’t reveal, and thinking that’s just fine. One must assume that the… Read more »
But will return to modified schedules should covid-19 infection rates climb again By Ally Lanasa, Staff Writer (March 4, 2021) The 71 people who make up the Berlin town staff returned to work full-time in person on Monday after working modified schedules since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020. “Every employee… Read more »
By Ally Lanasa, Staff Writer (March 4, 2021) Public school students will start their summer break a little earlier next year, following the Worcester County Board of Education’s approval on Feb. 16 of a 2021-22 academic calendar proposal with a summer break that will begin on June 14. The calendar shows a fall start date… Read more »