Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Hunter Hine, Staff Writer The Berlin Town Council on Monday tabled a motion that would contract the design of infrastructure improvements on West Street until its next meeting on Nov. 2. Council members voted 4-1 to push the motion down the road, with Councilman Steve Green voting against it. The motion would grant a… Read more »
By Hunter Hine, Staff Writer The Berlin Fire Company responded to 30 in-town fire and rescue calls from July 1 to Sept. 30, consisting of about 28 percent of their total calls for that period. There were nine fewer calls in town this year compared to the same quarter last year, according to the Berlin… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman and Hunter Hine, Staff Writers The debate over what the Town of Berlin could and could not do with EDUs was one of the key factors that sabotaged the deal with Palmer Gillis of Coastal Ventures Properties to purchase parcel 57 on the Heron Park tract, once the site of the Tyson’s… Read more »
By Hunter Hine, Staff Writer The Berlin mayor and City Council voted to approve motions for a land transfer, rain dates and a water works apprenticeship at their Monday meeting. Land transfer on Flower St. Council members unanimously approved a transfer of property from the Berlin Community Improvement Association to the Town of Berlin with… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Nov. 24, 2022 Steak and Bearnaise. Has there ever been a more appropriate pairing? Indeed, yes there has, and I fell in love again last weekend. A couple weeks ago I made mention of having the privilege of tasting a 21-year-old Chardonnay, and it was magical. It… Read more »
What is an EDU, anyway? As the discussion continues over the future of Heron Park in Berlin and the parcels within it that are or could be for sale, the big snag in the process seems always to come down to who gets the EDUs attached to a specific piece of land. The general public… Read more »
Charles Owen Rouse Ocean Pines Charles Owen Rouse, age 73, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023 at Tidal Health in Salisbury. Born in Baltimore to the late Charles R. Rouse and Mary Bernadette Rouse, Charles was the second oldest of six children in a close, loving family. After graduating from college, he obtained… Read more »
Lt. Brian Cardamone, chief of staff at the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, has had his say, and that is the end of it. No amount of story-bending or tale-twisting regarding last December’s burglary of an Ocean Pines Police Department storage shed and the aftermath of that event will change the facts as he laid them… Read more »
C. James Holloway Jr. (Jim) Ocean Pines James Holloway Jr. (Jim), 86, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, passed away after a brief illness on Oct. 12, 2023, surrounded by his family. Born in Salisbury, he was the beloved husband of Betty Larmore Holloway and son of the late Claude J. and Grace T. Holloway. A graduate of Wicomico High… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Oct. 27, 2022 I raise my glass as I think of our broken industry, one to which hundreds of thousands of workers never returned after the pandemic. Short-staffed, short-tempered and exhausted, those of us remaining in the field simply try to eke out a week or two… Read more »