By Brian Gilliland, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) A Beechcraft Debonair airplane piloted by Berlin resident Guerrino Mascelli apparently caught fire shortly after takeoff and crashed on the 8th hole of the Assateague Greens golf course on Friday, sending both pilot and passenger, Mary Mascelli, to the hospital but not injuring anyone else. State police responded… Read more »
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Bathtub Races getting international spotlight
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) Berlin’s annual Bathtub Races went international this year as the subject of a two-minute TV spot on Voice of America. The network, begun in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda, is a U.S. government-funded international broadcast service sent out in more than 40 different languages and with an estimated… Read more »
Ocean Pines Association Briefs
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) The Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors last Saturday discussed the following items during a public meeting at the community center: Agenda additions The directors added several new items not on the published agenda. Colette Horn asked to add a motion “related to the 401K plan” and discussion… Read more »
Klapholz vows to protect homeowner dollars
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) Arie Klapholz is running for the Ocean Pines Board based on his record of fiscal conservatism. The 71-year-old grew up on a farm in southern New Jersey and lived and worked in Philadelphia for about four decades. He worked for the City of Philadelphia as a project manager… Read more »
Gazette Editorial: Thick skin needed to govern Ocean Pines
Just stop it. That’s what the Ocean Pines Board of Directors should do about this latest kerfuffle between Director Slobodan Trendic and Association President Doug Parks, following the resignation of Director Pat Supik. If you can’t take some name-calling, occasional slights, denigrating comments and challenges to one’s real or imagined authority, you’re too sensitive to… Read more »
WHP Boat Launch: Pines puts out call for help
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) For those concerned about parking at the White Horse Park Boat Launch, the Ocean Pines Board has issued a call for volunteers to help collect data to determine the extent of the problem. Director Colette Horn, during a June 23 public meeting, discussed a marine advisory committee effort… Read more »
My dog ate my homework and my glasses
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I don’t know why anyone, including myself, spends so much on sunglasses. You can fill my head with all the hooey about techno-gobbledygook, but once you perfect one technology (polarized lenses, for example), it’s a cheap process to mass produce. But, just like those headphones with the letter on… Read more »
Tickets available for annual ‘Western Night’ fundraiser
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) Tickets sold out for the 21st annual Country Western Night at the Ocean Downs Casino on July 12, but a few dozen more have been made available. Organizer Anna Foultz said 125 passes had already sold, but 25 more were approved by the casino. Tickets must be… Read more »
Five take part in candidate forum
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) Five of the seven remaining candidates for the Ocean Pines Board participated last Wednesday in the only scheduled public forum. Held at in the upstairs ballroom of the yacht club and hosted by the elections committee, it included Steve Tuttle, Frank Daly, Greg Turner, Paula Gray and Ted… Read more »
Clubs Committee mostly upbeat on Ortt Co. oversight
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (July 5, 2018) Members of the Ocean Pines Clubs Committee last Thursday related several recent experiences, good and bad, at the association yacht and beach clubs. It was the first time the committee had met since Matt Ortt Companies took over management of those facilities. “It’s all been good that I’ve… Read more »