(Oct. 5, 2017) The Pocomoketoberfest, scheduled for this Saturday, has been cancelled. Pocomoke Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Michelle Hickman said after analyzing the level of pre-ordered tickets, organizers opted to abandon plans for the sud-soaked event. “The numbers just weren’t there,” she said. The cost for admission was $30 and included a commemorative glass,… Read more »
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Exhibitions, sales, eats and live music during First Friday
(Oct. 5, 2017) Tomorrow’s Snow Hill Arts on the River First Friday provides a perfect opportunity to savor the quickly descending autumn weather while perusing art, browsing street vendors and listening to music, all while enjoying food and drinks from 5-8 p.m. Kate Patton, executive director of the Lower Shore Land Trust on 100 River… Read more »
Colleges teaching the wrong lessons
Editor, We raised our children for 18 years; instilling in them a sense of responsibility, morals, industriousness, charity, kindness, and love for this country. Then they are off to college. They come home with those character traits that you, as a parent, worked so hard to inculcate in them – greatly distorted. Parents are finding… Read more »
Doors of tattoo perception
As the Town of Berlin gets down to the business of establishing standards that may or may not allow tattoo artists to set up shop in town, residents, merchants and officials need to accept the fact that the tattoo business isn’t what it used to be. Time was that tattoo parlors were fixtures of the… Read more »
Berlin branch library looking to book additional ‘friends’
(Oct. 5, 2017) While the state, county, Town of Berlin and nonprofit groups like the Humphreys Foundation funded the majority of the massive new Berlin branch library, which is under construction, the old library continues to serve an estimated 5,000 visitors each month. Branch Manager Alice Paterra said during regular events, like Reptile World, “it’s… Read more »
Pines Comp Plan Committee considering fresh approach
(Oct. 5, 2017) Meeting for the first time in six months, the Ocean Pines Association Comprehensive Planning Committee voted on a series of recommendations that would amend its charter and refocus its efforts. Committee members agreed the “current comprehensive planning model should be eliminated” in favor of a three-year “look ahead document” based on corporate… Read more »
Town and A&E Committee working together on signage
(Oct. 5, 2017) A prototype planter box, designed to double as a downtown wayfaring sign, is getting “a lot of positive attention,” Berlin Town Administrator Laura Allen said this week. The boxes are meant to replace some of the bulky sandwich board signs on Main Street that point visitors to shops not based in the… Read more »
Deutsch to do double duty, in Sykesville and with Berlin
(Oct. 5, 2017) Berlin Falls park project manager David Deutsch was recently named interim general manager of Sykesville, Maryland. His role there is not expected to interfere with work in Berlin, where in January he was appointed project manager. Before that, Deutsch was city manager of Bowie and interim city manager of Westminster. He is… Read more »
Endless Summer Cruisin’ in full swing this weekend
(Oct. 5, 2017) Check out car shows, celebrities, auctions, vendors and parades during Ocean City’s 20th annual Endless Summer Cruisin’ event. More than 2,300 hot rods, classics, muscle cars, trick trucks and customs will be driven down Coastal Highway this weekend. Vehicles newer than 1976 must have custom modifications or be of special interest. Festivities… Read more »
OPA Briefs
(Oct. 5, 2017) The Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors discussed the following items during a meeting in the community center, last Friday. Stevens honored At the start of the meeting, former Director Dave Stevens was honored for his nine years of service as an elected official. “Anybody that has dedicated that much time to… Read more »