(Dec. 7, 2017) The Snow Hill Lions Club announces the winners of the Snow Hill Christmas parade, held in the downtown area on Dec. 4. The winners are: Best Color Guard: Duncan Showell American Legion Post 231 Best Marching Band: Pocomoke High School Best Senior Commercial Float: Walmart of Pocomoke Best Fire Company: Pocomoke City… Read more »
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Pocomoke Mayor Morrison still hospitalized in Delaware
By Greg Ellison, Staff Writer (Dec. 7, 2017) Pocomoke citizens continue to send supportive thoughts and prayers as Mayor Bruce Morrison begins an apparent long road to recovery after undergoing emergency surgery to treat a subdural hematoma, or traumatic brain injury, at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, last week. Pocomoke Councilwoman Esther Troast said Morrison’s… Read more »
Pocomoke City slashes tap fees
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Dec. 7, 2017) The message coming out of Pocomoke City Council on Monday night was loud and clear – the town is open for business and is offering incentives to attract new construction. To that end, the council approved a 50 percent reduction in fees for new water and sewer… Read more »
Pines nonprofit benefits soldiers serving overseas
By Josh Davis, Associate Editor (Dec. 7, 2017) A Maryland Army National Guard truck pulled up to Anna Foultz’s home in Ocean Pines last Thursday to haul away dozens of bags of items donated for soldiers serving overseas. Foultz and her late husband, Carl, started the “Holiday Gifts for Our Soldiers Overseas” drive two decades… Read more »
Pocomoke liquor store decision waits on judge
By Brian Gilliland, Associate Editor (Dec. 7, 2017) The fate of the Pocomoke City Shore Spirits store remains unknown after Circuit Court Judge Broughton Earnest opted to deliver a written opinion on the facts instead of rendering a verdict at the time of the hearing last Wednesday. The opinion can be produced at the judge’s… Read more »
Snow Hill’s model train garden open through December
By Greg Ellison, Staff Writer (Dec. 7, 2017) Smoking locomotives, albeit of the scale-model variety, will be chugging around the tracks of a Snow Hill-themed train garden running upstairs at the Pocomoke River Canoe Company from 1-4 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday during December. For the past quarter century, the Corddry Company Crossing Model Railroad… Read more »
Retriever Bruce fetches coveted ‘Pup of the Pines’
(Dec. 7, 2017) The winner of the Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks Department’s third annual “Pup of the Pines” photo contest is Bruce, a 90-pound golden retriever. He received the greatest number of votes from attendees at the Ocean Pines Halloween fall festival on Oct. 28. He was recognized as the winner during the community’s… Read more »
Pocomoke makes strides
As officials from most population centers know, development goes where the sewer flows. The grandest plans, no matter how well refined or well financed they might be, are nothing but scrap paper if sewer and water service aren’t available — or affordable. The latter can be a major problem, as Pocomoke City Manager Bobby Cowger… Read more »
Hazardous Waste Collection Day
(Nov. 30, 2017) The Worcester County Public Works Recycling Division will host Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, Dec. 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Showell Elementary School on Route 589 (Racetrack Road). Household hazardous waste and computers/laptops may be dropped off, but no other electronics will be accepted. Household hazardous waste… Read more »
Ocean Pines Players to perform
(Nov. 30, 2017) The Ocean Pines Players welcome all to usher in the Christmas season by watching the group spoof time-honored holiday traditions. The play by Michael Carlton, Jim FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez, with original music by Will Knapp, will be performed as an interactive dramatic reading. The energetic cast offers alternative interpretations of… Read more »