Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Hunter Hine, Staff Writer Circuit court motions filed but judge has yet to decide on request from accused (July 6, 2023) July 11 will mark one year since the hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of 14-year-old Ocean Pines resident Gavin Knupp. In the months since, the Knupp family has formed a charity… Read more »
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 (Reprint from July 11, 2019) This heat wave has once again brought out the best in us Marylanders, or is it ‘we’ Marylanders? I can never remember. But I digress. For as long as I can remember, Mid-Atlantic folk have tended to complain all winter long that it is… Read more »
The Town of Berlin has been trying to figure what to do with the Tyson poultry plant property for seven years now after buying the 63-acre parcel in 2016 for $2.5 million. It also has spent nearly as long looking for a way to get out from under that debt, especially since the cost of… Read more »
Joan Marie Abell Mersinger Ocean Pines Joan Marie Abell Mersinger, 89, of Ocean Pines, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 25, 2023, at her home in Ocean Pines surrounded by loving family. Born June 19, 1934, in Baltimore, she was happily married to Joseph Mersinger for the past 66 years. In addition to her husband… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 6, 2023) The Ocean Pines Board elections are in full swing, and with that come election signs. Ocean Pines has specific guidance developed by the Architectural Review Committee on signs in the community. Signs cannot be displayed on any developed or vacant lot without the approval of the property… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 6, 2023) The Reel Deal is looking for a few hungry fishermen to feed. The new restaurant opened a few weeks ago in the former site of Bradda Barney’s on Sunset Avenue in West Ocean City. Barney, the dog, still graces one wall of the restaurant in a cool… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 6, 2023) The Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee provided a report to the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors on the conditions of the community’s parks. The report contained a substantial list of recommendations. Based on a survey of residents conducted in the fall of 2022, the committee reviewed the… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (July 6, 2023) When the future of Heron Park came up for discussion at the June 24 mayor and council meeting in Berlin, some members of the public seemed unsure of the details included in Coastal Ventures Properties’ proposal for the property’s development. That is about to change, as the… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman (June 29, 2023) The Berlin Town council conducted a first reading of an ordinance this week that would provide for the use of speed cameras in designated school zones. A school zone is a half-mile radius around a public or private school. The speed zone would operate between 6 a.m and 8… Read more »