(May 18, 2017) Ocean Pines will host the annual Match Play Championship, beginning Thursday, June 1, at the Ocean Pines Golf Club.  This event is open to all men who are members of the Ocean Pines Association or the Ocean Pines Men’s Golf Association. The format is single elimination with players seeded by handicap. Players… Read more »

(May 18, 2017) Efforts to balance Pocomoke’s fiscal year 2018 budget while providing Winter Quarters Golf Course an opportunity to address its own financial challenges highlighted a City Council budget work session on Friday. City Manager/City Attorney Ernie Crofoot said despite removing all capital outlay items from the budget except approximately $79,000 to replace police… Read more »

(May 18, 2017) In an effort to remedy water quality issues that have plagued Pocomoke for decades, the city council approved an emergency expenditure of more than $100,000 for repairs at the water treatment plant during a budget work session on Friday. City Manager/City Attorney Ernie Crofoot said a recently commissioned report by Hungerford &… Read more »

(May 18, 2017) The Snow Hill Council approved a $2.5 million fiscal year 2018 budget, which was balanced without raising property tax rates, during its meting last Tuesday. The budget passed by a 2-0 vote with Councilwoman Alison Cook not in attendance. Town Manager Kelly Pruitt noted the final budget remained unchanged from a version… Read more »

(May 18, 2017) Town of Berlin officials balked last year when the Berlin Fire Company requested more than $1 million in funding from the town, more than double what had been allocated during the two previous years.  Instead, the mayor and council kept its allocation to fire and EMS a flat $400,000, and said a… Read more »

(May 18, 2017) Seven applicants — four women and three men — were confirmed as candidates in the 2017 board of directors election in Ocean Pines this week.  Director Doug Parks and former director Marty Clarke, and newcomers Colette Horn, Nicole Schaffer Crosariol, Paula Robertson Gray, Arie Klapholz and Brenda Lynn Wascak, will vie for… Read more »

  (May 18, 2017) In consideration of a lifetime of civic duty, Barbara Purnell was honored as the 2016 Berlin Citizen of the Year during the 52nd annual Berlin Lions Club Awards gala last Wednesday. Berlin Mayor Gee Williams, serving as emcee for the event, hit upon an overarching theme during his initial remarks that… Read more »

  (May 18, 2017) Brother and sister-fronted rock group Jocelyn & Chris Arndt will headline the annual May Day Play Day festival in downtown Berlin Friday night, before embarking on a national tour in support of their latest release.  Formed about three years ago, the band already has two EPs and a live album under… Read more »

  (May 18, 2017) A crowd of thousands is expected in downtown Berlin Friday night for the seventh annual May Day Play Day festival, hosted by Radio Ocean 98. The headlining act this year is Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, a Cambridge, Massachusetts group described as a cross between Grace Potter and Led Zeppelin. The band’s… Read more »

(May 11, 2017) Women interested in donating money to a worthy charity are encouraged to attend the second 100+ Women Who Care on the Shore meeting on Tuesday, May 16, at Sisters in Berlin from 5:15-6:15 p.m. “[The] 100+ Women Who Care on the Shore is a collaborative philanthropy organization, where women pool their donations,… Read more »