(Aug. 11, 2016) More than 7 percent of 12th graders in Worcester County have used heroin at least once, according to a recent Maryland Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Opioid and especially heroin abuse appears to be on the rise locally, as evidenced by the most recent data from the Maryland Department of Health & Mental… Read more »
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Mixed-use building on Gay Street gets closer to approval
(Aug. 11, 2016) A process that began in February to develop an empty lot on Gay Street in Berlin inched closer to completion during a Historic District Commission meeting last Wednesday. Patrick Vorsteg, who received approval from the Berlin Planning Commission earlier this year to rezone 15 Gay Street from R-1 residential to B-1 town… Read more »
Discovery Center schedules otter inspection in Sept.
(Aug. 11, 2016) One of the finishing touches on the Wally Gordon River Otter exhibit, opened to the public late last month at the Delmarva Discovery Center in Pocomoke City, is an inspection by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has been scheduled for September. USDA representatives have been to the center before to evaluate… Read more »
Toy Town plans unchanged, despite rumors to contrary
(Aug. 11, 2016) Rumors to the contrary, Toy Town owner Richard Seaton said there have been no adjustments made to his plans to close the shop in Berlin on April 1 and open in Snow Hill as soon as possible after that. Reports of delays of up to April 2018, have circulated. “It’s always been… Read more »
Pocomoke Fair attendance was ‘about average’
(Aug. 11, 2016) While it wasn’t the summer knockout event of the season, neither was it a ghost town, as the Great Pocomoke Fair of 2016 enters the history books walking tall on the straight and narrow. “Attendance was about average,” organizer Gloria Smith said. “Thursday and Friday had the better weather — we didn’t… Read more »
Worcester Co. solar co-op gets enough interest to start
(Aug. 11, 2016) Nineteen people have joined a countywide solar cooperative to get a deal on installation costs, and that is enough for the co-op to begin what is expected to be a month-long search for an installer. “We’re looking to release the request for proposals in the next week or so,” Corey Ramsden, project… Read more »
Berlin’s Laura Allen readies for international ‘exchange’
(Aug. 11, 2016) Berlin Town Administrator Laura Allen is about to become, essentially, an exchange student. In May, Zalikha Wan Zaharuddin, an environmental education program officer for the Malaysian Nature Society and Crisanta Rodriguez, the assistant regional director at the department of the environment and natural resources in the Philippines, visited Berlin as part of… Read more »
Snow Hill’s John (Dale) Smack appointed parole commissioner
(Aug. 11, 2016) John (Dale) Smack III of Snow Hill, was recently appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan as a Maryland parole commissioner. Smack, who recently retired as chief deputy with the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office and as chief judge with the Worcester County Orphans’ Court, will assume his new position after Aug. 16. Smack spent approximately… Read more »
Berlin Council mtg. canceled, but majority of agenda passes
(Aug. 11, 2016) Although Monday’s Town Council meeting in Berlin was canceled because of a lack of quorum, several items on the agenda were still approved via electronic polling. The council endorsed a contract for $171,282.23 to Southside Land Management related to the Hudson Branch and Flower Street Culvert Replacement Project. The bid was approximately… Read more »
State Highway Admin delays 113 work, again
(Aug. 11, 2016) State Highway Administration Public Information Officer Charlie Gischlar confirmed the work originally scheduled to begin on July 25 to install four new stormwater drainage pipes on Route 113 will now proceed beginning next Monday. Gischlar said the contractor on the project has experienced delays with the work they’re currently doing elsewhere. However,… Read more »