(June 16, 2016) Berlin Mayor Gee Williams read a prepared statement during a council meeting at town hall on Monday, addressing the June 12 mass shooting in Orlando, the largest in U.S. history. “Our nation has suffered another tragic and meaningless loss of life in the mass shooting last weekend in Orlando, Florida,” he… Read more »
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After delay, Snow Hill WiFi now live and on air downtown
(June 16, 2016) Just two days after Comcast Public Relations Manager Jamie Debole said the company was looking forward to providing downtown Snow Hill free WiFi access in the “coming weeks,” the service was up, running and available to residents and visitors. “We are excited to partner with the Town of Snow Hill and look… Read more »
Zackery Tyndall first to file for 2016 Berlin town election
(June 16, 2016) Late last year, Zackery Tyndall and the Berlin Fire Company settled a two-year harassment suit that Mayor Gee Williams said, “created a wound” within the town. Now, Tyndall, 26, and a recent Salisbury University graduate, says he would like to be the next Town Councilmember in Berlin’s District 2. Tyndall was born… Read more »
Watersports fans to ‘Return to Goat Island’ this wknd.
(June 16, 2016) Snow Hill does have few things to hang its hat on as compared to some larger municipalities: the county seat, the Pocomoke River and what it hopes will be another attraction: a tiny spit of land with a goat on it. Located just off the bank of the Pocomoke River within Byrd… Read more »
Pocomoke ‘Summer Kickoff’ returns
(June 16, 2016) Gone but not forgotten, the annual Cypress Festival will be succeeded this year by the “Summer Kickoff on the River” to be held this Thursday through Saturday at Cypress Park. “Circumstances of the old festival changed, so we couldn’t do what we’d done before,” Pocomoke Chamber of Commerce Director Michelle Hickman said…. Read more »
Berlin vandals’ probation altered, not violated
(June 16, 2016) While dubious of the defendants’ claim of inability to find anywhere within Berlin to conduct their court-mandated community service, Judge Gerald Purnell nonetheless approved an alteration to that condition as well as imposing a few others on the Berlin vandals during a hearing last Friday. Jordan Denton, 19, of Ocean City and… Read more »
OPA candidate draw previews June 22 forum
(June 16, 2016) A dozen candidates for the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors will face off in a candidate forum on Wednesday, June 22. They will not, however, be placed up on risers when the forum occurs, after no small amount of debate on the subject during the annual candidate draw last Thursday. The… Read more »
How I spent my (2010) summer vacation
In 2010, I was approached to help run the kitchen at the Yacht Club for the summer. I was in between semesters, they were in-between chefs and I was foolish enough to say “yes.” Hadn’t I learned my lesson from my two-and-a-half year stint as the executive chef? Wasn’t I the focus of unwanted attention… Read more »
Don’s Seafood and Chicken aims for local, regional crowd
(June 9, 2016) Though this version of Don’s Seafood and Chicken house is only about four years old, owners Stone and Lambertson have been in the restaurant business in Pocomoke for more than two decades and have a clear vision of what they do and don’t want in their eateries. Named for brother-sister team of… Read more »
Tracy’s Barbershop in Berlin features old-fashioned cuts
(June 9, 2016) Like the town itself, there’s something refreshingly old-fashioned about Tracy’s Berlin Barbershop. The owner, Tracy Adkins, grew up in the town. She worked for several years as an animal groomer, before becoming a barber about five years ago. “For 13 years, I groomed dogs,” she said. “And then my hands started to… Read more »