(June 9, 2016) Space is still available in the weeklong summer arts camp program being offered by the Worcester County Arts Council in Berlin. Scheduled to run June 20-24, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the camp is open to students entering third-through-eighth grade in the fall and will feature several art workshops each day. “This… Read more »
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Pines homeowners to administration: give our park back
(June 9, 2016) For about the last 10 years, during at least nine months out of the year, Ocean Pines has used the area behind its swim and racquet club on Seabreeze Road as a staging area for bulkhead repairs. During that span, heavy equipment and various construction materials have been left there, behind the… Read more »
Hats in air, tassels move left; Snow Hill High graduates 85
(June 9, 2016) The assembled parents, students and other well wishers couldn’t be contained in the auditorium of the newly expanded Snow Hill High School last week, so some onlookers were seated in other areas and watched the ceremony via provided television screens. The separation, only by a matter of a few feet, did little… Read more »
Pocomoke City passes first reading for flat $8M budget
(June 9, 2016) In two separate moves during Monday’s regular City Council meeting, town officials passed both the first reading of the Pocomoke City 2017 budget and an emergency resolution establishing the tax rates for the coming fiscal year. Because Worcester County government was required to adopt its own budget the next morning, and the… Read more »
OPA candidate Parks brings ‘big picture’ thinking to race
(June 9, 2016) Ocean Pines resident Doug Parks turns 61 this month. He’s one of 12 homeowners running for the Association’s Board of Directors this year and, if elected, he would be the youngest member of that body. Spending a few moments with Parks, it’s clear he has plenty of energy to offer the job…. Read more »
Popular summer events return to Pines
(June 9, 2016) Summer is heating up in Ocean Pines as several popular events offered by the Recreation and Parks Department return for the season. Monday Movies in the Park will kick off with Disney’s “Aladdin” on Monday, June 13 at 8 p.m. in White Horse Park, located at 235 Ocean Parkway. A different free… Read more »
At least two resign as Pines committee works to regroup
(June 9, 2016) Ocean Pines Association’s Comprehensive Planning Committee is apparently down two members, following the resignations of Tom Butler and Mike Evans. That’s according to OPA Board President Pat Renaud and new committee Chair Frank Daly, who spoke about the situation during the committee’s last meeting, June 1. Also absent from that session was… Read more »
Cardboard regatta tests students
(June 9, 2016) Snow Hill Middle School students, except for Gage Reynolds, found the cardboard boats they built to hold at least two people lasted about 10 minutes in the Pocomoke River. Reynolds’ vessel, the Big Money Hobo, outlasted them all, including his teacher Denis Jenkins’ Mach Cinco. In the end, the unsinkable Big Money… Read more »
Pocomoke to hike water, sewer rates beginning July 1
(June 9, 2016) During a landlord/tenant meeting earlier this year, conducted sans tenants City Manager/City Attorney Ernie Crofoot said, the landlords asked why water and sewer bills for rentals were higher than the rates for owner-occupied units. They didn’t get the answer they expected. “The mayor and I were surprised when it came up,” Crofoot… Read more »
OPA Pres. Renaud coming back from month-long illness
(June 9, 2016) Pat Renaud, the president of the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors, missed several public meetings last month because an undisclosed illness. That included the May 26 directors’ session when he participated via phone and joked that he was not up to sitting in on a full meeting – which can be… Read more »