(April 7, 2016) Phase one of a public mural unveiled last month and hanging outside the Berlin Visitor’s Center involved second and third-grade students from nearby Buckingham Elementary School. Painting of the second phase will include children from three programs at Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc. in Berlin. Muralist John Donato will continue… Read more »
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No winner in Pocomoke election
(April 7, 2016) Before the elections last Tuesday, City Clerk Carol Sullivan said results would only take 15 to 30 minutes before they were posted online, and she’d have been right too, if a discrepancy hadn’t surfaced. As of Wednesday morning and press time, no winner had been declared in an election where 132 total… Read more »
New group to fight opiate addiction in Worcester County
(April 7, 2016) For years, Jackie Ball and Heidi McNeeley have shared the terrible bond of having a family member who struggles with heroin addiction. Today, Thursday, April 7, they will host the first meeting of a new group, Worcester County Warriors Against Opiate Addiction, at the Ocean Pines Library at 6:30 p.m., designed… Read more »
Pines directors reach accord on F-01 investment guidelines
(March 31, 2016) Once an item of some contention, the OPA Board was easily able to pass changes to resolution F-01 last Thursday, thanks to a compromise hammered out on the previous day during a committee meeting. On March 23, the budget and finance committee met to discuss several items. F-01 was not one of… Read more »
‘T-Wrecks’ take home top honors, move to districts
(March 31, 2016) Local robotics team Titanium Wrecks recently qualified to compete in the district championships in College Park, April 6-9 at the Xfinity Center. The mechanized warriors earned that right after doing will in two district competitions. Team mentor Paul Suplee said the members of the team, all students from high schools in Worcester… Read more »
‘Comfort food to end all comfort foods’
Newton saw the events of our everyday world as being strange and novel. He didn’t simply look at an apple falling to the ground as an incident unremarkable. He observed that there was something drawing the apple to the earth, much in the same way that we are held to our chairs as we type,… Read more »
Historical Society dinner, April 8
(March 31, 2016) The Worcester County Historical Society is planning its annual spring dinner for Friday, April 8, at the Pocomoke Community Center on Market and 14th streets. The dinner will feature the Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary’s famous chicken and dumplings. This year’s speaker will be Gordon E. Katz, an award-winning author, who will discuss… Read more »
OPA Beach Club bathroom project remains up in air
(March 31, 2016) Improvements to the bathrooms of the Ocean Pines Beach Club in Ocean City across the street from Seacrets, came up three times during an OPA Board meeting on March 24. First, General Manager Bob Thompson updated the directors and the several dozen members in attendance on the project during his monthly report…. Read more »
Grafer, Coleburn exhibit work in Pines
(March 31, 2016) The Friends of Ocean Pines Library present the work of two new artists that will be on display in April and May in the Ocean Pines Branch. April/May Artist of the Month is Don W. Grafer in the main common areas of the library. Working primarily in acrylics, and producing both realistic… Read more »
Berlin artists take to Bishop’s Stock
(March 31, 2016) Bishop’s Stock Fine Art, Craft & Wine will open the spring season with its annual exhibit of new work by Lynne Lockhart and Kirk McBride, two of the region’s most recognized artists. Pieces in the show includes images from their travels as well as their daily routines. Lockhart’s paintings capture animals in… Read more »