What is an EDU, anyway? As the discussion continues over the future of Heron Park in Berlin and the parcels within it that are or could be for sale, the big snag in the process seems always to come down to who gets the EDUs attached to a specific piece of land. The general public… Read more »
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Charles Owen Rouse
Charles Owen Rouse Ocean Pines Charles Owen Rouse, age 73, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023 at Tidal Health in Salisbury. Born in Baltimore to the late Charles R. Rouse and Mary Bernadette Rouse, Charles was the second oldest of six children in a close, loving family. After graduating from college, he obtained… Read more »
Cardamone clears air on OP police shakeup
Lt. Brian Cardamone, chief of staff at the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, has had his say, and that is the end of it. No amount of story-bending or tale-twisting regarding last December’s burglary of an Ocean Pines Police Department storage shed and the aftermath of that event will change the facts as he laid them… Read more »
C. James Holloway Jr. (Jim)
C. James Holloway Jr. (Jim) Ocean Pines James Holloway Jr. (Jim), 86, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, passed away after a brief illness on Oct. 12, 2023, surrounded by his family. Born in Salisbury, he was the beloved husband of Betty Larmore Holloway and son of the late Claude J. and Grace T. Holloway. A graduate of Wicomico High… Read more »
Tasty, filling barbecue burrito ‘sandwich’
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Oct. 27, 2022 I raise my glass as I think of our broken industry, one to which hundreds of thousands of workers never returned after the pandemic. Short-staffed, short-tempered and exhausted, those of us remaining in the field simply try to eke out a week or two… Read more »
Berlin’s FY 2023 budget depicts sound projections
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Oct. 19, 2023) Natalie Saleh, the finance director for the Town of Berlin presented the unaudited finances for Fiscal Year 2023 during the last Tuesday’s mayor and council meeting. Total revenue raised in the general fund was $9 million, with 47 percent of that coming from property taxes. Other sources… Read more »
Plant tour reveals sorry shape of old Tyson’s building
Town officials, public see for themselves how some sections must come down By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Oct. 19, 2023) Berlin residents regularly drive by the old Tyson’s Processing Plant on Old Ocean City Boulevard, but most have never been inside. On Tuesday night last week, that changed as Andrew Welch, a senior structural engineer from… Read more »
Council passes motions on pickleball, events, fire funds
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Oct. 19, 2023) The Berlin Council passed four motions regarding tennis courts, 2024 events for the town and the Taylor House Museum and a re-allocation of funding for the Berlin Fire Company. The council approved a motion to allow We Heart Berlin, a non-profit organization, to raise money for agreed-upon projects… Read more »
Trash truck woes send it in for repairs
Reduced pickup in store for Berlin unless workers can dump cans manually By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Oct. 19, 2023) Berlin’s trash truck is going into the shop for 14 days. Jimmy Charles, the director of Public Works told the Berlin mayor and Town Council last week that the hydraulic components on the truck are wearing… Read more »
Berlin’s casino revenue pays for officers pension system
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Oct. 19, 2023) Local Impact Grant funds from Ocean Downs Casino revenue will be used by the Town of Berlin for the Law Enforcement Officers Pension System, or LEOPS, with $175,000 going to a hoped-for community center in Berlin and $45,000 for an ambulance replacement fund from unassigned funds. The vote… Read more »