Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
Reprint from Jan. 31, 2019 By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Temperatures in the teens, the polar vortex splitting arctic air into pieces that are saturating us with frigid weather, and firewood that just won’t light despite every effort are all playing their role in this being a chilly morning in the homestead. [Pause] OK,… Read more »
No one is saying whether Atlantic General Hospital’s recovery from a ransomware attack two weeks ago came about because it paid the ransom or because it restored its computer services on its own with the help of outside experts. The public should assume the latter, considering how long the hospital’s computer network was locked and… Read more »
Commission gives Tiki Tim’s owner 10 days to comply By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer (Feb. 9, 2023) The Berlin Historic District Commission left nothing unsaid on Feb. 1 when its members informed a representative for a local property owner of how it felt about unauthorized changes made in the last year to one of the… Read more »
Aided by ‘tailwinds,’ OPA proposal forecasts year with good final results By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Feb. 9, 2023) Ocean Pines residents had an opportunity to ask questions and provide comments during a Feb. 1 town hall meeting on the 2023 proposed budget. Ocean Pines Association General Manager John Viola outlined the “headwinds” and “tailwinds”… Read more »
By Mallory Panuska, Staff Writer (Feb. 9, 2023) Most of Atlantic General Hospital’s computer network is still out of commission this week following a ransomware attack discovered Jan. 29. Toni Keiser, the hospital’s vice president of public relations, said in an email Tuesday afternoon that hospital staff are working diligently to get the system back… Read more »
By Cindy Hoffman, Staff Writer (Feb. 9, 2023) If you have not cleaned the leaves out of your garden yet, you might want to wait until March, said Kate Patton, executive director of the Lower Shore Land Trust. Many people and especially homeowners associations, love a neat and tidy yard. Patton believes that is a… Read more »
By Jack Chavez, Staff Writer (Feb. 10, 2023) Politicians, citizens and some environmentalists are calling for a slow-down or complete halt of wind energy activity off the East Coast as officials examine the cause of a rash of marine animal deaths, but neither action nor an answer appears to be imminent. In January, the debate… Read more »
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Man, I am on a serious soup kick lately, proof positive that I am getting old. I never was a “soup guy” until a few years ago, but what can I say about soup that hasn’t already been said? It’s delicious? Most of the time, it’s hot? Unless the… Read more »
The computer on which this opinion is being written was attacked eight times last month by malicious emails that got through its first line of anti-virus defense. They were discovered by followup scans and were destroyed before they could be opened. In the past 12 months, this computer’s security programs caught 87 malicious emails and… Read more »