(July 25, 2014) Overcoming an early-inning scare, the Berlin Intermediate All-Star team advanced to the regional semifinals after thrashing New York, 17-5, on Tuesday. “That New York team came out like gangbusters on us,” said Berlin Coach Cameron McDonough. “We scored five in the top of the first and they came right back and scored… Read more »
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Festival of Boats returns to OP after seven-year hiatus
OCEAN PINES– After a seven-year hiatus, the Festival of Boats parade returns to the community on Saturday, July 26. The revived and expanded event now includes family entertainment, games and concessions by Kiwanis. “The event had been stopped because of lack of boats and lack of participants,” said parade chairman Steve Stein. “The last year… Read more »
Mayors, officials converge on Berlin for LESMA meetings
BERLIN– Dozens of leaders converged on Thursday, July 17 as the town hosted the Lower Eastern Shore Mayor’s Association monthly meeting. Mayors and top officials from Ocean City, Salisbury, Pocomoke City, Crisfield and Sharptown were on hand during the meeting, held in Tex Mex & Country Cook’n’s newly renovated second-story dining room. The light-hearted affair… Read more »
Unavailable parking spots uncool for Berlin merchants
BERLIN– A tempest in a teapot, brewing for years, began to boil over during a Mayor and Council Meeting on Monday, July 14. As traffic into the town continues to increase exponentially, a limited number of public parking spaces continue to be unavailable. Aggravating the problem, some residents and workers in the busy downtown area… Read more »
Town fire whistle stays activated for alarming time
BERLIN– Early on the morning of July 4, as forecasts predicted Hurricane Arthur would drench the Mid-Atlantic, a malfunctioning fire department alarm frightened dozens of guests staying downtown. The fire whistle, located behind Town Hall, went off at around 6 a.m., staying on for nearly a half hour before town workers were able to shut… Read more »
Emotional rollercoaster in four days
Last Thursday through Sunday proved to touch several aspects of life. During the course of these days, I ran into the depths of sadness to the heights of happiness. When a person comes through this to the other side, there’s a dizzying almost vertigo-like feeling trying to figure out just what happened and what are… Read more »
Yes, it’s summer, a time to rebuild a great school
So, we’re well into summer, and perhaps our children would tell us it’s way too early to have any thoughts about school. Yet there are some positive vibes that came out of a recent tour of the Snow Hill High School renovation and addition construction site. The building is in its first phase of construction… Read more »
Snow Hill to offer exhibit on women pilots of WWII
SNOW HILL–The Julia A. Purnell Museum in Snow Hill will offer a complimentary reception with refreshments on Friday, July 18, from 5-7 p.m. to celebrate its summer exhibition, “Women of War: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II,” which opened to the public on May 20. At the height of World War II,… Read more »
Horse tours will celebrate state’s equine industry
BERLIN– A new series of historic horse tours will celebrate the $500 million Maryland equine industry. The Maryland Horse Industry Board, a program of the Maryland Department of Agriculture, unveiled the Maryland Historic Horse Trail initiative at Ocean Downs on Sunday, July 13. “The state was founded in 1633 and horses came here literally from… Read more »
Berlin might be coolest, but it could be ‘ghoulest’ as well
BERLIN– Is America’s coolest small town also one of the most haunted? Mindie Burgoyne believes so. The “Haunted Eastern Shore” author and founder of Chesapeake Ghost Walks led a crowd of several dozen around Berlin on Thursday, July 10, to tell the stories she compiled from personal accounts, books and investigation at the Nabb Research… Read more »