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Paul isn’t Hayden his love of mac ‘n’ cheese

It has been a long week.   Who am I kidding? The week just started today, and I’m already done. It was a long week before it even got here, but fair effort or not, the week will end one way or the other. So, fair effort I shall give. I must admit that I… Read more »

Teen guitarist to bring a little extra for Arts Night

BERLIN — While the visual artists are putting the final touches on the works they expect to display during next weekend’s Spring Arts Night event, the performance artists don’t get to finalize anything until the show is over.  Visual artists co-exist with a different kind of pressure, a front-loaded one if you will.  A painter… Read more »

Avery Salon is getting comfy in new West O.C. shop

WEST OCEAN CITY — Peggy Hammond is perfectly at ease in one of the swivel chairs just off the styling floor at Avery Hair Salon. Her surroundings are a paradox of stark modernity and personal coziness. Call it comfortable-chic. She joked that several of her friends have asked when she is going to paint the… Read more »

Town makes deal to save $1.5 million on MDE loan

BERLIN — The Mayor and Council passed a measure that could save the town as much as $1.5 million on the new wastewater treatment plant. Under an agreement with the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) the Town will issue a bond for $3.5 million and use the cash it raises to pay off that… Read more »

Annexation worries table Briddeltown water issue

BERLIN — When the water system serving Briddeltown, an area just beyond Town limits near Stephen Decatur High School, fail a little more than three years ago, Worcester County officials worked with Berlin to have water connected as a temporary solution. Since then, the County has been paying the Town a flat rate based on… Read more »

Better living through holistic solutions

BERLIN — When Dr Jeff Michael and Terri Street inaugurated the Berlin Holistic Health fair last year at “The Ray” in the Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services building they were able to convince about 10 other companies to participate. On the heels of last year’s success, this week the event was held at the… Read more »

BLC weighs in on open containers

BERLIN — After the Town passed an ordinance last year giving the Council the authority to suspend the local container laws, everyone involved said they understood there would be a bit of a learning curve, and the Town got its first lesson from the Worcester County Board of Liquor Control (BLC) this week. Although they… Read more »

Dorothy E. Franz

BERLIN — Dorothy E. Franz died Feb. 19 at the Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center where she was recovering from a broken hip sustained on Christmas Day.   Born to Richard and Helen Baier Klausmeyer on September 7, 1914, she was a 1932 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School and attended Strayer Business School.  She… Read more »

Margaret M. Latzo

FAIRFAX, Va. — Margaret M. Latzo, 93, died Feb. 19.  The devoted mother of John M. Latzo and Gregory S. Latzo is also survived by six grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren. She was pre-deceased by her husband John Latzo, Jr. in 1995 and her daughter, Marlene Bozurick in 1998. A memorial will be… Read more »

Robots for cooking and robots for playing

 Oh, what a weekend. Under the weather for most of it, I still had to get to the high school for quite a spell to ‘assist’ my son Tyler’s robotics club. Me? Assist a robotics club? I chortle at the idea; I was more of a cheerleader and pizza provider, and while I’m on that,… Read more »