WEST OCEAN CITY — It takes a certain amount of confidence in both your business and your regular clientele to pick up an move after 10 years in the same place. But after a little more than a week in their new Ocean City digs John Meyers and Ron Saunders, owners of the Monkey’s Trunk… Read more »
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Coastal Lacrosse Gives Back
BERLIN — A little more than three years ago, Gary Richins and a group of interested parents set out to establish a year-round lacrosse program that would have strong ties to the community. The notion was to give as many kids as possible access to a sport that has become wildly popular over the last… Read more »
It's time to try the muskrat
PITTSVILLE — Mount Vernon native Robert Taylor has been trapping muskrat for the better part of his 72 years. He rises early, even for a farmer, and heads out to start checking his traps. During muskrat season, which ends in March, he will be able to sell as many as he can catch to Dave… Read more »
M.A.R.K.S. Seeks Worcester Field
OCEAN PINES — Ray Unger’s neighbors don’t really even bat an eye anymore when they see one of his planes taxiing along in front of their homes. The remote control (RC) airplane enthusiast has been using the street as a practice runway for his scale model bombers and jets for years and the sessions have… Read more »
New Street Solutions Sought
BERLIN — While there may be many big changes for the Town’s festivals in store for 2012, the layout of the street closures is unlikely to be one of them. In early December, local business owner Gail Lewis petitioned the Mayor and Council to consider including part of South Main Street — between Jefferson and… Read more »
Solar Rules Considered
BERLIN — Before South Moon Under debuted its solar array this summer the company worked with the Town to ensure that any electricity that it generated but did not use could flow safely back onto the grid. Since then the Town has been working to establish a policy to ensure that as more solar arrays… Read more »
Wastewater Plant soldiers on
BERLIN — The Mayor and Council approved a contract that would pay AP Croll $3.9 million for spray site addition. The company was the low bidder for a project that Town engineering consultant company URS estimated at $4 million. The addition would complete the spray site project and is to include a lagoon with a… Read more »
Salvadorian tamales make Chef Paul salivate
It was with great suspicion and disquietude that the Salvadoran women agreed to allow me to help them make tamales for Bellehaven’s employee party. I didn’t think it prudent or appropriate to ask whether this was a tradition bestowed among the traditional housewife, but only assumed it as the women kept laughing at either my… Read more »
Christmas Rose and Elf on the Self among the new holiday favorites
BERLIN — One of the great Christmas myths is that traditions have to be inherited. At first, the term tradition seems to demand that whatever the holiday practice happens to be it must have always been. This, of course, cannot be true. Traditions are inaugurated by families, individuals and cultures all the time. In the… Read more »
There is no end to the fun or to the finds at Elizabeth’s Treasures
OCEAN PINES — When Elizabeth Stout opened Elisabeth’s Treasures two years ago she was completely content with occupying the bottom half of the converted split level home between Ocean Parkway and Manklin Meadows Lane, but had her eye on the upstairs. Stout wanted the second floor not so much because it would provide her additional… Read more »