OCEAN PINES — Ocean Pines Association General Manager Bob Thompson did a lot of talking last week. After discussing his suggested facilities plan with the OPA board of directors during a marathon session Dec. 6, last Saturday he gave a less in-depth report to the membership over the course of about four hours. Nearly 200… Read more »
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No excuse needed to have cake for dinner
I ate molten chocolate cake with homemade berry marshmallows for dinner. The kids ate leftover pizza. I’m not sure what my wife ate. After a long weekend at the Country Club, it was a day of taking kids to the doctor and dentist, and what better way to end a visit to the dentist than… Read more »
Randy Hofman goes ecstatic with ‘Coastal Icons’
BERLIN — Setting cliches aside as much as possible, the common link between art and life is choice. Success is learning from the affects of the choices, how what a person planned relates to what actually happened and, in the very best cases, how they can improve both their choices and outcomes as they get… Read more »
All work is play at the Woodlands
OCEAN PINES — Woodlands owner Rick Handelman had a devilish look in his eye as he approached the front desk. “Watch this, they hate this,” he said waiving his hand in front of the three-foot-tall Santa standing guard next to the desk. “They” were the staff and residents at the Woodlands and the result of… Read more »
Berlin Walking Tour gets a new voice
BERLIN — Shirley Hailey came out of her back gate to find a small group of people wandering around in her side yard looking for a rain tree. She was sad to report the landmark tree had been taken away. She and her husband Rex engaged a tree company to come by and take down… Read more »
Ocean Liners Boot, Scoot and Boogie
OCEAN PINES — The country music coming from the Community Center gym on any given Monday and Wednesday morning doesn’t sound, upon first listen, like workout music. It lacks the driving beat that tends to mark official exercise. And, strictly speaking, exercise is a secondary aim for the Ocean Liners, the line-dancing club that occupies… Read more »
GM presents his OP Yacht Club notion
By Tony Russo Staff Writer OCEAN PINES — After a morning spent touring two of the Ocean Pines Association’s facilities most in need of repair or replacement — the Yacht Club and the Country Club — the OPA board met at the Community Center to hear the beginnings of the plan that General Manager Bob… Read more »
Parade a ‘Hometown’ evening of fun
BERLIN —The Christmas season kicked off on last week with the 41st annual Berlin Christmas Parade. As usual, it demonstrated "great small town charm," according to spectator Glenn Irwin. Dozens of colorful and festive floats proceeded along Main Street to bring the Christmas spirit to hundreds of spectators. Wayne Cannon, who works at radio station… Read more »
Welcome to Christmas Pointe
WEST OCEAN CITY — Somewhere there is an old photograph of a very young Chuck Dondero messing with the display in his family’s Boardwalk shop. While it’s not, strictly speaking, a point of dispute, Dondero claims he was showing his budding talent as a stock boy, arranging the items for sale. His wife, Linda, claims… Read more »
Town Considers New Street Closure Parameters
BERLIN — Over the last several years as the various events and street fairs have become popular enough to draw hundreds or even thousands to town regular street closures have become commonplace and Berlin has settled into a pattern for cordoning off specific streets for designated amounts of time. The process has become nearly automated… Read more »