OP has a problem, but don’t worry about it After acknowledging that it has a problem, the Ocean Pines Board of Directors this week went on to lose whatever marbles it has left by committing publicly to work privately on a concern it won’t reveal, and thinking that’s just fine. One must assume that the… Read more »
Editorial
Gazette Editorial
Time to clear the air Transparency is an overused word to describe an underused concept. That’s how it has seemed ever since governing officials and their constituents began to demand more of it in recent years. Yet, despite these pledges of more openness, the flow of information from authorities to the public has been increasingly… Read more »
Gazette Cartoon
Spotlight on Colby Phillips Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Letters to the Editor
Former director addresses OPA Editor, Once again, I feel as a former [Ocean Pines Association] director the need to speak out. This email is not solely focused on Colby Phillips but rather the toxic environment which has come to be again in OPA. Let’s talk about the facts. I was a director on the board… Read more »
Gazette Editorial
Codify what looks good Going before a planning commission is seldom enjoyable, but it’s less so when someone goes in believing he or she understands the rules only to discover that commission members have ideas of their own that aren’t in the code. That’s where the developer of an Auto Zone store on the site… Read more »
Gazette Cartoon
Heron Park Parcels for Sale! Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Letters to the editor
KKK-related print material found Editor, It is hard to believe we live in a community where recent KKK-related print materials were left in driveways of local residents of Berlin, Ocean Pines and West Ocean City. This is an affront, not just to those who received these hate-filled, scare-mongering missives, but to all of us who… Read more »
Sad summer with no Berlin Little League
Just when we really needed a feel-good diversion from the extremely upsetting difficulties of our times, the one thing we normally could count on to unite our communities and give us something to cheer about has fallen victim to covid-19. To borrow from “Casey at the Bat,” there will be no baseball joy in Berlin… Read more »
Gulyas leaves council with honest appraisal
As Berlin Town Councilman Thom Gulyas confessed in this week’s story about his resignation from the council, he thought he knew a great deal more about the workings of town government before he became a part of it in 2014. That’s when he realized how much he didn’t know and how much he had to… Read more »
Honoring heroes who take risks for others
(Excerpted from an American Legion speech) Every crisis has new heroes. During the 9/11 attacks, they were the first responders running into burning and crumbling buildings as others ran out. Now, during the Coronavirus pandemic, the most visible heroes are the health care professionals, who are saving others and risking their own lives while doing… Read more »