(Dec. 17, 2015) Leave the driving to Ocean Pines, with several bus trips planned by the recreation and parks department this winter. Take a trip to Washington, D.C. to watch “Matilda the Musical” at the Kennedy Center on Saturday, Jan. 9. Based on the Roald Dahl classic, the cost to attend is $120 per person,… Read more »

(Dec. 17, 2015) Atlantic General Health System’s Regional Cancer Care Center will host a Look Good Feel Better Workshop on Thursday, Dec. 17, from 10 a.m. to noon. During this workshop, attendees will work with volunteer beauty professionals on skin care and makeup application and will learn about wig selection and care, how to care… Read more »

(Dec. 17, 2015) The Pine Tones Chorus will present a Christmas concert at Atlantic United Methodist Church on Baltimore Ave and Fourth Street in Ocean City, on Friday, Dec. 18 at 7:30 p.m. The Pine Tones Chorus includes about 55 singers from Ocean Pines, Ocean City and nearby areas. June Todd is the chorus director… Read more »

(Dec. 17, 2015) U-Haul Company of Maryland, Inc. announces that Friendship Exxon Gas Station, now under new ownership, has signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the Berlin community. Friendship Exxon at 10709 Grays Corner Road will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment, support rental items and in-store pickup for boxes.   Hours… Read more »

(Dec. 17, 2015) Peck and Patti Miller have become the latest “Champions of Education,” with a $10,000 donation to the Worcester County Education Foundation.       The Millers have called Ocean City home for more than 37 years. During that time, they opened and ran multiple businesses while bringing up three daughters. Their daughters were educated… Read more »

(Dec. 10, 2015) Two and half hours before Berlin’s 45th annual Christmas parade started last Thursday, dozens of town workers and volunteers gathered in the council chambers at town hall for an impromptu pizza party. The room, buzzing with nervous energy and filled with a half dozen department heads in casual clothes, hardly resembled the… Read more »

(Dec. 10, 2015) The Ocean Pines Association released a seven-page report via email on Monday that painstakingly details a Nov. 5 meeting between three representatives from the board of directors and golf management company Landscapes Unlimited. According to the report, Directors Tom Terry, Bill Cordwell and Pat Renaud, the board president, met with Landscapes President… Read more »

(Dec. 10, 2015) A year ago, Ivy Wells was the new kid on the block, stepping into the shoes of the immensely popular Michael Day in a town that had just completed its decades-long transformation from ugly duckling to bona fide swan. Today, Wells, the economic and community development director of Berlin, insists that, despite… Read more »

(Dec. 10, 2015) Those who work closely with Berlin Economic and Community Development Director Ivy Wells gave her high marks during her first year on the job. Mayor Gee Williams admitted Wells had big shoes to fill, replacing Michael Day in the role. “We definitely had high expectations for this position based on the job… Read more »

(Dec. 10, 2015) While Michael Day gets a good deal of credit for the resurgence of Berlin – along with Mayor Gee Williams, County Tourism Director Lisa Challenger and a handful of others – he now faces a similar challenge as Snow Hill’s economic development director. This is not, as is obvious, Day’s first time… Read more »