(April 7, 2016) Frustration was palpable during the most recent meeting of the Ocean Pines Comprehensive Planning Committee on March 31. Still reeling from a difficult meeting with the board of directors two weeks earlier and hoping to regroup, the committee had trouble accomplishing much. Gail Blazer worried the directors were looking at the committee… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) It was a year ago on March 28, 2015 that the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors voted 5-1 to approve a contract with Salisbury University group BEACON to assist in creating a new comprehensive plan. Now, 12 months later, real progress on developing that plan has remained elusive. At the time… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) In response to a special OPA Board meeting about the Manklin Meadows Racquet Center expansion, Director Dave Stevens emailed the Gazette a statement last Tuesday. That statement ran on page two of the March 31 issue of the paper. Stevens also forwarded his comments to several other directors, who, in return, emailed… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) Another photovoltaic solar farm in Worcester County similar to the one proposed off Libertytown Road in Berlin will have its own public hearing at the Snow Hill Library tonight, April 7, at 7 p.m. Longview Solar LLC is seeking approval for both facilities. The one in Berlin had a public hearing last… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) Phase one of a public mural unveiled last month and hanging outside the Berlin Visitor’s Center involved second and third-grade students from nearby Buckingham Elementary School. Painting of the second phase will include children from three programs at Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc. in Berlin. Muralist John Donato will continue… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) Before the elections last Tuesday, City Clerk Carol Sullivan said results would only take 15 to 30 minutes before they were posted online, and she’d have been right too, if a discrepancy hadn’t surfaced. As of Wednesday morning and press time, no winner had been declared in an election where 132 total… Read more »

(April 7, 2016) For years, Jackie Ball and Heidi McNeeley have shared the terrible bond of having a family member who struggles with heroin addiction.   Today, Thursday, April 7, they will host the first meeting of a new group, Worcester County Warriors Against Opiate Addiction, at the Ocean Pines Library at 6:30 p.m., designed… Read more »

(March 31, 2016) Once an item of some contention, the OPA Board was easily able to pass changes to resolution F-01 last Thursday, thanks to a compromise hammered out on the previous day during a committee meeting. On March 23, the budget and finance committee met to discuss several items. F-01 was not one of… Read more »

(March 31, 2016) Local robotics team Titanium Wrecks recently qualified to compete in the district championships in College Park, April 6-9 at the Xfinity Center.  The mechanized warriors earned that right after doing will in two district competitions. Team mentor Paul Suplee said the members of the team, all students from high schools in Worcester… Read more »