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A Unique Sunset View: A sunset this month is pictured from the white marlin public art display in downtown Ocean City.

Spring Road Work About To Begin In Downtown OC Ahead Of Season

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More Sports Fields Could Be Near If County Buys Berlin Lions Club Property

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Berlin Citizens Continue Talks With Council On Tax Increases

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Cutest Pet Of The Month The winner of last month’s Cutest Pet of the Month Contest was Raven, a 13-year-old American shorthair cat, owned by Jose Marcellino.

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Cops & Courts PAGE 24

Editorial PAGE 43

Sports

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Fatherhood PAGE 48

Things I Like

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Music

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Community

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Faces In Places PAGE 56

Things To Do PAGE 62

Business PAGE 66

Classifieds PAGE 68

People In Society PAGE 75

Crossword PAGE 78

Vanishing OC PAGE 78

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Downtown OC Paving Project To Begin Soon

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – The biggest takeaway from the State Highway Administration (SHA) semi-annual briefing with resort officials this week was a considerable milling and paving project will begin this month.

SHA District Engineer Jay Meredith and his staff briefed the council this week on a variety of projects large and small in the resort, many of which have been completed or are nearly completed. For example, in March, SHA contractors began a milling and paving project along Philadelphia Avenue from 26th to 9th streets, and Meredith told the council on Tuesday that project had been completed.

However, a second phase of that project will soon begin. SHA contractors are mobilizing for a milling and paving project along Philadelphia Avenue from 9th Street to North Division Street. The project also includes repaving the portion of the Route 50 Bridge from the draw span to its terminus at Philadelphia Avenue at North Division Street.

The project also includes repaving North Division Street between Philadelphia Avenue and the traffic signal at Baltimore Avenue. The milling is expected to start on April 22 and run through May 11. The paving of that section is expected to begin on May 6 and be concluded by May 18.

Otherwise, the semi-annual meeting between SHA officials and the Mayor and Council covered a wide variety of potential projects. For example, there was some debate about the intersection of Philadelphia Avenue at the foot of the Route 50 Bridge including enhancing the existing wooden bollard system that prevents vehicles turning west on Route 50 from crossing over into the east bound lanes in the event of an accident.

Resort officials pushed for something sturdier at that intersection including a different barrier or even a jersey wall. The request came after some recent incidents when vehicles drove over the wooden bollards and into the eastbound lanes. There was also discussion about improving the pedestrian crossings in that area.

The future dualization of Route 90 was glossed over for the most part, although SHA officials told the council they know it remains a priority for Ocean City and Worcester County and is still on the state’s radar. SHA officials also told the council studies have indicated a new traffic signal is not warranted at 3rd Street and Philadelphia Avenue at this time, although that could change when the town’s new public works facility SEE NEXT PAGE

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FROM PAGE 4 at 2nd Street is completed. The following is a look at some of the other topics discussed on Tuesday:

Median Fence Achieving Goals Prior to last summer, SHA completed a median fence project with enhanced lighting along Coastal Highway from 62nd Street to 40th Street. The intent was to reduce pedestrian-vehicle collisions in an area historically known for them. On Tuesday, Councilman Dennis Dare said the median fence in general and the enhanced lighting specifically improved safety along that section of the corridor and asked SHA officials if there were plans to expand it.

“I think the median fence project has been very successful,” he said.

“The fence is a big part of it, but the LED lights in the median have greatly improved lighting in that area. Is there an opportunity to expand the LED lighting in the median in other areas?

It might not warrant another fence or need more landscaping, but the safety issues warrant improving lighting along the corridor where possible.”

Meredith explained expanding the fence project is dependent on available funding, but adding more LED lights in the median in other areas of the highway is under consideration.

“Safety is paramount,” he said. “I think the combination of the fence and the lighting has been very successful.

We’ve been discussing adding more lighting in the median in other areas.

It is on our radar.”

Councilman Mark Paddack drew from his experience as a former Ocean City police officer to praise the median fence project and push for its expansion to other areas.

“That project single-handedly stopped pedestrian collisions in that area,” he said. “I have to admit I was skeptical at first, but the number of pedestrian collisions has dropped off. I hope SHA continues south with that because fences and walls work.”

Storm Drain Cleaning Last year, it came to light the town’s extensive storm drain system was in dire need of a major cleanout. It was learned the town’s 46 miles of storm drains along with 2,400 catch basins and 330 outfalls hadn’t been thoroughly cleaned in over three decades since right after Hurricane Gloria in 1985.

To that end, the town partnered with SHA on an extensive storm drain cleaning project that hit some snares when it was learned the extent of the infilling was more than anticipated in certain areas. When SHA reached its funding level for its share of the storm SEE PAGE 30

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OC Expects $1M Budget Hit With Minimum Wage Hike

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – The Town of Ocean City is now grappling with the minimum wage increase approved by the General Assembly as it moves through the budget process.

During the General Assembly session that ended this week, state lawmakers approved a bill gradually increasing the minimum wage in Maryland to $15 per hour by 2025. Gov. Larry Hogan last week vetoed the legislation, but the veto was overridden by the House and Senate. The current minimum wage in Maryland is $10.10 per hour and that will increase to an even $11 per hour on July 1. Over the next four years, the minimum wage will be increased on a graduated scale until

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it reaches $15. The deadline to reach the $15 rate is stretched out until 2028 for businesses with fewer than 15 employees, a measure included in the bill to insulate small businesses somewhat from the rather onerous increase.

However, as the resort’s largest employer, the Town of Ocean City will likely bear the brunt of the minimum wage increase the most at least locally. During budget work sessions this week, Budget Manager Jennie Knapp said the fiscal year 2020 spending plan anticipated the wage hike and included the next step in the lower end of the town’s pay scale, but there will be challenges as the minimum wage escalates in future years as outlined in the legislation.

“We haven’t figured out what we’re going to do,” she said. “It’s going to be a lot of money. It’s probably going to

be $1 million going forward.”

The minimum wage increase will largely affect the town’s seasonal and temporary part-time employees.

Ocean City takes on nearly 800 seasonal employees each summer and that sector is where the town will likely feel the increase the most. The challenge will be nudging up the wage increase across the pay scale for year-round, full-time employees, according to Knapp.

“Taking the minimum wage to $11 is not a problem for this year,” she said. “It is going to have an impact throughout the pay scale. We’re going to have to figure out a way to make it equitable across the pay scale.”

Last year, Ocean City anticipated a minimum wage hike and nudged the lower end of its pay scale up 2%. How-

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ever, with the bill passed into law, the increase is going to come at a quicker pace.

“This year, we were able to absorb that 2%increase, but it’s going to have a ripple effect,” said Knapp. “We won’t be able to keep absorbing that.

It’s going to be a 9% increase per year.”

Councilman Mark Paddack said the resort’s private sector is facing the same challenges. For example, if an entry level dishwasher position at a resort restaurant pays $15 per hour, then the line cooks and other employees that maybe have been with a company for 10 years will likely have to see their wages increase in kind.

Paddack said business owners can raise their prices incrementally to offset the cost of the higher payroll, but there is a ceiling for that and a comfort level at which the consumer is willing to pay. The other alternative, which both the private sector and the municipal government will have to embrace, is doing more with less.

“The impact of the minimum wage increase on our business sector is they’re just going to have to cut back on employees,” he said. “They can’t continue to raise their prices. This legislation is being shoved down our throats by a liberal legislature in Annapolis. I imagine as a council we’re going to have to cut back on employees.”

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OC Council Open To Increase In Building Fees, Permits

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – The ongoing redevelopment renaissance in the resort is straining resources to the point an adjustment in building fees and permits could be in the offing, resort officials learned this week.

During a budget work session on Monday, Planning and Community Development Director Bill Neville told the Mayor and Council a robust development climate in the resort, fueled largely by a new hotel boom, was achieving the desired results in terms of expanding the tax base, but was coming at the cost of increased expenses in processing building permit applications and other services provided by his department.

Neville said his department’s revenue projections for the current year were down slightly, while expenditures related to issuing building permits and completing the requisite inspections had gone up. He said the difference between revenue and expenditures was around $552,000.

The subject has been broached before, but on Monday the debate was renewed about increasing the building permit fee structure to offset the increased expense to the town for providing the services. Councilman Dennis Dare said building costs had gone up in recent years, but the town’s fee schedule had not followed suit.

“This is showing me expenditures are going up due to inflation-type things,” he said. “That $552,000 expense to the town needs to be sup-

ported by the people who use the services. This looks like it’s trending in the wrong direction.”

Neville said there was a $100 million investment in the town last year through development including 1,000 new hotel rooms over the last few years. He said with the current hotel building boom reaching a plateau, the new trend appears to be four- and five-story condominium projects. He also said there have been some permits issued for single-family homes in Ocean City in the $1 million range.

“As we track development, I think it’s a good sign to see that level of reinvestment in our town,” he said. “I think we’re reaching an equilibrium with the hotel market, but there is significant re-investment in other areas.”

Neville said there could be room for

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some modest increases in the building permit fee structure. The fees cover a wide range of projects large and small from major hotel and condominium projects to relatively modest bathroom or kitchen remodels. He suggested if it was the will of the council to explore nudging the permit fees upward, it should likely be an across-the-board process.

“The last time we did an overhaul of the fee schedule was in 2008 or 2009,” he said. “That would be the way to go about it, not dramatically increasing just one area. We can certainly come back with some recommendations. It can be done in an incremental way that is fair over a period of time.”

Dare said the building fees are based on the value of construction and subject to the whims of inflation.

He said if inflation causes the cost of building to increase, the cost of providing permitting should go up.

“We provide the services and planning and zoning should pay for itself,” he said. “I think we should take a close look at this. We don’t want to make money from this, but at the same time, we should at least recoup what we’re spending to provide the service.

Maybe we can talk about this again at budget wrap-up. If not, that’s okay too, but we better start looking at it quickly.”

With the Mayor and Council working through the fiscal year 2020 budget, Councilman Mark Paddack agreed there could be room for growth in the building permit fee schedule, but cautioned against putting off implementing the changes for another year.

“I don’t want to wait too long,” he said.

“A couple of things stand out for me. The government can’t make money, but we do need to be able to charge a responsible fee to offset our expenses.”

Raising the fee schedule could, however, have the adverse effect of discouraging development in the resort. Paddack said whatever decision is made with the potential fee increases, that should be kept in mind.

“I’m in favor of raising some of these fees if it would offset our costs,” he said.

“I just wonder if it would curtail building activity if the fees were increased.”

Neville agreed any proposed fee increases should not at the expense of curtailing future development.

“The concern with this is that the raising the fee schedule doesn’t drive away development,” he said. “I think we need to see where we are at the end of the fiscal year with a full year of development activity to look at.”

Budget Manager Jennie Knapp said balancing the budget while maintaining the current property tax rate relied on looking at all potential sources of increasing revenue.

“We need to look at where we are and where we want to go in the next five years,” she said. “To do that, we need to look at all of these types of revenue.”

The council agreed to revisit potentially increasing the fee schedule during budget wrap-up sessions next week.

Could Relaxing Pet Rules Help Tourism?

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – Hoping to tap into a growing market, resort tourism officials this week discussed expanding when pets are allowed on the beach and Boardwalk.

Currently, pets are only allowed on the beach and Boardwalk between Oct. 1 and April 30. However, a popular growing trend is for vacationers to bring their favorite four-legged friends with them on vacation.

During a Tourism Commission meeting on Monday, Ocean City Hotel-MotelRestaurant Association (OCHMRA) Executive Director Susan Jones pointed out more resort lodging establishments are becoming pet-friendly in response to the growing trend.

“Seeing how we have so many new hotel rooms, we need to explore how we’re going to fill them,” she said. “Pet travel is becoming increasingly popular. We used to have four members allowing pets and now we have 20. It’s definitely a growing market.”

Commission member Michael James agreed the idea had merit.

“Maybe we can allow people to take their pets on the beach or Boardwalk in May or even early June,” he said. “It could become a nice clientele.”

Jones said she did some cursory research on the policies of neighboring beach resorts and found they were

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somewhat more relaxed than Ocean City. She also related a story of a pet owner who paid $300 to board a pet for four days to illustrate the added cost of visiting a less pet-friendly destination.

“I think we could follow the before 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m. rule,” she said. “We’d have to create real enforceable laws for people picking up pet waste. The hotels that do allow pets give out doggie bags for that purpose.”

While supportive of exploring the idea further, commission member and business owner Stephanie Meehan cautioned against allowing pets on the beach in the morning during the season.

“I think after 5 p.m. is better than the morning because the beach will be cleaned,” she said. “They’re still cleaning the beach at night. I would hate to see families go out to the beach in the morning and find pet waste.”

James recommended shortening the time period of the restrictions.

“At the least, I think we could add May and September,” he said. “Maybe pets could be allowed on the beach and Boardwalk from the actual Labor Day Monday until the Thursday before Memorial Day.” The commission agreed to renew the discussion at a later date and come up with a recommendation for the Mayor and Council.

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Legislature Approves State Funds For OC Center Expansion

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – After a tough General Assembly session for the Lower Shore, resort officials got some good news this week with the passage of a bill ensuring state funding for the next expansion of the Roland E. Powell Convention Center.

During a budget work session on Monday, City Engineer Terry McGean told the council he had just learned the bill guaranteeing the state’s share in the third expansion phase of the convention

center had just been approved as the session neared its end. The bill authorizes the Maryland Stadium Authority (MSA), which partners with the Town of Ocean City on the convention center, to issue up to $24.5 million in bonds to help pay for third phase of the expansion.

The total cost of the project is $34 million, of which the state is requested to fund 60 percent, or $20.4 million.

The town’s share would be 40 percent, or roughly $13.6 million, which would be funded by the one cent added to the food tax in Ocean City.

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In 2016, the Mayor and Council approved the expansion, citing a need to gain a competitive edge over similar facilities in the region and increase the convention center’s economic impact.

The decision to move forward with the third phase of the expansion was reached after a feasibility study revealed Ocean City was likely losing potential business to other facilities in the region due to a lack of sufficient exhibit space. As a result, an expansion of up to 30,000 more square feet in exhibit space was recommended.

The original convention center was built in 1970 with 40,000 square feet of exhibit space on two levels along with seven meeting rooms and breakout rooms and other areas. The original convention center, with its iconic ramp from Coastal Highway to the front entrance, also included 1,100 parking spaces.

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significant amount of convention activity within the state and throughout the mid-Atlantic region and recommended the facility be renovated and expanded to 80,000 square feet of exhibit space along with 30,000 square feet of meeting space and 20,000 to 25,000 square feet of ballroom or swing space.

To that end, the convention center was expanded in 1997 although not to the extent the study seven years earlier recommended. The convention center has been expanded since, including a roughly 19,000-square-foot ballroom in 2012 and the new 1,200seat Performing Arts Center, which opened in late 2014.

According to the fiscal policy note attached to the legislation approved this week, the local tax revenue generated by the expansion is estimated at $730,000 to $1 million annually, while the state tax revenue generated by the expansion is estimated in a range from $2.6 million to $3.5 million annually.

The original expansion plan called for the construction of a multi-level parking garage on the site to the tune of around $8 million. However, it was determined the existing parking available at the convention center is sufficient and the parking garage was left out of the final design. McGean said on Monday with the state share of funding secured, the next expansion could be completed as soon as spring 2021.

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY– A bill that could essentially triple the capacity of wind energy off the coast of Maryland passed this week, causing resort officials to redouble their efforts to get the word out about the potential impact of the vast turbine fields.

As the session expired this week, state lawmakers passed the Clean Jobs Act of 2019, language in which could allow for the expansion of offshore wind energy generated off the coast of Ocean City to 1,200 megawatts. Currently, the two projects plodding through the approval process would generate under 400 megawatts combined.

According to language in the bills,

the Public Service Commission (PSC) shall provide additional application periods for consideration of offshore wind projects on a graduated scale through 2030. The intent of the legislation is to position Maryland to keep up with the growing offshore wind energy competition up and down the east coast. When state lawmakers approved the Clean Energy Act of 2013, paving the way for the two approved projects now on the table, the state was considered to be out in front of the burgeoning offshore wind energy market. In the years since, however, other states have approved projects, some of which are up and running and others that are further along in the approval pipeline.

Since the PSC in 2017 approved two offshore wind energy projects off

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the coast, town officials have been in a prolonged battle to have the two approved companies build their wind turbines as far as 26 nautical miles off the coast, or a distance believed to have the turbines not visible from the shoreline.

After considerable debate, one of the approved companies, US Wind, has acquiesced somewhat and agreed to place its turbines no closer than 17 miles from the resort’s coast, while a second project would site its turbines in a range of 17-21 miles off the resort coast, or at the western edge of the state’s designated Wind Energy Area (WEA).

However, in the roughly two years since the PSC approved the two Maryland projects, the technology of wind turbines has accelerated to the point

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they now could be considerably larger and taller than what was originally envisioned. With the legislation approved this week that could triple the capacity of the two projects off Maryland’s coast in a second phase, those larger turbines could become a reality in the future.

During Monday’s Tourism Commission meeting, resort officials renewed the debate about the legislation approved by the General Assembly and the potential impact of expanded offshore wind energy projects off the coast on sightlines from the beach and ultimately property values. From the beginning, resort officials have asserted vast wind energy farms with giant spinning turbines within site of the coast could impact tourism and, by extension, property values.

It was an assertion renewed this week at the tourism commission level.

Commission member and Ocean City hotelier Michael James pointed out the turbines could be three times taller than the Carousel. He said many in the resort aren’t likely aware of the size and scale of the projects.

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FROM PAGE 12 going to go down because of this and it’s not going to do down just one or two percent. I think we all agree we’re for clean energy, but not at the expense of property values. I just think we need to get the word out.”

Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce Executive Director and CEO Melanie Pursel said the organization partnered last month on a public information meeting about the potential impacts of offshore drilling for oil and natural gas and a similar approach could be used for the wind farm issue.

“I agree we need to get the word out and get the public informed on this,” she said. “We need to keep a close eye on this.”

James said the legislation was likely passed by state lawmakers who only viewed the potential green energy benefits without concern for local impacts.

“Legislators in say Baltimore County or Montgomery County just see this strictly as green energy,” he said. “I’m not sure they really know the impact of this. I don’t know if they know what they’re voting for.”

Tourism commission member Stephanie Meehan said she believed most local residents are aware of the issues, but many of the thousands of non-resident property owners have not been following it closely. She said that is the sector at which a public awareness campaign should be directed.

“I think the people who live here are up to speed on this,” she said. “It’s the non-resident people that own property that haven’t been paying attention.

Those are the people we really need to reach out to.”

Meanwhile, it has been quiet locally on the offshore wind issue while resort officials await the next step in the approval process and another opportunity to weigh in on the distance issue for the turbines.

Again, while Ocean City officials do not oppose off-

shore wind conceptually, they have fiercely opposed siting the turbines closer than 26 miles off the coast, largely because of aesthetic issues and potential impacts on property values and tourism.

Throughout the debate, town officials have pointed out the size of the individual turbines approved years ago have continued to grow in height exponentially, adding to the angst over their potential visibility from the coast.

However, the wind energy companies that hold Maryland permits pushed for the passage of the Clean Jobs Act of 2019 to keep the state positioned out in front of what is becoming an increasingly competitive market up and down the east coast.

When he testified before the House and Senate last month, US Wind Manager Salvo Vitale urged state lawmakers to support the sister bills that would essentially triple the capacity for offshore wind off Maryland’s coast. Vitale extolled economic virtues of expanding offshore wind in the resort along with its environmental benefits.

“This transformational legislation would serve to reassert Maryland’s leadership position in the fastdeveloping offshore wind energy sector underway in the United States, creating an additional 5,0007,000 direct jobs, an additional $18 million to be deposited in the Offshore Wind Business Development Fund, approximately $5 billion in new capital expenditures and thousands of tons more of carbon emissions reduced or avoided altogether,” said Vitale.

“With only 358 megawatts currently available for development here in our state and no further incentive to develop more, Maryland risks ceding its leadership position as other states along the Eastern Seaboard move aggressively to increase the proportion that offshore wind energy accounts for in their own state renewable energy goals.”

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Berlin Continues Heated Tax Hike Talks

April 12, 2019

BY CHARLENE SHARPE

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BERLIN – Residents continue to plead for an incremental tax increase rather than the 29% jump proposed by Berlin’s mayor.

At Monday’s meeting of the Berlin Town Council, dozens of residents urged elected officials to reconsider the 29% tax increase proposed by Mayor Gee Williams at last week’s budget work session. The suggested increase would raise the tax bill on a $300,000 home by $600.

“You can’t do this all at once,” resident Marie Velong said. “It’s unconscionable. You only have working people here. We didn’t get a $600 raise this year.”

At a work session last week, Williams suggested a 29% tax increase as well as water, sewer and stormwater rate increases. While the rate increases will end the utility funds’ practice of borrowing from the general fund, the tax increase is expected to gradually restore the funding depleted by the three utility funds during the past four years.

A roomful of concerned residents greeted the officials at Monday’s regular meeting. Though the budget wasn’t on the agenda, it dominated the public comment portion of the meeting.

Resident Don Fletcher questioned the need to restore funds borrowed during a period of several years in one year. He also pointed out that the town’s property tax revenue would increase 7% even if the town didn’t adjust taxes. Fletcher asked if the 29% increase would eliminate any shortfall.

“It would mean no more borrowing from reserves,” Williams said.

Merchant Michelle Bruder said she’d spent the day reviewing the town’s budget and was disgusted by some of the expenses.

“Why do we as taxpayers have to take care of what you guys did?” she said. “Small leaks sink big ships.”

She said the town spent $2,000 on Sam’s Club memberships.

“The small little things that I went through today, I was like excuse me are you kidding me?,” Bruder said. “I struggle here as a business owner. Struggle.

I have struggled here for 17 years and I have to see this. I’m sorry, it makes me sick.”

Cape Circle resident Larry Smith criticized the proposed 29% increase.

“The council and you mayor are the ones that screwed this all up,” Smith said. “How come we’ve got to make it up at one time? How come the taxpayers’ backs are being broken to fix your screw up?”

Williams replied that while he’d proposed a 29% increase, another option was an incremental increase.

“The other option is we incrementally increase taxes over let’s say three years,” he said. “That would mean continuing to borrow from reserves for three more years before we stop that.”

Smith said he already paid the town more than he paid for county and state taxes combined.

“You’re going to price everybody right out of this town,” he said.

Bruder interjected that Berlin could turn into another Snow Hill.

“Get rid of some of these white elephants you’ve bought,” Smith said. “Quit expanding. Every time you annex or build something else you’ve got to increase all the utility fees because now you’ve got extra draws on all the utilities.”

Councilman Troy Purnell said that wasn’t true.

“The developer pays for everything and I know it,” he said. “I can tell you right now any growth this

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town receives, like Oceans East, has brought revenue to this town and not had any other expenditures.”

Smith asked who was paying for the town’s spray irrigation fields.

“We all are,” Purnell said. “We had to do that years and years and years ago because we ran out of capacity ... Everybody wanted to get a spray irrigation facility to get out of the stream. It was a good idea. It was extremely expensive. Operating it has become even more expensive than we anticipated.

That’s the number one issue we’ve got. We’re still trying to figure it out. In one year our deficit at that place went to $1.1 million and that’s when it really, the wheels came off.”

He said officials would talk about that on April 15, which is when the utility fund budget work session is scheduled.

“We need to know why but we also need to fix it before it bleeds too much more,” Purnell said. “The developer pays for everything I can tell you. The only thing you’re getting from a new development like Oceans East is revenue to help residents in this town spread that cost out and pay for that sewer plant. ... That annexation is a big deal to this town.

It’s helping us all out.”

Resident Deborah Fletcher, a retired nurse, said she was worried about the impact the tax change would have on home sales.

“My big asset is my home,” she said. “If for some reason I can’t sell it, that’s a big concern.”

Resident Kim Holloway questioned the town’s efforts to recover delinquent fees and taxes. She also outlined the impact the proposed increase would have on her family. She said the family’s taxes would go up $700 a year, bringing her Berlin tax bill to roughly $2,800. She added that that would be in addition to utility bills and her county tax bill, which is more than $2,500.

“We are being sucked dry by this town,” she said.

Resident Jason Walter said that while Purnell was right about the fact that Oceans East wasn’t costing the town, the town had abandoned its wastewater discharge permit and opted to go entirely with spray irrigation, which had proven to be costly.

“We abandoned a valid permit and instead of incrementally going into spray we went straight into it,” he said, adding that he thought that was a mistake.

Williams said that while the town had been mandated not to add any more discharge, it had also pushed for spray irrigation in the interest of environmental stewardship.

Purnell added that officials were looking at all possibilities as they developed the coming year’s budget.

“There’s nothing we have not looked at,” he said.

Walter asked about the town’s plan to pay for its new police station. Williams said casino revenues were paying for the building. Because they’ve increased in recent years, the building could be paid for in eight years. When asked how the building was paid for, Town Administrator Laura Allen said the general fund had paid for the building so casino revenues were now going into the general fund to replenish what was spent on the station.

Walter said the town should have bonded the cost of the police station.

“Why pay for a 50-year structure in eight years?” he said.

Velong said she was frustrated that elected officials had complained about a lack of public participation and now, when they had that participation, seemed to be ignoring it.

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FROM PAGE 15 “It appears you’re still going to do what you set out to do,” she said.

Velong also advocated for an incremental tax increase.

“You had four years of pulling from reserves,” she said. “What is the big emergency in replacing all the money in one year?”

Residents Kim Mumford and Jennifer Dawicki echoed her comments.

Dawicki, owner of The Globe, also expressed concern about the town’s New Year’s Eve ball drop. Though it

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was eliminated from the proposed budget in a work session last week, on Monday Economic and Community Development Director Ivy Wells requested that it be put back in the budget. Dawicki said she was already planning for New Year’s Eve and wanted to know when there’d be a final decision on whether the event was happening.

Williams said discussions were ongoing and pointed out that the budget process had begun earlier this year because of the planned tax and rate

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increases.

Resident John Watson told the council the increases had created a level of anxiety among citizens.

“We elect you officials to do good work on our behalf,” he said. “Obviously, you have failed. I don’t feel you’re taking us very seriously.”

Councilman Elroy Brittingham said officials valued public input.

“I think people are forgetting we live here too,” he said. “We’re not just looking at it for one or two people, all of us are in it together. We do consider what everybody’s saying. We’re glad you’re coming so we can have some input.”

Resident Samantha Pielstick asked officials what level of reserves the town should have. Williams said that at the end of the fiscal year the town would have about $2 million but he wanted to see the town with at least $4 million in reserves.

Pielstick told the council she supported a two-tier tax system – with different rates for residential and commercial properties – and also asked if the town could consider a lower tax rate for seniors, as many were on fixed incomes.

Councilman Thom Gulyas said he was concerned about the impact a tax increase would have on seniors as well and suggested they look into the various tax credits available through

the state and federal government.

“There’s all types of benefits that are out there,” he said.

As they have during each of the town’s budget discussions, citizens also brought up the issue of Berlin Falls Park, which was purchased by the town for $2.5 million in 2016. Velong asked why the town was paying a coordinator to develop it.

“You don’t do that for the other parks,” she said.

Williams stressed that the town had purchased the property to improve it.

He said the town had taken actions to make the former poultry processing plant environmentally neutral.

“It is finally not hurting this town,” he said, adding that the coordinator was a contracted employee who was paid less than $30,000 a year.

Velong maintained that if the town was making cuts it should stop pursuing frivolous things.

“If we’re cutting we need to cut and put that on the backburner …,” she said. “It’s going to take forever to get that right.”

When Smith asked why the town had purchased the park, Williams said it was so the town could control the future of the large industrial property.

“If we hadn’t done it, we’d be at the mercy of whoever comes down the road,” he said.

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OC Committee Recommends Helping Taxi Companies

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OCEAN CITY – Highlighting the need to support local taxi companies, a resort committee this week agreed to forward a favorable recommendation to decrease annual medallion and inspection fees.

On Monday, the Ocean City Police Commission made a favorable recommendation to lower the cost of annual medallion renewals and inspection fees in an effort to improve the business climate for local taxi companies.

“They are asking for adjustments because of Uber and Lyft being out there and increasing competition …,” committee chair and Council President Lloyd Martin said. “They were hoping for us to look at this a little

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harder, a little deeper, to figure out how we can tweak these fees that they incur.”

Currently, taxi companies pay $300 in annual business license fees, $500 in annual renewal fees for each medallion and between $150 and $450 in annual inspection fees to the town.

Annually, the town spends nearly $32,000 to maintain the program and has the potential to collect $62,000 in medallion renewal fees and more than $16,000 in inspection fees.

Taxi Program Coordinator Michelle Monico, however, shared the taxi own-

ers’ concerns with the committee.

“I’ve been hearing back from a lot of taxi owners that the fees, especially the medallion renewal fees, have become very prohibitive for them,” she said. “It’s not just our independent drivers, but I’ve heard from several of our larger companies who are thinking about or have already suspended some of their medallions.”

Monico said ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft have seriously impacted the local taxi industry.

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are taking away a lot of business from our taxi drivers.”

Monico added that taxi companies also incurred costs from state inspections, associated repairs, insurance and more.

“I know they incur a lot of costs outside of what they pay the town to get their cabs ready,” she said. “They are required to get the state inspection and they are required to do other things, which are all parts of the cost of doing business that aren’t our concern.”

Council Secretary Mary Knight noted the high cost of annual inspection fees. Currently, taxi owners pay $150 in inspection fees through April 30, $250 in fees from May 1 to May 31, $350 in fees from June 1 to June 30 and $450 in fees from July 1 to July 31.

“Do you see any reason it should be $250, $350, $450?” she said. “It seems really high to me.”

While she agreed the fees were high, Monico noted they were meant to penalize owners who don’t get their taxis inspected on time.

“It was meant to encourage them to get their taxis inspected earlier and on time before the expiration date of their annual stickers,” she said. “We even extended the date from March 31 to April 30.”

Officials, however, questioned its effectiveness.

“It’s not even an incentive anymore to get them to come in and inspect their cabs …,” Monico said. “At this point in time, it almost being the middle of April, there really aren’t any more [inspections] scheduled for this month.”

Reserve Officer Jann Jones, who inspects the taxi cabs for the town, agreed.

“I’ve done 21 so far this year,” he said.

Committee members also questioned the cost of the annual medallion renewal fee.

“All I hear is it is cost prohibitive to do business in Ocean City anymore,” Monico said. “A lot of it is the medallion fee. We have several large companies that have quite a few medallions that make it cost prohibitive to put all of them on the road on time. A lot of them are shelving them right now.”

City Manager Doug Miller noted the importance of covering the costs associated with maintaining the taxi program if the committee were to recommend reductions.

“We just have to cover the $32,000,” he said.

To that end, the committee this week agreed to send a favorable recommendation to the Mayor and Council to decrease the cost of the annual medallion fee from $500 to $250 and decrease the cost of each of the inspection fees by $50.

“It hits the revenue, but we want to keep these people in business,” Martin said. “I think it’s a positive.”

OC To Consider Parking Authority

April 12, 2019

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – While efforts to tweak the resort’s multi-million-dollar parking system continue, it is becoming apparent Ocean City is leaning toward a single entity or individual as a parking authority.

In the interest of taking a broad look at Ocean City’s complicated municipal parking system including a potential expansion of paid parking in certain areas, Mayor Rick Meehan earlier this year appointed a task force at the request of the council. The task force, directed by noted parking consultant Dan Kupferman along with City Engineer Terry McGean, has met three times over the last several weeks.

In the meantime, there appears to be support for creating a separate department, or perhaps a smaller department within an existing one, to act as a parking authority for the town.

Ocean City’s current municipal parking system is complicated to be sure with paid on-street parking in certain downtown areas, paid municipal lots throughout town and, of course, the Inlet lot, which is somewhat an entity all its own.

Currently, McGean, among the many hats he wears for the city, is the de facto parking guru and works closely with the third-party provider,

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which provides the paid-by-plate parking system, but parking in general falls under several different departments.

For example, Public Works maintains the various lots, the Ocean City Police Department largely handles enforcement and the engineering department handles administration.

Although it is not an entirely new idea, during a budget work session this week, some on the council expressed a desire for a unified parking authority, either a separate department or an individual.

“Parking is a $4 million endeavor in this town,” said Councilman Dennis Dare. “As it becomes more complicated and because it is such a source of revenue, I think we might need to manage it tighter. I feel as though we should have one person in charge of all of the components of parking.”

Dare made a motion for the city manager to meet with the various department heads including engineering, finance and the police department, and come back with some recommendations for creating a parking authority. He said McGean currently handles the job with aplomb, but has much more on his plate. He also said the recommendation might come back to leave the parking oversight as it is.

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During Monday’s Tourism Commission meeting, TEAM Productions’ Bob Rothermel outlined plans for a series of summer fireworks shows and free concerts from one end of the town to the other. TEAM Productions is awarded funding through the Tourism Advisory Board each year to produce the various fireworks shows and free concerts.

On Monday, Rothermel presented a tentative plan for 12 fireworks shows at Northside Park, many of which are coordinated with the popular Sundaes in the Park event. The plan also includes eight fireworks shows at the Boardwalk on Mondays starting July 8 and continuing through Aug. 26.

In addition, the TEAM Productions’ plan includes three free summer concerts with two at Northside Park and another on the beach at North Division Street on July 3. The $269,000 total package also includes the popular OCtoberfrest events coordinated with two weekends around Halloween with the beach maze, pet parade and Great Pumpkin Race.

Rothermel told commission members

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many of the dates are locked in, but there is some flexibility within the budget to add more events if desired. He also said for a nominal increase in the town’s contribution, he could possibly add more fireworks shows and concerts if desired.

“I’m looking to add another free concert in June,” he said. “That would be in this fiscal year, so I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. I’m also looking to add more fireworks shows.”

The free concerts at Northside Park and on the beach downtown are increasingly popular with visitors and that segment of the special events slate could be enhanced. Last year in August, the Wailers concert at Northside Park drew exceptionally well, but now is the time to start booking talent, according to Rothermel.

“The Wailers concert last year drew 2,000 people with very little marketing,” he said. “Booking talent is like a snap shot. They’re going to take the highest and best offer. I wouldn’t necessarily reprise the Wailers at Northside Park, but maybe downtown on the beach.”

Some on the commission asked if Rothermel was exploring tribute bands that have become more and more popular for nostalgic music fans. Rothermel said that is a possibility, but he would rather direct his efforts at original entertainers.

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FROM PAGE 19 said. “I’d just like to explore some recommendations. Maybe it turns out to be fine the way it is.”

Council Secretary Mary Knight agreed and said increased enforcement could be a key component of any recommendation for an independent parking authority.

“I’d like to take a closer look at enforcement,” she said. “We’ve seen how successful enforcing other things has been. Even the parking consultant recommended this. We have a $4 million parking operation and it’s run by several different departments.”

Councilman Mark Paddack agreed the creation of a parking authority should be explored, if only to ease the burden on McGean.

“It probably all shouldn’t fall on Terry exclusively,” he said. “There is definitely room for heavier enforcement out there.”

After considerable debate, the council directed City Manager Doug Miller to craft some recommendations.

In the meantime, McGean said the parking task force will likely meet at least one more time next month before coming up with a larger recommendation on the possible expansion of paid parking.

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FROM PAGE 20 band? They do draw well, I’ll give you that. They do well at outdoor festival venues, but I wouldn’t put them in the Performing Arts Center.”

Naturally, some acts are more expensive than others and Rothermel said he can move money around within the existing contract if a great concert act became available.

“I’m coming in with flexibility in the budget,” he said. “If some concert needs more, I can move money around internally to make that work.”

He also said the town can get more bang for its buck by scheduling free concerts from Monday to Thursday.

“Entertainers are looking for midweek dates,” he said. “Friday and Saturday are the big money nights. They want to fill in some of those mid-week dates.”

Commission member Stephanie Meehan said she likes the concept of a July 3 concert to jumpstart the holiday weekend with the Fourth of July falling on a Thursday this year.

“I like the July 3 concert idea,” she said. “A mid-week Fourth is challenging.

If we can get them to come on July 3 for a great concert, maybe they stay for the fireworks on the Fourth on a Thursday and stay right through the weekend.”

Commission member Michael James agreed the Fourth falling on a Thursday presented some challenges.

“What we’ve seen is people come on Wednesday and Thursday,” he said. “They might have to work on Friday, so they go home to their neighborhood festivities on the weekend.”

The old start time argument for the Boardwalk fireworks shows also came up again on Monday. For years, the fireworks started at dusk, but some Boardwalk merchants complained they were too early and drove business out of their shops. Some suggested a 11 p.m. start time to keep people on the Boardwalk later, but others said that was too late for families with small children. Finally, a compromise was reached with a 10:30 p.m. start time, which appears to have worked, according to Rothermel.

“Everyone goes after the fireworks are over,” he said. “You see that on the Fourth and you see it on the other fireworks nights. After the fireworks are over, people start heading out, so maybe 10:30 p.m. is the right time.”

Rothermel dismissed the idea 10:30 p.m. was too late in the summer for families with small children.

“I hear that all the time and it’s simply not true,” he said. “We see plenty of families with young kids walking down the Boardwalk at 10:30 p.m. The rules are changed when you’re at the beach and on vacation.”

Meehan, who owns an arcade on the Boardwalk, agreed with the 10:30 p.m. start time, pointing out the volume of kids in her business at different times of the night.

“There are just as many at 10:30 as there are at 8:30,” she said. “And I’m talking about from teens to the little ones. It really doesn’t have an impact.”

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SNOW HILL – The Worcester County Health Department is seeking the community’s support to launch a pilot program that offers recovery stations to those seeking help for their addiction.

On Monday, April 15, the health department will host a public meeting with community stakeholders to discuss a grant-funded program that establishes recovery stations in Worcester County.

Jennifer LaMade, the health depart-

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ment’s director of planning, said the program allows those seeking help for addiction to walk into a fire station or police station and receive assistance.

“What we want is a place where individuals walk in, feel welcomed, have their needs met and then have our crisis response team and peer support workers help them start their recovery,” she said.

LaMade explained the health department’s initiative is modeled after a program first developed in Gloucester, Mass.

“We always look for programs that

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are innovative and gets people into treatment …,” she said. “We saw that this program was replicated across the nation, and last year Anne Arundel County opened up their own safe stations.”

LaMade noted the recent success of safe stations in Anne Arundel County. Last year, for example, its fire stations served 666 people seeking treatment for addiction.

“People from other jurisdictions were even coming into its stations,” she said.

To that end, the health department applied for and received a $17,000 grant from the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration to begin planning a pilot program for Worcester County. The agency also received a substantial grant from Mid Shore Mental Health Systems on behalf of the Behavioral Health Administration to implement the program ahead of the summer season.

“We are starting with one recovery station,” LaMade said. “We will pilot that and see if we want to do something like Anne Arundel County did where every fire station is a recovery station.”

LaMade said the health department is looking to launch its first recovery station at the north end of Worcester County, where most overdoses occur.

But to make the program a reality, LaMade said the health department is seeking the support of the community.

In addition to a stakeholder meeting, the health department will also seek expressions of interest from fire stations, police stations, recovery centers and others interested in serving as a recovery station.

“There is money in the grant for a stipend to entities serving as a recovery station,” she said. “So there is some benefit.”

Officials with the health department said recovery stations are needed in Worcester County.

“Maryland is one of the top 10 states in the nation for overdose deaths. It’s not where we want to be …,” LaMade said. “This is a way for people who are ready to get help immediately.”

Travis Brown, the health department’s public information officer, agreed.

“This is an important program that’s going to help those in the community survive and thrive,” he said. “Hopefully the community can partner with us because it takes a village.”

A public meeting for community stakeholders will be held at 3 p.m. on Monday, April 15, at the Worcester County Health Department, located at 6040 Public Landing Rd. in Snow Hill.

For more information, call the Worcester County Health Department at 410-632-1100 or email Jennifer LaMade at jennifer.lamade@maryland.gov or Sue Buhrt at sue.burht@maryland.gov.

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

SNOW HILL – A five-year plan proposed by Worcester County Recreation and Parks would include the purchase of land currently owned by the Berlin Lions Club.

In a budget presentation Tuesday, Tom Perlozzo, the county’s director of recreation and parks, told the Worcester County Commissioners he’d learned that Wawa and Royal Farms had approached the Berlin Lions Club about buying its property on Route 113. A portion of the land, which is adjacent to the Northern Worcester Athletic Complex, is leased by the county and used by the Berlin Little League.

“We need to protect that field legacy in Berlin,” Perlozzo said. “There’s 500 kids participating currently in Berlin Little League.”

As part of his department’s annual budget presentation, Perlozzo outlined a variety of projects parks officials would like to see completed. The largest of those is the purchase of the Berlin Lions Club property.

“The Berlin Lions Club has approached me and said that Wawa and Royal Farms were interested in buying the property, which is a big concern to the Berlin Little League and the Berlin Lions Club,” Perlozzo said. “I’m of the opinion that we should pursue acquiring the property and use Program Open Space (grant funding) for that.

That is 100% reimbursable.”

Currently, the county owns the western side of what’s considered the Northern Worcester Athletic Complex – the four multi-purpose fields, senior league baseball and football fields as well as some vacant land. The county leases the Berlin Little League fields from the Berlin Lions Club for $5,000 a year and in turn leases them to Berlin Little League.

Perlozzo said he hadn’t yet discussed a price but had spoken to members of the Lions Club several times.

“Their first intent would be to somehow work with the county so that we could have that land,” he said.

He said the overall Lions Club property was about 60 acres, part of which was leased by a farmer. Perlozzo says if the county acquires the land, in addition to the existing ballfields there will be room to build two more fields.

Other projects included in the fiveyear plan Perlozzo presented included the addition of more parking at Northern Worcester Athletic Complex as well as improvements at Bishopville Waterfront Park, Greys Creek Nature Park, Newtown Park, John Walter Smith Park and Showell Park. Perlozzo said permanent restrooms and a concession stand at the latter would help attract more events and tournaments.

Commissioner Joshua Nordstrom thanked Perlozzo for including some projects at Pocomoke’s parks but said what the town truly needed was another park.

More athletic fields, such as this senior league baseball field, are envisioned for the Northern Worcester Athletic Complex.

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“The greatest need in Pocomoke as I see it is a new park, somewhere folks who live in Clarke Avenue and Union-

ville can access by walking,” he said.

“A lot of those folks do not have the kinds of transportation it would take to

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get to various fields for recreation.”

Commissioner Chip Bertino asked why the commissioners hadn’t yet seen the five-year plan Perlozzo had cited. Perlozzo explained that while most of the projects he’d listed were included in the county’s Program Open Space documentation, the fiveyear plan had only just been created.

“This is flexible,” he said. “This is your opportunity to shape the county.”

He said the plan could be amended based on input from the commissioners.

“My positions’ been the county’s like a blank canvas,” he said. “We can stroke and paint whatever picture you want. I believe we have funds, it’s important to go out there and give the people some projects they’d like to see and it’s not costing the taxpayers any money in most cases.”

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First-Degree Assault Charge For Choking OCEAN CITY – A Pocomoke man was arrested on first-degree assault charges this week after allegedly striking and choking his girlfriend at an Ocean City residence.

Around 8:10 a.m. on Monday, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers responded to a residence on Caroline Street for a reported assault that had already occurred. Officers met with a female victim who said she had been in an altercation with her boyfriend, later identified as Breonte Shrieves, 23, of Pocomoke, about an hour earlier.

The victim told police she and Shrieves and been having fights and arguments off and on over the last few weeks, according to police reports.

Shrieves had been staying with the victim up until Sunday when she reportedly called him and told him not to come home and to pick up his personal property the next day.

The victim told police she heard Shrieves enter her residence around midnight on Monday and that she had locked herself in her room and believed he had slept on the couch. Between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., Shrieves began banging on the victim’s door and when she opened it, he allegedly barged in, pushed her down and grabbed her cellphone, smashing it on the ground.

According to police reports, Shrieves then pinned the victim to the bed and choked her with a collapsible baton, holding it against her throat. When the baton came apart, Shrieves reportedly then began choking the victim with his bare hand. The victim told police Shrieves then threw her to the floor and kicked her in the abdomen several times before striking her in the head with a closed fist.

The victim told police she never lost consciousness during the incident, but reported a separate choking incident a week earlier. According to police reports, the victim had bruising on her neck consistent with choking along with bruising on her arms, leg, shoulder blade and behind her ear.

Shrieves was located a short time later at a hotel where he works and was taken into custody. According to police reports, he had several cuts and scrapes on his hand, which he told police were from moving furniture as part of his job. Based on the evidence and

victim testimony, Shrieves was charged with first- and second-degree assault and malicious destruction of property for destroying the cellphone.

Five Charged In Surrey Theft OCEAN CITY – Five people were arrested on felony theft charges this week after allegedly swiping a fourwheeled surrey from a downtown bike rental business and riding it up the Boardwalk.

Around 2:45 p.m. on Monday, Ocean City Police Communications received a call from a downtown bike rental business owner on 1st Street reporting a theft that had just occurred.

The victim told police he was talking to a customer when a witness yelled out to him that five individuals stole a fiveseat, four-wheeled surrey.

According to police reports, the City Watch surveillance system captured images of the five suspects riding north on the Boardwalk and were now in the area of 12th Street. Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers caught up with the suspects at 12th Street. They were identified as Antonio Coyne, 21, of Culpeper, Va., Tiarah Sharp, 22, of Sterling, Va., Asiah Fields, 19, of Manassas, Va., Tavaras Eberhardt, 21, of Manassas; and Timothy Fields, 20, of Gwynn Oak, Md. One of the suspects told officers they observed the bike rental sign on the surrey, but rode away on it anyway. All of the suspects were placed under arrest for theft from $1,000 to under $25,000. The business owners came to the scene and identified his property, which was valued at $2,500.

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Hotel Burglar Sentenced OCEAN CITY – A resort homeless man, charged in November after video surveillance allegedly revealed him as the suspect in a hotel room break-in, pleaded guilty to burglary last week and was sentenced to two years, all but about six months of which was suspended.

Around 7 a.m. last Nov. 15, an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer was dispatched to a hotel at 5th Street and the Boardwalk for a reported burglary. The officer met with a victim who told police an unknown suspect had entered his hotel room while he was sleeping and had stolen a cellphone valued at around $700, a Play Station game, a Bluetooth speaker, a sweater and a wallet containing around $80 in cash along with bank cards and identification. The victim told the officer his hotel room door was closed, but had not locked.

Video surveillance from a camera in the hallway revealed a suspect exit the victim’s room and enter a different room on the same floor. The surveillance video showed the suspect enter the room around 1:25 a.m. with what appeared to be a wallet and cellphone in his hand. The same video surveillance showed the suspect leaving the room about an hour later carrying a sweater matching the description provided by the victim.

The suspect then got on an elevator and left the area. OCPD officers met with hotel staff and learned an occupant of the room where the suspect had entered and left hours earlier had reported finding a cellphone in her room matching the description pro-

April 12, 2019 vided by the victim. The occupant also reported finding a Bluetooth speaker in her room and did not know how either piece of property got there.

Later the same day, OCPD officers were able to identify the suspect in the video surveillance footage as Aaron McCargo, 28, of no fixed address, with whom they were familiar from other encounters. In the meantime, the victim was able to contact his cellphone service provider, which was able to locate the victim’s cellphone through a ping at a hotel on 54th Street.

The victim went to the 54th Street hotel and met with the manager, who reported a woman had turned his phone in after reportedly finding it in a public area of the hotel. OCPD officers responded to the area and located McCargo in the area of 53rd Street. He was positively identified as the suspect seen entering and exiting the victim’s room at the hotel back on 5th Street.

McCargo was found wearing the sweater reported stolen by the victim.

Last week, McCargo pleaded guilty to fourth-degree burglary and was sentenced to two years, all but 137 days of which, or the time he spent in jail awaiting trial, was then suspended.

Jail For Indecent Exposure OCEAN CITY – A local man, arrested in January after a mid-day series of events during which he allegedly took off his pants and defecated, pleaded guilty last week to indecent exposure and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Around noon on Jan. 18, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers were dispatched to an uptown shopping center at 118th Street for a reportedly naked and disorderly male in the parking lot. An employee of a massage business had called police and reported the male, later identified as Willard Sharp, 65, of Ocean City, had been acting erratically and had taken off his clothes.

When OCPD officers arrived, they found Sharp sitting on a picnic table in front of a restaurant wearing a brown jacket but no pants, which were later found balled up on the ground near him. According to police reports, Sharp was facing the storefront window of the restaurant and had his hand in his lap, allegedly moving it back and forth in a quick motion. There were around 20 SEE NEXT PAGE

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OCPD officers approached Sharp and instructed him to put his pants on, a task he struggled with, according to police reports. Once his pants were secured, Sharp was taken into custody.

Once Sharp was in custody, the officers noticed he had a red liquid running down his chin and the front of his shirt.

When the officers asked if Sharp was bleeding or if he had been drinking something red, Sharp reportedly admitted he had been drinking. According to police reports, there were five empty or partially filled red wine bottles in the garden near Sharp’s location along with an unopened red wine bottle in his jacket pocket.

OCPD officers interviewed the original complainant, who advised she had first noticed Sharp sleeping on the picnic table when she arrived for work around 9:45 a.m. The witness told police around 11 a.m., she noticed Sharp was sitting up and moving around. It was about that time that Sharp allegedly took his pants off in front of her business while exposed. The witness said Sharp then squatted down and appeared to defecate near the restaurant adjacent to her business. He was ultimately charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and littering. Last week, he pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and was

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OCEAN CITY – After pleading guilty, a Philadelphia man was sentenced to 18 months, all but three days of which were suspended, for assaulting his girlfriend.

Around 3:45 a.m. on October 27, an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer was dispatched to a hotel on 33rd Street for a reported domestic assault that had already occurred. The officer arrived and met with a female victim who had redness and swelling on her face along with dried blood on her nose and clothes. The victim told police she was at the hotel with her boyfriend, identified as Christian Choseed, 38, of Philadelphia, and that Choseed had fallen asleep around 1 a.m.

The victim told police she then went to visit a friend staying in the same hotel.

Around 3:30 a.m., Choseed began banging violently on the hotel door of the unit in which the victim was visiting her friend. According to police reports, the victim opened the door and invited Choseed in, at which point he struck her in the face with an open-hand slap.

According to police reports, Choseed then pulled the victim into the bathroom by her hair and struck her in the nose with a closed fist. Choseed then reportedly grabbed a glass bottle from the bathroom counter and smashed it on the floor. Finally, Choseed again grabbed the victim by the hair and punched her in the stomach with a closed fist before leaving the room, according to police reports.

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Residents Meet Over Proposed Apartment Complex

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

SNOW HILL – Berlin residents gathered this week to share concerns about an apartment complex proposed for Route 346.

Roughly two dozen citizens, many of them residents of the Purnell Crossing development and Austin Circle, met at Stevenson United Methodist Church Monday to share thoughts on a 126unit apartment project proposed for the undeveloped portion of the Purnell Crossing planned unit development.

“This is just an information meeting to get together as a group to see where we want to go from here,” Austin Circle resident Wayne Harrison said.

Harrison said he wasn’t opposed to development but had watched apart-

Berlin residents gathered Monday night to voice concerns about a proposed apartment building complex.

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ment complexes ruin previous communities he’d lived in.

“What needs to be done is a meeting of the minds,” he said, “to get together and find a plan that will work.”

Ruby Halligan, president of Purnell Crossing’s board, said she was taken by surprise when she learned of developer Troy Purnell’s plans to move forward with an apartment complex,

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as prior plans had called for construction of an assisted living facility on the site. She said the Purnell Crossing community was quiet and she didn’t want to see it turn into a big complex like Seahawk Road’s Oceans East.

“I don’t want something like that in my backyard,” she said. “I’m very opposed to it … I do have to say the builder has agreed he will try to work with us to see what we can do and to see how, if, we can work out anything.

The end result is I’m opposed to apartments period. I was not opposed to assisted living.”

Harrison agreed and encouraged attendees to talk to their neighbors and get them involved.

“You’re only going to win a situation through strength and we don’t have enough people right now,” he said.

Resident Jim Meckley pointed out that Oceans East had already used up a large portion of the town’s available sewer capacity. Other residents questioned the impact an apartment complex would have on the local school system.

Halligan encouraged those in attendance to attend a meeting with Purnell set for Saturday morning at Purnell Crossing, during which he will go over the proposed project and answer questions.

Mark Cropper, Purnell’s attorney, said he and Justin White, the project’s builder, attended Monday’s meeting and heard residents’ concerns. He said those opinions, as well as those shared with Purnell at Saturday’s meeting, would be considered as revised plans were developed.

“Hopefully all these efforts will result in a development project being completed that is supported by the community,” he said.

Council Approves Boardwalk MOU

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

OCEAN CITY – A renewed memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the Boardwalk information cottage was approved this week despite some questions about a planned ATM machine at the facility.

The MOU renewal request was fairly simple, although the Downtown Association, which runs the information cottage, was seeking an additional $2,000 this year to help supplement the volunteers with more paid staff.

“We’re trying to have a little higher caliber of people working our information cottage,” said Downtown Association Executive Director Mary Ann Manganello. “It’s getting more and more complicated and we want people in there to give out the correct information. We appreciate everybody who SEE NEXT PAGE

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FROM PAGE 26 wants to do it, but we need people in there who know what’s going on.”

In a letter to City Manager Doug Miller outlining the request for more funding, Manganello said an increased number of people are gathering information about Ocean City from mobile devices, and the information cottage provides real information from real people to the countless visitors to the Boardwalk.

“By providing guidance and recommendations for businesses both new and old, we are helping to put a human touch on what is quickly becoming a digital relationship with our visitors,” she wrote. “In order to maintain the high standards our visitors expect, we must staff the facility with people who are familiar with the rules and regulations of the city as well as the new and ever-changing businesses.”

The Downtown Association’s request also included permission to add an ATM at the cottage’s concrete pad on the east side of the Boardwalk at Caroline Street. Manganello said one of the most common questions at the cottage is the location of the nearest cash machine and having a third-party company set up an ATM right at the site would alleviate some of the confusion. She also said a portion of the transaction fees would be dedicated to the Downtown Association to offset the costs of some of the services it provides.

Council Secretary Mary Knight, who often mans the Boardwalk information cottage during the summer, made a motion to renew the MOU including the $2,000 increase for paid staffing and the allowance for the ATM machine but not before questions about the ATM were asked. Council President Lloyd Martin said there were numerous ATM machines within private businesses on the Boardwalk and asked if the Downtown Association had consulted with them.

“Have you talked to your neighbors around there?” he said. “There are a lot of ATM machines on the Boardwalk and it’s a source of revenue for some businesses.”

Manganello said the association had not consulted with neighboring businesses, but expressed a willingness to do so. Councilman Mark Paddack expressed some concern with adding an ATM machine on that side of the Boardwalk and pointed out the numerous other locations of cash machines in the area.

The council approved the Boardwalk information cottage MOU renewal with the $2,000 for additional staffing. However, the Downtown Association was advised to reach out to neighboring businesses to see if there were any concerns about adding the ATM machine.

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OC’s After-School Program Location Change Discussed

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

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OCEAN CITY – A seemingly innocuous discussion about an afterschool program briefly crossed over to the old tax differential debate last week before coming back around to the reason.

Budget work sessions opened last week in Ocean City and one of the first departments to present its fiscal year 2020 spending plan was Recreation and Parks. The presentation included funding for a wide variety of programs,

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camps, leagues and other offerings by the department including an afterschool recreation and activities program provided by the Town of Ocean City.

For years, the Recreation and Parks Department hosted an after-school program for local students at Northside Park in north Ocean City. This year, however, the decision was made to move the program in Ocean City Elementary School (OCES) in West Ocean City, largely for logistic reasons.

For one, the students who participated are largely OCES students who were transported by bus to Northside

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Park for the after-school program. In most cases, the participating students were Ocean City residents and their parents or guardians would pick them up at Northside Park at the end of the day.

During budget deliberations last Wednesday, April 3, Mayor Rick Meehan asked Recreation and Parks Director Susan Petito how the change was working out. Petito said the program was thriving because more time was being spent on the various activities than on the bus being transferred to Northside Park. She also pointed out other OCES students were enjoying the after-school program.

Councilman Dennis Dare asked if hosting the program at OCES was presenting challenges for parents of kids from Ocean City’s north-end neighborhoods where most yearround residents live. Councilman Mark Paddack related his own experience with the after-school program.

“Councilman Dare brings up an important point,” he said. “As a parent, my kids took place in the after-school program at Northside Park. When it moved to OCES, my kids were basically eliminated from the program because Northside Park was less than a mile from our home.”

From there, the discussion veered in the direction of the old tax differential issue between the town and coun-

ty over the cost of duplicated services.

“The town is subsidizing what should be a county program,” Paddack said. “It’s now more convenient for West Ocean City families, but they are county taxpayers. I think this has alienated some of the kids in Ocean City. I just don’t know why we’re offering an Ocean City program out there to county taxpayers at our cost.”

However, Petito quickly brought the discussion back to what she deemed was most important to all involved.

“I guess we’re soft-hearted, gentle people who reach out and support the kids and we want to embrace them and make sure they’re safe,” she said.

“We want to make sure they have great things to do and can participate.”

For his part, Meehan said he regretted broaching the subject of the after-school program.

“I want to apologize for even bringing this up,” he said. “I never want to see kids caught up in this ongoing political battle. It’s a great program and there are a lot of benefits and it really doesn’t cost us anything. In fact, I think we just heard it makes a profit …

If you ask the kids, they’re probably going to tell you OCES. You know why? That’s where their friends are.

Sometimes the voice of kids is more impactful than some of the things we do and say up here.”

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FENWICK ISLAND – Officials in Fenwick Island this week agreed to explore other options for building a continuous sidewalk system along Coastal Highway after receiving a cost estimate of nearly $10 million.

In its first meeting since September, the Fenwick Island Pedestrian Safety Committee on Tuesday agreed to pursue a new course of action for funding and building a continuous sidewalk system in town after learning a recent feasibility study valued the project at roughly $10 million.

Last April, the town agreed to fund $14,000, or 20 percent, of a study initiated by the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) in the hopes of determining a financially feasible approach to installing sidewalks along Coastal Highway.

The feasibility study, presented to the town earlier this year, included both the incorporated and unincorporated areas of town between Route 54 and the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce.

“It’s way overpriced and way over what we can handle as a town,” Councilwoman Vicki Carmean, chair of the committee, said.

With the help of federal grants, Fenwick Island would be responsible for funding 20 percent, or roughly $2 million, of the project. But committee members this week questioned if the project could be completed at a lower cost.

Committee member Bill Weistling said the state’s estimated cost for completing roughly eight northbound blocks within the town’s corporate limits totaled $3.25 million. But he noted estimates from local engineers were substantially lower than those found in the study.

“DelDOT is giving a price closer to $10 million,” he said. “I think the project can be done for less.”

Members of the committee agreed to the idea of the town pursuing its own sidewalk project within the corpo-

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rate limits but questioned if DelDOT officials would be supportive of their plans.

“I think we need to see if they support us doing this ourselves,” Mayor Gene Langan said. “If they do, because we are going on their property, we move forward with getting a price for engineering three blocks, doing it in three-block increments, and figure out where we get the money.”

Weistling, however, said he took issue with the fact the town would be paying for sidewalks in the state right of way.

“It still comes back to the fact that no matter what we do, why are we paying for DelDOT sidewalks?” he said. “That’s the bottom line.”

While he agreed with Weistling, Councilman Richard Mais said the town needed to move forward.

“For us to do it our way will be cheaper coming out of our pocket than if we do it through the state,” he said.

“I don’t like it either, but I’d like to see it get done.”

Carmean agreed.

“They are not going to come up with the money. They’ve done the study and given us the cost,” she said.

“That’s the front-door approach, and we need to find a window to go through.”

Town Manager Terry Tieman noted the town could apply for federal grants and community transportation funds and divide the project into phases or blocks.

“In the end, it’s about how much you want the sidewalks,” she said. “If you wait on DelDOT, you are going to wait a long time.”

After further discussion, the committee made a favorable recommendation to speak with DelDOT representatives and, with the support of the transportation agency, contact an engineering firm to gather estimates for a town-led sidewalk project.

“I don’t want to shoot ourselves in the foot with DelDOT,” Langan said.

“We need to have a conversation with them.”

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Regional Digest Youth Job Program Accepting Applications SALISBURY – Now in its fourth year, Salisbury’s Summer Youth Employment Program began accepting applications for 10 paid positions last Friday.

The city, Junior Achievement (JA) of the Eastern Shore, the Wicomico Board of Education and the Greater Salisbury Committee have again partnered to provide a 10-week employment opportunity, which includes structured learning and mentoring designed to give teens the skills and knowledge they need to succeed and thrive post-graduation.

Volunteers from JA will work with the participants throughout the 10 weeks to ensure optimal on-the-job performance and will counsel the participants on resume and soft skill development. By the end of the program, participants will have established work experience history, learned valuable job skills, cultivated the knowledge necessary for future career growth, and gained access to business resources in and around the city.

“The Summer Youth Employment Program is making a huge impact on the participants’ lives,” said program coordinator and Neighborhood Relations Manager Kevin Lindsay. “We have two teens who came through the program in the past couple of years who went on to be hired full-time by the city, which is a perfect example of how providing these opportunities is beneficial not just for the kids, but for the whole community.”

Hydrant Flushing Slated OCEAN CITY – The Town of Ocean City’s Public Works Department will begin conducting the spring hydrant flushing of the water system beginning Sunday, April 28.

The hydrant flushing, which is done bi-annually, will progress from south to north, beginning on South 1st Street and covering several blocks per day. Currently, public works personnel are scheduled to perform the hydrant flushing throughout the late evening hours and into the early morning hours.

However, circumstances may require those times to change.

Residents and businesses are reminded that after flushing there may be a slight discoloration of the water. This is not harmful and will dissipate after a short time. If you wish to clear your pipes, run cold water for several minutes until the water runs clear.

The completion of this project is expected to be done by the afternoon on Friday, May 3.

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

SNOW HILL – Maryland Army National Guard General Janeen Birckhead visited her alma mater last week to share insight on leadership with local teenagers.

Eyes were on the sky Friday as a Blackhawk helicopter carrying Birckhead and seven other National Guard members landed on the baseball field behind Snow Hill High School. Birckhead, who is a graduate of the school, visited to talk to students about leadership and the qualities associated with it.

“You’re at a critical point in your career,” she said. “I want you to start thinking about the future.”

Kimberly Purvis, principal of Snow Hill High School, said Birckhead’s visit was a chance for the school community to celebrate one of its former grads as well as an opportunity for students to hear from someone who’d been successful in achieving their goals.

“She’s here to talk about leadership and making good choices,” Purvis said.

Birckhead, whose children are students at Snow Hill High, was greeted by friends and family members as well as school representatives as she exited the helicopter Friday. She visited several classrooms to address students regarding the importance of qualities like respect, honor, integrity and personal courage. Respect, she

Snow Hill High alumna Janeen Birckhead, a general with the Maryland Army National Guard, returned to her school aboard a Blackhawk helicopter last Friday.

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pointed out, was being impacted by the growing use of social media.

“It hurts my heart,” she said. “You’re limiting your options because of what you do on social media. When you don’t have respect for yourself, you know what? Everybody else knows you don’t have respect for yourself and they don’t respect you.”

Birckhead, who described being a female general as being “the 1% of the 1%,” also encouraged students to provide selfless service. She described the way she’d recently helped an elderly traveler during a cross-country flight.

“It’s not always about the dollar,” Birckhead said. “Your reward may be that someday you’re paid back when someone does something good for your kid, or your mother.”

She also talked about honor and personal courage, reminding students that while those were internal qualities they nonetheless played into leadership.

She urged students to be deliberate and to begin planning for their futures.

“Don’t let those opportunities pass you by,” she said. “Opportunity only has a window. Once that window’s closed on the opportunity it is gone.”

Birckhead said she was happy to return to her hometown and offer support to local kids.

“I think it’s so good to come back to where you’re from when you can have an impact,” she said. “If I can’t help you get it maybe I know someone who can help you get it. I’m all about that. Remember selfless service? It’s not about me it’s about bettering the community.”

bound bike lane along Coastal Highway in the mid-town area between 59th and 64th streets and finding answers has been challenging. Currently, bicycles share the far-right lane with buses, leaving the three middle lanes for vehicular traffic. However, in that section between 59th Street and 64th Street, Coastal Highway shifts to the east where Route 90 comes in and the bus lane disappears in that stretch.

SHA’s solution has been to have bicycles share the right travel lane with vehicles through that stretch and is in the process of installing signage to alert bicyclists of the changes.

“The challenge is what do we do to let the bicyclists know what action they should take,” said SHA’s Jana Potvin.

“There is not enough room there for a dedicated bike lane, so the option is to terminate the bike lane and pick it up again at 64th Street. There is no place else to put bikes and we can’t allow them to go on the sidewalk.”

However, DeLuca was not entirely satisfied with the SHA solution to the bike lane issue.

“I’ve been working on this for over two years,” he said. “I’ve tried everything. We think this is a dangerous situation. The bike lane just ends in that section and the bikes go into the slow lane with traffic.”

DeLuca said SHA has its solution, but recommended Ocean City follow up with its own option.

“I think we need to put signs out there alerting them the bike lane is going to come to an end and they should consider dismounting and walking on the sidewalk,” he said.

“The only other option is for them to continue in the slow lane with traffic, but that’s not a safe solution.”

Councilman Matt James agreed having bicycle traffic mingling with higher-speed vehicle traffic in that area was not the best option.

“My concern with sharing the road is the highway shifts to the east in that area where Route 90 comes in,” he said. “It’s not like it is a shared lane for the entire length of Coastal Highway.

It changes in that area. It’s not a safe situation.”

For his part, Councilman John Gehrig suggested SHA and the town could put all of the signs out there they wanted, but it was not likely going to change the habits of bicyclists and motorists.

“We can put signs out there telling them to get off their bikes and walk, but nobody is going to do that,” he said. “For that three-block stretch, we just have to trust people out there on bikes and in cars to look out for each other and share the road.”

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FROM PAGE 5 drain cleaning, it pulled out of the project for the time being.

Councilman Tony DeLuca this week somewhat took SHA to task for pulling out of the project when it became clear it was more difficult than anticipated.

DeLuca asked if the state had plans to return and finish its portion of the job.

“Do you expect to get more funding for storm drain cleaning?” he said. “Is there an annual plan to continue that?”

Meredith explained SHA stopped working on the project when the contracted amount of funding ran out and not because of other challenges.

“We put out a procurement contract and when we hit the dollar amount, we stop,” he said. “That’s just the nature of how the contract works.”

Dare somewhat tongue in cheek said the town and its state partner shouldn’t wait another three decades to tackle the storm drain cleaning and suggested it will become easier and cheaper if its isn’t allowed to go that far.

“I think we need to do it at least every 33 years,” he said. “We need to stay on top of it. Going forward, we should be able to solve a lot of the problems with a lot less money.”

Bike Lane Solutions Resort officials have been working with SHA on a solution for the north-

Harp Seal Released After Aquarium Rehab Stint

April 12, 2019

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The harp seal known as Marie Tharp is pictured above and below making its way to the Atlantic Ocean at Assateague State Park.

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

ASSATEAGUE – A female harp seal, rescued from the beach in Ocean City in January, was successfully released back into the wild on Friday from the beach at Assateague State Park.

The harp seal, known affectionately as Marie Tharp, was admitted on Jan. 29 to the National Aquarium’s animal care and rescue center in Baltimore.

She was given a thorough examination, which revealed a variety of ailments and illnesses.

Over the last two months plus, Marie Tharp was treated with fluid therapy and antibiotics and was generally nursed back to health and full strength to the point she could be released back into the wild. That day came last Friday when the female harp seal was released from the beach at Assateague State Park. National Aquarium staffers opened Marie Tharp’s crate on the beach and the harp seal wandered out somewhat re-

luctantly before bounding into the ocean.

Marie Tharp was last seen with her head bobbing in the ocean just off the Assateague shoreline. She was equipped with a tag on her flipper so National Aquarium staffers can track her progress if she pops up again.

Every rescue season, the National Aquarium chooses a theme to name the various seals and other marine animals that come through its rehabilitation facilities and for this season, the theme chosen is influential scientists.

To that end, the female harp seal rescued in Ocean City was named Marie Tharp, a famed cartographer and geologist who created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean.

Tharp’s discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a 10,000-mile-long valley in the sea floor, showed the ocean’s floor was spreading and creating new crust. That finding eventually led to the confirmation of continental drift, or what is now known as plate tectonics.

Each winter, migrating seals of various species and sizes pass through

the mid-Atlantic region as part of their normal migratory patterns and more than a few haul out on the beaches in and around Ocean City and Assateague.

Many are simply resting or sunning themselves along their journey, while others are ill or injured, as was the case with Marie Tharp. In either case, the seals present an adorable opportunity for residents and visitors to enjoy them from afar, but interaction with humans and even their pets can often have dangerous consequences. To that end, the Maryland Coastal Bays Program and the National Aquarium Marine Rescue Program partner on an outreach program for responsible seal viewing and sighting reporting.

Anyone who encounters a seal on the beach this winter is urged to call MARP’s direct line at 410-576-3880 so a trained observer can evaluate the condition of the animal to determine if it is just doing its normal activity or if it is in distress. Seal sightings can also be registered on the MCBP website at www.mdcoastalbays.org.

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Regional Digest FROM PAGE 30 teague Island Alliance (AIA), the friends group of Assateague Island National Seashore, this week announced a special “Name That Foal” spring fundraising auction.

Currently known as N2BHS-MR, a bay pinto filly was born Jan. 11 to mare Susi Sole. The most likely sire is the bay stallion Delegate's Pride. All are among the Maryland herd of 76 horses living wild and free on the sands and shores of Assateague Island. This wild filly currently lives with her birth band in the developed area of Assateague Island National Seashore.

Each year, AIA holds naming rights auctions to provide proper names for the newest additions to the Maryland herd of Assateague horses in an effort to financially support the Assateague Wild Horse Management program. This special spring auction will benefit the ongoing effort shared between the partnering organizations to educated visitors of the detrimental impacts their behavior can cause to the wild horse population roaming wild and free on the island.

Bidding for the naming rights eBay auction will close Sunday, April 14, at 7 p.m. The highest bidder during the 10-day fundraising auction will have the rare opportunity to name it. This auction is offered in time to honor a loved one or to present as a gift for Easter or Mother's Day.

Mounted Unit Open House OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Police Department will be hosting a free open house event featuring the mounted unit on Saturday, April 27, from noon-4 p.m. at Bay Point Equestrian Center on Beauchamp Road in Ocean Pines.

Attendees will have the rare opportunity to meet each of the five police horses – Benson, Tucker Trevor, Scout and Moose. Mounted officers will demonstrate mounted patrol techniques, take the horses through an obstacle course, and play a two-on-two soccer game.

The OCPD K-9 Unit will also be performing two demonstrations throughout the afternoon. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to explore the inside of an OCPD patrol car, meet the OCPD Forensic Services Unit and chat with Animal Control officers.

“Our Mounted Unit Open House event in 2018 was a huge success and we are excited to interact with even more members of our community this year,” said Chief Ross Buzzuro. “Not only is this event a great opportunity to see what our four-legged officers are capable of, but to also meet many officers and staff members that serve the community.”

Wicomico Program Offers Seal Of Biliteracy Resort To Apply For Bike Friendly Designation

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

SALISBURY – A new program recognizes Wicomico County students who demonstrate their proficiency in other languages.

On Tuesday, Ruth Malone, director of curriculum for Wicomico County Public Schools, presented the Wicomico County Board of Education with a new initiative that recognizes students who can demonstrate their proficiency in English and at least one other language.

“The state of Maryland joined much of the country in agreeing to offer a Seal of Biliteracy as an endorsement at the end of a high school career to students who can demonstrate they are proficient in English and another language at, at least an intermediate or high level,” she said. “So districts

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can elect to offer the Seal of Biliteracy.”

Malone said to get a Seal of Biliteracy, students must demonstrate they are proficient in English with a score of 725, which is a 3 on the state assessment. They must also demonstrate they are proficient in another language by taking an additional assessment.

To complete the program, Malone said the school system will offer students an opportunity to take various language assessments.

“It does not have to be one of the languages we offer, and students don’t have to take a language class in our schools to say they would like to be a part of the Seal of Biliteracy …,” she said. “This means they can take the Advanced Placement test or they can take what we have decided to use, which is the [Avant] Stamp test.”

Malone said the AP assessment of-

fers tests in French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Italian or Japanese, while the Stamp assessment offers tests in several languages, including Russian, Hmong and Amharic.

Malone told the board students who earn a Seal of Biliteracy will be recognized on student transcripts and schoollevel events, including senior awards night and commencement programs.

She added the program encourages students to attain a high proficiency in two or more languages and prepares them for jobs, among other things.

“It also prepares students with critical skills necessary to function in a global society and affirms our values of appreciating diversity,” she said.

Officials noted Stamp tests are currently being offered to a handful of students wishing to join the program this year.

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

OCEAN CITY – A resort committee this week began the lengthy process of applying for a Bicycle Friendly Community designation.

On Wednesday, the Ocean City Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee began the lengthy application for a national designation program that provides guidance to cities and towns wishing to develop a bikeable community.

“Our chief goal today is to go through the Bicycle Friendly Community application,” Paul Mauser, president of the committee, said. “It’s 52 pages and five sections.”

For Ocean City, the Bicycle Friendly Community designation aligns with its efforts to establish a continual bike route along the resort’s side streets and minimize the need for bicycles to interact with vehicles on major roadways throughout town.

Since Mauser first presented the program to resort leaders last year, officials have taken necessary steps to achieve a Bicycle Friendly Community designation. For example, the resort has established a bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee and adopted a Complete Streets policy, which will be used to develop safe transportation for all bike users on newly constructed or reconstructed roads.

Officials argued the designation could enhance the town’s ability to secure grants for bike-friendly projects, as well as benefit tourism and the town’s reputation as a green community. But gaining entrance into the program is challenging. As of 2018, more than 850 communities have applied, and 431 have been awarded a bronze, silver, gold or platinum designation, according to the Bicycle Friendly Community website.

Mauser told the committee this week communities are awarded a certain designation based on the criteria they meet.

“There are some questions on the application geared toward the platinum communities,” he said, “but we are coming in more at the bronze level.”

With committee members taking the lead on certain sections of the application, Mauser said he expects the group to complete and review the application in the coming weeks.

“We want to make sure we are getting group feedback on all of the questions …,” he said. “We are four months out from when the application is due, so we can revisit this.”

Local Destination Imagination Team Qualifies For Finals

April 12, 2019

BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

SALISBURY – A team of local high school students is seeking the community’s support to compete in an international skills competition next month.

Five students from the Salisbury All- Inclusive Homeschool Co-op have qualified for the Destination Imagination Global Finals in Kansas City next month. As the May 22-25 competition approaches, they’re asking for support from local residents and businesses as they work to raise enough money to make the trip. This is the first year the team has done well enough at the regional and then state competition to qualify for the global event.

“We’re excited to be a part of it,” said Maria Stewart, whose son is on

OCPD’s Seasonal Hiring On Track

BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

OCEAN CITY – With the start of the summer season weeks away, officials with the Ocean City Police Department said they are optimistic about this year’s recruitment efforts.

On Monday, Ocean City Police Chief Ross Buzzuro presented the town’s police commission with an update on seasonal recruitment efforts for police officers and public safety aides.

“We are pretty optimistic we will have hired a full complement of seasonal officers and public safety aides for 2019,” he said.

To date, the police department has hired 16 returning seasonal police officers and 44 new seasonal police officer. The department has also hired 21 returning public safety aides and 59 new public safety aides.

“In total, we have 140 seasonal personnel to date for the summer season,” he said. “We still have, on the officer side, more to process. Hopefully, we’ll get even more hires than that.”

Buzzuro said the department has budgeted for 146 seasonal officers and public safety aides and is close to meeting that desired goal. But he noted the growing challenges of finding qualified candidates who could meet the department’s requirements.

“It’s increasingly challenging for us to get to that sign-on-the-dotted-line hire because of the high standards that are set,” he said.

Buzzuro noted seasonal officers will undergo a weeks-long training course before the start of the summer season.

“The academy is about five and a half weeks and they receive about 200-plus hours of training, so we pack a lot in that time,” he said. “We will have them ready for the season right around Memorial Day.”

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the team.

The team, known as the “Pineapple Mafia,” is made up of Holden Stewart, Emmanuel Reed, Alaya McCarthy, Neva Facer and Jasmine Kissel. Maria Stewart said students from the homeschool group started competing in Destination Imagination five years ago. The program teaches problem solving skills as well as science, technology, engineering, art and math principles. Each year, Destination Imagination provides seven challenges kids can choose to compete in. After choosing to compete in the fine art challenge this year, members of the Pineapple Mafia were tasked with building a life-sized game board and putting on an eight-minute play. At each Destination Imagination competition, they’re also given an instant challenge that involves complet-

Destination Imagination students are pictured with the life-sized board game they created.

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ing a task through teamwork.

Stewart said the competition process has helped the teenagers hone their educational abilities but has also taught them life skills.

“Beyond building social-emotional skills it gives them a year-long challenge they have to work on together,” she said. “There’s no adult support.

They had to come up with all the ideas

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and the budget for the project and then build it. These things will be life skills the kids are going to need.”

Stewart said she was proud to see the team qualify for the global competition because while some teams hold tryouts they never turned anyone away.

The team has launched a GoFundMe page (www.gofundme.com/send-pineapple-mafia-to-globals) and also has a fundraiser scheduled. On May 11 at St. Peters Episcopal Church in Salisbury, the team is hosting a family game night that will also feature a silent auction.

Stewart said that as homeschooled students, the teens were relying on local support to raise the necessary funds.

“As homeschoolers, we don’t have the support of the school system,” she said. “We have to do all that fundraising on our own.”

Friends Launch ‘Sober And Stoked’ To Make A Difference

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BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

BERLIN – A longtime Ocean City resident and his friend will launch a donation drive to collect athletic gear and art and music supplies for those in recovery.

On April 27, Sober and Stoked, an organization founded by longtime Ocean City resident Eugene Stiltner and his best friend Scott French, will launch a pilot program for its “Gear Donation Drives on the Eastern Shore.”

As part of the program, the group will be collecting athletic and artistic gear – such as surfboards, snowboards, bikes, instruments and art supplies – and donating them to Hope4Recovery and Hudson Health, local recovery houses in Worcester and Wicomico counties.

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“We wanted to do something that gave back,” Stiltner said, “and we saw a need in halfway houses and sober living houses.”

Stiltner – who lived in Ocean City for 17 years – said he and French became friends in active addiction and helped each other maintain their sobriety through sports such as surfing and snowboarding.

“For both of us, when we got sober, it was so important to go surfing, go snowboarding, and just be active and live a healthy lifestyle, to have some level of replacement from the craziness of addiction,” he said. “It was a source of positivity for us. It drove us both.”

Now, years later, the friends want to offer that same opportunity to others in recovery. A year and a half ago, Stiltner and French established Sober

and Stoked and produced a 42-minute documentary directed by local photographer Nick Tribuno entitled “6 Gifts.”

The film stars six professional and amateur athletes that have used their respective sports to overcome addiction and maintain their sobriety.

“We released that last year,” Stiltner said, “and we knew we wanted to have an even bigger mission.”

The group applied for nonprofit status in November and, due to delays from the government shutdown, will not hear anything until later this summer. But Stiltner said they are not letting that stop them from launching the pilot program.

“We wanted to give back to an area that gave a lot to us …,” he said. “We really wanted to do something to help the folks in the area.”

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Friends Scott French and Eugene Stiltner are looking “to make a positive impact” in their post-addiction lives.

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French agreed.

“It has been a dream of ours to continue to find a way to give something back to those that are battling addiction, or are in the often-fragile stage of early sobriety where the smallest setback can lead the person back into addiction,” he said in a statement. “Both Eugene and I are committed to creating something with a lasting impact that can help people see how exciting sobriety can be.”

Sober and Stoked is seeking lightly used, adult-sized athletic gear, books and DVDs related to surfing and watersports, bicycling, yoga, weightlifting and fitness, fishing and traditional sports (baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, etc.). The organization is also looking to collect art supplies and musical instruments.

“We call this program rediscovering a lost passion or finding a new purpose,” Stiltner said. “That’s really the core tenets of Sober and Stoked.”

Those wishing to make a donation can contact Stiltner at 443-370-3334, or visit the Sober and Stoked Facebook page to send a message. Organizers will pick up items in Worcester and Wicomico counties on Saturday, April 27, and divide them equally among the recovery houses.

“We are hoping to have a drop-off point organized too,” he said, noting that more information will be posted on their social media pages.

While this month’s drive will benefit recovery houses in Worcester and Wicomico counties, Stiltner said the goal is to expand the program in the coming years.

“We feel like we have something special here,” he said. “We feel like it’s a true value to the people in the houses, and we feel like it can help people on a large scale.”

For more information on Sober and Stoked, visit soberandstoked.com or the organization’s Facebook and Instagram pages. Funds raised from the group’s documentary, which will be available on Amazon Prime and the Sober and Stoked website, will support nonprofit-related expenses.

“Scott and I want to make a positive impact,” Stiltner said. “We took a lot in our addiction, and I feel like we are giving back. You can’t make everything right that you did, but you can try hard to turn things around and help others.”

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BY CHARLENE SHARPE

STAFF WRITER

SNOW HILL – A nearly $1.1 million proposed increase in the Worcester County Emergency Services’ budget resulted in continued criticism of the county’s new radio system.

During a budget work session Tuesday, the Worcester County Commissioners expressed concern regarding a $1,085,573 (49%) proposed increase in the emergency services budget. The bulk of the increase relates to the P25 radio system the county began using last year.

“I don’t understand why we spent $4.8 million and we have to spend another almost $1 million on a system that’s not even a year-and-half old,”

Commissioner Chip Bertino said.

In a lengthy presentation Tuesday, Emergency Services Director Billy Birch outlined for the commissioners his department’s $3,391,679 budget request.

“The items I will be presenting to you this afternoon are all needs,” Birch said. “I regret to inform you none of these items are a want. We didn’t have time to be putting those in our budget.”

He said the budget included a handful of big ticket items. Bertino pointed out that $902,000 of Birch’s requested increase related to the P25 radio system. The system, which the commissioners hired Harris Corporation to put in place in 2015, cost close to $5 million but experienced various

problems as it was implemented last year. The county eventually hired a consultant to address the ongoing issues.

Birch said he was seeking funding for a project manager to help with the system as well as funding for a $118,000 critical alignment tool. He said the tool would help the county maintain and reprogram the 1,800 radios it now had. Birch also requested $591,000 for radio equipment purchases. He said the bulk of that, $328,000, would allow for the upgrade of radio systems in all of the county’s schools and buses.

Bertino said the commissioners had never been advised there’d be additional costs associated with the new system.

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“There was no discussion we’d have to hire another person and we’d have to reprogram these radios twice a year,” he said. “And there was certainly no discussion about additional radios for the board of education.”

When commissioners asked why the tool was needed if the county paid for an annual maintenance contract, staff explained the county had an extended warranty, not a service contract.

“This radio system’s just the gift that keeps on giving,” Commissioner Joe Mitrecic said.

Bertino expressed frustration but acknowledged that Birch didn’t work for the county when officials decided to purchase the new system.

“I’ve got to tell you I’m more than irritated by the fact I feel we’re rebuying or rebuying or reallocating funds for stuff I thought we’d already covered,” he said.

Birch stressed that the funding he was asking for would ensure the county got the most out of the new radio system.

“What I’m asking for is two management tools to optimize what you paid for,” he said.

Other increases in Birch’s proposed budget related to more employee training, hiring some part-time dispatchers and an increase in overtime costs.

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and demands from the parents of Berlin to offer something up in the northern end,” he said. “This is us reaching out to those parents.”

Brittingham pointed out that Small, who will manage the basketball program, grew up on Flower Street and was a graduate of Stephen Decatur High School.

Mary Bohlen, the town’s administrative services director, explained that because the program charged a $35 fee to participants it did require approval from the council. Small said that the fee offset the staff time spent on the program. He added that his department did provide financial assistance for families who couldn’t afford the $35 registration.

“We provide financial aid for the kids who aren’t capable of paying the $35 which would reduce the $35 by 60 percent,” Small said, adding that the reduced cost would be about $14 for the eight-week program.

Bohlen said that the town’s parks commission had given its support to the proposed program but suggested Small add the information regarding financial assistance to the flyers advertising the program.

The council voted unanimously to approve the summer basketball league. For more information on the program, contact Small at 410-6322144 or email msmall@co.worcester.md.us.

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BERLIN – Worcester County Recreation and Parks will host a youth basketball program in Berlin following approval from municipal officials.

On Monday, the Berlin Town Council approved plans for a summer youth basketball league for Henry Park presented by Worcester County Recreation and Parks.

“The need for basketball in our community is great,” Councilman Elroy Brittingham said.

Worcester County Recreation and Parks’ Myro Small told town leaders the county wanted to host an eightweek basketball program at the Town of Berlin’s Henry Park on Flower Street. He said the program would take place on Saturdays from June 8 to July 27 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

The program is for students in grades 4-12.

“With the summer youth basketball program, we’re providing the kids of Berlin the opportunity to have a summer league and not have to drive down to Snow Hill where our department is located and where we usually hold our summer league,” Small said.

“We’re actually bringing it to the kids in the town.”

When asked if he expected good participation, Small said he did.

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BERLIN – The Berlin Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Spring Celebration on April 20 from 10 a.m.5 p.m.

Main Street will be closed for games, crafts and other activities sponsored by a variety of nonprofits and businesses in the area.

Schedule of events start with a pancake breakfast with Peter Rabbit hosted by Rayne’s Reef. Seating is available at 8:45 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Cost is $6 for children and $8 for adults. Cash only. Reservations required by calling 410-641-4775.

After breakfast, attendees can then

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hop down to the corner of Washington and West streets for an egg hunt at 1 p.m. Following the egg hunt at 3 p.m., the madhatter parade will start at Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services. Craft your own hat at home and show it off for the judges as you walk down Main Street. There will be four categories – Berlin Green (out of recycled material), Most Outrageous, Most Original and Cutest. Participants should arrive 15 minutes ahead of time for registration.

Other activities include a moon bounce, face painting, cupcake walk, crafts, games, chalk and bubbles.

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Virginia Ann Thomas FENWICK ISLAND – Virginia Ann (Ginger) Thomas, age 81, Third Order of St. Dominic, of Fenwick Island formerly of Media, Pa., passed away Thursday, April 4, 2019, at home. Ginger was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Feb. 22, 1938, to Ferdinand and Lillian Noel.

Ginger attended Catholic School in Pittsburgh and graduated from LaRoche College with a degree in Psychology. She worked at Saint Anthony’s School for Exceptional Children until moving to Media. Once in Media, Ginger resumed her education at Delaware County Community College where she graduated with a degree in nursing.

While attending school, she joined the Media Fire Company and became its first female firefighter/EMT. She went to work for Taylor Hospital after graduation as an ER nurse. After leaving Taylor, she went to work as a night supervisor at the Assis House in Aston, Pa. Once in Fenwick, Ginger became an Extraordinary Minister at St. Luke Catholic Church, a member of the Ladies VIRGINIA ANN THOMAS Ancient Order of Hibernians, member of the Ocean City CERT team and Fenwick Island Barefoot Garden Club.

She loved spending time at the beach and going out on the boat.

She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Richard E. Thomas of Fenwick Island; a daughter, Janine Tempert; a son, Mark Tempert (Maryuri); two step-daughters, Kim Deely (John) and Andrea Cullan (Gerry); step-son, Richard Thomas; a sister, Joan Noel; a brother, Richard Noel; and six grandchildren, Sean Deely, Kiley Tempert, Chris Deely, Joseph Tempert, Ada Clare Tempert and Gabriel Tempert.

Services were held. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to St. Dominic Monastery, 2636 Monastery Road, Linden, Va. 22642, Attn. Sr. Mary Magdalene.

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.bishophastingsfh.com.

Louis Malcolm “Mac” Simpson OCEAN CITY – Louis Malcolm “Mac” Simpson, age 90, died Friday, April 5, 2019.

Born at Folly Creek, Va., he was the son of Jordon A. Simpson and Dolcie Gill Simpson. He is survived by his wife of almost 66 years, Betty Hulcher Simpson; his sons, Matthew Simpson (Stacey) and Joel Malcolm Simpson (Dawn); daughter, Amanda Stearns (Brian); grandchildren Chris-

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topher Stearns, Erin Miller, Philip Simpson, Abigail Simpson and Logan Simpson; great-grandchild Maggie Miller; brother Albert Simpson; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mac worked beside his father in his teens fishing pound nets in the ocean near Ocean City and later guided hunting parties on Assateague Island. He served stateside during the Korean War training soldiers, specializing in marksmanship.

LOUIS As an independent MALCOLM waterman, Mac crab- “MAC” SIMPSON bed, clammed, net fished and handlined from a small skiff in the ocean and nearby bays. He was a mate and then captain on sportfishing boats for close to 15 years. Later, he became a condominium manager and then sold real estate for over 20 years.

Captain Mac enjoyed the life of an avid sportsman, spending countless hours fishing and hunting the Eastern Shore. He was devoted to the training and hunting of his quail dogs and retrievers of which he had 21 over the years. Mac introduced many friends to the excitement and joy of fishing and hunting, especially surf fishing. Many can say they caught their first red drum with him. He was president of the Ocean City Marlin Club for seven years. He served on Maryland’s Fisheries Committee and was a 67-year member of the American Legion.

Services were held and coordinated by Burbage Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Assateague Coastal Trust, 9842 Main St., Berlin Md. 21811 (actforbays.org click “Protect Our Bays Here”) or the Coastal Conservation Association of Maryland (ccamd.com menu icon, then donate).

Elizabeth W. Lynch BERLIN – Elizabeth W. Lynch, age 94, of Berlin, passed away on Monday, April 8, 2019.

Born April 14, 1924, in Campbelltown, Md., she was the daughter of the late Tom and Ella Williams. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, William Ennis Lynch. Surviving are her daughter, Beverly Rae Lynch of Painter, Va., son-inlaw, Tom Smith, and granddaughter, Ella Smith. Also preceding her in death, were her brothers, James, Milton and Calvin Williams. ELIZABETH W. LYNCH There are many nieces and nephews including a special great-nephew, Dr. Sean Williams.

Mrs. Lynch was a 1941 graduate of SEE PAGE 41

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FROM PAGE 40 Buckingham High School and had worked for the Worcester County Board of Education as a teacher’s aide. Elizabeth was a devoted member of Buckingham Presbyterian Church in Berlin. She treasured her family and friends more than anything.

Services were held. A donation in her memory, may be made to the Buckingham Presbyterian Cemetery, 20 S. Main St., Berlin, Md. 21811. Letters of condolence may be sent to the family at www.burbagefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are in the care of the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.

Richard Thurman Newman BERLIN – Richard Thurman Newman, age 82, passed away on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin.

Born in Hanover, Pa., he was the son of the late Thurman and Pauline M. Newman. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Hall Newman; children, Brad Newman of Baltimore, Todd Newman and his wife, Pat, of Baltimore, Beth Wilkerson and her husband, Wayne, of Pittsville; and step-son, Nicholas Bobenko and his wife, Jennifer, of West Ocean City.

There are six grandchildren, Bradley Newman, Wayne Wilkerson Jr., Austin Newman, Morgan Wilkerson, McKenzie Newman and Madelyn Bobenko,

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After graduating from Baltimore Polytechnic, he began a career in engineering and founded RTN Services.

He also had served eight years in the United States Naval RICHARD Reserve. He married THURMAN NEWMAN Deborah in 1994 and they both sold real estate in the Ocean City market with Coldwell Bankers until retiring to Ocean Pines in 2015.

A graveside service will be private for the family. A celebration of life for friends and family will be announced at a later date. A donation in his memory may be made to: www.alzfdn.org,

or Parkinson's Foundation 200 SE 1st St., Suite 800, Miami, Fla. 33131, Letters of condolence may be sent via www.burbagefuneralhome.com Arrangements are in the care of the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.

Margaret Carolyn “Peggy” Karlheim OCEAN PINES – Margaret Carolyn “Peggy” Karlheim, age 86, of Ocean Pines, died Friday, April 5, 2019, at home.

She died 14 years to the day after a devastating stroke in Pennsylvania.

She was born in Bloomsburg, Pa., on Dec. 13, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Jesse and Hazel (Laycock) Robbins.

Peggy retired from the former C&P Telephone Co. and was a member of the Community Church at Ocean Pines.

She is survived by her loyal husband of 63 years and caregiver of the last 14 years, Robert A. Karlheim of

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Peggy loved her chocolate at noon, a glass of wine at 4 p.m. and fed the dog under the table when she thought we weren’t looking. She will be dearly missed by all of her MARGARET CAROLYN friends and family in KARLHEIM Ocean Pines.

No formal services will be held at this time.

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BERLIN – The Town of Berlin is excited to announce new partnerships with the Kiwanis Club, Comcast and the Department of Natural Resources for Clean-Up Day on Saturday, April 27, starting at 8:30 a.m.

For more than a decade, volunteers have dedicated a few hours on an April Saturday to help give Berlin’s parks and neighborhoods a spring cleaning. Individuals and teams are needed to help with planting, weeding, raking, mulching and whatever else needs attention. This is a great opportunity for students to earn community service hours.

There will be several new activities on Clean-Up Day this year. Comcast will be working with the Parks Commission to incorporate Comcast Cares Day into the annual clean-up. The Department of Natural Resources will sponsor a Backyard Buffer tree giveaway. There will also be plantings of pollinator gardens and tours of Berlin Falls Park.

Volunteers can sign up ahead of time at www.comcastinthecommunity.com or at one of the town parks on April 27. Free T-shirts will be provided as supplies last.

During the Backyard Buffer tree giveaway, bundles of trees will be available on a first-come-first-served basis to any Worcester County landowner. Those living near streams, creeks or ditches especially are encouraged to plant. Pre-register by April 26 by emailing Mary Bohlen at mbohlen@berlinmd.gov or call 410-6414314 to reserve your bundle.

The Berlin Falls Park Advisory Committee will be planting pollinator gardens at Berlin Falls Park and will offer information and tours about the park.

Free lunch for all volunteers will be provided by the Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City at Henry Park starting at 11:30 a.m.

The main clean-up areas are Stephen Decatur Park on Tripoli Street and Henry Park on Flower Street as well as Berlin Falls Park on Old Ocean City Boulevard. Some supplies will be available for use, but participants are encouraged to bring their own. Rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows are always needed.

Clean-up of Hudson Branch will also be needed. Heavy clothes and boots are recommended. For general park clean-up, sign up at any of the parks starting at 8:30 a.m. The Hudson Branch sign-up is at Henry Park.

Residents and business owners can also choose to spend their time anywhere they feel needs attention.

Trash pickup will be available. Items for pickup will need to be placed in one location at the clean-up area and the town crews can collect everything following the event.

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Berlin Must Phase Planned Tax Hikes

The Town of Berlin must do better than imposing an unprecedented 29% tax increase on property owners in a single year.

The problems leading to the consideration of this huge hike did not arise overnight. Years of mismanagement and poor decisions caused the town’s present financial quagmire. The citizens should not have to fund the consequences of these mistakes in one year. Instead, the town should focus on crafting a three-, four- or five-year plan to fairly phase these increases to ease the burden on town property owners.

Under an incremental increase plan, senior citizens and others living on fixed incomes can have time to decide their futures. They can then evaluate a way to deal with the looming increased tax burdens or potentially sell their homes and relocate to less expensive locales. Those same decisions will surely be faced by many families.

There are two major issues facing Berlin’s finances -- the town’s reserve fund is not healthy enough in the event of a disaster and three of the four town enterprise funds are not self-sustainable and have consequently been drafting funds from the operating budget. This poor practice has resulted in a major strain on the government’s budget.

There is no quick fix to the reserve fund problem. Mayor Gee Williams said this week the current reserve fund is at $2 million and his goal is to see it elevated to $4 million next year. We agree that’s an appropriate level for a town like Berlin, but that should be part of this phased-in plan. It’s not practical to double the reserves in one year or even two years.

While we advocate for smaller tax increases over several years, the only way to make that feasible is to increase the fees residents and businesses pay for water, stormwater and sewer services. The revenue from these services is not meeting the costs required to provide them. That must change and will be critical to the town’s financial stability moving forward. Williams had previously suggested significant increases on those user fees and more details will be coming on those funds this month.

The good news for the town is property values are on the rise in the town.

The latest reassessment indicated town property values on average increased by 7%, which will increase the town’s property tax revenue line item. For those residents who are content in their homes, even if the tax rate were to stay the same in Berlin, it’s important to note they will be paying more in taxes to their town even if the rate remains stagnant.

Hammering property owners with a massive tax increase in a single year is simply unfair. The town needs to stabilize its utility funds through higher, manageable fees while spreading a justified tax increase over at least three years.

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By Publisher/Editor Steve Green

While there will be no acknowledgements of it in legislative recaps from local lawmakers, it was clear Ocean City was sent a message in Annapolis during this year’s General Assembly session.

There was a lot of tough talk from Republican legislators last year during election season about the dysfunction in Annapolis and how legislators often ignore the shore. Senator Mary Beth Carozza and Gov. Larry Hogan went after Jim Mathias and painted him as a Democratic rubber stamp for Senate President Mike Miller and the late House Speaker Michael Busch. Mathias was one of the Democrats Hogan had targeted to oust last year in an attempt to prevent the left-heavy legislature from overriding his vetoes. That effort failed and Hogan once again was powerless this session and had several key vetoes – the post-Labor Day school start and minimum wage bills were two of the more high-profile – struck down easily

by Democrats. It was evident throughout this session Ocean City matters were going to get little consideration in this session by those very leaders who were blasted routinely last year. It was payback and consequently Ocean City-related issues received little attention from senior leadership.

Perhaps no better example was the surprising and abrupt rejection of revisions to the special enforcement zone. The bill, which was classified emergency in nature so it could be enacted before Cruisin next month, never got any traction. Officially, it received an unfavorable report on March 11 by the judicial proceedings committee, but the reality is it was dead before it was even introduced. What was expected to be a routine local courtesy bill clearly got caught up in politics.

The good news, and probably the biggest highlight for the resort area on the legislative front, was the last-minute approval of a bill authorizing the state to issue up to $24.5 million in bonds to fund another expansion of the Roland E. Powell Convention Center. While I may be overly intuitive here, I think the legislators in power wanted to make our Republican elected officials as well as Hogan sweat until the last night of the session before approving this funding.

Ocean City representatives visited Boring, Md. last weekend in an attempt to bring some fun in an obvious play on the town’s name. It was a creative marketing play for Ocean City to visit the Baltimore County town weeks ahead of the summer season.

I was unaware of the effort until I read an article in The Baltimore Sun about Ocean City’s visit on Sunday. The article was short on details about the event itself in Boring and instead long on the post-Labor Day school start mandate that was reversed this legislative session. A line in the article, which reported a few dozen families attended, read, “Meehan used the event to preview the last summer season that was extended by Gov. Larry Hogan in 2016, and reinforce the link between the resort city he leads and the Baltimore area, which he said supplies more than a third of its tourists.”

The tone and slant of the article fired up Ocean City officials enough to draft a letter to the editor to the paper. Ocean City Tourism Manager Donna Abbott said this week, “[the article] was just ridiculous. First, they said it was attended by a couple of families and there were at least 300 people there. Then, they turned it around and made it all about the post-Labor Day issue.”

In his letter to the editor, Mayor Rick Meehan addressed similar points.

“I'm always appreciative of any news coverage The Baltimore Sun can provide about the countless reasons Ocean City is a fun place for millions of families to visit each year. While we appreciated having a Sun reporter cover our “Boring Gets Fun” community outreach event in the Baltimore County community of Boring, I speak on behalf of many in Ocean City who were disappointed with factual inaccuracies.

“Our wonderful partners at the Upperco Volunteer Fire Department, which hosted and raised funds for its planned new fire house at this family fun event, tracked attendance at more than 300 people (a great turnout for a rural area), far more than the few dozen families cited in the story. We provided this revised number to the reporter immediately upon seeing the story appear online, but, unfortunately, The Sun elected to not change this fact either online or in the print edition.

“Additionally, while we understand how important and newsworthy the topic of school start date is across the state, it was inaccurate for The Sun to describe this event’s purpose as “to preview the last summer season that was extended by Gov. Larry Hogan in 2016.” Ocean City continues to stand in line with the majority of Marylanders who support school starting after Labor Day, but this issue was not the purpose of our visit to Boring.

“Our goal in coming to Boring was to showcase the importance of adding a little bit of fun to your life (which we in Ocean City are experts on), whether you live in a place called “Boring” or anywhere else within a short car ride from Ocean City.

“We hope to see The Sun in Ocean City or on our future visits to the Baltimore area, but our hope is that future coverage is fair and accurate.”

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Students In The News

In conjunction with Autism Awareness Month, Ocean City Elementary School dedicated April 2 as “Light It Up Blue” Day to raise awareness, acceptance and understanding of Autism. The staff and students were beaming in all shades of blue to show their respect for those with Autism. In addition, a generous donation of $342 was made by students to the Autistic Children’s Support Group of Worcester County, an all-volunteer support group dedicated to providing support to families living with Autism and related disorders.

Above, from left, are Kayden Fouts, Matthew Reddick, Kyle Wilson, Carson Green, Lucas Ruppert and custodian Larry Finney. At right are Carly Watts and Abby Prince.

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Worcester Prep fifth-graders recently completed the D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program taught by Deputy Jake Howard of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office. For several weeks, Howard worked hands-on with students teaching them refusal skills to avoid the temptation of drug experimentation and peer pressure. Pictured, front row from left, are Catherine Cullen, Kain Crossett, Kobe Bouzaglo, Sydney Mize, Sydney Todorov, Kimi Langroudi, Jack Townsend, Ansh Batra, Tyler Netting, Oliver Hershey, Chase Ginnavan, Lynden Prosser, Karina Lopez and Layla Jenkins; second row, Jay Moyer, Jake Timmons, Priya Haldar, Jake Campbell, Sage Myers, Ava Boothe, Olivia Conaway, Max Carpenter, Beckett Green, Michael Hebert, Caitlin Shimko, Emily Patrowicz, Eliza Myers, Dawson Davis and Jude Damouni; third row, Hailey Bushnell, Anisha Batra, George Sapna, Ellie Windrow, Ayla Yonker, Ashton Browne, Lena Parker, Livi Owens, Preston Adkins, Paxton Mault, Chris Chadwell, Stephen Carullo, Jacob Brasure and Linnea Poulsen; and, back, fifth-grade teachers Allison Bescak, Camille Jenkins and Dr. Sara Timmons.

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Eighty-three Stephen Decatur High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society during its special candlelit ceremony on the evening of April 3. To gain admittance, students must satisfy the four principles of the organization – character, scholarship, leadership, and service. United States Air Force Captain James Simons, SDHS class of 2009, served as guest speaker.

Above, member Karla Bonilla, center, is pictured with new junior inductees Kayla Janek and Elizabeth Berkey.

Worcester County Public Schools annually holds a Media Expo to allow students to show off their skills using technology. Making Berlin Intermediate proud were students Matthew Urbanski, Parker Brittingham, Renata Lovitt, Brooke Berquist, Addisyn Fluckey, Chloe Kohut and Charlotte Haskell.

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Sports

Seahawks Sweep Two, Remain Unbeaten

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In The News

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

BERLIN – Stephen Decatur’s boys’ varsity lacrosse team remained unbeaten this week with a pair of wins against tough Bayside North opponents including a 6-5 overtime thriller over Easton last Wednesay.

After opening the season with wins over Worcester Prep and Sussex Central, the Seahawks started a run against Bayside North opponents last week starting with a home game against Easton. Decatur fell behind early

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and trailed 4-1 at the half.

However, the Seahawks continued to chip away through the second half and tied the game at 5-5 with 10 seconds left. Decatur then won the game in dramatic fashion in overtime, 6-5.

Back in action on Friday, the Decatur boys routed Kent County, 17-2, to improve to 4-0 on the season.

It won’t get any easier for the Seahawks, who face Queen Anne’s on the road on Friday, followed by a date with old nemesis Kent Island at home on Monday.

Mallards’ Streak Halted By Parkside

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Worcester Boys Fall To Parkside, 11-1

Worcester Prep’s Alec Dembeck moves against the Parkside defense in the first half against the Rams on Monday.

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

BERLIN – After three straight wins, Worcester Prep’s boys’ varsity lacrosse team took its lumps against Parkside, falling to the Rams at home on Monday, 11-1.

The Mallards opened the season with a win over Saints Peter and Paul, but dropped the next two to Decatur and Cape Henlopen.

After that 1-2 start, Worcester reeled off three straight including a 10-7 win over Bennett, a 16-2 win over MOT Charter last Wednesday and an 8-6 win over Caesar Rodney last Friday.

Against Caesar Rodney, Worcester got two goals each from John Arring-

ton and Mason Brown. The Mallards got single goals from Alec Dembeck, J.P. Issel, Dakin Moore and Owen Tunis. Goalkeeper Hunter Gentry recorded eight saves on 14 shots by Caesar Rodney.

On Monday, the Mallards looked to keep the momentum from three straight wins going at home against Parkside, but ran into a buzz saw. The Rams led 4-0 at the half and steadily built on the lead through the third quarter, which ended 8-0. Worcester finally got on the board with just over four minutes left in the fourth on a goal by Moore, but the Rams closed out the Mallards, 11-1.

Next up are a couple of home games against Delmarva Christian on Friday and Delmar on Monday.

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BERLIN – Worcester Prep’s girls’ varsity lacrosse team fell to Parkside in a high-scoring game on Monday, 18-14, to drop to 3-3 on the season.

The Mallards opened the season with two straight losses to Decatur and Cape Henlopen before a run of three straight wins last week. Last Wednesday, the Worcester girls rolled past Salisbury School, 20-3, at home.

The Mallards led 10-2 at the half and scored 10 more goals in the second half on their way to the 20-3 rout.

On Saturday, the Worcester girls faced a tough Northern team from

Calvert County at home and won, 1811. The Mallards opened up an 11-6 lead by halftime. Northern played Worcester tighter in the second half, but the lead was insurmountable and the Worcester girls cruised to the 1811 win to improve to 3-2.

On Monday, the Mallards hit the road for a game against Bayside South power Parkside and fell to the Rams, 18-14. Parkside led 10-6 at the half. The two teams played to an 8-8 tie in the second half, but the Mallards could not overcome the early Parkside lead and fell 18-14 to drop to 33. The Worcester girls renew their rivalry with Saints Peter and Paul at home on Friday.

Seahawks Rout WiHi, Stay On Big Roll

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

BERLIN – Stephen Decatur’s varsity baseball team stayed on a major roll this week, beating Wicomico, 120, on Monday to improve to 4-1 on the season.

After splitting its first two games with a win over Northampton and a narrow 1-0 loss to Colonel Richardson last Monday, the Seahawks have now won three straight. The streak started with a tight 6-5 win to North

Caroline on the road last Tuesday. In two games since, the Decatur bats have really come alive and the pitching has been outstanding.

The Seahawks beat Parkside, 133, last week in a game shortened to five innings. On Monday at home, Decatur routed another Bayside South rival Wicomico, 12-0, at home. The Seahawks face Nandua at home on Friday, followed by another home game against Kent Island on Saturday and home again against county rival Pocomoke next Monday.

Decatur Softball Win Streak At Three

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

Worcester Prep’s John Arrington works from behind against the Rams during Monday’s 11-1 loss.

Photo by Shawn Soper

BERLIN – Stephen Decatur’s varsity softball team ran its current win streak to three with a 16-1 rout of Wicomico at home on Monday.

The Seahawks started the 2019 season with three straight wins over Wicomico, Bennett and Northampton before dropping their first game of the season to Colonel Richardson, 12-1,

at home last Monday.

Since then, the Decatur girls have now run off three straight wins to improve to 6-1 on the season. The latest streak began with an 8-3 win over North Caroline on the road last Tuesday.

Last Wednesday, the Seahawks stayed hot with a 10-4 win over Bayside South rival Parkside. Back in action on Monday, the Seahawks blew past Wicomico, 16-1, on a one-hitter

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Seahawks Dominate Home Track Meet

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

BERLIN – Stephen Decatur’s varsity outdoor track teams dominated their home meet last week with a top finish by the girls’ team and a second by the boys’ team along with a bunch of firsts in individual performances.

Decatur hosted a Bayside Conference meet last Wednesday and evidently enjoyed the familiar surroundings. The girls’ team finished first overall with 187 team points, while Bennett was second with 181 points and Parkside was third with 97. On the boys’ side, Bennett was first with 199 points, while Decatur was second with 149 and Snow Hill came in third with 112.

George Cheynet finished first in the 800, while Carter McClendon came in fifth. McClendon also finished third in the 1,600, while Richard Poist came in ninth. Liam Foley finished fifth in the 3,200. In the 200, London Drummond finished fourth and Jonathan Santana was sixth. Maddox Bunting finished eighth in the 400.

In the 110-hurdles, Samuel Oates came in fifth and Victor Vick was seventh. Vick finished sixth in the 300hurdles while Oates finished seventh.

In the relays, the Decatur boys finished first in the 4x800, second in the 4x400 and third in the 4x200.

In the field events, Drummond finished second in the high jump, while Thophilius Hobbs finished fourth.

Drummond also finished fourth in the long jump, while Raul Gault was 10th.

Drummond finished first in the triple jump, while Gault was second, Hobbs was fourth and Nolan Kelley was fifth.

Noah Selt finished second in the

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pole vault, while Justin Hicks was third. Eric Bontempo finished fifth in the discus, while Daletez Smith was seventh and Trevor Jones was 10th.

Smith also finished fourth in the shot put, while Gabriel Bradley came in eighth.

On the girls’ side, Jabria Lewis finished third in the 100, while Imani Walker came in 10th. Jessica Janney was third in the 400, while Jenna Banks came in ninth. Dori Krasner won the 800, followed by Caroline Gardner in fifth, Devon Kramer in sixth, P.J. Venezia-Westphal in ninth and Lydia Woodley in 10th.

Mikayla Denault finished second in the 1,600, followed by Krasner in fourth, Kramer in fifth, Gardner in sixth and Amalia Murphy in eighth. In the 3,200, Denault finished second, Emily Magee was third, Zehra Mirza was fourth and Erin Riccio was fifth.

Raeghan Flynn was second in the 300 hurdles, while Gina Cauble finished third. In the 100 hurdles, Flynn was fourth and Cauble was fifth. In the relays, the Decatur girls finished sixth in the 4x100, fifth in the 4x200, fourth in the 4x400 and second in the 4x800.

In the girls’ field events, Caela Berrie finished second in the high jump, while Jacelyn Clapsadle was third, Janney was fourth and Bridget Buxbaum was fifth. Janney also finished third in the long jump, while Tija Lewis was sixth and Mae Purnell was ninth.

Janney finished first in the triple jump, while Purnell was third.

Amelia Easton finished first in the pole vault. Margie Rayne was third in the discus, while Zoriah Shockley finished seventh. Rayne finished first in the shot put, while Shockley was second and Qui’Asia Thomas was ninth.

Decatur Girls Drop Close One To Bulldogs

BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

BERLIN – Stephen Decatur’s girls’ varsity lacrosse team continued its up and down stretch against tough Bayside North opponents with a 9-7 loss to North Caroline on the road on Monday.

After a season-opening loss to Cape Henlopen, the Seahawks beat Worcester Prep and Saints Peter and Paul to start 2-1. However, the Decatur girls then began a run of games against always-tough Bayside North opponents. It started with a road game against Easton last Thursday, the first of three straight on consecutive school days.

The Decatur girls jumped out to an early 3-0 lead against the Warriors and led 5-1 about half way through the first half. Easton rallied and cut the Decatur lead to 7-5 at the half. The Seahawks scored early in the second half on a goal by Brittyn Leonard to

push the lead back to three at 8-5.

Easton then went on a 5-0 run to take the lead 10-8 about halfway through the second. Decatur got goals from Tori Mueller and Leonard to tie the game at 10-10 with just over four minutes remaining. Easton controlled the ball down the stretch and scored two late goals to snatch the 12-10 win.

Mueller led Decatur with five goals, while Leonard and Sarah Engle scored two each.

Back in action last Friday, the Decatur girls vented a little frustration on Kent County with a 17-2 win at home.

On Monday, it was back up Route 50 again for the Decatur girls for another road game against North Caroline.

The Bulldogs won another close one over the Seahawks, 9-7. With the loss, Decatur fell back to even at 3-3 on the season. The Seahawks face Queen Anne’s at home on Friday, followed by two more road games against Kent Island and Cambridge-South Dorchester.

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n World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, my wife posted on Facebook, “Autism is a journey we never planned, but we sure do love our tour guide.”

Although she doesn’t claim to be the writer in the family, I thought her words were incredibly poignant.

Through a display of the color blue, whether it’s donning clothing or lighting up the Empire State Building in New York City, the concept through Autism Awareness Month is to recognize people living with Autism and those impacted by it. The goal is to increase understanding and acceptance through education.

The ironic part is the last thing most individuals with Autism have any interest in is being in the limelight.

Nonetheless, it’s important for neurotypical people to be aware and realize there are many different types of individuals in this world.

Prior to becoming a parent to a special needs child, I admit to knowing little about Autism. I hadn’t invested a lot of time in researching and reading about it because I had no connection to it in my life.

Soon after Carson was born in 2009, we knew something was different. When he was 3 years old, we learned through genetic testing he had a duplication of chromosome 7.

It’s an abnormality with no cure that results in major developmental delays, anxiety disorders, social phobias, speech and language delays, ADHD, psychological impairments and cardiac and renal defects. A few years later, after we realized his therapies and care would not be covered by insurance, we were advised to have him tested for Autism. We received that diagnosis 30 minutes after walking into the doctor’s office.

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All I know is our family is on an uncomfortable journey that makes our life a roller coaster ride. We have incredible highs and disturbing lows.

We have tremendous anxiety caused by hourly distractions over doctor’s appointments, therapy sessions, insurance conference calls to ensure a service gets covered and distractions that only special needs parents realize.

We also know the impact it has on our family. I most worry about our older son, Beckett. His resentment toward his little brother is palpable. Carson gets attention Beckett does not because of behavior. I often think Beckett acts up or says something to ensure he’s getting the same attention albeit negative. He loves his brother. He will do anything for him.

He vocalizes to us how exhausting it is for him to always have to acquiesce to Carson’s demands in fear of what sort of behavioral outburst will take place. There are times when he clearly states he wants a normal brother.

He doesn’t want to be pushed down the steps or hit with something unexpectedly in an outburst, so he caves to his little brother’s irrational ways.

It’s an unnatural thing.

Pam and I understand it. We know it’s difficult and want him to communicate when he feels his needs are being overwhelmed by his brother.

When Beckett gets especially fired up or shows frustrations beyond the norm, we know we need to spend some time alone with him and get some respite.

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The reality is Carson looks at things differently. Accepting that and having an awareness of this reality is important because it’s the only way to ensure he lives his best life today and tomorrow.

There have been many incredible online posts and graphics about Autism this month. Many are worthy of sharing, but here’s one I found online that hits home.

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Neurodiversity is more than just a term – it’s both a fact and a movement.

It’s the concept that all “brain wiring” – or neurological difference – is, and should be recognized, respected and celebrated as part of what is considered a normal variation in humanity.

Labels such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, Autism, ADHD, Tourette Syndrome and mnay more neurodevelopmental differences would come under this banner, helping us understand their individuality and overlap, but removing the stigma of deficits and disorders and with it the notion that such things can or should be cured.

Embracing neurodiversity is a journey towards finding new language, new understanding and new acceptance for thousands of people in our region and millions more across the globe. It’s a movement that will nurture, celebrated and advocate for all forms of communication and expression, promoting any support that allows autistic people – and any others – to live life fulfilled, happy and on their own terms.”

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Pet’s Name: Demi Pet’s Age/Breed: 4-month-old Siberian husky Pet’s Owners: Clay & Carol Spurrier

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Pet’s Name: Fizz Pet’s Age/Breed: 1-year-old chihuahua Pet’s Owner: Mandee Shanholtz

Pet’s Name: Brutus Pet’s Age/Breed: 10-month-old bulldog/beagle mix Pet’s Owners: Michael & Toni Keiser

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Pet’s Name: Eugene Pet’s Age/Breed: 10-month-old Siamese Pet’s Owners: Peter & Katherine Collins

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Pets’ Names: Oliver & Willi Pets’ Ages/Breedsd: 5-month-old pit bull; 9-week-old terrier mix Pets’ Owners: Jenn & Jeff Hardester

Pet’s Name: Archie Pet’s Age/Breed: 1-year-old petite goldendoodle Pet’s Owner: Carin Chuvala

The Dispatch presents the latest edition of its Pets of the Month Contest.

Each month one special animal, or two, in some cases, is picked as the cutest photo of the bunch through a private vote of our staff. Here we present this month’s pets, submitted by our readers.

On the front page is last month’s winning entry, Raven, owned by Josie Marcellino.

Those interested in participating in future months’ contests are invited to send their lovable pet photo to us at editor@mdcoastdispatch.com (preferred) or to P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811 or drop it off at our office in Berlin at 10012 Old Ocean City Blvd.

Please be sure it’s a high-quality photo suitable for reproduction and to include your mailing address, the pet’s name, age and breed and the owner’s first and last name. The next series will appear in this space on May 2.

Pet’s Name: Tinsel Pet’s Age/Breed: 6-month-old German shepherd Pet’s Owners: Jessica & Ryan Duvall

Pet’s Name: Einstein Pet’s Age/Breed: 1-year-old shorthair Havanese Pet’s Owner: Mandee Shanholtz

Pet’s Name: Bella Marie Pet’s Age/Breed: 10-year-ol long-haired chihuahua Pet’s Owners: Chelsea & Nick Cloyd

Pets’ Names: Ash & Cinder Pets’ Ages/Breeds: Chesapeake retrievers, 1 and 2 years old Pets’ Owners: Anne & Michael Giusti

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The Berlin Lioness Club held its Annual Donor Dinner last month. The event allows the club’s recipients of club donations to give descriptions of their operations. Pictured, back from left, are Dave Burkett, Ocean Pines Library; Wayne Littleton, Believe in Tomorrow; Steve Taylor, Worcester Youth and Family Counseling; Dr. Tracy, Ocean Pines Auxiliary; Joe Sise, Berlin Fire Company; Rob Hart, Meals on Wheels; and Jack Ferry, Worcester County Development Center; and, front from left, Susan Todd, Berlin Library; Michael Ann Ritchner, Ocean Pines Auxiliary; Michelle D’Ascoli, Diakonia; Jackie Flora, president of Lioness Club; Bethany Didrickson, Worcester GOLD; and Donna Cericola, vice president of Lioness Club.

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Barefoot Mailman Motel 35th Street, Ocean City 410-289-5343

Casual Designs Rte. 54, Fenwick 302-436-8224 Rte. 50, Berlin 410-629-1717

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Elliott’s Hardware Rte. 611, West Ocean City 410-213-1088

Park Place Jewelers-Boardwalk & 2nd & 3rd St. And OC Factory Outlets • 410-213-9220

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Things I Like ...

By Steve Green

Driving on Assateague in April A lead that turns into business

Facebook’s Journalism Project campaign Games not decided by the referees A well-trained dog

Looking back on vacation pictures from years gone by Positive personalities

Lots of daffodils together

Close youth sports games Learning from my kids

When compromise wins out

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Who’s Where When 28th/127th Street Pit & Pub 410-289-2020 443-664-7482 28th St. & Coastal hwy. & 127th St. & Coastal hwy.

Wednesdays: DJ Wax (127th St.)

AtlAntiC hotel 410-641-3589 2 north Main St., berlin Mondays: Earl Beardsley Tuesdays: Bob Miller on Piano

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Eastern Electric, 9 p.m.

CAPtAin’S tAble 410-289-7192 Courtyard by Marriott hotel, 15th St. & baltimore Ave. Every Thursday Thru Saturday: Phil Perdue On Piano

fAger’S iSlAnD 410-524-5500 60th St. in the bay Friday, April 12: DJ RobCee, 9 p.m., It’s All Good, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 13: DJ Hook, 9 p.m., Aniaml House, 9:30 p.m.

Monday, April 15: Brayn Clark, 6 p.m.

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RANDY LEE ASHCRAFT & SWC Johnny’s Pizza & Pub: Wednesdays Smitty McGee’s: Thursdays & Fridays

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BEATS BY WAX Greene Turtle North: Fridays 127th St. Pit & Pub: Wednesdays Pickles Pub: Thursday

KEVIN POOLE Johnny’s Pizza & Pub: Saturday, April 13 Harpoon Hanna’s: Thursdays

OTTO GRUNDMAN Lobster Shanty: Friday, April 12

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Who’s Where When Rt. 54 & The Bay, Fenwick Island, DE Friday, April 12: Dave Hawkins, 5 p.m., Identity Crisis, 9 p.m.

Saturday, April 13: Dave Sherman, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, April 16: DJ Rupe Thursday, April 18: Kevin Poole

WHISKEYHICKON BOYS Seacrets: Saturday, April 13

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LIME GREEN Greene Turtle West: Saturday, April 13

OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS Seacrets: Friday, April 12 & Thursday, April 18 Harborside: Sundays & Thursdays

HOOTERS 410-213-1841 12513 Ocean Gateway, Rte. 50, West OC Friday, April 12: DJ BK, 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 13: Classic Vibe, 4 p.m.

Sunday, April 14: Blake Haley, 3 p.m.

JOHNNY’S PIZZA & PUB 410-723-5600 Rt. 54 Fenwick Island, DE Friday, April 12: Kevin Compher Saturday, April 13: Kevin Poole Every Wednesday: Randy Lee Ashcraft & The Saltwater Cowboys LOBSTER SHANTY 302-436-2305 56th St. & Coastal Hwy., Bayside Friday, April 12: Otto Grundman, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 13: Taylor Knox, 5 p.m.

LIMA BEAN RIOT Seacrets: Friday, April 12

THE BENDERZ Seacrets: Saturday, April 13

M.R. DUCKS 410-289-9125 311 Talbot St. Friday, April 12: DJ Batman Saturday, April 13: Monkee Paw PICKLES PUB 410-289-4891 8th St. & Philadelphia Ave. Friday, April 12: Beats By Jeremy, 10 p.m.

Saturday, April 13: Sean Loomis Mondays: Karaoke With Jeremy Tuesdays: Beats By Adam Dutch Thursdays: Beats By Wax

SMOOTH & REMY Crabcake Factory Bayside: Friday, April 12

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SMITTY MCGEE’S 302-436-4716 37234 Lighthouse Rd., West Fenwick Ireland, DE Thursdays & Fridays: Randy Lee Ashcraft & The Saltwater Cowboys SEACRETS 410-524-4900 49th St.& Coastal Hwy. Friday, April 12: Opposite Directions, 5 p.m., DJ Tuff, 9 p.m., Lima Bean Riot, 10 p.m.

Saturday, April 13: Whiskeyhickon Boys, 5 p.m., Nowhere Slow, 9 p.m., The Benderz, 10 p.m., 2 DJs Thursday, April 18: Opposite Directions, 5 p.m.

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News In Photos

The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore presented a $1,000 Help Your Neighbor Grant to Worcester County GOLD (Giving Other Lives Dignity) to support the Emergency Housing Assistance Program. Pictured are Sandy Sipes, GOLD’s executive director, and Heather Mahler, program director for the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore.

Bill Gibbs, owner of The Dough Roller restaurants, has been awarded an honorary life membership from Vietnam Veterans of America at the Ocean City Chapter 1091 membership meeting on April 1. Gibbs was instrumental in planning and placement of the Barry Berger Memorial in front of City Hall and the scholarship named after him. Berger was the only Ocean City native born to be killed in action in Vietnam and was best friends with Gibbs. Gibbs recently presented the chapter with a $2,000 donation for the scholarship fund, which will be used for scholarships for the NJROTC cadets at Stephen Decatur. Pictured with Gibbs, center, are Vice President Gerry Barrons and Sergeant at Arms Jack Hyle. Submitted Photos

The Ocean City Lions Club recently presented $1,000 checks to the Ocean City Recreation Department, the Worcester County Developmental Center (WCDC) and Coastal Hospice at the Ocean. Above, WCDC’s Jack Ferry received the club’s donation from President Norm Cathell.

At the regular meeting of the Ocean City Berlin Rotary Club, Treasurer Cliff Berg and his wife, Donna Berg, were honored by the Rotary Foundation as a Level Two Major Donor.

A women’s history month luncheon was held recently at Tyree AME Church in Berlin. The inspirational event was hosted by the Worcester County NAACP. Pictured, from left, are Jim Mathias, UMES government relations director; Erica Murphy, WMDT 47 Good Morning Delmarva news anchor; Ivory Smith, Worcester County NAACP president; Victoria Jackson-Stanley, Cambridge mayor; Karen Holland, Worcester County 2018 teacher of the year; Dr Annette Wallace, Worcester County Public Schools Assistant Superintendent; Kristin Heiser, Worcester County State’s Attorney; Laurie Brittingham NAACP 1st vice president; and Lou Taylor, Worcester County Schools Superintendent.

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Humane society Planning benefits

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OCEAN CITY – The Worcester County Humane Society (WCHS) is planning a weekend of fundraising fun including the 20th Annual Boardwalkin' for Pets on Saturday, April 20.

Adults 21 and older are invited to the Pre-Boardwalkin’ for Pets Dinner and Silent Auction on Friday, April 19 from 4-8 p.m. at Seacrets. Advance tickets will be available for purchase at the WCHS Thrift Store on Sunset Avenue or by calling 443-235-5647. Tickets will be $35 in advance or $40 at the door. There will be heavy hors d’oeuvres and the band Side Project will be performing. There will be some fabulous auction items to bid on ranging from $10 to $800.

On Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m.noon, grab your best friend and head to the Inlet for the 20th Annual Boardwalkin' for Pets. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. with the walk starting at 9 a.m.

Raise money for the walk and receive prizes. This is the perfect opportunity to create a team. There is a $25 minimum for individuals and for teams a $25 per team per member minimum. To make it easier for individuals and teams to reach out for donations via email and social media, participants can sign up at https://www.crowdrise.com/20thAnnualBoardwalkinforPets. Pledge/registration sheets can also be printed from the same website. Prizes will be awarded to the highest pledge earners, top individual and team. Enter contests and win prizes for largest dog, smallest dog, best dressed dog and best dog trick.

There will be refreshments provided by Harrison's Harbor Watch Restaurant and Layton's Family Restaurant 16th Street.

For those without a pet, you can "adopt" a shelter dog for the event.

Arrangements must be made in advance by calling the shelter at 410213-0146. Please note there are a limited number of dogs that available from the shelter for the walk.

For our feline friends, bring a photo of your cat to the walk with your contact information written on the back. A special prize basket will be awarded to the "cutest cat."

"Boardwalkin’ for Pets is our biggest fundraiser of the year," said event chair Heather Bahrami. "It’s such a feel-good, family friendly event that brings animal lovers from near and far together to raise funds for the many cats and dogs who find their way to our no kill shelter."

This event is rain or shine. Should you choose not to walk due to inclement weather, please mail your pledge sheet and donations to Worcester County Humane Society, P.O. Box 48, Berlin, Md 21811.

Checks should be made payable to WCHS, a private, nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter and operates mainly on donations. All money raised is used to care for the many dogs and cats that call the shelter home.

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The season is ramping up around Ocean City with The Embers now open as well as the Shrimp Boat.

I also checked out Sunday brunch at the Longboard Cafe and karaoke night at Mad Fish.

Embers: Servers Alex Johnson, Jacob Travis, Tayha Turner and Colton Becker

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Embers: Kitchen staff Ellison & Balmy Pierre-Louis, Andrew Rowlands and Dieuphene Dameus

Embers: Managers Rush Stehley and Brianna Flint

Longboard Café: Larry Redding and Christine Cirnigliaro

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Shrimp Boat: Kitchen Crew Lawrence Jones, Richard Perry, Terrence Dale and Owner Joe White

Shrimp Boat: Owner Joe White, Leann Ketchel and Patrick Spence

Mad Fish: Manager Eddie Johnson, DJ Jermey Brink and bartender Carina Costly

Embers: Bartender Jaime Wilkins and Hostess Akira Mumford

Longboard Café: Caroline Grant and Eugene Edwards

Shrimp Boat: Servers Melissa Schworm and Darian Green

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The Manga/Anime student art show opened last Friday at the Ocean City Center for the Arts. Students in middle, high school and higher education in Worcester, Wicomico, Somerset and Sussex counties submitted entries judged by Brad Hudson, professor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Cash prizes sponsored by Art League President John Sisson were awarded. The Art League of Ocean City developed this show to promote creativity among students outside formal art programs and to increase community awareness of Anime as an art form. Above left, Alex Schacter of Stephen Decatur High School and Harry Heller of Wor-Wic Community College dressed in costume for the show. Above right, Isabella Huber, 12, seventh-grader at Worcester Prep, won first place in her age division.

Below left, Lexi Kagan, 11th-grader at Snow Hill High School, had several entries of her anime art on display. Below middle, Serap Akso, 10th-grader at Stephen Decatur High School, won Best in Show for this piece. Below right, UMES student Trent Carpenter won Honorable Mention in the college category.

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Local Operator Takes Over Hall’s Tow Boat Company

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BY SHAWN J. SOPER

MANAGING EDITOR

WEST OCEAN CITY – With boating season arriving, local operators can rest assured help is on the way if they get in distress with a new owner and operator at the helm of TowBoatUS out of West Ocean City.

Captain Rob Copenhaver, a 2004 Stephen Decatur High School graduate, is the new owner of the 24-hour, on-the-water boat assistance service, taking over for the late Captain Greg Hall, who passed away last October after starting the company in 1986 and running it for over three decades.

Copenhaver was operations manager for Hall and helped grow the local operation’s footprint last summer with a second home port in Chincoteague.

TowBoatUS is one of the longest running operations in the company’s nationwide fleet of over 600 response vessels at more than 300 locations.

Copenhaver’s tenure with the company began shortly after high school graduation when he began doing ma-

Captain Rob Copenhaver worked alongside the late Greg Hall in the TowBoatUS business.

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rine construction work for Hall.

He then spent six years gaining experience as a towing response vessel captain for TowBoatUS in Marco Island, Florida. Copenhaver rejoined Hall and the local operation seven years ago and has since logged hundreds of hours and miles of towing disabled vessels, providing battery jump starts and providing soft-ungrounding services, steadily growing his responsibilities to eventually manage the

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local branch’s day-to-day operations.

“While most of our calls for assistance from boaters are for routine engine breakdowns, we also do quite a few soft ungroundings, as there a lot of shifting sand bars that can appear at random,” he said. “Having TowBoatUS 24-hour on-water towing and assistance service means you will not have to worry if someone is going to stop to help you with a routine breakdown or for a gentle pull off the bottom.”

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The company operates a fleet of six response vessels ranging from 21 feet to 42 feet out of Fisherman’s Marina in West Ocean City and Curtis Merritt Harbor in Chincoteague. All of the company’s rescue vessels are easily recognizable by their red hulls with TowBoatUS logo emblazoned in bright white letters on their hull sides.

Each boat is rigged for towing, jumpstarts, fuel delivery and soft ungroundings.

Much like an auto club for boaters, TowBoatUS offers on-water unlimited towing memberships for saltwater boaters and anglers at $159 per year. Those without a membership face an average of $750 per towing incident with some paying thousands of dollars out of pocket.

Boaters can reach TowBoatUS Ocean City and Chincoteague by hailing on VHF channel 16, by calling the company directly at 443-235-3552.

Boaters can also reach out to the TowBoatUS toll-free 24/7 dispatch center at 800-391-4869, or via smartphone using the BoatUS app.

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BERLIN – The Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks and Aquatics departments invite Ocean Pines residents and guests to celebrate Easter at upcoming special events on April 13 and 20.

Bring the entire family for a morning of fun, food, photos and festivities at the Breakfast with the Easter Bunny event on Saturday, April 13 from 8-11 a.m. The menu will consist of pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, pastries, fruit, juice, milk, and coffee. The cost of the special breakfast is $5 for children ages 4-11, $7 for adults and free for those 5 and under.

At the Egg-stravaganza Dive and Pool Party, dozens of young divers and snorkelers ages 11 and under will get a chance to fish out brightly colored eggs from the indoor heated pool on Friday, April 19 from 5:30-8 p.m. Swimmers will be divided into different age groups to ensure everyone has a chance to collect eggs. The cost of the special event is $6 per swimmer and $3 for nonswimmers. Children under age 6 must have an adult in the water with them.

“Then gear up for the most-talked-

about Easter celebration on the shore,” said Denise Sawyer, marketing and public relations director for the Ocean Pines Association. “On April 20, families will be able to scout the field for lots of colorful eggs at White Horse Park in Ocean Pines.”

The Easter/Spring Celebration will include egg hunts, carnival games, moon bounces, face painting, pony rides, arts and crafts, an Easter bonnet parade and much more.

Easter egg hunts will be held during

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the event for children up to age 10 as follows: 11:30 a.m. for ages 1-3, noon for ages 4-6, and 1 p.m. for ages 7-10.

The Easter bonnet parade and contest, which is open to children and adults, will begin at 12:30 p.m.

Additionally, Sawyer said, “Adults are encouraged to hop and shop at our popular Farmers and Artisans Market on April 20 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.”

The Ocean Pines Farmers and Artisans Market, which operates every Saturday at White Horse Park, will be open

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Volunteers and candy donations are needed for the Easter/Spring Celebration. Contact the Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks Department at 410-641-7052 if you are interested in helping, or if you have questions about the event.

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Local Couple Wins Free Wedding

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Kevin Lane and Ashley Kelly are pictured with family and vendors who are working together to coordinate their wedding at Windmill Creek Vineyard and Winery.

Photo by Bethany Hooper

BY BETHANY HOOPER

STAFF WRITER

BERLIN – A state trooper and his fiancé will receive a free wedding with the support of local businesses.

Last Friday, Windmill Creek Vineyard and Winery and Encore Events

by Angie presented Kevin Lane, a Maryland State Police trooper, and his fiancé, Ashley Kelly, with a free wedding.

In January, the two sponsors partnered with local businesses to launch a contest, entitled “A Front Line Affair,” which awarded a free wedding pack-

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Jeannie Mariner – who operates Windmill Creek with her husband, Barry, and daughter, Brittany – said her family, alongside Encore Events owner Angie Unkart and her husband, Eric, wanted to recognize those who served the community.

“My husband and I were in the military and are both veterans, and Angie comes from a military family …,” she said. “It’s something that’s really close to our hearts. The life of a military member or first responder is difficult.”

Mariner noted the contest demonstrates the community’s support for members of the military and first responders and allows the winners to have a stress-free wedding.

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Health Fair Set

BERLIN – Atlantic General Hospital, the Town of Ocean City and AARP Ocean City Chapter #1917 are co-sponsoring a free health fair for the community. The event will be on May 7 from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City.

The health fair is free and open to the public. The health fair will include free health screenings, such as carotid, respiratory, bone density, hearing, blood pressure and skin cancer, Brown Bag Review of meds by AGHRx RediScripts pharmacists, lab draws for cholesterol panel and glucose (a 12 hours fast is required), special appearance by Pets on Wheels of Delmarva and more.

The Blood Bank of Delmarva will be holding a blood drive throughout the event as well. To make an appointment with the Blood Bank call, 8888BLOOD (888-825-6638) or schedule online to donate blood at www.delmarvablood.org.

The opening ceremonies will begin at 7:55 a.m. with a presentation of the colors by the American Legion Post #166 followed by a ribbon cutting at the ballroom doors by the Ocean City, Atlantic General Hospital and AARP officials.

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FROM PAGE 60 do every day …,” she said. “Doing this allows them to have a wedding stress free.”

Unkart agreed.

“In the scheme of things, we are very blessed,” she said. “So this is a way for us to give back.”

Lane said he first heard about the contest through the Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack, where he works, while Kelly – a patient care technician at Peninsula Regional Medical Center – learned about the contest through a former classmate.

The couple, who got engaged last Memorial Day, said they postponed their plans to care for their infant son but decided to apply for the contest in early February.

“We put ourselves on hold for our son so we could enjoy him as best as possible,” Kelly said. “We thought we don’t have anything to lose, so we applied for the contest.”

The couple – who assembled with their families and participating vendors for a meet-and-greet event on Friday – said they were shocked to learn they won the contest.

“Two weeks prior we got an email saying we were in the top two, and on Monday we got the call saying we won …,” Kelly said. “It’s nice to see this many people support law enforcement.”

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Lane agreed.

“It’s amazing to see everyone come together to make this happen for us,” he said.

Unkart said she and the couple will work together in the coming months to prepare for the July 27 wedding.

“I’m going to keep them very organized and on schedule to accomplish the goals we’ve set,” she said.

Officials said the wedding package includes the venue, decor and catering services, photography, a photo booth trailer, a food truck for the rehearsal dinner, a golf package for the groomsmen, wedding dress, hair and makeup for the bridal party, a DJ, wedding cake and dessert bar, hotel rooms and more.

The bride and groom will receive donated goods and services totaling nearly $25,000.

Participating businesses include Encore Events by Angie Gillis, Ocean 13, Coastal Tented Events, Taste Events, Adam’s Taphouse Grille, Gilbert’s Provisions, Starr Restaurant at River Run, Residence Inn by Marriott Ocean City, Quality Inn Oceanfront, Copy Central, Mother’s Cantina, Sandals Bridal, CMBaker Photography, Chloe Ferber Beauty, Salon Sixteen, JasonMorris, Evolution Craft Brewing Company, Men In Black Wedding Officiants, Baked Dessert Cafe and Manda Weaver Photography.

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Friday, Saturday: AARP Tax-Aide Free Tax Preparation

Friday: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Pocomoke branch library, 301 Market St., Pocomoke City. Appointment: 410957-0878. Saturday 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Ocean City Senior Center, 104 41st St., Ocean City. Appointment: 443-373-2667.

Every Monday: TOPS Meeting

5:30-6:30 p.m. Atlantic General Hospital, Berlin.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly is a support group promoting weight loss and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.410-641-0157.

Every Monday: Delmarva Chorus Meeting

7 p.m. Ocean Pines Community Center. Women of all ages invited to sing with the group. 410-6416876.

Second Monday Of Month: Ocean Pines Camera Club 7 p.m. Ocean Pines branch library. Monthly get-together to share photos, tips, programs. Group goes on a photo shoot the Saturday following meeting and hosts a hands-on workshop the last Thursday of each month. Professional and amateur photographers and new members welcome. Meets second Monday of each month.

Every Tuesday: TOPS Meeting

5:30-7 p.m. Worcester County Health Center, 9730 Healthway Dr., Berlin. Take Off Pounds Sensibly is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. jeanduck47@gmail.com.

Third Tuesday: Alzheimer’s Support Group

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9715 Healthway Dr., Berlin. Free caregivers group. 410-629-6123.

Every Wednesday Through April 17 Lenten Bible Study

6 p.m. Eastern Orthodox Community of Saint Andrew Church, 33384 MacKenzie Way (off Plantation Road), Lewes, Del. “The Gospel of Mark: The Way of the Cross and the Challenge of the Empty Tomb.”

Everyone welcome. 302-645-5791 or www.orthodoxdelmar.org.

Every Wednesday: Delmarva Hand Dance Club Dance To Sounds of ’50s And ’60s Music

5:30-9 p.m. Ocean City Elks Lodge, 13708 Sinepuxent Ave. $5 donation per person to benefit veterans and local charities in the Delmarva region. All are welcome. dance@delmarvahanddancing.-com or http://delmarvahanddancing.com. 410-208-1151.

Second Wednesday: Polish American Club Of Delmarva Meeting

2-4 p.m. Columbus Hall. Anyone of Polish or Slavic descent is welcome. No meetings June, July, August. 410-723-2639 or 410-250-2548.

Second Thursday: Ocean Pines Garden Club

10 a.m. Ocean Pines Community Center. Visitors and new members welcome.

Every Friday: Knights Of Columbus #9053 Bingo

Doors open at 5 p.m., bingo at 6:30 p.m. 9901 Coastal Hwy., Ocean City. Possible to win the $1,000 big jackpot each week. 410-524-7994.

Every Friday: FORGE Contemporary Youth And Family Ministry

6:30-8:30 p.m. FORGE Center, 7804 Gumboro Rd.,

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Pittsville. Designed for kids ages 5-65, the program provides a meal, music, games, activities and a life lesson that can be of use to anyone. Christianbased program but does not require the practice of faith to attend. 443-366-2813.

for one breakfast sandwich and one drink item. The public is invited to support the Berlin Fire Company.

Berlin Little League Opening Day Parade starts at 9 a.m. Any Berlin Little League member in uniform will receive a free breakfast sandwich and a free drink. 410-641-1977.

10 a.m.-noon. Berlin branch, Worcester County Library. Anyone interested in writing is invited to join the group and share a story, poem or essay or just come and enjoy listening to others. This is a free activity. New members are always welcome. The group is comprised of amateur as well as professional, published writers willing to share their knowledge and offer tips on being creative with words.

5-7 p.m. Bishopville Fire Department Auxiliary Main Station. Adult: $12; children under 11: $6. Chicken, hand-rolled dumplings, cole slaw, green beans and sweet potatoes, water, tea, coffee. Soda, bottled water and desserts sold separately. Eat-in or carryout. 443-880-6966.

First Saturday Of Month: Writers Group

April 12: Fish Fry

4:30-7 p.m. Bowen United Methodist Church, Newark. Platters are $10 each and include flounder filet, maccaroni and cheese, green beans, corn bread, dessert. Beverage is included for those who eat in.

April 12: Maryland Crab Cake Dinner

4-6:30 p.m. Stevenson United Methodist Church, 123 N. Main St., Berlin. $12: Maryland crab cake sandwich, green beans, baked potato, cole slaw; or $8: Maryland crab cake sandwich. Bake sale table.

Carry-outs available.

April 12: Oyster Fritter Sandwich

3 p.m.-until. American Legion Sal 123, 10111 Old Ocean City Blvd. (next to Rite Aid), Berlin. Cost: $9.

Public welcome.

April 12: Food Pantry Give-Away

9 a.m. Potters House Charge, New Bethel U.M. Church, 10203 Germantown Rd., Berlin. 443-2350889. Early registration: 410-641-2058, leave message.

April 13: Democratic Central Committee Worcester County Monthly Meeting

9-11 a.m. Snow Hill Library, 307 N. Washington St., Snow Hill. Interested persons encouraged to attend.

410-641-1956.

April 13: Chicken And Dumplings Dinner

5-7 p.m. Bishopville Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary, Main Street, Bishopville. Adults: $12; children 11 and under: $6. Chicken and dumplings, cole slaw, green beans, sweet potatoes, water, tea, coffee. Bottle water, soda and baked goods sold separately. 443-880-6966.

April 13: Breakfast Sandwich Sale

7-10 a.m. or until sold out. Berlin Fire Company, 214 N. Main St., Berin. Breakfast sandwiches only: Choose from bacon, egg and cheese or sausage, egg and cheese. Milk, orange juice, coffee. Cost: $5

April 13: All-You-Can-Eat Chicken And Dumplings

April 13: Bridge Bash And Games Galore

9:15 a.m. Doors open for registration and breakfast (homemade cinnamon rolls, pastries, juice, coffee; playing begins at 9:45 a.m.; lunch, short program and door prizes at noon. Asbury United Methodist Church, Salisbury. P.E.O. Chapter V, a philanthropic organization where women celebrate advancement of women, educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans and stewardship of Cottey College and motivate women to achieve their highest aspirations. $30 per person, space is limited.

Four two-hour classes will be offered in March for 4100, location to be determined. 410-873-2126 or cowall@comcast.net.

April 14, April 18, April 19, April 21: Easter Activities

April 14, Noon-2 p.m.: Easter egg hunt, crafts, games, snacks and egg hunt for children up to fifth grade. April 18, 7 p.m.: Maundy Thursday Service, includes Holy Communion. April 19: Noon-3 p.m., Good Friday Service and Prayer Vigil; April 21: Easter Sunday Services at 8 a.m. (informal/traditional), 9:15 a.m. (contemporary worship, child care provided), 10:30 a.m. (formal, child care provided).

Community Church at Ocean Pines, 11227 Racetrack Rd., Berlin. 410-641-5433 or CCAOP.org.

April 15: Democratic Women’s Club Of Worcester County Meeting

9:30 a.m., coffee and converstion; 10 a.m., meeting.

Ocean Pines Commnity Center in Ocean Pines.

Food donations for local food banks encouraged.

April 15: Burley Oak Charity Night For Assateague Island Alliance

6-9 p.m. Burley Oak Brewing Company, Berlin. Win prizes, enjoy iive music courtesy of Michelle and Kathy from Full Circle, and enjoy a fresh brew or root beer. All funds raised benefit Assateague Island National Seashore.

April 18: Maundy Thursday Service

7 p.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church, 405 Flower St., Berlin. Theme: “Walking Into Your Future.”

April 12, 2019 Everyone is welcome. Rev. Barbara Harmon, Pastor. 410-641-0270.

April 18: Pine’eer Craft Club Meeting

Refreshments at 9:45 a.m., business meeting at 10 a.m. Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean Parkway, Ocean Pines. All are welcome to attend.

Project for April: Cheese ball carrots, which will be sold at White Horse Park on Saturday, April 20.

April 18: Holy Thursday Worship

Noon and 7 p.m. Bethany United Methodist Church, 8648 Stephen Decatur Hwy. (corner of Route 611 and Snug Harbor Road), Berlin. Includes handwashing symbolizing cleansing, Holy Communion, stripping the sanctuary. All welcome. 410-641-2186.

April 19: Good Friday Centers Of The Cross

8 a.m.-8 p.m. Bethany United Methodist Church, 8648 Stephen Decatur Hwy. (corner of Route 611 and Snug Harbor Road), Berlin. Centers include intercessory prayers, personal reflections. Come when you wish and stay as long as you wish. All welcome. 410-641-2186.

April 20: All-You-Can-Eat Fried Chicken Dinner

11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. New Hope United Methodist Church, 7338 New Hope Rd., Willards. Menu includes mashed potatoes, greens, string beans, macaroni and cheese, beets, biscuits, dessert, coffee. Cost: Adults/$13. Carry-outs available. 410543-8244 or 443-235-0251.

April 20: ShoreMixx Band And Spaghetti Dinner

3-7 p.m. American Legion Post 123, 10111 Old Ocean City Blvd. (next To Rite Aid), Berlin. $8. Dinner includes spaghetti with meat sauce or marinara sauce, salad, dinner roll. Public welcome.

April 21: Easter Outdoor Sunrise Service

6:30 a.m. Assateague State Park, 6915 Stephen Decatur Hwy., Berlin. Bring lawn chairs, dress warmly. Easter breakfast immediately after at Bethany United Methodist Church, 8648 Stephen Decatur Hwy. (corner of Route 611 and Snug Harbor Road), Donations requested. Easter worship at 10:30 a.m. All welcome. 410-641-2186.

April 21: Ocean Pines Community Easter Sunrise Service

6 a.m. Ocean Pines Yacht Club. Seating will be provided. If inclement weather, service will be held at Showell Elementary School. A 9 a.m. service will be held at the School. 410-641-6000.

April 23-24-25: Maryland Basic Boating Safety Course

Ocean Pines Branch library. Maryland Safe Boating Certificate required for all boat operators born after July 1, 1972, awarded after successful completion of the course, which includes piloting in local waters, tying nauticalknots, foul weather tactics, legal issues, common marine maintenance. $15 for all three evenings. Register: 410-935-4807 or email cgauxoc@gmail.com.

April 25: Republican Women Of Worcester County April Luncheon Meeting

Doors open at 10:30 a.m., meeting begins at 11 a.m.

Mad Fish Bar & Grill Restaurant, 12817 Harbor Rd., West Ocean City. Luncheon theme is “Welcome Home Legislators.” Speakers: Maryland State Sen.

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Mary Beth Carozza, Maryland Delegate Wayne Hartman and Maryland Delegate Charles Otto, who will give an overview of the 2019 Maryland General Assembly session. Worcester County Commissioner Chip Bertino will speak on local issues. Cost of luncheon: $20. Reservations/information: annlutz60@gmail.com or 410-208-9767. Reservation cutoff is April 19.

April 26-28: Assateague Nature Photography Workshop

Friday: 7 p.m.; Sunday: 2 p.m. Join world-class instructor Irene Sacilotto to focus on strategies and techniques required to produce high-quality wildlife images while capturing moments in nature. Limited spaces available. This workshop will utilize Assateague for field work. Fee. Registration: AssateagueIslandAlliance.org.

April 27: All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast Buffet

7-10 a.m. Whaleyville United Methodist Church, 11716 Sheppards Crossing Rd., Whaleyville. Cost: $8/adult; $4/child. Includes pancakes, bacon, sausage, scrapple, scrambled eggs, chipped beef, hash brown potatoes, toast, fruit, assorted beverages.

410-726-0603.

April 27: Church Rummage Sale

7 a.m.-1 p.m. Ocean City Presbyterian Church, 1201 Philadelphia Ave.

April 27: Gospel Sing And Dinner

4-6 p.m. Powellville UM Church, 35606 Mt. Hermon Rd., Powellville. Crab cake or barbecue pork platters served with macaroni and cheese, green beans, drink, dessert. Eat in or carry out. Gospel music by Danny Travers in the sanctuary at 6 p.m.

443-880-8804.

April 28: Italian Dinner

4-6 p.m. Church of the Holy Spirit, 100th Street and Coastal Highway, Ocean City. Catered by Carrabba’s. Includes chicken Bryan, penne pomodoro, Caesar salad, garlic breadsticks, iced tea, lemonade. Desserts will be available for $1. Tickets: $15, available at the church and at the door on the day.

410-723-1973 or 443-235-8942.

April 30: Registration For Sussex C.A.R.E.S. Conference

“Creating Awareness Of Resources For Every Senior In Sussex County” conference set for May 9, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Crossroad Community Church, Georgetown, Del. Keynote speaker: Patricia W. Griffin, Master, Delaware Court of Chancery. Includes lunch and door prizes, vendors. All are invited to learn how to ensure that final wishes are carried out. Register: 302-396-9518 or http://bit.ly/2019caresconference.

May 3-4: Gigantic Yard Sale And Bake Sale

8 a.m.-3 p.m. St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church, 33384 Mackenzie Way (off Plantation Road), Lewes, Del. Look for the gold dome. Rain or shine. Proceeds benefit St. Andrew’s Church. 302-436-4029.

May 9: AARP Meeting

10 a.m. Ocean City Senior Center, 41st Street and Coastal Highway (behind the Dough Roller). Please arrive early at 9:30 a.m. for a social half-hour and refreshments. Guest speaker will discuss the Living Legacy Foundation. Optional luncheon will follow the meeting at a local restaurant. New members welcome. 410-250-0980.

May 11: Worcester County Garden Club Plant Auction And Sale

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Covered pavilion at Sturgis Park, River Street, Snow Hill. Auction begins at 11 a.m.

Annuals, perennials, gift baskets and more. Bring a chair and a friend. 443-235-9313.

May 11: Horseshoe Crab Ecology And Tagging Demo

11 a.m. Join Assateague Island Alliance volunteer and citizen scientist Dick Arnold for an informative, hands-on program encounter with horseshoe crabs.

Discover how valuable this living fossil is to the global ecosystem and humankind plus how horseshoe crabs are tagged and why. Refreshments at 10:30 a.m. Meet at the Assateague Environmental Education Center, 7206 National Seashore Lane, Berlin.

May 15: Local Ocean Pines Chapter AK Of P.E.O. Italian Buffet Fundraiser

5:30-8:30 p.m. Ocean Pines Yacht Club. All proceeds benefit educational projects for women. Menu will feature antipasto and cheese board, Caesar salad, custom pasta bowls, grilled chicken, sausage with peppers and onions, meatballs, fresh vegetables, pasta, garlic bread, tiramisu and beverages.

Cost: $40. Includes a silenet auction, gift baskets, mystery wines, gift card boxes. 410-201-2508. To attend, respond by May 4. Checks made out to PEO, Chapter AK, mail to Marian Bickerstsaff, 29 Wood Duck Dr., Ocean Pines, Md. 21811.

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Horoscopes

April 12, 2019

ARIES (March 21 to April 19): Professional relationships grow stronger.

But you might still need to ease some problems with someone in your personal life. One way could be to try to be less rigid in your views.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): You might be too close to that perplexing personal situation to even attempt to make a rational decision about it right now. Stepping back could help you gain a wider perspective.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20): Being asked to choose between the positions of two friends is an unfair imposition on you. It's best to reject the "demands" and insist they try harder to work things out on their own.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22): A change of mind about a workplace decision might be called for once you hear more arguments, pro and con. A personal event suddenly takes an unexpected (but pleasant!) turn.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22): Romance once again looms large for single Leos and Leonas, with Cupid favoring Taurus and Libra to inspire those warm and fuzzy Leonine feelings. Expect another workplace change.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22): A surprise gift – and, happily, with no strings attached – could come just when you need it to avoid a delay in getting your project done. Expect education to dominate the week.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22): Someone close to you might ask for your support as she or he faces a demanding personal challenge. Offer it, by all means. But be careful you don't neglect your own needs at this time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21): An unexpected development could put your relationship with a partner or spouse to an emotionally demanding test. But your determination to get to the truth should save the day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21): A recent agreement appears to be coming apart over the surfacing of unexpected complications. You might need to have expert advice on how to resolve the situation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19): Your keen business sense helps you get to the truth about a suspicious business deal. Expect to have many colleagues rally to support your efforts in this important matter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18): Someone who once moved in and out of your life through the years might now want to come back in on a more permanent basis. Give yourself a lot of time to weigh your decision.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20): Showing frustration over a delayed workplace decision might get someone's attention, but not necessarily make him or her move any sooner.

Best advice would be to be patient and wait it out.

BORN THIS WEEK: You are drawn to excitement and enjoy fast-tempo music, with the more brass, the better. © 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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And Real Estate News Monthly Market Recap

BERLIN – Home sale prices continue to rise on the Lower Eastern Shore, according to the latest numbers from the Coastal Association of REALTORS® (Coastal).

Sale prices reached an average of $200,273 in all three counties in March, which is 17.2% higher than the same time last year. Individually, the average sale price was $293,367 in Worcester County, $186,308 in Wicomico County, and $121,144 in Somerset County.

List prices reached an average of $227,796 in all three counties, which is 0.5% lower than the same time last year.

New listings that went on the market in March were up 2.5% compared to the same time last year in all three counties. That translates to 532 new listings. Individually, new available units were up by 15.2% in Somerset, and were down by 0.7% in Wicomico and by 2.6% in Worcester.

However, active inventory is still lower than it was a year ago. In all three counties, there was a total of 1,789 active listings, which is 27% lower than it was in March 2018. Active listings were down by 24.1% in Worcester, by 37.1% in Wicomico, and by 17.3% in Somerset.

New residential settlements in March were down by 16.3% overall compared to the same time last year in all three counties. Individually, settlements were down by 37% in Wicomico, by 0.5% in Worcester, and by 10% in Somerset.

Year-to-date settlements across the TriCounty area totaled 700, which is 12.1% lower than the same time last year.

“The last week of March saw the biggest one-week drop in mortgage interest rates in a decade,” said Coastal President Bernie Flax. “That rate is still hovering around four% and it’s not expected to increase very much this year.

If you’re thinking about buying, now is a good time to start the process so you can take advantage of these low rates.”

Foundation Members Named SALISBURY – The Wor-Wic Community College Foundation recently welcomed Mike Marshall and Jason Parker of Berlin, Stephen Pappas of Ocean City and Phyllis Vinyard of Salisbury as new members of the board of directors.

Marshall is president and CEO of Marshall Hotels & Resorts in Salisbury. He is a member of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Cornell Hotel Society and GlenRiddle Golf Club in MIKE Berlin, and a former member of the Greater Salis- MARSHALL bury Committee and Green Hill Country

Club. Marshall earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington Va., and completed the advanced management program in hospitality management through Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Parker is a vice president at the Bank of Ocean City. He serves as secretary/treasurer of the board of directors of the L. Franklin and Gertrude H. Purnell Foundation and as an elder at the Buckingham Presbyterian Church in Berlin. He is a member of the Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, an associate member JASON of the Berlin Lions Club PARKER and Delmarva Condominium Manager’s Association, and a former member of the Downtown Association of Ocean City, Young Professionals of the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce and the Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce.

He received his associate degree in business management from Wor-Wic and his bachelor’s degree in finance from Wilmington University.

Pappas is the owner and manager of The Original Greene Turtle in Ocean City and a lacrosse coach at Worcester Preparatory School. He volunteers with the Worcester County Humane Society and the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. He received his bachelor’s STEPHEN PAPPAS degree from Washington College in Chestertown.

Vinyard received her bachelor’s degree at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. She serves on the board of directors of the Peninsula Regional Medical Center Foundation and is a former board member of the Sussex Shores Water Co. Vinyard is a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church Altar Guild in Sal- PHYLLIS isbury and a former mem- VINYARD ber of the Wicomico Garden Club.

Retirement Seminar Planned BERLIN – Jeffrey D. Montgomery is among the exclusive group of independent financial advisors throughout the country authorized to host the new Smart Women, Smart Retirement™ seminars created by New York Times Bestselling Author David Bach.

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FROM PAGE 66 sold over 1 million copies since its initial publication in 1998. To register for the seminar, call 855-972-6224 or visit MFSWealth.com The Smart Women, Smart Retirement seminars present strategies to help women who are at or near retirement to spend wisely, establish financial independence, align their values with their money, and accumulate greater personal and financial wealth.

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BERLIN – Gillis Gilkerson announced progress on the south area expansion project at Frontier Town. The project includes over 100 RV pull through sites and construction of a new 1,885-squarefoot bath house and 5,960-square-foot community hall building.

“The Gillis Gilkerson team did a good job keeping things moving even though we were hit with a substantial amount of wet weather,” said Michael Johnson, construction manager, Atwell Group. “They are good at communicating and getting things done.”

The completion of the bath house and RV sites are set for July with the community hall building by August.

Brewery Recognized LEWES, Del. – Big Oyster Brewery was named one of the fastest growing small and independent craft breweries of 2018 by the Brewers Association (BA), the not-for-profit trade group representing small and independent craft brewers.

“It’s really nice to be included on a list like this. We’ve made this dream a reality through a lot of long hours, and a dedicated team of people who are passionate about great beer. All of us have worked really hard to get to this point, from our brewing team that starts their day before the sun comes up, to the sales team, who work tirelessly to get our beer into the hands of customers at local hot spots and to all our restaurant staff try their best to provide a memorable beer drinking experience. We’re excited to see what the rest of 2019 has in store for us.” said Andrew Harton, head brewer of Big Oyster Brewery.

Big Oyster Brewery was ranked second fastest growing craft brewery in the US according to the Brewer’s Association’s annual production survey. Big Oyster Brewery began inside owner Jeff Hamer’s Fins Ale House in Rehoboth. Hamer fell into a bit of luck after construction of the Fins location began when the store directly next to it became available as well. The result was the dream of an in-house craft brewery component becoming a reality sooner than expected, and by June of 2015 beers from the brew team of Andrew Harton and assistant brewer Red Killpack began to flow.

“I could never have imagined we would be where we are now when this all started,” said Hamer. “Our brewery team is partially made up of folks who’ve worked for me since their high school days and I couldn’t be more thrilled we’ve all taken this journey together.”

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––––––––––––––––––––––––––– GENERAL LANDSCAPING & RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE: Full Time, Berlin Area. Reliable Transportation, Valid Driver's License, & Working References required. Call for Interview M-F 9:00am-5:00pm (410)289-4444 ext. 119 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

LANDSCAPERS NEEDED

(berlin-Ocean City)

FULL TIME/YEAR ROUND

Must have 5 years + exp. in lawn maint. must be able to operate Zero turn, mowers, weed whacker, hedge trimmer, chain saw, etc... Must be hard working have strong attention to detail!

Spanish speaking a bonus.

Call today to set up an interview

Pay based on knowledge & exp.

443-944-3559

ALL POSITIONS!

PROFESSIONAL SERVERS HOSTESSES

Apply In Person Lobster Shanty Fenwick Island

Apply In Person Nantuckets Fenwick Island

Seeking YR, EXPERIENCED

Higgins Crab House now taking applications:

Apply within Wednesday - Sunday 11 AM - 10 PM

•EXP. LIQUOR STORE ATTENDANT Please Apply in person Fri-Sun, 10am-7pm 128th St., Ocean City

LINE COOkS SERVERS bARTENDERS

PuT YOuR LOgO IN COLOR FOR JuST $10

CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: 410-641-4563 • Fax: 410-641-0966 Email: classifieds@mdcoastdispatch.com Mail: P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811

Deadline For Insertions, Cancellations And Payment Is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pre-Payment Is Required. We Accept Visa & MasterCard.

HELP WANTED

April 12, 2019

Work With the best Ocean City has to Offer ...

We Invite You to be a Part of our Family!

Year Round - Full/Part Time ~POOL MANAGER ~SERVER ~BARTENDER ~HOSTESS/HOST ~BUSSER ~ROOM ATTENDANT ~HOUSEKEEPING HOUSESTAFF ~MAINTENANCE ~PAINTER ~INCOME AUDITOR ~SECURITY GUARD FREE EMPLOYEE MEALS AND EXCELLENT BENEFITS!

FAX RESUME & SALARY REq. to: 410-723-9109 Online at www.clarionoc.com APPLY IN PERSON Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

CLARION RESORT FONTAINEbLEAU HOTEL 10100 COASTAL HWY. OCEAN CITY, MD. 21842 EOE M/F/D/V

B.E.S.T. Motels Now Hiring

Desk Clerks

for 2019 Season All Shifts Available

Apply In Person, ONLY 12 noon-3pm Tuesday –Friday ONLY Executive Motel 3001 N Baltimore Ave Ocean City, MD

Now Hiring Ocean View DE Clubhouse Attendants PT Seasonal May - September Must be able to work days, nights, weekends and holidays as needed. Starting at $10/hr Working 20-26 hrs a week. Excellent people skills a must!

Microsoft skills preferred.

Please send resume to: jobopportunitysussex@gmail.com or Fax to: (302) 537-4075 EOE

HIRING EVENT ALL POSITIONS

for Restaurant and Hotels Apply in person OMEGA EATS 2606 Phila. Ave., OC Sat., April 13, 9am-1pm

NOW HIRING DELIVERY DRIVERS Make $12-$16 per hour.

Flexible Hours, Great Working Atmosphere.

Apply within, Downtown location 710 Philadelphia Ave, OC, 410-289-1200

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PuT YOuR LOgO IN COLOR FOR JuST $10

$15/Week For Minimum Of Five Lines • $2 Thereafter Per Line Display Classified Ads: $20/Week Per Column Inch (Contract Discounts Available)

Deadline For Insertions, Cancellations And Payment Is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pre-Payment Is Required. We Accept Visa & MasterCard.

CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: 410-641-4563 • Fax: 410-641-0966 Email: classifieds@mdcoastdispatch.com Mail: P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811

IND IA N RIVE R M A RI NA NOW H IRING !

FULL-TIME PERSONAL bANkER

•BOATYARD •FUEL DOCK/DOCK HAND

Farmers Bank of Willards has a full-time Personal banker position available at our Talbot Street location. Looking for professional and motivated individuals with extraordinary customer service skills. Cash handling experience & excellent computer skills a must.

Please send resume to Jennie Rice at 12641 Ocean Gateway, OC, MD 21842 or email: jennie.rice@fbwbank.com Application cut off is 4-22-2019

For additional information, please contact the Marina office at 302.227.3071 AA/EOE

Come Join Our WinningTeam!

“Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer”

WORk ON THE BEACH IN OCEAN CITY, MD. • Rent Umbrellas & Chairs To Beachgoers • Now Hiring Students For Over 80 Positions • Make Friends & Memories • Earn Valuable Sales & Customer Service Skills • Energetic Individuals Wanted • Hourly + Commission + Tips

The Lighthouse Club Hotel Personnel Needed Laundry Personnel Full & Part Time Please apply in person Monday thru Thursday at The Lighthouse Club Hotel 56th Street Bayside Ocean City, MD

NOW HIRING

Positive Attitude, Good Grooming, and Good Work Ethic required.

NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE!

AWESOME PEOPLE

Holding open interviews

EVERDAY! 11am-2pm for:

•SERVERS •HOSTS •BUS STAFF •KITCHEN STAFF •SECURITY

Come by and join our 2019 family!

54th ST OCMD 410-723-5565

Behind Chauncey’s Surf Shop

Now accepting applications for the following

Full Time, Seasonal Positions BARTENDER SERVER LINE COOK PM/OVERNIGHT HOUSEPERSON ROOM ATTENDANT RESTAURANT MANAGER (Year Round)

2 15th Street, Ocean City, Maryland Apply in person or email resume to duran.showell@marriott.com No phone calls, please All candidates must go through a satisfactory background check.

www.courtyardoceancity.com

Now accepting applications for the following positions: FRONT DESk RESERVATIONS RECREATION ROOM INSPECTOR ROOM ATTENDANT MAINTENANCE PAINTER SERVER bARISTA HOSTESS LINE COOk We are looking for experienced personnel with customer service skills. Must be flexible with hours. Email resume to jobs@carouselhotel.com or stop by and complete an application at the Front Desk.

We require satisfactory pre-employment drug testing and background check.

Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums 11700 Coastal Highway Ocean City, MD 21842 EOE

FULL-TIME PERSONAL bANkER

Farmers Bank of Willards has a full-time Personal banker position available at our North Ocean City location. Looking for professional and motivated individuals with extraordinary customer service skills. Cash handling experience & excellent computer skills a must.

Please send resume to Kelly Drexel at 12831 Coastal Highway, OC, MD 21842 or email: kelly.drexel@fbwbank.com Application cut off is 4-22-2019 “Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer”

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The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch PuT YOuR LOgO IN COLOR FOR JuST $10

$15/Week For Minimum Of Five Lines • $2 Thereafter Per Line Display Classified Ads: $20/Week Per Column Inch (Contract Discounts Available)

Deadline For Insertions, Cancellations And Payment Is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pre-Payment Is Required. We Accept Visa & MasterCard.

Now Hiring

Immediate openings:

OVERNIGHT PREP MGR. KITCHEN STAFF Apply in Person or Online www.smittymcgees.com 302-436-4716

WATER DAMAGE RESTORATION TECHNICIANS & MANAGERS IICRC certifications a plus

DECK COATING APPLICATORS INTERIOR REMODELING PROFESSIONALS LEAD CARPENTER/FRAMERS Please apply in person 12905 Coastal Hwy, Ocean City MD or online at https://oceantowerconstruction.com/careers/ call 443-366-5556 during regular business hours

Are you a motivated hard-worker interested in kayaking, paddleboarding, and sailing?

Coastal Kayak in Fenwick Island is hiring for the 2019 season! Guides, instructors, beach staff, office staff if you are willing to learn... we can train you!

Email Info@CoastalKayak.com for app.

The Moore Companies Now Hiring

The Moore Companies of Berlin, MD are in need of FT & PT Landscape Laborers & persons with Irrigation knowledge. Our serving areas include Selbyville & Millsboro, De and Ocean City, WOC, OP & Berlin, MD. Valid driv.’s lic. required.

Call 410-641-2177 or email office@themoorecompanies.com to schedule an interview

bEACH PLAzA HOTEL 13TH ST AND THE bOARDWALk OCEAN CITY, MD.

Seeking an individual able to work any shift. Duties would include greeting guests, making reservations, answering phones, check in and out, and able to handle currency.

Please apply in person Btwn 10am and 12pm-1pm and 3pm Monday thru Friday or call for an appointment-410-289-9121x1556

G!

NOW

IN HIR

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bARbACkS

Please apply in person.

Greene Turtle West, Rt. 611, West OC 410-213-1500

CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: 410-641-4563 • Fax: 410-641-0966 Email: classifieds@mdcoastdispatch.com Mail: P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811

Sunset Island - Ocean City, MD Now Hiring CLUBHOUSE ATTENDANT Part Time

Must be able to work weekends, evenings and early morning shifts if needed.

Excellent people skills a must!

Start dates April 15th and May 30th.

Please call 410-520-0044, fax 410-520-0398 or email resume: linda.horensavitz@casinc.biz

Tow Truck Drivers Busy Service Center now hiring for Experienced TOW TRUCK DRIVERS for the Fenwick/Ocean Pines/ Ocean City area.

New truck & New Pay Plan!!!

Call: 443-497-0465 Automotive / Marine Now hiring for PARTS ADVISORS SERVICE ADVISORS SALES ASSOCIATES We have Full and Part Time positions available.

Call: 302-539-8686 ext.3014

DENTAL ASSISTANT (FULL TIME)

April 12, 2019

PART-TIME DEPOSIT ACCOUNT RESOLUTION/ RESEARCH SPECIALIST

Farmers Bank of Willards has a part-time Deposit Account Resolution/Research Specialist position available. Looking for professional and detail oriented individuals with extraordinary communication and organizational skills. Banking experience preferred.

Please send resume to Terry Sparrow at P.O. Box 10, Willards, MD 21874 or email: terry.sparrow@fbwbank.com “Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer”

Application cut off is 4-22-2019

SALES SECRETARY Busy hotel is seeking a year round full time Sales Secretary. Must have hotel sales experience. Applicant must be detail oriented and computer literate, proficient in Excel, Word & Publisher. Sales CRM experience a plus. Exceptional people skills, professional phone & email etiquette a must. Excellent benefits, working conditions and salary (commensurate with experience). Qualified applicants only, forward resume with salary requirements to: SALES SECRETARY P.O. BOX 467 BERLIN, MD 21811 EOE M/F/D/V CONSTRUCTION WAREHOUSE MANAGER Responsibilities include, but not limited to… organizing, purchasing, receiving, facilitating deliveries, scheduling vehicle & equipment maintenance.

Please apply in person at :11935 Hammer Road, Bishopville, MD Email your resume to: AllStates@AllStatesConst.com Apply online:http://allstatesconst.com/delmarva-renovations-careers

Experienced Dental Assistant for busy dental office in Dagsboro, DE. Self-motivated, responsible, and good communicator. Hours M-T 8-5 Friday 8-1. Benefits available.

SuMMER JOBS AT THE BEACH-OCEAN CITY, MD.

DENTAL OFFICE

MAkE uS YOuR SuMMER EMPLOYMENT DESTINATION!

Call 302-732-3852 or email resume to brafmanfamilydentistry@mchsi.com

Patient oriented dental practice seeking front office staff person. Must be a courteous, people person, self-motivated team player, familiar with dental terminology and software. Dentrix, Microsoft word, and Power Point experience a plus.

Send resume to: Dentist P.O box 348 Selbyville, DE 19975 Email: jkdmd2@mchsi.com

NOW HIRINg!!! ALL POSITIONS! FT & PT AVAILABLE! Flexible Shifts, Convenient Locations Fun Atmoshphere • INSPECTORS • LINEN TEAM • FRONT DESK

• DRIVERS • HOUSEKEEPERS • MAINTENANCE TECHS

JOIN OuR AWESOME TEAM TODAY!!!!

To Apply, go to Metacoastal.com and click CAREERS STORE MANAGER

DRIVER/LAbORER NEEDED

SMI Services of Delaware, a growing Erosion and Sediment Control Company located in Selbyville are looking for reliable laborers. This position REQUIRES a driver’s license and clean driving record. Daily reporting to shop then driving company vehicle to job site. Must be able to pull trailers, loading & unloading equipment and skid steer experience a huge plus. Must be able to lift up to 50lbs.

For a detailed description of this position please visit www.smicompanies.net and click careers.

Please apply in person at 20 E. Railroad Ave, Selbyville DE 19975

The Kite Loft is looking for a seasonal Store Manager. If you want a job that is fun, adventurous and rewarding then look no further!

Management experience a must.

Call 410-289-7855 to schedule an interview.

TECHNICIANS / OIL LUBE-TIRE TECHS Now hiring for busy tire & service center with multiple locations on the Eastern Shore.

Exc. Pay - Benefits including retirement plan.

Call 443-373-1324 or 443-497-0465

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The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch PuT YOuR LOgO IN COLOR FOR JuST $10

$15/Week For Minimum Of Five Lines • $2 Thereafter Per Line Display Classified Ads: $20/Week Per Column Inch (Contract Discounts Available)

Deadline For Insertions, Cancellations And Payment Is 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pre-Payment Is Required. We Accept Visa & MasterCard.

Come Join Our WinningTeam!

SALES MANAGER

The Carousel Group is looking for an energetic individual to become part of our sales team. The candidate’s area of responsibility includes conducting outside sales calls, obtaining new business accounts, conducting site tours, networking within the local business community and driving sales. The ideal candidate must be organized, professional, a team player and able to multi task. Excellent communication and presentation skills are imperative. Qualified applicants should possess a willingness to learn hotel sales and rooms software with a solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook. Prior hotel experience is a plus. This position requires a flexible work schedule.

Email resume to jobs@carouselhotel.com or stop by and complete an application at the front desk. We require satisfactory pre-employment drug testing and background check.

Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums 11700 Coastal Highway Ocean City, MD 21842 EOE bOOkkEEPER

Local real estate company is looking for an experienced Bookkeeper to assist in managing our day-to-day accounting and numerous rental accounts. Part-time, flexible hours.

Confidentiality, excellent organizational skills and accuracy are important qualifications. Good customer relations and the ability to communicate clearly is a must. Proficiency in QuickBooks, Word and Excel is required. Real Estate office experience a plus!

Please email resumes to: bookkeeper19930@gmail.com

FRONT DESk RECEPTIONIST (FULL TIME)

A caring. dependable person with excellent communication skills in person and on the phone. Dental experience in insurance and dental procedure knowledge is required.

Fax resume to 302-732-3855 or email to brafmanfamilydentistry@mchsi.com Immediate opening with benefits.

NOW HIRING!

ALL POSITIONS APPLY IN PERSON The Spinnaker 18th St & Baltimore Ave 11am-2pm

THUNDERBIRD BEACH MOTEL NOW HIRING!

ALL POSITIONS APPLY IN PERSON Mon-Fri 10am-2pm 32nd St & Baltimore Ave

CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: 410-641-4563 • Fax: 410-641-0966 Email: classifieds@mdcoastdispatch.com Mail: P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811

FT MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

Needed for busy property maintenance company in Ocean City. Must have carpentry, plumbing, electrical and general maintenance skills. Customer service focus is a must! Pay is commensurate with experience and a pre-employment background check/drug screen is required.

Email or fax resumes to csites@legumnorman.com Fax: 410.524.6234 Phone: 410-524-5577

NOW HIRING!

MARYLAND LICENSED STYLIST 410•250•6110

NOW HIRING!

SERVERS bARTENDERS

Apply in person 525 S. Main St. berlin, Md

DELIVERY DRIVER

Weekly newspaper seeks reliable, experienced DELIVERY PERSON with covered van.

Early morning work once a week.

Solid Pay

Email letter of interest to editor@mdcoastdispatch.com

RESTAURANT MANAGER YR/PM Entry Level Position banquet exp. a plus

Inquire Within 32 Palm at Hilton Suites 3200 baltimore Ave. Ocean City, MD

Selbyville Goose Creek Fenwick Goose Creek Hiring for all positions.

For Both Locations Apply Online www.mygcjob.com

CARPENTERS & CARPENTERS HELPERS

Must have : Tools, Trans Driver’s License Exp. Required!

PATTERSON & SONS bUILDERS Call 410-641-9530

B.E.S.T. Motels Now Hiring

Housekeepers

for 2019 Season

SEASONAL bAYSIDE RENTAL: Sleeps 4-6, 2BR, 2BA, AC, W/D, WiFi, fully furn. $14,000 + sec. dep & util’s. Call Mike 410-603-6120.

Avail. May-Sept 12th.

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ROOMMATES

SEASONAL ROOMMATES:Looking for College age female roommates for seasonal rental. Call Tricia 443-610-4644.

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Executive Motel 3001 N Baltimore Ave Ocean City, MD

Assawoman Ale Shoppe Hiring for all positions.

Apply within store.

52nd Street, Bayside, OC.

RENTALS YR, SWANN kEYS: Unfurn. mobile home, 2BR, 2BA. On water.

LR, Kitchen, Sun Rm., Roof sun deck, boat slip. Community pool. $1175. + util’s. No Pets. Text Only 301-275-2471.

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Ceja’s Landscaping

& More!

•YARD MAINTENANCE •PAINTING •POWER WASHING 410-251-3425 410-202-2545

AUTO

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE: 3BR, 2BA. New cond.

Home will qualify for FHA, VA, USDA financing. $249,000. Call Howard Martin Realty. 410-3525555.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– HOME FOR SALE: Ocean Pines.

4 Lrg. BR, 2BA. Great floor plan.

Lrg. kitchen, FP, Deck. Golf Course Lot. $349.000. Call 410726-0698 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––MObILE HOME: 2BR,, 2BA. Newly remodeled. Near county boat ramp. 8 miles to beach. $63,000. Monthly lot rent $425.includes water, sewer, trash, taxes.

Howard Martin Realty. 410-3525555.

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TRAVEL TRAILER: 2017 JAYCO HUMMINGbIRD 16FD. Slept in 10 nights only! Otherwise new.

Nothing used! Sacrifice $11,000.

N. OC. Tom 410-390-1900(sell).

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BOATS

bOAT SLIP FOR RENT: Mem. Day - Labor Day. West OC. Access to open ocean, less than 1 mi. $3,000 for season. 443-366-4411.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– SEEkING bOAT SLIP: Seeking Seasonal Boat Slip in OC for a 22’ Pontoon Boat. Call Dan 717-7994456.

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HOPING TO BUY FOR SALE Looking to Buy

E.D.U.’s West Ocean City Call David 443-880-0089

Apply In Person, ONLY

12 noon-3pm Tuesday-Friday ONLY

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COMMERCIAL

OFFICE bUILDING FOR RENT: 720 Sq. Ft. Across from Ocean Downs. $1,600 per mo. Call 410251-3412.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– WEST O.C. OFFICE/RETAIL SPACES AVAILAbLE: 3 Offices/Retail and 2 Warehouses.

Plenty of Parking. 443-497-4200.

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SERVICES

HANDYMAN SPECIALIST: General maintenance of all types, All powerwashing. Build/Stain/PWash Decks. Drywall repair. Painting.

Property Management. Call for any other odd jobs! Joe 443-610-4644.

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REFRIGERATOR: 8 yr old White GE Refrigerator. Good cond. working well. $75. 410-208-9632.

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– SADDLE FOR SALE: Circuit Elite, English. Brown. Used but in great condition. Call for details.

410-713-9139.

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Legal Notices LEgAL RATES

Legal advertising rate is $7 per column inch. Deadline for all legal advertising is Tuesday at noon. For more information, call 410-641-4563 or fax 410-641-0966.

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MAYOR AND COUNCIL TOWN OF SNOW HILL P.O. bOX 348 SNOW HILL, MD 21863

NOTICE OF TAX SALE TAX SALES OF PROPERTY IN THE TOWN OF SNOW HILL, WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND

Pursuant to SECTION 14808, et seq. of the TAX PROPERTY ARTICLE OF THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND, the undersigned Town Manager and Collector of Taxes for the Town of Snow Hill, Maryland will sell at public auction at Old Fire House located at 208 Green Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, on April 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM (EDST)

the following described properties for non-payment of Snow Hill water/and waste-water utility assessments/bills:

Item No. 1: ACCOUNT NO. 02-017539: All that tract of land, together with improvements, if any thereon, situate in the Second Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland, which is more particularly designated and described as MARkET STREET, 42.5’X70’, (Tax Map 0201 Parcel 0186); said property assessed to YVONNE D. ASkEW AND DENISE R. bAINE for the sum of $6,200.00; water/wastewater utility charges, interest and penalties due and owing thereon (Account #00491-01077) in the sum of $2,200.54 as of February 11, 2019 plus interest, attorneys' fees, advertising, auctioneer's fees and any outstanding charges.

Item No. 2: ACCOUNT NO. 02-022141: All that tract of land, together with improvements, if any thereon, situate in the Second Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland, which is more particularly designated and described as 208 E. MARTIN STREET, 5706.36 Sq FT, (Tax Map 0200 Parcel 0735)said property assessed to JOHN P. JOHNSON, JR. for the sum of $32,600.00; water/wastewater utility charges, taxes,

interest, interest and/or penalties due and owing thereon (Account #0026700265), in the sum of $1067.13 as of February 11, 2018 plus interest, attorneys' fees, advertising, auctioneer's fees and any outstanding charges.

Item No. 3: ACCOUNT NO. 02-017105: All that tract of land, together with improvements, if any thereon, situate in the Second Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland, which is more particularly designated and described as 507 DIGHTON AVENUE, Lot 3 (Tax Map 0201 Parcel 0171) said property assessed to ROOSEVELT H. TURNER for the sum of $70,900.00; water/waste-water utility charges, taxes, interest, interest and/or penalties due and owing thereon (Account #00215-00213), in the sum of $1065.22 as of February 11,2018 plus interest, attorneys' fees, advertising, auctioneer's fees and any outstanding charges.

Item No. 4: ACCOUNT NO. 02-018225: All that tract of land, together with improvements, if any thereon, situate in the Second Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland, which is more particularly designated and described as 108 CHURCH STREET, 45’X310’, (Tax Map 0200 Parcel 0412) said property assessed to RAYMOND L. JACkSON for the sum of $135,667.00; water/waste-water utility charges, taxes, interest, interest and/or penalties due and owing thereon (Account #01921-00047), in the sum of $2,927.66 as of February 11, 2019 plus interest, attorneys' fees, advertising, auctioneer's fees and any outstanding charges.

CONDUCT OF SALE: All sales shall be to the highest bidder.

TERMS OF SALE: The purchaser shall pay in cash or personal check on the day of sale the full amount of Snow Hill charges due on the property sold, together with interest and penalties on the charges and all expenses incurred in making the sale, including attorney's fees, advertising, auctioneer's fees and any other outstanding water and sewer charges.

All checks shall be pre-approved by the Town Manager prior to the sale. The residue of the purchase price remains on credit pursuant to Section 14-818 of the Tax Property Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland. The purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale pursuant to Section 14820 of the Tax Property and shall have all rights described in the Tax Sales Section of the Tax Property Article.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 01, 2019

kelly Pruitt, Town Manager Mayor and Council of Snow Hill Telephone: (410) 632 2080 4x 4-05, 4-12, 4-19, 4-26

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b. RANDALL COATES, ESq. COATES, COATES & COATES PO bOX 293 SNOW HILL, MD 21863

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17579

To all persons interested in the estate of GEORGE HENRY MASON, ESTATE NO. 17579. Notice is given that bARRY L. MASON, 91 FLETCHER AVENUE, FLOOR 2, MT. VERNON, NY 10552, was on MARCH 26, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of GEORGE HENRY MASON, who died on SEPTEMbER 2, 2018, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 27TH day of MARCH, 2019.

Any person having a claim

against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates:

(1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication MARCH 29, 2019 bARRY L. MASON Personal Representative

True Test Copy TERRI WESTCOTT Register of Wills for Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 3X 3-29, 4-05, 4-12

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CHRISTOPHER G. MANCINI, ESq. 115 72ND STREET OCEAN CITY, MD 21842

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17775

To all persons interested in the estate of ELINOR VIRGINIA HUTTON, ESTATE NO. 17775. Notice is given that JOAN HUTTON ALEXANDER, 8 MORNING MIST DRIVE, bERLIN, MD 21811, was on MARCH 19, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of ELINOR VIRGINIA HUTTON, who died on FEbRUARY 24, 2019, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 19TH day of SEPTEMbER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy

April 12, 2019

to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates:

to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates:

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

(1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication MARCH 29, 2019 JOAN HUTTON ALEXANDER Personal Representative

True Test Copy TERRI WESTCOTT Register of Wills for Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 3X 3-29, 4-05, 4-12

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PATRICk J. FITzGERALD, ESq. CHARLES T. CAPUTE, LLC 1006 S. WASHINGTON STREET EASTON, MD 21601 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17780

To all persons interested in the estate of HARRIET R. FISHER, AkA: HARRIET RUDIGIER FISHER, ESTATE NO. 17780. Notice is given that RAI INDER k. kHALSA, PO bOX 1288, SANTA CRUz, NM 87567, was on MARCH 21, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of HARRIET R. FISHER, who died on JANUARY 24, 2019, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 21ST day of SEPTEMbER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy

(1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication MARCH 29, 2019 RAI INDER L. kHALSA Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17782

To all persons interested in the estate of SALLY FILLING, ESTATE NO. 17782.

Notice is given that SCOTT THOMAS FILLING, 4568 bELVOIR ROAD, THE PLAINS, VA 20198, was on MARCH 25, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of SALLY FILLING, who died on MARCH 18, 2019, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 25TH day of SEPTEMbER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

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(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 05, 2019 SCOTT THOMAS FILLING Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17790

To all persons interested in the estate of SCOTT EDWARD SALLEY, ESTATE NO. 17790. Notice is given that SCOTT G. SALLEY, 37386 HARMONY DRIVE, SELbYVILLE, DE 19975, was on MARCH 26, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of SCOTT EDWARD SALLEY, who died on FEbRUARY 14, 2019, without a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 26TH day of SEPTEMbER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims

within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 05, 2019

SCOTT G. SALLEY Personal Representative

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MARCO V. RODRIGUEz, ESq. 100 WEST ROAD, SUITE 300 TOWSON, MD 21204

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 17698

Notice is given that the CIRCUIT COURT of SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA, appointed DANTE SALUDARES LLLACUNA, 13508 kALMbACkS MILL DRIVE, FREDERICkSbURG, VA 22407, as the PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE of the Estate of AIDA b. LLACUNA, AkA: AIDA bAENS LLACUNA, AIDA S. bAENS, AIDA bAENS, who died on APRIL 23, 2016, domiciled in VIRGINIA, USA. The Maryland resident agent for service of process is MARCO V. RODRIGUEz, whose address is 100 WEST ROAD, SUITE 300, TOWSON, MD 21204. At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following MARYLAND counties: WORCESTER, CHARLES AND PRINCE GEORGE’S. All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice.

Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

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Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 05, 2019 DANTE SALUDARES LLACUNA Personal Representative True Test Copy

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FRANCIS X. bORGERDING, JR., ESq. 409 WASHINGTON AVENUE SUITE 600 TOWSON, MD 21204 bEFORE THE REGISTER OF WILLS FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND IN THE ESTATE OF: CONNIE SAVAGE AkA: CONNIE LEE SAVAGE, ESTATE NO. 17785

NOTICE OF JUDICIAL PRObATE

To all persons interested in the above estate: You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed by FRANCIS X. bORGERDING, JR., ESq. 409 WASHINGTON AVENUE, SUITE 600 TOWSON, MD 21204,for judicial probate and for the appointment of a personal representative. A hearing will be held at WORCESTER COUNTY COURTHOUSE COURTROOM 4, ONE W. MARkET ST. SNOW HILL, MD. 21863 on 6/25/2019 at 10:00 A.M.

This hearing may be transferred or postponed to a subsequent time. Further information may be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills.

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DENNIS A. HODGE, ESq. 8298 MAIN STREET ELLICOTT CITY, MD 21043 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17764

To all persons interested in the estate of DARLENE H. bACIGALUPA, ESTATE NO. 17764. Notice is given that ANN V. NORRIS, 2922

GEORGIA AVENUE, bALTIMORE, MD 21227, was on MARCH 22, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of DARLENE H. bACIGALUPA who died on FEbRUARY 7, 2019, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 22ND day of SEPTEMbER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates:

(1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 05, 2019 ANN V. NORRIS Personal Representative

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MICHAEL b. MATHERS WEbb, CORNbROOkS, WILbER, VORHIS, DOUSE, LESLIE & MATHERS PO bOX 910 SALISbURY, MD 21801 410-742-3176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF A SETTLOR OF A REVOCAbLE TRUST

To all the persons interested in the trust of bARRY P. SkLAR: This is to give notice that bARRY P. SkLAR died on February 27th, 2019. before the decedent's death, the decedent created a revocable trust for which the undersigned JANICE SkLAR,

whose address is 180 Windjammer Road, Ocean Pines, MD 21811, is now a trustee.

To have a claim satisfied from the property of this trust, a person who has a claim against the decedent must present the claim on or before the date that is 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice to the undersigned trustee at the address stated above. The claim must include the following information: A verified written statement of the claim indicating its basis; The name and address of the claimant; If the claim is not yet due, the date on which it will become due; If the claim is contingent, the nature of the contingency; If the claim is secured, a description of the security; and The specific amount claimed. Any claim not presented to the trustee on or before that date or any extension provided by law is unenforceable.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019 JANICE M. SkLAR TRUSTEE 3x 4-12, 4-19, 4-26

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MD C-23-CV-19-000075

ERUDITION, LLC C/O kMA LAW OFFICE 540 RITCHIE HIGHWAY, STE 201 SEVERNA PARk, MARYLAND 21146 PLAINTIFF V JACqUELINE L. THOMASSUGGS, PERSONAL REPRESNTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN bRITTINHAM POWELL SERVE AT: 215 bRANCH STREET bERLIN, MARYLAND 21811 SERVE AT: 2 bRIARS kNOLL WAY HANOVER, MD 21076 AND (All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the property situate and lying in WORCESTER COUNTY and known as:) 215 bRANCH STREET bERLIN, MARYLAND 21811 AND WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND SERVE: MAUREEN L. HOWARTH COUNTY ATTORNEY, ONE WEST MARkET STREET, ROOM 1103, SNOW HILL, MD 21863 AND UNkNOWN OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY: 215 bRANCH STREET bERLIN, MARYLAND 21811

The unknown owner’s heirs, devisees, and Personal Representatives and their or any of their heirs, devisees,

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executors, administrators, grantees, assigns, or successors in right, title and interest DEFENDANTS

ORDER OF PUbLICATION

The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure of all rights of redemption in the f o l l o w ing property described below in the State of Maryland, sold by the Collector of Taxes for WORCESTER COUNTY and the State of Maryland to the Plaintiff in this proceeding: All that property in WORCESTER COUNTY described as: List number: 55, Parcel Number:03034356, Property Description 65.6'x86.66' N SIDE bRANCH ST bERLIN, assessed to POWELL HELEN bRITTINGHAM. The Complaint states, among other things, that the amounts necessary for redemption have not been paid although more than six (6) months and a day from the date of sale has expired.

It is thereupon this 3rd of APRIL, 2019 by the Circuit Court for WORCESTER COUNTY. ORDERED, That notice be given by the insertion of a copy of this Order in some newspaper having a general circulation in WORCESTER COUNTY once a week fm three (3) successive weeks on or before the day of 29th day of April, 2019, warning all persons interested in the property to appear in this Court by the 4th day of JUNE, 2019 and redeem the property described above and answer the Complaint or thereafter a Final Judgment will be entered foreclosing all rights of redemption in the prope1ty, and vesting in the Plaintiff a title, free and clear of all encumbrances.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019 bEAU H. OGLESbY JUDGE 3x 4-12, 4-19, 4-26

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WILLIAMS, MOORE, SHOCkLEY & HARRISON, LLP REGAN J. R. SMITH, ESq. 3509 COASTAL HIGHWAY OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 17801

Notice is given that the SURROGATE’S COURT of CAMDEN COUNTY, NJ, appointed VALERIE A. CAIN, 423 PEYTON AVE., HADDONFIELD, NJ 08033, as the EXECUTOR of the Estate of DONALD J. CAIN, who died on JULY 22, 2018, domiciled in NEW JERSEY, USA. The Maryland resident agent for service of process is

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REGAN J. R. SMITH, ESq., whose address is 3509 COASTAL HIGHWAY, OCEAN CITY, MD 21842. At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following MARYLAND counties: WORCESTER COUNTY. All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice.

Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019 VALERIE A. CAIN Personal Representative True Test Copy

TERRI WESTCOTT Register of Wills for Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 3x 4-12, 4-19, 4-26

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17101

To all persons interested in the estate of DAVID T. CHERRY, ESTATE NO. 17101. Notice is given that DAVID NEAL CHERRY, SR., 39 RAbbIT RUN LANE, bERLIN, MD 21811, was on APRIL 02, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of DAVID T.

CHERRY who died on SEPTEMbER 12, 2017, without a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 2ND day of OCTObER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019

DAVID NEAL CHERRY, SR. Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17799

To all persons interested in the estate of CHARLES bERNARD bENNETT, ESTATE NO. 17799. Notice is given that bARbARA ACkERMAN, 401 WEST STREET, bERLIN, MD 21811, was on APRIL 02, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of CHARLES bERNARD bENNETT who died on DECEMbER 21, 2018, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 2ND day of OCTObER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates:

(1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019 bARbARA ACkERMAN Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17797

To all persons interested in the estate of WILLIAM P. ROGERS, SR., ESTATE NO. 17797. Notice is given that PATRICIA R. JACkSON, 8544 LANGMAID ROAD, NEWARk, MD 21841, was on APRIL 01, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of WILLIAM P. ROGERS, SR. who died on MARCH 13, 2019, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 1ST day of OCTObER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates:

(1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019 PATRICIA R. JACkSON Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17767

To all persons interested in the estate of RECIE LEE MARSHALL, ESTATE NO. 17767. Notice is given that bRUCE E. MARSHALL, 4755 bIG MILL ROAD, STOCkTON, MD 21864 AND CYNTHIA MARIA WATSON, 80 THORN LANE, NEW CASTLE DE 19720, were on APRIL 03, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of RESIE LEE MARSHALL who died on OCTObER 02, 2018, without a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 3rd day of OCTObER, 2019.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before tha date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019

bRUCE E. MARSHALL CYNTHIS MARIA WATSON Personal Representative

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WILLIAM T. SMITH, III, ESq. 100 EAST MAIN STREET

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SUITE 102 SALSIbURY, MD 21801

SMALL ESTATE NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNkNOWN HEIRS ESTATE NO. 17805

To all persons interested in the estate of JOHN JACkSON CATHA. Notice is given that LYNETTE LUCIA CATHA, 12901 OLD bRIDGE ROAD, #4, OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 was on APRIL 10, 2019 appointed Personal Representative of the SMALL ESTATE of: JOHN JACkSON CATHA, who died on JANUARY 01, 2019 without a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within 30 days after the date of publication of this Notice. All persons having any objection to the appointment shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within 30 days after the date of publication of this Notice.

All persons having claims against the decedent must serve their claims on the undersigned personal representative or file them with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent's death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent's death; or

(2) Thirty days after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claims will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within thirty days from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Any claim not served or filed within that time, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter.

Name of Newspaper: Maryland Coast Dispatch Date of Publication APRIL 12, 2019 LYNETTE LUCIA CATHA Personal Representative True Test Copy

TERRI WESTCOTT Register of Wills for Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 1x 4-12

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Madison Avenue Boutique held a ribbon cutting prior to this month’s opening with owner JeSecka Tucker and her mom Bernita Sims-Tucker welcoming in well-wishers.

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People

By Jeanette Deskiewicz

FEATuRinG ThoSE hELPinG CAuSES in ThE RESoRT AREA

Stephen Decatur students Caroline Gardener, Reid Caimi and Lydia Woodley replenished bread and cleared tables at the Empty Bowl Project Soup Dinner.

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Providing refreshments for the Madison Avenue Boutique ribbon cutting were heather haney and Jeremiah isaac Burns of hot Food Concepts.

The father and son team of Bill and Kevin Gibbs flipped pancakes and sausages for the Downtown Association Pancake Breakfast held at the Dough Roller.

Twin brothers Gavin and Gabriel McGlinchey had fun with their toys at the spring oyster fritter luncheon by Powellville united Methodist Church.

Powellville united Methodist Church members Jeff Davis and Janice Wilkins took the orders for the spring soup and oyster luncheon.

Taking care of soups to go at the Empty Bowl Project Soup Dinner were John and Judy Fisher in the oC Center for the Arts.

Diakonia Board of Directors President Allyson Bernard-Church and Food Pantry Coordinator Michelle D’Ascoli were on hand for the Empty Bowl Project Soup Dinner benefitting the homeless shelter.

Dough Roller servers natalie Beck and hayley Jones kept busy during the Downtown Association Pancake Breakfast.

During the Empty Bowl Project Soup Dinner to benefit Diakonia and the Art League of ocean City, Steve Winkler and Rick Bohs sold beverages to accompany the meal.

Page 76 FRUITLAND-SALISBURY RESTAURANT 213 213 N. Fruitland Blvd., Fruitland 410-677-4880 • www.restaurant213.com Recently named one of the 100 Best Restaurants for Foodies in America for 2015 by OpenTable (1 of the only 2 restaurants named in the State of Maryland), the food at Restaurant 213 is far from your conventional Chesapeake Bay fare. A former apprentice of Roger Vergé in southern France, chef Jim Hughes prepares unpretentious, globally influenced cuisine inspired by the area’s plentiful ingredients. Chef Hughes has catered many events for Ronald Reagan, while he was President of the United States. He also served as Chef for the King of Saudi Arabia at the Saudi Arabian Royal National Guard military academy. Chef Hughes has been honored by the James Beard Foundation and DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America). For 2015 Restaurant 213 was voted Best Chef, Best Special Occasion Dining, and Best Fine Dining Restaurant by Coastal Style Magazine, and Best Special Occasion Restaurant by Metropolitan Magazine. Frommer's Travel Guide has Awarded Restaurant 213 its highest Rating of 3 Stars, making it one of only 3 restaurants on the Eastern Shore. Additionally, "Special Finds" awarded this distinction from 2010-2015 in their Maryland & Delaware Travel Guide Edition. Open TuesdaySunday at 5 p.m. Special 5-course prix-fixe dinners offered on Sundays and Thursdays.

WEST OCEAN CITY-BERLIN OCEAN PINES ASSATEAGUE DINER Rte. 611 & Sunset Avenue, West Ocean City • 443-664-8158 www.assateaguedinerandbar.com Inspired by a classic diner culture, this new hotspot offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu here features classic comfort foods prepared and executed with a modern coastal trust. Be sure to check out the exceptional coffee program and the Westside Bar within features delicious craft cocktails throughout the day.

BLACKSMITH RESTAURANT AND BAR 104 Pitts Street, Berlin • 410-973-2102 Located in the heart of America’s Coolest Small Town, Berlin, Md., Blacksmith has established itself as one the area’s most loved dining and drinking destinations for foodies and wine, spirt and craft beer enthusiasts. Chef owned and locally sourced, Blacksmith keeps the main focus on Eastern Shore tradition. Everything here is homemade and handmade. Cakes and baked goods are delivered daily from down the street. Cozy and modern, traditional and on trend; Blacksmith has risen to the ranks of the area’s finest casual eating and drinking establishments. Visit and see why folks from Baltimore, D.C., Chincoteague and locals alike think Blacksmith is worth the trip. Open daily at 11:30 a.m. for lunch, dinner and bar snacks. Closed Sunday.

BREAKFAST CAFE OF OCEAN CITY 12736 Ocean Gateway, West Ocean City 410-213-1804 Open 7 days a week between Sunsations & Starbucks, across from Outback, come join us at the “Breakfast Cafe” (formerly Rambler Coffee Shop) we are a family-friendly restaurant that’s been family owned for 30 years passed from mother to son in 2001. We believe that fair pricing, putting out quality food as fresh as we can make it and a nice atmosphere makes a meal. I like to think we have many “House Specialties” which include our Crab Omelet, real crab meat, cheddar cheese and mushrooms, our Sunfest Omelet, Swiss cheese, ham and mushrooms; Cafe or French Sampler, pancakes or French toast, with eggs, bacon and sausage. Homemade creamed chipped beef on toast and sausage gravy on biscuits with browned potato home fries, with onion, excellent cheesesteak subs and fries and more! We use Rapa Scrapple fried on the grill the way you like it for all our breakfasts, sandwiches and sides. Summer hours, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Come enjoy!

DUMSER’S DAIRYLAND West Ocean City, Boardwalk locations, 501 S. Philadelphia Ave., 49th St. & 123rd St. www.dumsersdairyland.com This classic ice cream shop is a tradition for many families. Voted O.C.'s “Best Ice Cream” for the past 20 years, Dumser's is celebrating 80 years of serving the shore, and the ‘40s-style décor takes you back in time. With locations throughout Ocean City, treating your tastebuds to this signature homemade ice cream is easy. The 49th and 124th streets locations offer vast lunch and dinner menus (breakfast too at 124th) in addition to a wide variety of ice cream treats. You’ll find an impressive array of kid-

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favorites, along with fried chicken and seafood options, wraps, subs, sandwiches, salads and sides like sweet potato fries and mac-and-cheese wedges.

FOX’S PIZZA DEN 11328 Samuel Bowen Blvd., West Ocean City 410-600-1020 • www.foxpizzamd.com Enjoy a brand new, spacious dining room. Happy hour every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with $5 food specials. Full menu includes appetizers, salads, stromboli, hoagies and wedgies, pizza, spaghetti and more. Open every day from 11 a.m. to midnight.

FULL MOON SALOON 12702 Old Bridge Road, West Ocean City 443-664-5317 Locally owned and operated, this moderately priced casual restaurant/bar has freshly caught seafood, BBQ, and pork entrees, giant sandwiches as well as a variety of homemade soups. Locally we are known for our jumbo lump crab cakes, pork and beef BBQ, cream of crab soup, and 100% angus burgers as well as a variety of other sandwiches and entrees that are cooked with a local flair. Open daily at 11 a.m. for lunch and open until midnight. Sundays breakfast offered 8 a.m.-noon.

Fifteen televisions and a big screen available for all sports events.

GREENE TURTLE-WEST Rte. 611, West Ocean City • 410-213-1500 Visit Maryland’s No. 1 Sports Pub and Rest-aurant, the World-Famous Greene Turtle. Proudly serving West Ocean City since January 1999, The Greene Turtle features a beautiful 80-seat dining room, large bar area with 54 TVs with stereo sound and game room with pool tables. With an exciting menu, The Greene Turtle is sure to please with delicious sizzling steaks, jumbo lump crab cakes, raw bar, homemade salads and more. Live entertainment, Keno, Turtle apparel, kids menu, carry-out.

Something for everyone! Voted best sports bar, wings and burgers in West OC. Great happy hour and plenty of parking.

HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL South Harbor Road • 410-213-1846 They take their mantra, “Where You Always Get Your Money’s Worth,” seriously here with daily food and drink specials during happy hour as you watch the boats come in from a day offshore. Delicious daily chef specials are always worth a try or stay with any of the house favorites, such as the calamari and ahi bruschetta for appetizers or any of the homemade tacos and fresh off the dock seafood selections as sandwiches or entrees. It’s the home of the original fresh-squeezed orange crush, of course.

HOOTERS RESTAURANT Rt. 50 & Keyser Point Rd., West Ocean City 410-213-1841 www.hootersofoc.com New mouthwatering smoked wings with half the calories. Traditional wings and boneless wings with 12 sauce selections. Burgers, quesadillas, tacos, and healthy salads. Extensive seafood selections with raw bar and Alaskan crab legs. Children's menu and game room. Apparel and souvenir shop.

Sports packages on a ton of TVs and live entertainment. Wing-fest every Tuesday from 6 to 8 with 50 cent wings. And of course, the world famous Hooters Girls. Large parties welcome. Call for private party planning.

LIGHTHOUSE SOUND St. Martin’s Neck Road • 410-352-5250 Enjoy the best views of Ocean City at the newly renovated, Lighthouse Sound. Come relax and dine overlooking the bay and the beautiful Ocean City skyline. Savor entrees such as local rockfish, tempura-battered soft shell crabs, char-grilled filet mignon and jumbo lump crabcakes. Open to the public, we serve Sunday brunch, lunch and dinner.

One mile west of Ocean City, Md., just off Route 90 on St. Martin’s Neck Road. Reservations recommended.

MAD FISH BAR & GRILL 12817 Harbor Road, West Ocean City West Ocean City has welcomed a new concept

created by the team of The Embers and Blu Crabhouse. Located conveniently on the harbor with tremendous views of the Inlet and sunsets, the menu offers something for everyone. Fresh fish and classic seafood dishes will tempt most, but the Filet Mignon from the land side never disappoints.

Lighter options, like Certified Angus Beef burgers and fish and shrimp tacos, are also offered along with a diverse kids menu. Check out the outdoor decks for drink specials and live music.

RUTH’S CHRIS Within the GlenRiddle Community 410-213-9444 • www.ruthschris.com Ruth’s Chris specializes in the finest custom-aged Midwestern beef. We broil it exactly the way you like it at 1,800 degrees to lock in the corn-fed flavor.

Then we serve your steak sizzling on a heated plate so that it stays hot throughout your meal.

Many of our recipes were developed by Ruth, favorites such as shrimp Remoulade, Crabtini and Ruth’s chop salad. Located five miles west of Ocean City in the GlenRiddle Golf clubhouse. Extensive wine list. Reservations recommended.

THE SHARK ON THE HARBOR 12924 Sunset Ave., West Ocean City 410-213-0924 • ocshark.com We make real food from scratch. We believe that great food and healthful ingredients are not mutually exclusive of each other. Featuring local organic produce and seafood. All natural products – clear of preservatives and antibiotics. Whole grains and whole foods are used in the preparation of our menu – which our chefs write twice daily, based on what's fresh, available and delicious. Fresh. Local.

Organic. Taste the difference. Open Daily Year Round, Monday through Saturday for Lunch & Dinner and Sundays for Brunch, Lunch & Dinner.

Reservations suggested.

INLET TO 94TH STREET 28TH STREET PIT & PUB 28th Street & Coastal Highway 410-289-2020 • www.pitandpub.com Ocean City’s home of Pulled Pork and the finest barbecue, the legendary 28th Street Pit & Pub is known for serving up delicious smokehouse specialties. Grab a brew and enjoy the live sports action on one of the big screen TVs. Happy Hour daily, 3-6 p.m. Family friendly atmosphere. Weekend entertainment.

32 PALM 32nd Street Oceanside In The Hilton 410-289-2525 Executive Chef Rick Goodwin has introduced an exciting new menu. A favorite among many is the Bermuda Triangle, featuring cinnamon seared scallops finished with an ancho mango coulis along with house broiled crabcake with a sweet chili remoulade and finally, applewood smoked bacon wrapped around jumbo shrimp, grilled to perfection with jalapeno barbecue sauce. Other wonderfully delicious dishes cover the land and sea as well and each have a special touch that makes this restaurant unique among its peers. Children’s menu available. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

45TH STREET TAPHOUSE 45th Street and the bay • 443-664-2201 At the newly remodeled 45th Street Taphouse, the best views of bayside Ocean City, MD are the backdrop where craft beer meets Maryland cuisine. This is vacation done right, all year long. Wash down a Crabby Pretzel or homemade crabcakes with one of our 35+ craft beers on tap, all made right here in the USA. Not feeling crabby? Pair your craft brew with our award-winning wings or even our brand new breakfast menu. Anyway it’s served, come get tapped with us.

BONFIRE 71st Street & Coastal Highway 410-524-7171 • www.thebonfirerestaurant.com 150 ft. Seafood & Prime Rib Buffet A famous Ocean City Restaurant for 37 years. It’s all here. The service, the atmosphere and the finest, freshest food available. Fresh seafood, snow crab legs, prime rib, BBQ ribs, raw oysters, raw clams, steamed shrimp, fish, homemade soups &

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salads. Decadent dessert selection – homemade donuts & bread pudding, soft serve ice cream with hot fudge topping and lots more! Large selection of children’s favorites – chicken tenders, hot dogs, burgers, macaroni & cheese and pizza. A la carte menu available featuring fresh cut steaks and seafood. Open Monday-Friday at 4 p.m. SaturdaySunday, at 3 p.m. Plenty of free parking.

BUXY’S SALTY DOG 28th Street • 410-289-0973 • www.buxys.com Destiny has a new home in Ocean City. From the ‘burgh to the beach, Buxy’s is your home away from Pittsburgh. Come see what all the locals already know and have known – Buxy’s is the place to come to meet friends, relax and be social with no attitudes. House specialties include “The” Cheesesteak Sub, Primanti-styled sandwiches, pierogis,egg-rolls and homemade crab dip. Don’t miss our daily specials.

CAPTAIN’S TABLE 15th Street & Baltimore Avenue 410-289-7192 One of Ocean City’s premier restaurants is back with a new and improved atmosphere and a brand new home. However, the mission to provide the same fresh, quality food and attentive service has not changed. Excellent chefs, who inspect each dish for culinary perfection, prepare the meals here.

The finest seafood is guaranteed and nothing but the best in black angus beef is served. Be sure to inquire about the daily specials and check out the new bar and lounge area. They have the kids covered as well with a quality kids menu. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

COINS PUB & RESTAURANT 28th Street Plaza • 410-289-3100 Great mid-town location offering a complete dinner menu, lunch and lite fare. Coins features the freshest seafood, shrimp, scallops, clams, fresh catch and lobster plus the best crab cake in Maryland, hand cut steaks cooked to your liking, succulent veal and chicken dishes. Also authentic pasta selections. Enjoy live entertainment and dancing in the lounge nightly. Happy hour daily 3-6 p.m. Casual dining in a relaxed atmosphere. Special kids menu. Lots of free parking.

DRY 85 OC 12 48th Street • 443-664-8989 • dry85.com Steps from the beach. Gourmet "stick to your ribs" Lowcountry cuisine. A made-from-scratch kitchen with every sauce and every dressing hand crafted.

It's that attention to detail that takes the concept of burgers, fries, ribs and wings and turns them completely on their head. Charcuterie boards. Late night bar. 120+ Whiskies. Craft beer. Artisanal craft cocktails. Seasonal outdoor seating. Named one of the Top 40 Whiskey Bars in America by Whiskey Advocate.

DRY DOCK 28 28th Street and Coastal Highway 410-289-0973 The new kid on the dining scene in Ocean City features eclectic pizzas, delicious sandwiches, soups, salads and hot steamers in a modern, nautical themed atmosphere. A beautiful boat bar is featured inside and features craft cocktails and brews.

Outdoor seating is available. Carry out available and beer and wine to go. Live music is also offered in this kid-friendly establishment.

EMBERS RESTAURANT 24th Street & Coastal Highway 410-289-3322 • www.embers.com The Embers is stepping it up again with their Famous ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT SEAFOOD AND PRIME RIB BUFFET! New buffet selections from our Executive Chef and Sous Chef paired expertly with all the old favorites! MASSIVE CRAB LEGS, LARGE SHRIMP, and over 100 additional items including our Raw Bar, Steamed Clams, various fish selections and a continuous array of delicious surprises from the kitchen daily. The Embers also offers an excellent HAPPY HOUR with some of the lowest drink prices and discounts on selected items from the buffet until 6 p.m. in our bar! Open daily at 4 p.m.

FAGER’S ISLAND RESTAURANT & BAR 201 60th Street On The Bay 410-524-5500 • www.fagers.com Fager’s Island is an award-winning popular bayfront restaurant where lunch is a forgivable habit, dinner an event and sunsets unforgettable.

Lite fare lunch served from 11 a.m.-9 p.m., dinner from 5 p.m., famous raw bar, festive Sunday Jazz Brunch, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and children’s menu. Complete house wine list and award-winning proprietor’s list available upon request. Outdoor decks and bar. Nightly entertainment in-season, FridaySaturday, off-season. Open every day, year-round.

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FROM PAGE 76 GENERAL’S KITCHEN 66th Street & Coastal Highway 410-723-0477 Join us at our new bigger and better location.

Everybody likes breakfast, but for too many it comes too early in the morning. Not so at this sunshine-happy delight. Breakfast is what it’s all about, from 6:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The menu is a breakfast lover’s dream. From juice, cereal and eggs, to corned beef hash, waffles, hot cakes, bacon, sausage, to the best creamed chipped beef on the coast (try it on french fries). This is definitely the place. House specialties: creamed chipped beef, O.C. No. 1 breakfast, own recipes.

HIGGINS CRAB HOUSE 31st Street & Coastal Highway 128th Street & Coastal Highway 410-289-2581 There is no doubt about it. Higgins offers traditional Eastern Shore favorites for the entire family to enjoy. Of course, the house specialties include allyou-can-eat crabs, crab legs, fried chicken, steamed shrimp and baby back ribs. In addition, there is a full menu offering a variety of delicious soups, appetizers and entrees. Open Monday-Friday at 2:30 p.m., Saturday & Sunday at noon.

HOOTERS RESTAURANT 5th Street & The Boardwalk Ocean City 410-289-2690 • www.hootersofoc.com Mouthwatering traditional and boneless wings with 12 sauce selections. Burgers, quesadillas, tacos, and healthy salads. Extensive seafood selections with Alaskan snow crab legs and Maryland steam pots. Kids’ menu. Pet-friendly oceanfront patio. Official Hooters merchandise and of course, the world-famous Hooters Girls.

JOHNNY'S PIZZA & SPORTS PUB 56th Street & Coastal Highway 410-723-5600 • www.johnnyspizzapub.com The Official Pizza of OC, Johnny's Pizza & Sports Pub serves families throughout Ocean City and its surrounding communities 365 days a year. Eat in, carry out or have it delivered right to your doorstep.

Our comfortable dining room features ample seating for small groups or large parties and our speedy delivery service will deliver your hot, delicious pizza right to your home, hotel or condo for your added convenience. From steaming homemade pizzas to lightly tossed salads and fiery hot wings, we have something for everyone. Live entertainment every weekend all winter and live entertainment four nights in the summer.

MARLIN MOON RESTAURANT 33rd Street in the DoubleTree Ocean City Oceanfront • 410-289-1201 www.marlinmoonocmd.com Eat where the locals eat. Marlin Moon is back in town with the talented Executive Chef, Gary Beach, creating his legendary food magic. Marlin Moon combines an eclectic atmosphere of ocean views and a fresh vibe with creative seafood and steak dishes you won’t forget. Winner of the Maryland People’s Choice Award, Marlin Moon delivers the culinary combinations you’re craving and uses only locally sourced seafood, meats and vegetables. Some of the original classics, such as Mom’s Shrimp and Fred-dy’s Seafood Pasta, are back as well as a raw bar, small plate appetizers, fresh salads and entrees sure to satisfy any food mood.

Open daily serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner from 7 a.m.-11 p.m.

M.R. DUCKS WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLE Talbot St. & The Bay • 410-289-9125

www.talbotstreetpier.com A world-famous, open-air gazebo bar on the bay.

Deck seating available for lunch and dinner. Live entertainment Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 4-9 p.m. No cover and plenty of parking. Wings, crab dip, burger, steamed shrimp, crab cakes and much more. Kid-friendly menu. Great sunsets and cool drinks. One block south of the Rte. 50 bridge.

RED RED WINE BAR OC 12 48th Street 443-664-6801 • redredwinebar.com Steps from the beach. Fresh coastal cuisine with a focus on locally sourced seafood and hand tossed pizzas. Artisanal cheeseboards. 35+ Wines By the Glass. Full bar. Craft beer. Late night bar. Luxurious colors and custom built couches. Casual atmosphere. Seasonal outdoor seating. Named Best Wine and Beverage Program in Maryland by the Restaurant Association.

PICKLES PUB 8th Street, Ocean City • 410-289-4891 It’s pub food with a twist and a special emphasis put on quality and large portions. The big juicy burgers and oven baked wedge sandwiches are locals’ favorites as are the pub wings (in a variety of styles) and tacos (choose from thai pulled pork, grilled chicken and blacked ahi avocado). There are numerous unique craft pizza options to choose from as well with the house favorite here being the blackened shrimp and arugula.

SEACRETS On The Bay At 49th Street 410-524-4900 • www.seacrets.com We are Jamaica USA! Serving our world famous jerk chicken, along with a full menu of appetizers, soups, sandwiches, salads, entrees, desserts and a children's menu. Enjoy happy hour drink prices everyday until 7 p.m.and live entertainment in a tropical atmosphere. Please check our website www.seacrets.com for a complete list of live bands and daily food and drink specials or call 410-5244900. Find us and get lost!

94TH STREET NORTH-FENWICK BETHANY BILLY’S SUB SHOP • 410-723-2500 140th Street, Oceanside • 410-250-1778 Rte. 54, Fenwick Shoals • 302-436-5661 Now the best just got better because they deliver fresh-dough pizza, subs and shakes to your door and have three locations to serve you better. Washington Magazine wasn’t lying when it said Billy’s had the best milkshakes and fresh ground beef hamburgers at the beach and they don’t stop there.

Fresh-dough pizza, cones, shakes, sundaes and more. More cheese steaks sold than anyone else in Maryland. Billy’s accepts MC/Visa.

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Reef 118 Oceanfront Restaurant located in the Carousel Hotel offers beautiful oceanfront dining in a casual atmosphere. Enjoy a hearty breakfast buffet or try one of our specialty omelets including lump crab and asparagus. Our menu offers a wide variety of Succulent Seafood along with steaks, pastas & ribs. $5.95 kids’ menu available. Stop by the Bamboo Lounge serving happy hour daily 4-6 p.m. with super drink prices and $4.95 food specials. Visit the Carousel and get served by the friendliest staff in OC! THE CRAB BAG 130th Street, Bayside 410-250-3337 Now serving lunch and dinner, trust us when we say you can’t go wrong with anything you order here. The crabs are fat and never disappoint and are available eat-in or carryout. The BBQ ribs are also worth a try as well as any of the char-grilled specialties. Remember “Super Happy Hour” offered seven days a week, all day. Plenty of bargains available on drinks and food.

THE CRABCAKE FACTORY USA 120th Street/Beachside (Serene Hotel) 410-250-4900 Voted “Best Crabcakes in Maryland, DC and Virginia” by The Washington Post. Full-service family restaurant, carry-out and sports bar. Outside seating available. Menu selections include prime rib, chicken Chesapeake, steamed shrimp, beer battered fish, real Philly cheesesteaks, burgers, and a kids menu. Casual attire, full liquor bar, no reservations. Open Year Round. The Crabcake Factory started out as a breakfast house in 1996 and still serves one of the best and most creative breakfast menus in Ocean City. Try Eastern Shore favorites prepared daily by Chef-Owner John Brooks including a chipped beef, skillets, omelettes and their famous lump crab creations. World-Famous Crabcakes are served all day starting at 8 a.m. and can be packed on ice for you while you are eating breakfast. Try Sue’s Spicy Bloody Marys to start the day with a kick. Full breakfast menu available for carry-out. Online at: www.CrabcakeFactoryUSA.com. See other listing (Crabcake Factory USA). Open year-round.

CRABCAKE FACTORY BAYSIDE Rt. 54, Selbyville, DE • 302-988-5000 Under new ownership but SAME award-winning crab cakes and bloody marys! Enjoy WATERFRONT dining. Full-service family restaurant, carry-out & sports bar. Outside seating available.

Open daily at 9 a.m. YEAR ROUND. Menu selections include crab cakes, prime rib, Philly-style cheese steaks, various seafood, kids menu plus full breakfast menu. visit us online at crabcakefactoryonline.com or on our Facebook page. Casual dress, full liquor bar, no reservations.

GREENE TURTLE-NORTH 116th Street & Coastal Highway 410-723-2120 www.facebook.com/OriginalGreeneTurtle

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This is the Original Greene Turtle, an Ocean City Tradition, since 1976! A fun and friendly Sports Bar & Grille, where every seat is a great spot to watch sports with 50+ High Def. TVs up & downstairs!

Menu favorites include homemade crab cakes, kids’ menu, salads, burgers, wings and more! Join them for weekday lunch specials 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and happy hour 3-7 p.m. Popular features are game room, gift shop, carry-out, party trays, nightly drink specials, MD Lottery-Keno, Powerball and DJs with dance floor. Something for everyone!

Open 11 a.m-2 a.m., year-round.

HARPOON HANNA’S RESTAURANT & BAR Rte. 54 and the bay, Fenwick Island, DE www.harpoonhannasrestaurant.com 302-539-3095 No reservations required. Harpoon Hanna’s features a children’s menu & full bar. We are a casual waterfront restaurant serving lunch & dinner including fesh fish, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and allyou-can-eat Alaskan crab legs. Open year-round.

HORIZONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT Located inside the Clarion Resort 101st Street, Ocean City • 410-524-3535 Horizons Oceanfront Restaurant is proud to have Chef Rob Sosnovich creating beach-inspired dishes in both our oceanfront restaurants, Horizons and Breaker’s Pub. Our new all day menu, available 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m., features many of your favorites and some exciting new creations with a local flare – from Lite Bites to Big Bites and everything in between. Our deluxe Sunday breakfast buffet is open year-round and our “famous” all-you-can-eat prime rib, crab legs and seafood buffet is available most weekends throughout the year and daily in season. The Ocean Club Nightclub features top-40 dance music every weekend and nightly this summer. We’ve added some popular local bands to our lineup, so come join us “where the big kids play!” Lenny’s Beach Bar & Grill: enjoy surf, sun and live entertainment 7 days a week on the deck, from Memorial day through Labor Day during our afternoon beach parties.

Enjoy something to eat or drink from our extensive menu. Try our “Bucket of Fun”, or a fresh “Orange Crush”–two of our favorites!

NANTUCKETS Rte. 1, Fenwick Island • 302-539-2607 Serving the beach great food and spirits for over 20 years. David and Janet Twining will wow you with the finest foods and drinks in the area. You’ll be pleasantly surprised by what one of the coast’s finest dining establishments has in store for guests. Everything here is a house specialty. There’s the memorable steaks, fresh seafood, famous quahog chowder and the chef’s daily specials, just to name a few.

SMITTY MCGEE’S Rte. 54-West Fenwick Ireland 302-436-4716 • www.smittymcgees.com Smitty McGee’s is the place to be for fun. Best wings on the beach for 28 years and counting.

Enjoy great food and drink specials in a casual atmosphere. Happy hour daily. Come enjoy the live entertainment Thursday and Friday. Full menu served unil 1 a.m. Banquet facilities available.

Open seven days a week. We never close!

TWINING’S LOBSTER SHANTY Rte. 54, Fenwick Island 302-436-2305 • www.twiningshanty.com “A funky little place at the edge of town.” Classic New England Fare, Lobsters, Steaks & Burgers, Children’s menu. Bird watching, magical sunsets await. Open for lunch and dinner. Reservations are suggested.

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WITH BUNK MANN

Alvin “Pop” Wendling was once in the Guinness Book of Records for havin more tattoos on his body of the spinach-loving “Popeye the Sailor” and his cartoon friends than anyone else in the world.

Pop ran several joke and novelty shops on the Boardwalk and downtown Ocean City for 25 years. His shops specialized in temporary tattoos, unique masks and T-shirts and rubber dog manure and gooey eyeballs.

The outspoken Wendling was often the nemesis of the Ocean City Mayor and Councils of his time. He retired as one of Ocean City’s most recognizable Boardwalk characters in 2010.

To purchase one of Bunk Mann's books, click over to www.vanishingoc.com.

Photo by Bunk Mann

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