DECEMBER 14, 2023
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BERLIN • NORTH WORCESTER COUNTY• OCEAN PINES
Speed cams approved for Flower Street Seahawk Road also found to have excessive speeding
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HOLIDAY SPIRIT
Showell Elementary was just one of the many impressive floats that headed down Main Street in Berlin on Thursday as part of the annual Christmas Parade. See more photos on page 15.
By Cindy Hoffman Staff Writer (Dec. 14, 2023) The Berlin Police Department will proceed with the installation of speed cameras on Flower Street and Seahawk Road after a speed zone study by RedSpeed USA showed that more than a few motorists go well over the speed limits on those roads. When vehicle speed was tracked on Flower Street, Seahawk Road, Franklin Avenue, West Street, Williams Street, and S. Main Street, the 10000 block of Flower Street saw the worst violations. These included 179 drivers going over 15 miles or more above the speed limit. The 400 block of Flower Street had 84 drivers going 15 miles or more above the speed limit. No local school zone signs are in place in either stretch of Flower Street. Seahawk Road also had a large See BERLIN Page 4
Pines fire department gets new leadership Veteran members Widgeon, Enste get nod to serve as chief, president respectively By Cindy Hoffman Staff Writer (Dec. 14, 2023) Firefighting has been a lifelong commitment for the new chief and president of the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department. Chief Joey Widgeon and President Joe Enste were elected to their new positions last week during the fire department’s annual elections. Chief Widgeon, 32, started with the Showell Fire Department as a cadet when he was 14 years old. He is
now an honorary member of Showell. He moved to Ocean Pines and joined the OPVFD in 2014. President Enste, 35, joined the OPVFD as a cadet in 2003 at age 15 because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks two years earlier. “I remember, as a high school freshman, seeing all of the news coverage and feeling like I wished there was something I could be doing to See NEW Page 4 CINDY HOFFMAN/BAYSIDE GAZETTE
Pines Fire Chief Joey Widgeon and President Joe Enste were elected to their positions during the volunteer fire department’s annual elections last week.
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