Published March 30, 2007
BERLIN - The local medical community and the entire lower
shore lost a giant recently when Dr. Andrew Forgash, a pioneer in the effort to
establish Atlantic General Hospital (AGH), died unexpectedly from a cardiac
condition on March 15 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.
Forgash, 67, died in the hospital where he served as chief
of surgery for many years before devoting his energies to the creation of
Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. He was the first Chief of Surgery...
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Published March 30, 2007
OCEAN CITY - It has been two weeks since Ocean City's
newest retail shop, SexStyle, opened up its doors and began doing business in
the Bayside Shopping Plaza on 137th Street and city officials are still looking
at ways to regulate the current business and any others that may try to come to
the resort.
SexStyle, owned by Ofir Bouzaglo and Moshe Bitton, opened
shop despite the whirlwind of controversy surrounding their adult-oriented
store specializing in DVDs, toys and lingerie for...
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Published March 30, 2007
OCEAN CITY - Just two weeks after Councilman Jim Hall made
a request to set aside some time in an upcoming work session to discuss the
idea of mandating the use of carbon monoxide detectors in all single-family
homes in the resort, the code was added to the books and unanimously approved
at the council's work session this week.
Recently, legislation was introduced at the Maryland
General Assembly that would look to have a similar effect to that of an
ordinance passed a few months ago by...
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Published March 30, 2007
BERLIN - The town of Berlin has racked up nearly $300,000
in expenses on the electric utility sale.
That amount will be higher when the contracts are signed.
Negotiations are still incomplete, and the above figure includes only the
amount of deferred legal fees to Thompson Coburn available through January.
Berlin has paid $34,266 to Thompson Coburn to date.
According to Linda Bambary, town administrative director, the deferred fees
were up to roughly $180,000 two months ago.
Payment...
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Published March 30, 2007
OCEAN CITY - Over two months have passed since the
Planning and Zoning Commission decided to re-advertise a public hearing
concerning comprehensive rezoning and amendments to zoning regulations for
properties zoned R-2 and R-3a.
That meeting finally came to be Tuesday night and after a
brief hearing commissioners discussed the issues regarding height restrictions
in those zones and what they thought would be best, ultimately ending in two
motions that set separate height limits for...
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