July 4, 2009
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  OCEAN CITY – Ocean City Public Works Director Hal Adkins judges the job that his department is doing by silence, as in the more the better. If one would compare Ocean City to the wonderful Land of Oz, then Adkins’ job is to make sure that everything is running smoothly behind the curtain and beneath the proverbial yellow brick road, as he and his staff, which makes up 40 percent of the town’s workforce, manages pretty much every service and amenity that residents and visitors take for granted everyday. Adkins says that for the last 25 years, he knows that the minute that something goes wrong, people will call to complain, so he knows that the lack of response means that the job is getting done. “We certainly aren’t in this for ‘attaboys’,” said Adkins. “We are the cogs in the wheel that make this thing go around and most of the time it’s not glitter and glory, but we are here to keep the machine running.” Underneath Adkins’ public works “umbrella” lies everything from general maintenance to the Ocean City Airport wastewater to the bus system, a... [more]
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  BERLIN – Senator Barbara Mikulski this week hosted a face-to-face meeting with the Worcester County Commissioners to discuss a wide variety of issues germane to the local area, from ongoing ......[more]

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