Published September 18, 2009
ANNAPOLIS - Ending a years-long political battle over the potential for slot machine gambling in Worcester County, the Maryland Video Lottery Location Commission this afternoon unanimously voted to award Ocean Downs the first slots license in the state with as many as 600 machines in a temporary configuration at the historic track near Berlin as early as next spring.
The commission voted Wednesday afternoon to approve track owner William Rickman, Jr.'s application for one of five slots licenses...
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Published September 18, 2009
OCEAN CITY - A father reportedly drown last night in the ocean trying to rescue his teenage son caught in a rip current.
According to police reports, at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Ocean City Police, Fire Departments and Beach Patrol responded to 35th Street and the beach, in reference to swimmers in distress. Ocean City Fire Department personnel Amanda Shoemaker and Maria Berdan were first to arrive at the scene.
Witnesses on the beach related that two males were in the ocean and in...
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Published September 18, 2009
SNOW HILL - With funding for land preservation dwindling in the face of economic pressures, Worcester County is looking to two new programs to help continue its land preservation efforts.
At least one source of land preservation funding, the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation (MALPF), which has helped the county in the past, will not be funded this fiscal year. Under the MALPF program, Worcester County has been able to protect 5,300 acres in the past several years.
Staff also...
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Published September 18, 2009
OCEAN CITY •€' The reconfiguration of the Public Works Department has less to do with money than it does with manpower, but town officials will be quick to tell you that the money saved is more than welcome.
The town of Ocean City announced this week that its Public Works Department has not only moved some people around but it will also be merging some entire divisions together and in the process will save almost $200,000.
Public Works Director Hal Adkins said that he saw an opportunity to...
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Published September 18, 2009
BERLIN - Pocomoke Mayor and Worcester County Sheriff's Officer Mike McDermott this week officially announced he would seek one of two House of Delegates District 38B seats in 2010.
McDermott, a Republican and two-term mayor of Pocomoke, this week officially threw his hat in the ring for the House of Delegates seats in District 38B, which encompasses much of the lower shore including all of Worcester and Somerset Counties as well as portion of Wicomico County. Delegates Jim Mathias and Norm...
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