Berlin News

" An Ocean City doctor arrested last September on various charges after a concerned citizen reported his erratic driving pleaded guilty last week in Worcester County Circuit Court to driving on a suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia, adding a new chapter in his long pattern of illegal drug use and other sordid activities.

SNOW HILL -- A Salisbury physician who lost his medical license last year for repeated drug arrests was found guilty of having a crack pipe in a vehicle he wasn't supposed to be driving in the first place.

BERLIN -- While Berlin has blossomed in recent years with the addition of many new businesses, there is at least one aspect of the town that has continued to deteriorate.

OCEAN CITY -- The Coast Guard rescued a woman who leapt from the Harry Kelly Bridge on Route 50 in Ocean City Wednesday night.

BERLIN--While he might not be a new face in town, Main Street program coordinator Michael Day will have a whole new set of responsibilities as he begins as Berlin's first economic development director this week.

" One local man is dead and another faces serious charges including negligent homicide by motor vehicle after a hit-and-run accident on the Route 50 Bridge early last Friday morning.

BERLIN -- In early April, Laura Carpenter was handed an application to be considered for a Habitat for Humanity house by a customer of the Ocean Pines salon where she works.

BERLIN -- While there are art galleries throughout the Eastern Shore, and even plenty where visitors can watch the artists work, there are few that can compare to Berlin's latest.

Though the state's first lady forgot to wear a hair net, Katie O'Malley offered students at Buckingham Elementary tips for leading a nutritional lifestyle while serving them lunch Tuesday.

Angela Reynolds might as well be showing off her own home as she leads a tour of the newly reopened Victorian-era Atlantic Hotel in the historic town of Berlin, Md. She fluffs already fluffed pillows, straightens barely crooked drapes and refolds not-quite-perfectly- folded towels.

Reynolds, who has been in charge of restoring three other historic hotels, knows that the devil is in the details but also that details make the inn. She points out cut-glass perfume bottles that fit just right on an antique washstand's marble shelves. She shows off newly purchased $1,500 iron beds made by the same company that first manufactured them in 1855. She fusses over a room that hasn't come together the way she'd like. She enters the inn's restaurant and recounts the heated discussions about paint colors. She proudly describes how guests all want to take photos of the room where Julia Roberts stood on the ledge in the film 'Runaway Bride.'

As part of its clean, safe and green component, the Berlin Main Street Program recently donated $2,000 to Grow Berlin Green to research commercial recycling methods.

BERLIN - A 25-year-old man is accused of fighting his girlfriend while she held their six-month-old baby, causing the baby to fall onto concrete.

Maryland State Police responded two domestic assaults overnight Worcester County residences, one of which led to the injury of an infant.

WEST OCEAN CITY -- A hit-and-run by a drunken driver killed one person and left another hospitalized after both were riding their bicycles late Thursday on the Route 50 bridge.

BERLIN -- The town of Berlin received some good news last week with the notification that it would be granted $702,000 toward the costly wastewater lagoon repair scheduled for this fall.

SNOW HILL -- A Berlin woman will forfeit some of her retirement benefits to repay her former employer after stealing more than $28,000 over the course of nine months in a fraudulent return scheme.

BERLIN --There was a little birthday party at the Berlin Nursing Home this month, but the guest of honor didn't want cake.

OCEAN PINES -- Donald Henry Shara, 67, died Sunday, June 21, 2009, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center.

BERLIN -- Ocean Pines residents could see more medical care right on their doorstep, as two developers have plans for medical offices on Route 589.

OCEAN CITY -- Anna Mae Forstrom, 87, died Thursday, June 11, 2009, at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin.