Ocean Pines News

OCEAN PINES -- The dedicated executive secretary for Ocean Pines, Phyllis East, received a surprise party -- totally unexpected -- on Saturday, Jan.

" With two more days off this week because of the major snowstorm last weekend, Worcester County Public Schools have now exhausted their allotted inclement weather closure days, likely tacking any unscheduled closures on the back end of the school year.

District 38B Delegates Norm Conway and Jim Mathias plan to do a lot of listening at town meetings scheduled Saturday in Ocean City and Ocean Pines.

OCEAN PINES -- The OPLGA-9 hole league executive committee, along with their comm-ittee chair-persons, met Tuesday, Jan.

City residents started to dig their way out of an estimated eight inches of snow Sunday, after a storm the day before brought unexpected accumulation totals.

SNOW HILL -- No one will be getting a raise this year at the Worcester County government building, not even the commissioners.

OCEAN PINES -- Facing a bleak economic forecast, residents at a budget hearing told Ocean Pines management that they believed the association needed to be more imaginative in finding ways to generate revenue.

There were white roses of appreciation, affectionate hugs, cameras flashing and words of praise for Phyllis East Saturday morning, when she was honored for 30 years of service as executive secretary of the OPA.

" Census numbers do not include the boom in population from summer tourists, which skews the amount of money allocated to the county to provide basic services, the Worcester County Commissioners told a Census 2010 representative this week.

OCEAN CITY - The Noel Community that serves the needy in Worcester County has launched its 8th annual gLOVEs drive, and seeks donations of new items for a Valentine's Day distribution.

BERLIN -- Ervin 'Erv' Coley Marsh Jr., 78, died Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, at the Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

OCEAN PINES -- The Pines may not give the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department all the funding it asked for next year, compensating for money the firefighting department has started to collect from ambulance patients' insurance policies.

Bridges in Ocean Pines may soon be eligible for federal money to fund needed repairs.

BERLIN -- Police officers who arrested a man suspected of stealing a purse in the Food Lion parking lot found evidence that he'd stolen beef from two grocery stores as well.

OCEAN PINES -- Wow! 2009 came and went, and we survived another happy successful year in beautiful Ocean Pines.

OCEAN CITY -- Several municipal Public Works projects are slated to begin during the resort's quietest part of the year.

Topping New Year's resolutions in the Pines is tipping the scales at a little less this year.

OCEAN PINES - A sports card and collectibles show will be held Saturday to benefit the Children's House by the Sea.

OCEAN PINES -- Two Berlin men have been charged with credit card theft after allegedly using an acquaintance's card to purchase sodas, cigarettes and chicken wings from an Ocean Pines convenience store.

The Noel Community extends a thank you to places of worship, individuals, businesses and civic groups for their overwhelming support of our 12th annual Christmas dinner, especially to Father David Dingwall and St.