Pocomoke City News

Amidst waves of layoffs and downsizing in recent years, businesses throughout Wicomico County's enterprise zone have been hiring and investing capital in the regional economy.

Grapevine is a sampling of comments and observations on a variety of timely topics submitted by readers of The Daily Times.

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. - Within the last few weeks officers from the Worcester County Sheriff's Office checked 58 stores throughout the county to ensure the businesses were checking identification and not selling to anyone under 21 years old.

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. - A Pocomoke woman who was missing for a week back in December - has been arrested for theft.

Larry Linton, 41, who currenly lives in Pocomoke City, Md., traveled to Charlotte, N.C. on Saturday, where he was one of an estimated 10,000 hopefuls gathered in what "America's Got Talent" officials said was a record turnout for show auditions at the location.

The group -- lead vocalist Danny Bemrose, vocalist Aimee Driver, bassist Stuart Nichols, keyboardist David "Nova" Nowakowski and drummer Christ Durling -- are set to make a quick stop in Pocomoke City on Feb.

Firefighters doused a blaze accidentally sparked in a county utility structure on Battersea Road.

With the Friday deadline having passed with no opposition in the three open Pocomoke City Council slots, the body is now set for the coming year.

Save The Youth, a longtime group for high-risk youths in the Pocomoke City area, said it wants to move into the Armory Building and take it over now that the police department is getting closer to moving into its new facility.

Getting ready for the Feb. 9 concert by Scars on 45 at the Mar-Va Theater in Pocomoke City are Danie Brago, left and Robin Rothschild, right, of WCTG with the Mar-Va's Katy Fleming in the ticket booth.

They're amazed by our old-town feel, our breath-taking beauty and all there is to do and see.

Pocomoke City police have arrested 17-year-old Roderick Savage and 17-year-old Devin Wessells.

A 55-year-old Berlin woman died in a single-vehicle car accident early Thursday morning.

A 15-year-old from Pocomoke City has been charged with second-degree assault following a Jan.

SNOW HILL, Md. -- When it was his turn to speak, Skylor Dupree Harmon reached for words scrawled on a piece of yellow legal paper, looked them over, then crumpled the page into a ball and sighed.

Police charged a 21-year-old Carroll County man with breaking into a sex shop and stealing an adult toy.

A Pocomoke City man on trial for selling fake cocaine had his charges dropped because prosecutors didn't follow procedural rules about sharing the names of witnesses.

Wow, why is it that some years in Januaryyou put on your snow boots and mittens and dash outside to... I am the president of the Soroptimist International of Pocomoke City.

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. - Baltimore City students got a chance to showcase their thespian talents Saturday.

A Pocomoke City man on trial for selling fake cocaine had his charges dropped because prosecutors didn't follow procedural rules about sharing the names of witnesses.