Legionnaires’ survivor sues Ocean City’s Plim Plaza 
BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: April 19, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, boardwalk, lawsuit, Legionnaires’ disease, maryland, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Maryland Historical Society, Ocean City, plim plaza hotel, u..s district court
A historic Ocean City boardwalk hotel that was host to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease last summer is being sued for $6 million by one of those afflicted with disease. Pat E. Dent and his wife, Martha, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Wednesday. They are seeking $5 million in [...]
Wind power may be unstoppable
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: April 12, 2012
Tags: Energy, General Assembly, house of delegates, maryland, Ocean City, offshore wind, senate, wind power
ANNAPOLIS — John Congedo thinks the failure of offshore wind energy legislation in the General Assembly only delays the inevitable. Those turbines off the coast of Ocean City are coming, one way or the other, he says. “It’s not about if, it’s about when it gets going,” said Congedo, president of AC Wind, a Salisbury-based [...]
House of Delegates passes offshore wind bill
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 30, 2012
Tags: developers, Energy, gov. martin o'malley, house of delegates, Ocean City, offshore wind, rates, senate, taxpayers, turbines, utility customers
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland House of Delegates voted 88-47 on Friday for a scaled-back measure to help develop offshore wind off the coast of Ocean City in as soon as five years. Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley is backing the legislation again this year after it failed last year over concerns about its costs. Supporters, who [...]
O’Malley wind power bill gets preliminary OK in House
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: March 29, 2012
Tags: General Assembly, house of delegates, martin O'Malley, maryland, Ocean City, renewable energy mandate, senate finance committee
ANNAPOLIS — The House of Delegates gave preliminary approval on Thursday to an administration bill that creates incentives for developers to build wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City. HB 441 could receive a final vote in the House as early as Friday. A Senate version of the legislation, backed by Gov. Martin O’Malley, [...]
Erika Sifrit files new challenge
BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: March 26, 2012
Tags: appeal, Baltimore, Benjamin “B.J.” Sifrit, challenge, convictions, Erika Elaine Sifrit, Inmate, maryland, murder, Ocean City, Prison, u..s district court
Erika Elaine Sifrit, serving a life sentence plus 20 years for killing and dismembering a Virginia couple in an Ocean City condominium, is asking a federal court to vacate her convictions based on ineffective assistance of counsel at her 2003 trial. In the motion for habeas corpus filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on [...]
Ocean City family to put wind turbines on home
BY: The Daily Times of Salisbury
POSTED: March 21, 2012
Tags: boardwalk, fans, mario villa santa, Ocean City, Ocean City Development Corp., planning and development, roof, sound, town council, turbines, ultra solar, united nations, wind solutions llc
OCEAN CITY — A family has permission to install a set of energy-generating wind turbines on the roof of their Boardwalk home. The set of three will comprise the first turbines on the roof of a single-family residence in Ocean City, and the Villa Santa family has been lobbying for permission to build them on [...]
New UMES president gets warm welcome on campus
BY: The Daily Times of Salisbury
POSTED: March 15, 2012
Tags: Eastern Shore, Education, Juliette B. Bell, Ocean City, president, princess anne, salisbury, UMES National Alumni Association, UMES President Thelma Thompson, university of maryland eastern shore
PRINCESS ANNE — Juliette B. Bell made rounds on the campus of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on Wednesday, greeting an assembly of hundreds of supporters, taking accolades at a luncheon in her honor and mingling at an evening reception on campus. Bell was named last week as the 15th president at the historically [...]
Pedestrian safety program launched in Ocean City
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 13, 2012
Tags: Coastal Highway, maryland, Ocean City, pedestrian, program, safety, state highway administration
OCEAN CITY — The State Highway Administration has launched a program to reduce jaywalking across Coastal Highway in Ocean City. The three-year pilot program will use newly designed sidewalk markings about 10 feet from three intersections on Coastal Highway that have seen the highest frequency of pedestrian accidents. Officials say 19th, 33rd and 49th streets [...]
Ocean City considers mobile booth to boost tourism
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 27, 2012
Tags: daily times, OC experience, Ocean City, ocean city maryland, ocean city tourism, ottawa, spark productions, Tourism, traveling booth
OCEAN CITY — For the second year, Ocean City’s Town Council is considering the creation of a traveling booth to promote tourism. The Daily Times reports the council is considering a new proposal from Spark Productions for the OC Experience initiative. Designs call for a booth with monitors playing videos with current and vintage Ocean City [...]
Ocean City tourism director resigns after 6 years
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 7, 2012
Tags: deborah turk, director, donna abbott, maryland, Ocean City, resigns, Tourism
OCEAN CITY — Ocean City’s tourism director has announced she is resigning after six years on the job. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports that Deborah Turk offered her resignation to town officials on Monday night. Turk is leaving to take da position as a sales manager for Comcast Corporation. Turk will continue to work [...]
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