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With none of the three Cambridge mayoral candidates reaching 50 percent of the vote, the two leaders, Lajan Cephas and Andrew Bradshaw, will head to a runoff race on Tuesday, December 3.
At the conclusion of a townhall livestream vote count of the 2024 Cambridge General Election Saturday, Oct. 19, officials announced that a runoff election would be held Tuesday, December 3 to decide the next mayor of Cambridge.
EASTON — Representatives from University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) and University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), hospital and UM SRH donors, federal, state and Eastern …
When the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration first announced overnight resurfacing of both directions of Route 50 from the Choptank River Bridge to Bucktown Road beginning September 30, all seemed well.
Citing near drought like conditions, the Dorchester County Council on Thursday, October 17 passed a resolution prohibiting open air burning effective Friday, October 18, 2024 at 8 am.
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The culture war erupting around the nation about transgender rights is being fought in Maryland’s school districts, too. School boards that set policy for those districts face a dilemma: …
Colt Black is many things: a mortician, an emergency medical technician, a firefighter, a father, a husband and a candidate for the Frederick County Public School Board. He’s also a …
In Montgomery County, school board candidate Brenda M. Diaz worries that  “knife-wielding vandals” have easy access to schools because the district removed the police officers that …
Business
PRINCESS ANNE — Want to learn how to grow the elusive pawpaw, learn about beekeeping or transition to agritourism? Trending topics in agriculture like these and more will be featured at the …
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has selected the next three sites for large-scale oyster restoration in Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay, marking the beginning of …
Salisbury
SALISBURY — On Oct. 21, a skunk tested positive for rabies by Sharps Point Rd. near Riverside Drive extended in Salisbury. The Wicomico County Health Department is advising all residents to be …
SALISBURY — The Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council is literally taking the show on the road. Organizers for the non-profit organization are planning a Jan. 3, 2025, trip across the bay to …
Now was the perfect time to eat good food in a beautiful town. I grinned as we walked down the historic Main Street of Berlin, Md., now with a destination in mind.
GEORGETOWN & SALISBURY — TidalHealth Primary and Specialty Care announces Darcelle Mann and Tiffany Ortiz are its Team Members of the Month for September 2024. Darcelle Mann, patient …
Things to Do

Twice monthly meditation for all faiths starts Nov. 4 at St. Andrew's Parish House in Princess Anne

PRINCESS ANNE — If you’re interested in the practice of meditation as a way to improve your focus, health, or to deepen your inner …
TidalHealth’s Salisbury Trunk or Treat will be held on Oct. 24. TIDALHEALTH

TidalHealth’s Salisbury “Trunk or Treat” is October 24

SALISBURY – It will be a sweetly ghoulish evening on Thursday, Oct. 24 when TidalHealth’s Behavioral Health division hosts its …
Cambridge Women's Club President, retired educator Ruth Clendaniel, was among the first customers inside the Robin Hood Christmas Shop on opening day, October 11. Clendaniel purchased one of the many large artificial trees on display atop the stage inside the historic building behind the Cambridge Women's Club, the shop's headquarters through three October weekends. (Dorchester Banner/Debra R. Messick)

Robin Hood Christmas Shop opens at Cambridge Women's Club

Two historic High Street neighbors have joined together this year to ring in the holiday shopping season for a worthy cause. The …
Opinion
Opinion
In June of 2023, Mayor Jack Heath and the City Council, at a hastily called special meeting and after deliberating in a closed session, voted to sell three valuable downtown parking lots to Salisbury …
Basic economics teaches us that if you want to decrease prices you must increase supply. Wicomico County has not built a sufficient number of housing units since the Great Recession of 2008-09. The …
The Wicomico County Council’s October 1st decision to not accept the Ross’s application for the Horizon tax credit was a slap in the face to the developers, who made significant …
In his recent discussion of the decision to have a Wicomico County Executive, Mr. Gains Hawkins recited statements made twenty or so years ago by certain former members of the County Council. When …
Rick Pollitt is now the town manager for Snow Hill, but in 2006 he was elected Wicomico’s first county executive. When I interviewed him in mid-July, some weeks after the Wicomico County …
As Election Day (November 5) draws near, arguably the most controversial initiative on the ballot is the county referendum to revert back to the council-manager form of government from the current …
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