FEBRUARY 16, 2023
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BERLIN • NORTH WORCESTER COUNTY• OCEAN PINES
Council authorizes speed cam survey Pair of cameras possible from private provider who would take piece of action By Jack Chavez Staff Writer (Feb. 16, 2023) Speed cameras could be on their way to the Town of Berlin following a presentation that officials from camera company RedSpeed USA gave to the mayor and Town Council. The next step, Mayor Zack Tyndall said, will be for RedSpeed and Berlin Police Chief Arnold Downing to survey potential spots around town to place the cameras. The decision to proceed with surveying sites comes four months the mayor and council broached the subject with Downing. During that meeting, Downing had said that Seahawk Road and Flower Street were two possible areas the town could install speed cameras. On Monday, Downing and Kurt Zanelotti, who described himself as the principal investor in RedSpeed, spoke to the town officials about the cameras and how a potential business
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The Ocean Pines Golf Course fountain sparkles during a recent quiet evening.
AGH computer systems back online after attack
Pines Yacht Club reopens No mention made whether By Cindy Hoffman Staff Writer (Feb. 16, 2023) If all went according to plan, The Ocean Pines Yacht Club reopened for the season today (Thursday), featuring weekly lunch and dinner specials, events and a new live music line-up. Trivia lovers will want to bone up and head to the yacht club for dinner and trivia on Thursday
nights from 6-8 p.m. And for those who prefer Bingo, they willl want to reserve Sunday nights from 6-8 p.m. for dinner and bingo. Bingo nights will feature prizes such as free draft beers and crushes and yacht club gift cards. Bingo daubers will be available for $2, cash only, and can be purchased through the DJ. Reserve seats in See YACHT Page 5
relationship could look. The cameras must be installed within a half-mile of a school zone, per Maryland law. It’s possible that they can be used in front of other childcare centers, but that call ultimately lies with the State Highway Administration on a case-by-case basis, Zanelotti said. For implementing the cameras, he said that typically the cameras are eased into operation. “You’ve got a political thing in a small town,” Zanelotti said. “We (typically plan it as) you have … a twoweek period (where we only issue offenders a warning … You advertise it saying when the cameras are coming in and there will be warnings for two weeks, this is where they are. There are signs up in front of them that say, ‘Speed camera school zone ahead.’ It’s like everything you can possibly do is done and we do it.” Signs and newspaper advertisements would be expected, too, he said. “Once the people are there, they stop speeding (for the most part),” Zanelotti said. See BERLIN Page 5
hospital had to pay ransom By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (Feb. 16, 2023) Systems are back online at Atlantic General Hospital following a cybersecurity attack that completely shut down the network for just over two weeks. According to a news release issued Monday from Toni Keiser, the hospital’s vice president of public relations,
the facility’s outpatient walk-in lab and outpatient imaging department are now open and fully operational. The return to normalcy followed a hectic two weeks of hospital personnel having to take care of business and their patients with the use of the hospital’s central computer system. Staff members discovered something was off within the system early on Jan. 29 after they began experiencing technical difficulties, which resulted in the disruption to some See AGH’S Page 4
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