OC Today-Dispatch JULY 25, 2025
STUBBORNLY LOCAL, EQUALLY INDEPENDENT
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PRICELESS
Police, city accept deal for $11.9M Three-year pact detailing pay raises, new benefits allows city officials and Fraternal Order of Police to avoid binding interest arbitration.— PAGE 16
SIDECASTER
PHOTO COURTESY OF WILL HALL
The Army Corps of Engineers dredge Merritt, up from North Carolina, clears the channel just outside the commercial harbor in West Ocean City and shoots the spoil to one side via a discharge pipe. The Merritt was called in to ensure safe passage for fishing vessels during the White Marlin Open and so Coast Guard boats can get where they need to go in emergency situations.
Rental ban ordinance killed The battle over an eventual ban on short-term rentals in single-family residential neighborhoods ends Tuesday as opponents kill the enabling ordinance by 34 votes.— PAGE 6
UNREPLENISHED
FILE PHOTO
Ocean City beach replenishment was supposed to take place this fall, but no money has been allocated for it in this year’s federal budget. Local officials hope Maryland’s congressional delegation can change that for next year. The last replenishment project took place in 2021 (above). — PAGE 18