AUGUST 3, 2023
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BERLIN • NORTH WORCESTER COUNTY• OCEAN PINES
Everything’s just peachy on Saturday Peach Festival celebrates heritage, helps museum
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NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
Worcester County Deputy Sheriff David Richardson shows Landyn Archer the equipment he carries on his vest when he is on duty. Landyn got to try on a vest and helmet on Tuesday at National Night Out in Ocean Pines, a nationwide annual event that promotes police-community partnerships.
Tyndall sees two park options Time running out on grant to help cover cost of razing old poultry plant buildings By Cindy Hoffman Staff Writer (Aug. 3, 2023) The town of Berlin needs to make a decision by the end of August on what it wants to do with the Heron Park property, and as Mayor Zack Tyndall sees it, there are two options. Selling parcel 57 and retaining parcels 410 and 191 for open space or keeping all of the parcels and using a
$500,000 grant to demolish as much of the building structures as possible. The property, which was purchased by the town in 2016 for $2.5 million, had been the site of a Tyson’s poultry processing plant, and while Tyson ceased operations there in 2003, it left its offices and plant standing when it departed. The town has a grant from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development for $500,000 to help pay for the demolition of those building, but that grant needs to be fully expended by June 2024.
Tyndall said some people see that as a year to get the job done, but the process takes time. “We still have to frame out the RFP (request for proposals) , take bids, award the bid and do the actual demolition.” Palmer Gillis of Coastal Ventures Properties, who responded in 2022 to the town’s RFP for developing the property, has said he has about a four- to six-month process to go through to use the grant if he is awarded the contract. Coastal Ventures submitted a reSee TYNDALL Page 12
By Cindy Hoffman Staff Writer (Aug. 3, 2023) Berlin will celebrate local sweet, juicy, delicious peaches on Aug. 5 at the 15th annual Peach Festival on the lawn of the Calvin B. Taylor Museum. The festival, which will run from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., will provide peach treats and entertainment for young and old throughout the day. “The focus of this year’s festival is local food and highlighting Berlin’s agricultural history,” said Melissa Reid, president of the Calvin B. Taylor House Museum. Local amateur bakers will have the opportunity to show off their baking skills in the peach pie contest. Registration for the contest closes on Aug. 4, with just three sports left as of Tuesday. The pies will be judged by Chef Phil Cropper, Laura Sterns, manager of the Atlantic Hotel and Joyce White, of the Great Maryland Recipe Hunt. To sign up, email info@taylorhousemuseum.org Cropper, of the Worcester Tech High School Culinary Department, will be hosting peach-based cooking demonstrations at 11 a.m. and 2:15 See HERITAGE Page 10
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