Stockton News

The Worcester County Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause of an early Monday afternoon fire at the Traveler's Budget Inn of Pocomoke City.

The Worcester County Health Department and County Animal Control concluded their fall 2009 rabies clinics this week at the Stockton and Showell fire departments, with large turnouts at each clinic.

Like our beloved Redskins, nature doesn't always follow the playbook. Things turn out differently than you expect.

Take our neighborhood bald eagles. Please! Everyone was enthralled last winter when the pair moved into a tall, scraggly tree on Carrollton Road. They built a nest 75 feet up and set up housekeeping. The little ones arrived in early spring and grew before our eyes from fluff balls to scrawny teenagers, then to full size fledglings. Folks came from miles to take photos, all eagerly awaiting the first flights of the young-uns.

SNOW HILL -- As companies face layoffs in a down economy, many people who wander into the showroom of Steve Barrett's Berlin car dealership leave without buying, worried that they can't afford the payments if they lose their job.

SNOW HILL -- Worcester County planners have finished revising the new design guidelines, comprehensive zoning ordinances and corresponding maps, ending months of corrections and changes initiated by residents' requests.

SNOW HILL -- When William Rowland went to rebuild his 50-year-old chicken houses recently, it should have been an easy project.

Like other areas of the country, Worcester County is experiencing record numbers of mosquitoes this season.

Megan and Andy Holloway of Salisbury have chosen the name Carly Patricia Holloway for their daughter, born June 20, 2009, at home.

Like other areas of the country, Worcester County is experiencing record numbers of mosquitoes this season.

SNOW HILL -- High on a Snow Hill island there was a lonely goat. But now, he is lonely no more.

The following licenses were issued in Wicomico County Circuit Court the week of June 9-16. David Allan Carter I, 33, of Salisbury and Wysheka Chantell Trader, 19, of Salisbury.

DEWEY BEACH -- Dewey Beach leaders have passed a new 3 percent tax for visitors renting properties in the town.

Calvary Baptist Tabernacle Salisbury Tonight at 7 there will be a southern gospel concert featuring The Anchormen Quartet.

Mya and Joshua Brown of Pocomoke City have chosen the name Madison Paige Brown for their daughter, born March 31, 2009, at 6:31 a.m. at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.

The following cases were heard in Wicomico County District Court by Judge L. Bruce Wade on April 20 and April 21, 2009.