Sun + Sand + Alcohol = Cops + Courts

At any grocery or hardware store in Ocean City, MD, you can find the free weekly papers that offer deals and coupons to local restaurants and amusements.  They also have some local news regarding town meetings, tax increases, and the comings and goings of local officials.  

I pick these up every week because I like to see the local restaurant deals and I really enjoy reading the Cops and Courts secion in the OC Dispatch.  For those of you who aren't familiar with this humorous police blotter, here are a few recent headlines:

ASSAULT OVER NEW YEARS EVE FOOD

BIRD MAN ARRESTED IN OCEAN CITY

BROOM HANDLE THREAT

BURGLARY SUSPECT STASHES WEAPONS IN HAIR

CABLE BOX SWIPED TO WATCH WRESTLING

FIGHTING IN CHURCH LEADS TO ARRESTS

OCPD Keeping our boards safe from cable box thieves

The stories that accompany these headlines provide a great amount of detail that allow the reader to get a full description of the events.  Most of these, of course, involve various levels of drug or alcohol intoxication.

It's usually nothing major - no murders or rapes.  Occasionally, you get a nasty assault charge.  But, mostly, these stories are laughable.

In spite of these crazy arrests, I still feel safe on the streets of OC.  There are so many people around, you can't really get away with doing anything too bad for too long this time of year.  I truly am more bothered by the people who light up cigarettes on the boardwalk!

On the safer streets of North OC this past weekend, I discovered a new favorite pizza place.  Squarz Pizza Pub at 12825 Coastal Highway (in the Montego Bay Shopping Center) is really good!  I tried the Chesapeke 4 Slice with crabmeat, shrimp, scampi sauce and other delicious stuff.  I guess you would call it a personal-sized pizza, but it was big enough for me to take half home to eat for lunch the following day.  The place is really nice inside - service was friendly and they have a good sized bar too.  I will definitely be back soon!

Squarz Pizza Chesapeke 4 Slice

Also new in North OC - Fractured Prune Donut Shop on 144th St!  Yup.  Next to Ponzetti's Pizza.  Now, you can grab those hot little disks of sin on your way out of town every Sunday morning.  

If you're taking your Mom to the beach this weekend, ther Crab Soup Cook-Off in Downtown OC Boardwalk) was canceled until the Fall due to predicted bad weather.  

If you want to do something in memory of a Mother who is no longer with us, there is a 3 mile fun run/walk at Northside Park at 125th St. in OCMD on Sunday 5/14.  Register at Abbey Burger Bistro between 7:30 and 8:15 AM.  

In Dewey Beach, Mom would probably love the Dewey Beach Arts Festival on Saturday 5/13 from 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM. You'll find it on Dagsworthy Ave (bayside) and there will be food trucks!

Also happening this weekend - Funland in Rehoboth Beach opens!  The weather might not be ready for summer, but Rehoboth is.  


In honor of Mothers Day, here's a cool photo that the DE Art Museum posted today on Facebook.  It is the family of American illustrator/author Howard Pyle on Rehoboth Beach in the summer of 1894.  Love those baby beanies!  

The Pyle Family:  Anne Pyle (Mrs. Howard Pyle) with her children, Howard Jr.,
Theodore, Phoebe, and Nellie, in Rehoboth Beach in the summer of 1894.

Wishing everyone a safe, happy, and warm Mothers Day!!