Worcester County Licensed Beverage Association

07/26/2025

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12/09/2021

FYI

A judge in Corpus Christi, Texas, awarded an unprecedented $301,040,000,000 to the family of a 16-year-old and her 59-year-old grandmother who were killed by a drunk driver who ran a red light, according to local news station KIII. The jury found Beer Belly’s Sports Bar guilty of overserving Joshu...

06/30/2021

FYI also a hearing to be held on July 21, 2021.

03/03/2021

FYI

Joe Carolan started Casa Mia's White Marsh in 1986 as a small carryout without any beverage alcohol. He originally had only 12 employees. Flash forward nearly 35 years later, and his payroll is at 46. These 46 staff a business that has grown as the Perry Hall/White Marsh community north of Baltimore...

01/28/2021

Governor Hogan Announces Restaurants May Resume Service After 10 PM Beginning Monday
Actions Follow Several Weeks of Improved Positivity Rates, Hospitalizations, and Key Metrics
State Distributing $80 Million in Additional Economic Assistance For Bars and Restaurants, Hotels and Hospitality Businesses

ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today issued an emergency order stating that, as of Monday, February 1, bars and restaurants will no longer be required to close at 10 p.m. In recent weeks, the state has distributed an additional $80 million in economic assistance to Maryland hotels and hospitality businesses, restaurants, and entertainment venues.

01/10/2021

I've been writing this Maryland state legislative preview article each year at this time for nearly a decade now. The annual feature is usually a look ahead to the next General Assembly Session. But there's no way to move ahead with 2021 without acknowledging 2020, quite possibly the toughest, most....

01/08/2021

https://www.buymarylandbeer.com/sign-the-petition

Please sign our petition below to stand with small businesses and shop small--no sellouts to corporate interests!

12/21/2020

All Carry-out establishments:
Please print and put it near your registers for customers to sign. We want to show that people are opposed to a new bill being heard this legislative session. Please mail signed petitions to me at 5917 Powellville Rd, Willards, MD 21874 no later than March 1,2021

09/23/2020

FIELD ENFORCEMENT DIVISION
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND

Memorandum

September 22, 2020

To: Maryland Wine and Distilled Spirits Distributors

From: Jeffrey A. Kelly, Director
Field Enforcement Division
Comptroller of Maryland

Subject: Continued Temporary Suspension of COMAR 03.02.01.04

Message:

The Office of the Comptroller is extending the suspension of the reporting requirements of the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) 03.02.01.04, known as Wine and Distilled Spirits Credit Control, through February 1, 2021. Previously, the suspension was in effect through October 1, 2020.

09/18/2020

This proposal would allow the Casino to siphon business away from our local communities and local small businesses. This was not allowed when we all agreed to the original proposal. We also made clear the Casino was not to build a hotel, open shops, give-away free drinks or free food. I ask the County Commissioners to think of the impact these changes would have on our small businesses and deny the application.

OCEAN PINES – The Worcester County Commissioners expressed concern regarding a potential casino overlay zone at a meeting this week. On Tuesday, the