Im jamie colby, in ocean city, maryland, an irresistible atlantic resort town known for its golden beaches and this historic boardwalk. Now, the population may read 7,000, but more than 8 million visit every single year. And im here to meet a family that has a strange inheritance thats been an icon on this boardwalk for more than a century. Hi, doug. Hi. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. So nice to see you, too. Your family really is so well known here. Yeah, im afraid we are. Yeah, weve been here a long time. A long time, indeed since 1890, to be exact. Doug trimpers greatgrandparents daniel and Margaret Trimper purchase two city blocks of oceanfront land. They start with a pair of small hotels but in 1902 decide to risk everything on a new attraction. Daniel wants to bring in a ride unlike any seen before in maryland. He orders a massive carousel from the herschellspillman company. With a diameter of 51 feet, the merrygoround is one of the largest built up to that point. How special is the
Im jamie colby, in ocean city, maryland, an irresistible atlantic resort town known for its golden beaches and this historic boardwalk. Now, the population may read 7,000, but more than 8 million visit every single year. And im here to meet a family that has a strange inheritance thats been an icon on this boardwalk for more than a century. Hi, doug. Hi. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. So nice to see you, too. Your family really is so well known here. Yeah, im afraid we are. Yeah, weve been here a long time. A long time, indeed since 1890, to be exact. Doug trimpers greatgrandparents daniel and Margaret Trimper purchase two city blocks of oceanfront land. They start with a pair of small hotels but in 1902 decide to risk everything on a new attraction. Daniel wants to bring in a ride unlike any seen before in maryland. He orders a massive carousel from the herschellspillman company. With a diameter of 51 feet, the merrygoround is one of the largest built up to that point. How special is the
And this turned into one incredible story. The news at 11 00 starts right now. Dcs most accurate forecast. We are looking at a weather alert for tomorrow. Suspect areas west and north of town had a couple of sprinkles earlier but there is rain stretching back from east texas and oklahoma all the way through the ohio valley and getting into our neck of the woods and we have seeing showers. Most of which have been on the light side. Once you get west of the blue ridge, we start to pick up some activity in shenandoah valley, culpeper and up toward northern maryland. An occasional shower across winchester and frederick county, virginia. Over in fredericksburg, maryland, some showers weekend will shake out like this. A yellow weather alert tomorrow. A high of 64 and the cold returns on sunday. Still a chance sunday night for some of the white step and we will talk about that and the cold coming next week. We will see you in a few minutes. There is one safe house in Prince Georges County vic
We have 104 schools, and i think its interesting to see the 104 schools. Later, youll see a breakdown of what administrators look like and a demographic of our School District. I need a cue, right . And well talk about per pupil funding. We need finances to do amazing things. Our per pupil funding is 5,780 per kid. And when we look at what that looks like across the nation, i see some of your faces going whoa, right . We have to compete with everybody else, but this would be our per pupil funding. It does present some challenges for us as a School District. But we started off with the board of trustees and myself having a Building Block of successes. One of the things we talked about is the importance of teamwork as a superintendent with your board. Right . Because you have to go out with a United Vision and tell the story together. And the board of trustees and myself committed to each other that thats what we were going to do, and of course, like everyone else talked about, we have a