Council expresses concern over possible loss
At the Nov. 1 town council meeting, Ocean View Town Manager Kathy Roth reported from her attendance at an Oct. 31 Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) taskforce meeting, saying she found the meeting “not real encouraging” regarding the...
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 7:00pm
Ocean View officials reconsider new post office location plans
Ocean View Mayor Gary Meredith added a last-minute item to the Nov. 1 town council agenda, noting that he had received an unusual amount of correspondence, telephone calls and in-person comments regarding the town’s preferred location for a new...
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 7:00pm
Ocean View mulls speed-limit changes
Ocean View officials are considering reworking the town’s speed limits after receiving a request from home owners in the Village at Bear Trap Dunes to raise the speed limit in that development from 15 mph to 20 mph.
The request sparked an...
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 7:00pm
Town officals consider $4 million loan
Ocean View officials have made the first step needed to approve borrowing up to $4 million for the town’s planned new police station. At their Nov. 1 meeting, town council members held a first reading of the ordinance that would allow the loan...
Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 7:00pm
Ocean View continues commercial design
Ocean View has created a business district along the Route 26 (Atlantic Avenue) corridor — but until the town adopts some design criteria, it’s anyone’s guess what that district might look like 20 years from now.
Per the town’s long-...
Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View scrutinizes Kool Bean cafe
The recent arrival of a new 8- by 10-foot refrigerator at the Kool Bean café proved perhaps the most complex application before the Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission at the Oct. 20 P&Z meeting. Other applications involved:...
Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 8:00pm
Local firefighters provide free smoke detectors
“Wake Up Delaware” coordinator Tom Mitten wants a working smoke detector in every single household in the state. If giving away free smoke detectors and replacement batteries is what it takes, so be it.
Every volunteer fire company in the...
Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View seniors manage to connect
Not a week goes by that Ocean View Senior Singles Mingle hasn’t scheduled one activity or another. But just what it is they do is a little harder to pinpoint.
Coastal Point • SAM HARVEY:
The Ocean View Senior Singles Mingle members get...
Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View leases interim police building
Ocean View Town Council voted unanimously to move forward into lease negotiations, in an effort to move the Ocean View Police Department out of its roughly 20-by-30 foot present home, and into a more spacious triple-wide trailer near Bear Trap,...
Thursday, October 6, 2005 - 8:00pm
LB students might see delayed move
Lord Baltimore Elementary School Students have taken up residence at the recently renamed John M. Clayton School (JMC) this year, while construction crews complete an extensive renovation project at Lord Baltimore.
Those students are...
Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View studies radio towers
Someone is raising a 50-foot-tall ham radio tower in Ocean View, less than a block away from town hall. But while some of the neighbors have expressed concerns about its appearance, not even town hall has much say in governing amateur radio...
Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View designs business district
The Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission has started work on what will eventually become a design template for the newly rezoned business district along Route 26.
The P&Z met on Sept. 15 to hash out some of the details....
Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View plans for financial future
Discussion turned on a potential loss of Real estate transfer tax revenue, at Ocean View’s first Long-Range Financial Planning Committee (LRFPC) meeting of the fiscal 2006 budget cycle, Sept. 20.
The committee has never convened so early....
Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View looks at stormwater
The Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission considered three sets of plans at the Sept. 15 P&Z meeting. While they all had their quirks, stormwater issues related to a fledgling subdivision at 49 Woodland Avenue proved the central...
Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View ponders tax of its own
Ocean View Town Council has been looking over its shoulder since the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) Transportation Trust Fund came up more than $200 million short, in July.
DelDOT Secretary Nathan Hayward announced the...
Thursday, September 8, 2005 - 8:00pm
Two big local builders local to Katrina relief
Two major U.S. builders with local offices — Toll Brothers (Ocean View) and Centex Homes (Dagsboro) — have committed major funding to support disaster relief efforts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
Centex is contributing $...
Thursday, September 8, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View weighs fate of historic home
Ocean View is trying to build a Department of Public Works (DPW) building, a group of property owners is hoping to establish a historical district, and a 103-year-old house is caught in the middle.
The town purchased the Shores property on...
Thursday, September 8, 2005 - 8:00pm
Hocker draws a good crowd for coffee
Hocker’s Deli — not the place one might expect to find a rather substantial public meeting, but more than 30 area residents turned out for an Aug. 31 meet-your-legislator forum, hosted by Rep. Gerald Hocker (38th District).
Coastal Point •...
Thursday, September 1, 2005 - 8:00pm
Local gallery features Bishopville artist
Constance “Tinsel” Hughes will hold a one-woman exhibit this weekend at the Beach Cottage, Route 26 in Ocean View (83 Atlantic Ave). She specializes in local landscapes and seascapes in a traditional, realist style.
Coastal Point • SAM...
Thursday, September 1, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View CHEER opening draws crowd
The Aug. 25 ribbon-cutting at the CHEER Coastal Leisure Center was bittersweet, as perhaps all important things are. The Mason-Dixon Post 7234 (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Color Guard hoisted the flag — the first time it had flown over the new...
Thursday, September 1, 2005 - 8:00pm
Writing minds nurtured at library
As rain clouds took leave of the morning sky overhead the South Coastal Library on Saturday, Aug. 20, a brainstorm took shape inside.
Coastal Point • RUSLANA LAMBERT:
Writers participate in a workshop on poetry and fiction.
The...
Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 8:00pm
The Ocean View Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) unanimously passed an ordinance Thursday to reclassify 21 properties along Atlantic Avenue (State Route 26) from R-1 Residential to GB General Business.
Dennis Schrader, the town’s...
Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View considers public works options
Ocean View Town Council members and staff spent the latter part of an Aug. 16 workshop studying the possibility of a Department of Public Works (DPW) facility on lands near the town hall — but they couldn’t seem to make it fit.
The town...
Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View looks to spread CHEER
Age is relative — most people spend their entire lives as a senior to some and a junior to others. Either way, while Sussex County Senior Services (SCSS) started out serving the 60-plus population, the non-profit organization has long since...
Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View accepts police station plans
It was a night for the Citizens Auxiliary Patrol (CAP), and to review plans for a soon-to-be 15,000 square foot police station, at the Aug. 2 Ocean View Town Council meeting.
Ocean View Police Chief Ken McLaughlin came forward to recognize...
Thursday, August 4, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View approves Lord Baltimore
The Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission ushered plans for renovations at Lord Baltimore Elementary School through the preliminaries, and approved the site plan as a final (with a few conditions) at the July 21 P&Z meeting....
Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 8:00pm
Employers pass the hat for injured student
Ocean View Deli and Restaurant employee Dzmitry Fedarkevich is recovering and in stable condition following the July 15 hit-and-run that threw him from his bicycle and into the hospital with a hip injury and head trauma.
It may be a while...
Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 8:00pm
Local singing group Nautical Sounds has been singing out of Ocean View for the past 16 years, sharing their traditional barbershop-style tunes to generate an appreciation for a form of music that was most popular more than a century ago.
“...
Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 8:00pm
Local singing group Nautical Sounds has been singing out of Ocean View for the past 16 years, sharing their traditional barbershop-style tunes to generate an appreciation for a form of music that was most popular more than a century ago.
“...
Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 8:00pm
Theft, forgery, assault charges pile up against Ocean View man
No date has yet been set for a hearing concerning a 43-year-old Ocean View man accused of stealing boat parts.
On Thursday, July 7, Stanley A. Clark waived his right to a preliminary hearing in the Court of Common Pleas, according to Lori...
Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View debates water for restaurant
Ocean View Town Council members considered yet another permutation of Tidewater Utilities’ plan to deliver central water to the parcel at 27 Atlantic Avenue (Route 26) at the July 5 council meeting, and heard considerable opposition from...
Thursday, July 7, 2005 - 8:00pm
Psychotherapist, veteran moves practice
After treating hundreds of patients during his three years in Ocean City, Md., psychotherapist Dr. Peter Lamb will be moving his practice to Ocean View in the beginning of July.
Coastal Point • MARY ROBBINS:
Dr. Peter Lamb will be...
Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View residents consider historic district
Ocean View residents heard from State Historic Preservation Office’s (SHPOs) Robin Bodo and Preservation Delaware’s Trent Margrif earlier this month, regarding a possible historic district for their town.
The town’s Historical Committee is...
Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 8:00pm
The United States Postal Service (USPS) held a meeting Thursday, June 16, to discuss the new post office scheduled to be built in the Ocean View/Millville area.
Primarily, it was held to open communication with the public and make sure...
Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:00pm
Woodland avenue focus on planners
Three applicants, two with new subdivisions and a third carrying the site plan for a condominium (plus two single-family homes) development — all three on Woodland Avenue — came before the Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission on...
Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:00pm
Pops for "Pops" held at Bear Trap Dunes
It might seem easy, but beneath that surface many would consider the feat impossible.
The easy part: On Friday, June 10, Patrick Rummerfiled got in a race car and drove himself and passenger Josh Basile, 19, around car racing’s “Monster...
Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View council hears from Thornton
Bob Thornton, owner of the Silver Woods Subdivision and an Ocean View resident, approached the town’s council Tuesday night to gauge the assembly’s receptiveness to annexing his property.
Before drafting and submitting a formal proposal,...
Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View hears revenue prospects
Ocean View Town Council applauded departing Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission Member Jeanne Mueller at the top of the June 7 council meeting, and sailed unruffled through another hour and a half of business. Things wrapped up on a lively...
Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 8:00pm
Post office to discuss expansion
U.S. Postal Service officials will hold a public forum on Thursday, June 16, to discuss the planning of a new, expanded Ocean View-Millville-Clarksville post office. The meeting will be at the Millville firehouse and start at 6:30 p.m.
The...
Thursday, June 9, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View considers town road project
The Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission reviewed conjoined site plans — (1) for a World Gym facility, and (2) for a pair of office buildings — at the May 19 P&Z meeting.
Coastal Point • SAM HARVEY:
Indian River...
Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 8:00pm
South Coastal Library receives grant
The South Coastal Library is one of 500 libraries selected nationally to receive the We the People “Freedom” Bookshelf. This grant program presented by American Library Association in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities is...
Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 8:00pm
Members of the Ocean View Police, Ocean View Citizen Auxiliary Patrol, Delaware State Police Truck Enforcement Unit and the Delaware State Police Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program conducted a truck inspection checkpoint on Route 26 on April...
Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View considers legislation
Ocean View Town Council members passed three ordinances and studied some draft legislation floating around Dover at the May 3 council meeting.
They unanimously passed ordinances (1) prohibiting multifamilies, duplexes, garden apartments,...
Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:00pm
May 19 grand opening on schedule for new CHEER center at Long Neck
Sussex County Senior Services Inc./CHEER has announced that the grand opening for the new, 8,200 square foot CHEER Center in the Shoppes at Long Neck will be Thursday, May 19, from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
The formal ribbon cutting will be...
Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View considers upscale restaurant
Restaurateur David Harkness presented plans for the Oak Arbor Inn at the corner of Woodland Avenue and Route 26 last week — first, before the Ocean View Board of Adjustment (BOA) and then before the town’s Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission...
Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 8:00pm
Ocean View prepares for potential disasters
Relax — no one has suggested any likelihood of a disaster striking this area. However, as husband and wife team Tom and Pat Sheeran pointed out, that’s the problem — there’s no way to predict.
Best to be prepared, and the Sheerans showed...
Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 8:00pm
May opening date for Ocean View restaurant
NorthEast Seafood Kitchen, the new restaurant by Matthew Haley and Bryony Zeigler (the creators of Redfin Seafood Grill in North Bethany Beach and Fish On! in Lewes), will open this May in Ocean View.
Haley and Harry Geller teamed up to...
Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:00pm
Politicos celebrate Ocean View water
It’s Earth Day once again (April 22), and various governmental representatives stopped by the new Town Hall in Ocean View a week prior, to celebrate the town’s recent financing agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
...
Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:00pm
EDITORIAL: Big times ahead in Ocean View
Registered voters of Ocean View, let’s get ready to rumble.
On Saturday, April 9, voters can turn out to the new town hall in Ocean View, from noon to 5 p.m. to cast their ballots for the individual they wish to serve as the town’s mayor...
Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 8:00pm
Meredith remains Mayor after election
Ocean View Mayor Gary Meredith was sworn in for a second term at the April 12 special meeting, following a strong showing at the polls over the weekend.
Coastal Point • SUBMITTED:
Meredith.
Meredith defeated challenger Wally...
Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 8:00pm
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