Ground broken on police station
Last Friday, on a bare lot just north of the Village of Bear Trap Dunes on Central Avenue, Ocean View town officials held a long-awaited ceremony. After a two-month-long debate about the project and a month of silence, those officials, along with...
Thursday, May 4, 2006 - 8:00pm
Ocean View-area salvage operation sparks fire
Members of the Millville and Roxana volunteer fire departments responded April 25 to a noontime fire at a salvage facility on Substation Road near Central Avenue, just outside Ocean View.
Special to the Coastal Point • SHAUN LAMBERT...
Thursday, May 4, 2006 - 8:00pm
An Ocean View special town council meeting on Tuesday turned into a “fiasco,” according to town mayor Gary Meredith, after new Councilman Roy Thomas brought a violation of the town’s code to the attention of the council.
Town Councilman...
Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 8:00pm
CHEER Center to hold health fair next Friday
It’s not a secret. People come to this area to retire. From Pennsylvania, to Baltimore, to Washington, D.C., people flock to the Delaware Coast to live out their lives next to sandy beaches and with a considerably shorter drive to get to those...
Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 8:00pm
Ocean View tables wetlands variance request
Ocean View Board of Adjustment officials on April 20 did everything but tell a couple who owns property in the town that they couldn’t build an already-planned home on the piece of property they bought last year.
After BoA Chairman Dick...
Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 8:00pm
New Giant lives up to its 'Super' name
When the Giant superstore opened on Atlantic Avenue in Millville yesterday, it was not just new to Millville residents. Millville’s Super Giant – based on its sister company’s super Stop and Shop stores – opened as a prototype for all new Giant...
Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 8:00pm
Car collides with four-wheeler on Omar Road
A verbal altercation between two Clarksville-area teenagers on a four-wheeler and two Clarksville-area farmers fed up with crop damage turned into a physical altercation on April 13, as 77-year-old Merrill Gray’s car collided with an ATV driven...
Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 8:00pm
Ocean View resident finishes Boston Marathon
It was a moment John Turssline won’t soon forget. On Monday, the Ocean View resident lined up next to 10,000 people on the streets of Boston to compete, running in the first heat of the Boston Marathon. More than 20,000 ran in the 110th annual...
Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 8:00pm
Ocean View rejects addressing system
Ocean View town officials were to consider implementing Sussex County’s five-digit 911-friendly house-numbering system at Tuesday’s town council meeting, but Mayor Gary Meredith took to the microphone first and dismissed the idea.
He said...
Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 8:00pm
Signs of design change on Route 26
Signs. Signs. Signs. Ocean View’s Route 26 design committee continues to focus its conversation on signs along the Route 26 corridor. Committee members spent about two hours talking about commercial signs along the main town road with no mention...
Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 8:00pm
Ocean View officials to address readdressing
Sussex County officials started the process more than eight years ago. In all of the un-incorporated areas of the county, they have readdressed properties with five-digit street addresses and plugged them into a county-wide map. Once updated,...
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:00pm
Locals check out Route 26 update from DelDOT
Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) officials once again rolled out preliminary plans for Route 26 improvements, from Clarksville to the Assawoman Canal (between Ocean View and Bethany Beach), on March 27.
The department’s made...
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View adjustment board grants, denies applications
Officials from Ocean View’s Board of Adjustment made an example out of a pair of town residents on March 16, denying a variance application for a 10-by12-foot shed.
Anne Marie Rogerson — speaking on behalf of herself and her husband, David...
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 7:00pm
University Center studies Ocean View history
Since September, officials from the University of Delaware Center for Historic Architecture and Design have been surveying Ocean View properties for their historical significance.
Coastal Point • JONATHAN STARKEY:
The Ocean View...
Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View accepts police station design
A Tuesday-night workshop in Ocean View town hall proved to be the site of yet another argument about the town’s proposed 15,000-square-foot police station, which was approved by the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission on March 16.
The...
Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 7:00pm
Beebe buys land in Clarksville
Beebe Medical Center’s long-time emergency services location in Millville may be moving a few miles westward, expanding and staying open year-round, at least as a walk-in clinic. Unable to provide off-season services at the existing, and...
Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View passes $4.9 million budget
In a special meeting on Tuesday, Ocean View’s town council voted 3-2 to narrowly approve a 2007 fiscal-year budget that has been a source of confusion and controversy in the town for weeks and could still prove misleading in the town’s bottom...
Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 7:00pm
Anyone who drives on Route 26 in Ocean View on a regular basis has surely noticed the two train cars sitting on the north side of the road about a half-mile from Bethany Beach.
Come Memorial Day weekend, those two cars will be a part...
Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View awards contract for new police station
Though Ocean View’s town council received overwhelming support for its new police station on Tuesday and awarded the construction contract, town officials said that the floor plans of the building — but not the size — might change.
After...
Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 7:00pm
Cooperative explains difference in rates
Ocean View’s public safety, administrative and public works departments took another hit on Tuesday before the town’s Long Range Financial Planning Committee voted 5-1 to approve the new, top-down budget it will present to council on March 14....
Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 7:00pm
Officials ask OV to wait on police station
On Feb. 27, Cliff Mitchell and Roy Thomas — members of Ocean View’s Long Range Financial Planning Committee — sent a letter to the mayor and council, asking, among other things, to postpone awarding a construction contract for the new police...
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 7:00pm
Thomas to run for Ocean View council seat
As a business man in suburban Philadelphia for most of his life, Roy Thomas admits that he never had any intention of getting involved in town government.
Even after retiring and moving to Ocean View permanently about five years ago, he...
Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 7:00pm
DCOG parishoner organizes women's conference
Ocean View resident Laura Hattier and the 24-Seven Youth Ministry at the Dagsboro Church of God (DCOG) will hold the second in a continuing series of “Mission Possible” women’s issues discussions on Sunday, March 5.
The conferences are...
Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View girl hits the big time
Fifteen minutes of fame sure can last a lot longer when it’s captured on glossy pages.
Sarah Clark, 15, of Ocean View, recently got to dangle her toes in the waters of celebrity when she appeared in the pages of Sweet 16 magazine. Picked...
Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:00pm
Alternative plan balances town budget in 2012
Ocean View’s Long Range Financial Planning Committee voted 6-1 on Tuesday to approve an alternative version of the proposed 2007 budget about three weeks before it will have to make a budgetary recommendation to town council.
The top-down...
Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View officials question police station
When town officials opened the six bids to construct Ocean View’s new police station about two weeks ago, they were legitimately excited. The bids ranged from $1.9 million to $2.3 million, when they had expected a number closer to $4 million. And...
Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:00pm
Local man sentenced to one year
On Feb. 10, a Superior Court judge in Georgetown sentenced an Ocean View man to one year in jail, followed by a year of home confinement, after he pleaded guilty to stealing boats, motors and supplies.
Stanley Clark, 43, pleaded guilty to...
Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 7:00pm
New art gallery to open its doors today
Jeanne Mueller has been involved with local art associations with other local artists for a long time. They attend meetings, shows and workshops together, but showing their art has never been a collective effort.
Coastal Point • JONATHAN...
Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View committee to present rental tax
Real estate transfer taxes again emerged as an issue on Tuesday,Feb. 7 at Ocean View’s Long Range Financial Planning Committee meeting.
Last week, town officials took about $600,000 out of the forecasted revenue budgets of 2010 and 2011...
Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 7:00pm
Police station bids surprise Ocean View
When Ocean View town officials opened the six proposed bids to construct the town’s new Police station, their jaws might have hit the floor.
After estimating the construction cost for the approved 15,000-square-foot station at as much as $...
Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 7:00pm
Committee gets conservative on OV transfer tax
Usually, within 30 days of a property sale within Ocean View town limits, the transfer tax — 1.5 percent of the sold property’s worth — is deposited into the town’s bank account.
That tax has been the town’s largest source of revenue since...
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View shop celebrates bird-feeding
Outside of a kitchen window in the back yard of the house where Connie Marshall grew up, her father had a bird feeder.
He didn’t take trips with his binoculars to find birds. He wasn’t even an avid bird watcher. He was just what Marshall...
Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View narrows budget supporters
Ocean View Town Council members met for a double-header — a special meeting and workshop — on Jan. 17, trying to set some priorities in the coming budget. In the end, they reached consensus to maintain the status quo, at least for the next couple...
Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View financial committee looks ahead
Ocean View’s Long-Range Financial Planning Committee (LRFPC) didn’t approve, modify or outright reject even a single line item at the Jan. 3 meeting. But in another way, the committee took a substantial step toward what will one day become this...
Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View talks outdoor liquor ordinances
Ocean View Town Council introduced an ordinance that would govern cocktail service to outdoor restaurant tables at the Jan. 3 council meeting, responding to a request from NorthEast Seafood Kitchen (NESK) proprietors.
This would be as a...
Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 7:00pm
Ocean View wants to design Route 26 specs
Ocean View’s hopes neatly parallel Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) plans, as far as bike lanes and sidewalks along Route 26. But there’s more to building a pretty Main Street than curbs and striping.
Staff planner Kyle...
Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 7:00pm
Ocean View hears opposition to church project
Ocean View Church of Christ representatives recently introduced plans to raze an older auditorium/Sunday school and construct a new building, to house a “gymnasium and office/classroom space,” but the project has encountered some vocal opposition...
Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 7:00pm
Ocean View prepares to borrow $4 million
The big Ocean View police station project is out for bid, and Ocean View Town Council authorized the town to borrow up to $4 million to finance the project at the Dec. 6 council meeting.
As Mayor Gary Meredith noted, the operative term was...
Thursday, December 8, 2005 - 7:00pm
Local to read at South Coastal Library
Ocean View resident and poet Joan Springer can’t say enough about the children’s programs at the South Coastal Library.
“I think the library’s trying to get children interested in reading at a very young age,” Springer commended.
...
Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 7:00pm
Ocean View receives stormwater tutorial
The Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission returned to design templates for the Route 26 corridor at a Nov. 17 workshop, spending most of the meeting in question-and-answer with Sussex Conservation District’s Jessica Watson.
...
Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 7:00pm
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
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