Agenda
Events and information from our area towns.
Bethany Beach
• On Saturday, Feb. 4, at 1 p.m., the Bethany Beach Police Department will host a “How not to be a Victim” seminar, designed to help reduce the property crimes targeted in the Town of Bethany Beach and its surrounding neighborhoods. The seminar will be held at South Coastal Library on Kent Avenue.
• The Board of Adjustment of the Town of Bethany Beach will hold a meeting to review the board’s rules on Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. at Bethany Beach Town Hall.
Following the meeting, the Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing at 10:30 a.m., to consider the application for a variance filed by Ralph Timmons of Hickory Hill Builders on behalf of Wallford Inge, for 100 Ashwood Street, in the R-1 zoning district, seeking a variance from the maximum lot coverage permitted for buildings in an R-1 residential district. The maximum lot coverage permitted is 40 percent.
• The regular meetings of the Bethany Beach Town Council and Planning Commission are now being broadcast over the Internet via the Town’s Web site at www.townofbethanybeach.com. In addition to the current audio feed and associated documents, the new system will also include a video broadcast in the near future.
• The Town of Bethany Beach is considering offering a free service to its citizens, if there is enough community interest, wherein the Town Trolley would pick up residents at their homes or some other pre-designated location once a week and take a group to local grocery stores and pharmacies. The intent is to offer the service to Bethany Beach residents who are no longer comfortable driving themselves or who have no convenient means of transportation.
Anyone with an interest in this type of service or who knows someone who might is being asked to call the town manager’s office at (302) 537-3771 or email admin@townofbethanybeach.com and have their name placed on a list. If the Town receives a large enough response, they plan to work out the details of the service in a manner that suits the respondents and implement it as soon as practical.
South Bethany
• The next South Bethany Town Council meeting is a workshop, set for Jan. 26 at 5 p.m. at town hall. The council will hold its next regular meeting on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.
• The Town of South Bethany has changed its yard-waste collection schedule. Yard waste collection now takes place every other Wednesday, year-round. The yard waste will be collected by Allied Waste. The same yard waste collection guidelines apply.
• Beach replenishment in South Bethany has been completed. State workers are expected to complete repairs of the dune and dune crossings in the coming months.
• The South Bethany Beach Patrol is offering a 2012 planner as a fundraiser for the patrol. The planner includes pictures of the patrol taken over the 2011 season. The planner can be viewed and orders can be placed on their Web site at www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2666116.
• South Bethany officials are reminding part-time residents that Mediacom provides half-price seasonal rates for cable television service to their non-resident customers from Nov. 1 to March 31. Call (800) 445-5562 for more information.
• The South Bethany Historical Society is interviewing residents who have been in the community since the early 1950’s and 1960’s. The interviews are being recorded electronically and in print. In addition, the Historical Society is trying to locate old records, documents, maps, and photographs that pertain to the history of South Bethany. Those who have any items or memorabilia they would like to share, or would like more information, can contact Dee Burbage at the town hall at (302) 539-3653 or Mary Suazo at (302) 537-1276 or at msuazz@msn.com.
• The Town of South Bethany’s Web site is located at www.southbethany.org.
Ocean View
• A meeting of the Ocean View Search Committee will be held Jan. 30, at 9:30 a.m. in the Wallace A. Melson Municipal Building.
• The town council will hold its monthly meeting on Feb. 14, 2012 at 7 p.m. in town hall.
• The deadline to file to run for the District 4 council seat is March 15.
•The Ocean View town Web site is located at www.oceanviewde.com.
Fenwick Island
• The town council will hold its monthly meeting on Jan. 27 at 3:30 p.m.
•The Fenwick Island town Web site is located at www.fenwickisland.org.
Millsboro
•The town council will hold its monthly meeting on Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. at town hall.
•The Millsboro town Web site is located at Millsboro.org.
Millville
• The Millville Historic Preservation Commission is asking anyone with old photographs, stories or historical information about Millville to share their memories for documentation and preservation purposes.
• The Millville town Web site is now located at www.millville.delaware.gov.
Frankford
• The Frankford Board of Elections was to meet in the Frankford Volunteer Fire Company meeting room on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m. for consideration of eligibility of candidacy of Greg Welch for Frankford Town Council member for the Town Election scheduled for Feb 4, 2012. This will be the first contested election in the town of Frankford since 2003. The seats currently held by incumbents Jesse Truitt, Ron Atherton and Charles Shelton are up. The incumbents are all running, and there are three additional candidates – Greg Johnson, Skip Ash and Jerry Smith – with Welch as a possible fourth challenger, depending upon the outcome of the Board of Elections meeting.
• Recycling carts have been delivered to Frankford residents. Collection of recyclables will take place every other week, continuing Feb. 7. A charge of $4 is added to the town’s water/trash bills to cover the costs of the recycling service. Trash is still picked up every week, on Fridays.
• All Town of Frankford meetings will now be held at the Frankford Volunteer Fire Co. meeting room at 7 Main Street (located directly behind town hall).
• The Town of Frankford Web site is located at www.frankfordde.us.
Selbyville
• The next Town Council meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6.
• Curbside recycling is picked up every other Wednesday, continuing Feb. 8.
• The Planning and Zoning Committee will meet Thursday, Jan. 26, at 4 p.m. to discuss Jeannie Mariner’s request for conditional use to open a farmers’ market at the corner of Route 17 and Williams Street.
• The 2012 Selbyville town council election is scheduled for Saturday, March 3, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Two council members will be elected to two-year terms. Candidates must apply no later than 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Forms are available at Town Hall. Candidates must: be at least 21; a U.S. citizen; and have been a bona fide town resident for at least one year prior the election date. Voters must register at the Town Hall no later than Friday, Feb. 10, at 4:30 p.m. To qualify to vote, one must: be at least 18; be a U.S. citizen; and be a bona fide resident of the town.
• The town Web site is www.TownOfSelbyville.com.
Indian River School District
• There will be no school Friday, Jan. 27, for teacher in-service.
• The next Board of Education meeting will be Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. at Sussex Central High School.
• The district Web site is at www.irsd.net/pages/Indian_River_School_District.
Sussex County
• Sussex County Council will meet next on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m. in the County Council Chambers, County Administrative Office Building in Georgetown. The agenda for the meeting includes discussion and possible introduction of a draft ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 2227, relating to councilmanic election districts and adopting councilmanic election districts, as well as a hearing on community development block grants, among other business.
• The Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission was to meet on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 10 a.m. in the County Council Chambers, County Administrative Office Building in Georgetown. The agenda for the meeting included: continued consideration of amendments relating to off-premise electronic signs and a request for a conditional use for a storage garage for trucks and equipment and a parking area on 1.35 acres of AR-1 land at the northeast corner of the intersection of Route 54 and Road 389; and a public hearing on a zoning change application from James Moses that would rezone 2.1185 acres of land at the southwest corner of Route 54 and Road 396 (Westline Road), from AR-1 Agricultural Residential and C-1 General Commercial to all CR-1.
