Coastal Point • SAM HARVEY Young entrepeneurs still find a lemonade stand a good way of doing business, as evidenced by this stand on West Avenue on Wed., June 22. From left, Mary and Katie Whaley, and Natalia Elling man the stand.

Renewed hope for beach replenisment
Bethany Beach’s bid to maximize the town’s influence in federal budgeting matters may have paid off after all.

Citizens oppose one-way streets in Bethany
With guidance and input from the modest crowd that attended a May 10 workshop on pedestrian and bicycle safety measures in Bethany Beach, representatives of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) and Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson Engineering (JMT) had recommended the town consider one-way streets for its two main north-south thoroughfares: Atlantic and Pennsylvania avenues.

USPS discusses post office
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.

Bethany committee axes moral turpitude laws
Where’s the dividing line, between sensuously graceful, self-assured strut — and scandalous shimmy-shake?

Chamber's visitor center now complete
Workers are putting the final touches on a major remodel at the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce’s visitor center (oceanside in Fenwick Island, Route 1), and chamber staff have invited everyone to come check out the new look.

Police beat

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 June 16.

Live music

A "Berry" good stop
Every summer, thousands of families flock to the beach to spend their days baking in the sun and their nights cooling down with ice cream and candy as they stroll along the beach streets.

Bethany CDP nears the finish line
Bethany Beach’s new comprehensive development plan (CDP) is one short step away from having the force of law.

County approves sewer
Sussex County Council moved okayed two sanitary sewer district expansions at the June 21 meeting — one primarily for what will become the 350-lot Forest Landing subdivision (Beaver Dam Road and Central Avenue), and the second for four developments planned, three for Millville and one for Ocean View, which will eventually bring nearly 4,000 homes (and 500,000 square feet of commercial space) to the area.

The Day Tripper
This week, we are going to explore the southern end of Assateague Island. In an earlier article, we went to Assateague State Park (Maryland) and the Assateague Island National Seashore. This trip to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge is about 66 miles, and will take you about 1 1/2 hours of driving time. Get an early start, plan on lunch in the town of Chincoteague, and you can be back in time for dinner. Assateague Island is what is known as a “barrier island,” built by sand that persistent waves have raised from the ocean floor. The constant reshaping of the dunes mirrors a restless origin, as stead winds continue to move the sand. Occasional storms drive waves and sands so forcefully that beach and shoreline change dramatically over time.

Selbyville rocks with Old-Timer's Day
Bill Lake struggled Saturday trying to fit a 6-foot trophy in the backseat of his yellow-and-black 1970 Buick. The car, which had garnered the award, could not completely accommodate the supersized prize, and its owner ultimately left the decoration dangling diagonally out of the passenger side window.

Easy is not a consideration
It might seem easy, but beneath that surface many would consider the feat impossible.

Taste of Philly
Philly’s Finest, in the Lighthouse Cove shopping center (Route 54), offers north Delaware-south Pennsylvania cuisine, just west of the Route 1 hustle.

Equestrian Dreams
A freak equine accident last November placed Shelly Townsend’s prospects for survival in peril. While attempting to leap over an obstacle from an overambitious distance, a 1,400-pound mare thrust Townsend to the ground and trampled her torso. The Millsboro native likened the impact to that of a NASCAR driver colliding with a wall. She suffered a punctured lung, a punctured femoral artery, a lacerated liver and four broken ribs.

Local filmmaker reports progress
It takes a lot of diehard, hometown pride to stand by east coast waves sometimes, and not many surf movies feature this stretch of Atlantic coast — but there are some filmmakers here.

Stephen ministers here to listen
Three parishioners from Mariner’s Bethel United Methodist Church, and Pastor Steve Ackerman, traveled to Pittsburgh, Penn. last year, for an intensive, 50-hour Stephen Ministries training seminar.

Budokan to host intructors
Instructors from Arizona, Texas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Florida and Delaware will be converging to share knowledge of Japanese swordsmanship or Kenjutsu.

Send in recipes
Entries for the 16th Coast Day Crab Cake Cook-Off are due on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005. Eight finalists will be selected from these entries to compete for cash prizes ($150 for first place, $100 for second place and $75 for third place), a plaque and recognition in the cook-off on Coast Day, Sunday, Oct. 2, at the University of Delaware’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes.

Pops for Pop's held at Bear Trap Dunes
Bear Trap Dunes was host to a Father’s Day “pops” concert on Sunday, June 19. It was presented by the Carl M. Freeman Foundation.

County revisits homes in commercial zones
Sussex County Council members reconvened for a workshop-format discussion following the main body of the June 21 council meeting, and lunch, hashing out preliminary guidelines for several draft ordinances before a sparse audience

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.

Bethany reurns proprty-use decision to council
The Bethany Beach Planning Commission tabled discussion on the disposition of the former Christian Church and Neff properties at their monthly meeting Saturday, June 18, after Mayor Jack Walsh told members to delay any further planning until the town council first reviews options for what to do with the space.

The Agenda

In the bag
Tiffany Nacchia always knew she wanted to be self-employed, but she never imagined she would be where she is today.

Hanging with the locals
“We wanted to create an environment for the locals to hang out, maybe after they have finished working all weekend, and just have fun and relax,” said Barry Kreummel, general manager of the Big Easy Restaurant. He was speaking of the recent addition of music to the late Sunday evening menu, advertised as Pete Tierney and Friends.

Women's surfing rides into local break
In 1977, very few women were surfing, according to Eastern Surfing Association competitor and local surf artist Bonnie Preziosi. But today there are enough women to warrant women-only contests.

Post 28 rallies back from losses
Sometimes when you’re down, it’s easy to stay down. But in the case of the Post 28 Warriors baseball team, they fought right through a couple of tough losses and gained a couple of big wins.

Kiteboading takes off
There are some days when the surfing conditions are less than ideal, such as when a nor’easter hits Delmarva’s shores and the waves are too rough to ride.

Veterans aim for Olympic triumph
Delaware’s war veterans aren’t getting older, they’re getting better — especially the group of 70- to 74-year-old veterans who competed in the National Senior Olympic Championship Games at the University of Pittsburg from June 3 to June 18.

Fishing Report
Over the past week, fishing was good all over.