Coastal Point • RUSLANA LAMBERT Garrett Driscoll watches some of the action from the dugout as the Phillies took on the Dodgers in Lower Sussex Little League Action last Saturday.

WGES provides electricity option
Delmarva Power customers in Delaware received two helpings of good news last week regarding the price of electricity. First, Delmarva Power residential customers will no longer have to pay interest on an optional phased-in electricity rate-hike plan. And second, Delmarva Power residential customers now have a choice on where to purchase their electricity.

'Fiasco'
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.

Blue Surf redevelopment concept unveiled
Plans to redevelop the landmark Blue Surf Motel on Bethany Beach’s boardwalk, in part, spurred the town to pass a moratorium on commercial construction and consider architectural guidelines for their commercial district.

BBVFC is one step closer
Just in time for the dedication of their new fire station on Sunday, members of the Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Company got some good news: the Bethany Beach Town Council unanimously voted April 21 to support the company’s application for a variance to allow a scaled-down communications tower at the facility.

Commercial guidelines taking shape in Bethany
Members of the Bethany Beach Architectural Guideline Development Committee for the C-1 and C2 Zoning Districts (AGDC) worked to refine their initial concepts of the guidelines at an April 25 meeting with consulting architect Jeff Schoellkopf.

Bethany residents reminded to maintain swales
Bethany Beach’s most recent work reviewing town ordinances came down to one resounding bottom line: Property owners in the town need to remember that they’re responsible for the upkeep on the swales and drainage ditches that abut their properties.

Race, dinner emphasize autism awareness
Volunteers, athletes and concerned citizens will come together this weekend to raise money to support local autism programs and bring public awareness for the nationally-observed Autism Awareness Day, set for April 29.

IR grad to be celebrated at fundraiser
Indian River High School grad Kent McCullough, class of 1988, is no longer with us, but through the efforts of his family and friends to save others from McCullough’s fate, his spirit lives on.

South Bethany finalizing comp plan
The South Bethany Planning Commission made quick work of two partitioning requests at their April 24 meeting, before plunging into comments from state agencies on the town’s draft comprehensive development plan (CDP).

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 shores.

Birders flocking to Delmarva region
Each year for the past 11, nearly 500 people have converged on the Delmarva Peninsula on the last weekend of April for Delmarva Birding Weekend. In kayaks and canoes, and sometimes on foot, these eco-tourists take in the natural beauty of the peninsula in the event sponsored by Delmarva Low Impact Tourism Experiences (DLITE).

Osteoarthritis sufferers opt for surgery
“Your knee being skewered by an ice pick — that’s how I described the pain before I had surgery. If that is a 10, the level of pain now is zero,” said Charles Abrachinsky.

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.

Obituaries
C. Wilson Hickman, 83
Norman J. Weinelt Sr., 75
Anna Louise Hearn, 86
Mary E. Moore, 91
Albert E. ‘Gene’ Brewington Sr., 69
Linford Udell Fisher, 76
Carl E. Beigler, 74
Marian Rae Hill, 87

Bethany approves height allowance
Members of the Bethany Beach Town Council approved on April 21 a revised version of the controversial residential height allowance proposed by the town’s Planning Commission and Zoning Ad Hoc Committee (ZAC), with a 5-1 vote.

Charity motorcycle run returns to Bethany
DiFebo’s Restaurant in Bethany Beach will host its second annual motorcycle run to support education for the children of fallen police officers this weekend, on Sunday, April 30.

IRSD promotes from within for superintendent job
After 28 years of service to the Indian River School District, Dr. Susan Bunting has been handed its leading role. At a special board meeting on Monday, the school board members voted unanimously to select the current district director of instruction as its new superintendent.

Selbyville restaurant regular stop for fundraisers
It seems like someone’s holding a fundraiser every month, at the Georgia House restaurant in Selbyville — and that’s because they are.

Hosting the world
Imagine being a high school student from a small Eastern European country, with a history of human settlement dating back thousands of years B.C. (possibly to the Stone Age). Then you come to the U.S. and find that many of your American high school contemporaries don’t know anything about your country, or where it’s located.

Room to spare
If you were to ask me which — of the countless beautifully designed rooms I have experienced over the years — were my favorites, you might be surprised to discover that all of them were out of doors. No traditional walls or ceilings, or lighting. Not a one. Yet all these spaces were actual rooms — as real in function and esthetics as any other, just as they are all now indelible images stashed in the pleasure-seeking portions of my mind — spaces I can visit whenever I want to feel that all is right with the world.

World Gym set to lift May 1
Jim Miller said Ocean View was a perfect spot to open a second World Gym. The partner in the Ocean City gym said that, like the Maryland resort town, Ocean View is known for its easy-going nature. The people enjoy a slower lifestyle, and the small town could never be confused for a bustling city.

Indians drop one to Cape Henlopen
In each of the past two seasons, Cape Henlopen’s varsity baseball team has lost to Indian River. Last year Indian River, Cape Henlopen and Caesar Rodney were in a three-way heat for the conference championship, but it was the Indians who pulled out the highly-contested crown by winning that head-to-head match-up against the Vikings.

Tennis teams fall to Caesar Rodney
The Indian River boys and girls tennis programs both lost to Caesar Rodney on April 25, with neither team was able to muster a competitive victory in either match. Indian River’s girls second-doubles team, Julia Jaquette and Taylor Rosenblit, scored their team’s only point by way of forfeit.

Lady Indians avenge loss to Delmar
The Delmar Lady Wildcats handed Indian River its only regular-season girls soccer loss in an overtime decision late last season (May 17), which derailed an impressive 12-0-1 record heading into the state tournament.

Indian River softball stays undefeated
A perfect 13-0.

Indian River shoots blanks against Dover
Two weeks ago, Indian River’s golf team wasted Milford and Delmar by a combined 58 strokes, heading into a lengthy Easter holiday break. Head Coach Neal Beahan handed his players the responsibility of staying on top of their game over the 13-day hiatus, in preparation for the team’s big match against the (5-0) Dover Senators at the Mapledale Country Club.