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The Coastal Point covers news and events in Bethany Beach, South Bethany, Fenwick Island, Ocean View, Millville, Frankford, Selbyville and Dagsboro, Del., as well as the larger area of southeastern Sussex County, from the Delaware state line north to the Indian River Inlet and from the coast inland to Millsboro. Our focus is truly local, with local reporters attending nearly all official meetings in each of our towns, as well as following news and events in the area’s non-incorporated communities. We invite you to visit our town and other governmental pages below to get information about them and their citizens, and to read news and other stories from each of them. |
Emergency Operations Center: Sussex County 'dodged' storm-Updated 4:00 p.m.. Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
Bethany Beach remains closed (Fri., Sept. 3, 2010) to all beach related activities (swimming, fishing, etc.) until conditions improve.
Millville looking at numbers on joint policing possibilities
Ocean View and Millville officials this week confirmed that discussion of the possibility of joint policing of the towns has continued this summer, despite the cancelation of one planned meeting and a lack of externally visible movement on the issue.
Ocean View and 26 Centre reach settlement for rezoning
The Town of Ocean View and owners of three parcels that had been requested to be rezoned for commercial use recently reached a settlement on the issue after the town’s denial of two of three applications was challenged in court.
OV considers comments on code revisions
The Ocean View Town Council held a special workshop on Aug. 31 to review and discuss the town’s existing Land Use and Development Code.
Rotary hears from Carper on health care issues
Southern Sussex Rotary heard from invited guest U.S. Sen. Thomas Carper on Thursday, Aug. 27, regarding health care and recent insurance reforms. Carper explained that the idea of larger purchasing pools that the Bethany-Fenwick Chamber of Commerce put it motion a few years back was something he had talked up and “didn’t forget about.”
Nature center offering kids a kayaking field trip
Children who have enjoyed the weekly lessons on marine life, wetlands and other fun outdoor activities at the Bethany Beach Nature Center – and those that have yet to see what the fuss is about – are being invited on a special free guided kayak tour through the inland bays on Saturday, Sept. 11.
Local man’s portait to hang at Merchant Marine Academy
Ocean View resident Joseph Stewart holds the rank of two-star general in the Marine Corps and as a vice-admiral, or three-star general, in the United States Maritime Service. Stewart served as the United States Merchant Marine Academy’s (USMMA) ninth superintendent and, upon his retirement in 2008, the Academy commissioned to have his portrait painted so it may hang in Wiley Hall – the chief administrative center for the Academy and former home of Walter Chrysler, in Kings Point, N.Y.
Carper meets with local business owners to talk shop
Some area businesspeople got to sit down and pick the brain of U.S. Sen. Tom Carper on Friday, Aug. 21. Mike Nally of Miken Builders, along with some of his staff, and Mike Jahnigan of the Sun Group of Businesses, with some of his staff, each met with the senator to talk shop.
Ocean View wins water connection lawsuit
On Wednesday, Aug. 6, the Town of Ocean View received the ruling from the Delaware Court of Chancery in a case filed by a resident who had refused to connect to the town’s central water system. The ruling was in favor of the town, and Mayor Gordon Wood called it a “slam dunk for the town.”
OV continues to discuss revising land-use code
On Tuesday, Aug. 17, the Ocean View Town Council held the second public hearing and reading of an ordinance to revise the town’s existing land-use code.
