It has been nearly four years since AT&T first filed an application for a special-use exception that would allow the company to erect a 100-foot-tall cell-phone tower on property just outside Bethany Beach Town limits, on the east side of Route 1 behind the Arby’s and gas station.

Last week, the Sussex County Board of Adjustment held a public hearing for Allen Harim Foods, which had applied to the county for a special-use exception for a potentially hazardous use — a poultry processing facility.

Route 26 roadwork will be waking up earlier this month. Lane closures will continue for two more weeks for utility work but will begin at 5 a.m. daily, and there will be no lane closures on weekends.

In my life I’ve celebrated 25 Father’s Days, but this year’s will be the first of its kind.

While it seems as though many area farmers’ markets are thriving, selling everything from fresh produce to homemade jellies and breads, not all have been a success.

This summer, the South Coastal Library in Bethany Beach will be offering a new program designed to help identify children in the event that they are ever lost.

Millville hit the ground running this week with their farmers’ market, now in its second year. The market opened up last Thursday and offered fresh local produce from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., as it will for the remainder of the summer and into the second week of September.

Jeff Wildonger has dreamt of seeing the entire state of Delaware — from the outside, looking in. The Newark kayaker will paddle the entire Delaware coast in the 2013 Great Delaware Kayak Tour, to support Justin’s Beach House in Bethany Beach.

It’s hurricane season again. Are you ready? Is your pet ready? If you have pets such as hamsters, rabbits, guinea pigs and the like, it doesn’t take quite as much preparation to be able to evacuate with them. However, if you have dogs and cats, there is more preparation required. For horses and goats and the like, even more preparation is required.

The Selbyville Volunteer Fire Company is aiming to add a new ladder truck to its fleet, and the Selbyville Town Council offered their full approval at their June 3 meeting.

Women are rocking the courts at the 3rd Annual ResortQuest Pro Women’s Open in Bethany Beach this week. Around 60 up-and-coming female tennis athletes came to Sea Colony Beach & Tennis Resort early this week to take a stab at the $10,000 total prize money in both singles and doubles competition.

For the second time in River Soccer Club’s history, one of the club’s teams has won the Delaware state championship.