Coastal Point • RUSLANA LAMBERT Sierra Hattier does her rendition of 'Fever' during Indian RiverHigh School's talent and variety show on March 18.

IRSD approves 2005-2006 calendar
Students in the Indian River School District (IRSD) will still be able to work (or play) until Labor Day next year.

County matches open land donations
Sussex County Council signed off on a pair of Sussex County Land Trust (SCLT) partnerships at the March 22 council meeting.

RPD, canal street ends top planning agenda
Members of the Bethany Beach Planning Commission reviewed a sketch plan for another small planned residential development (PRD) at their meeting on Saturday, March 19.

Royal Farms sets up shop
Look no further, Dagsboro just landed a 24-hour Royal Farms convenience store.

Medians move forward in Fenwick
Fenwick Island Town Council tentatively awarded a $135,000 Route 1 median landscaping project to Greenscape Landscape at the March 18 council meeting.

Bethany takes a look into town's future
The future of development and zoning in Bethany Beach has been an ongoing topic of discussion in the town. In recent years, town officials and property owners have repeatedly returned to the topic of the need for zoning changes, architectural review boards (ARBs) and development guidelines.

Ocean View P&Z pushes amenities
A 22-townhouse project came before Ocean View Planning and Zoning (P&Z) for final review on March 17. P&Z members questioned several aspects of the plan, but eventually agreed to consider it approved, contingent upon their receipt of three final items.

Start your engines
Di Febo’s Restaurant in Bethany Beach is organizing a police escorted, traffic free motorcycle ride to raise money for a fallen officers’ education fund.

Mitchell signs on to IRSD school board
Last year, 2004, was the Indian River School District’s (IRSD’s) biggest ever for capital improvements. It was probably also the biggest year ever for glitches, construction budget overruns, crews going for lunch and never coming back, etc.

Chamber planning hardhat cocktail party
It’s been a noisy, dusty week at the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce. Construction crews have torn out the old flooring and gutted the bathrooms in preparation for continuing renovations at the Visitors Center (Route 1, Fenwick Island).

Bethany passes $10.2 millions budget
Members of Bethany Beach’s Budget and Finance Committee met briefly Friday, March 18, to complete final review and markup on the town’s $10.2 million budget for its 2006 fiscal year.

Bethany's 'dog days' go unchanged
Members of the Bethany Beach Charter and Ordinance Committee (CORC) voted Friday, March 18, to keep in place the town’s existing date for permitting dogs on the beach after the summer season.

Helicopter rushes injured worker to care
A construction worker was recovering early this week from injuries sustained at a Bethany Beach construction site.

Fenwick considers event for lighthouse
Fenwick Island Town Council heard a proposal for an “aquathlon” to benefit the Fenwick Island Lighthouse Foundation at the March 18 town council meeting.

Start the presses
Selbyville Middle School (SMS) students have submitted their stories in the nick of deadline, and are now designing a pair of eye-pleasing newsletters for the readership.

Fenwick talks meetings and sporting event
A joking suggestion that members of the Fenwick Island Town Council lead off their March 12 “workshop without agenda” (WWA) by canceling the WWA actually got some serious attention from the council members.

Artistic flair
March has been an exciting month for Rita Studzinsky. First, she is the Millsboro Art League’s Artist of the Month and, as such, has the entire side wall of their gallery’s spacious old downtown brick building dedicated to her pictures. And, second, she has joined the eclectic mix of artists and artisans whose work thrives amongst the beauty of little bonsai trees at the Inner Peace Bonsai Studio in Ocean View, with a display of greeting cards depicting her most popular pictures.

Bethany passes budget, flurry of items
Bethany Beach Town Council members vote unanimously Friday, March 18, to enact a series of measures, on issues ranging from how the town’s records can be distributed to how its investments are made.

Beach replenishment key issue at meeting
Officials from Bethany Beach and South Bethany trekked to Washington, D.C., on March 15, with the chief hope that continued close communication with the state’s legislators will help bring the $5 million in federal funds needed to keep the towns’ beach reconstruction project on track.

Bethany Beach home saved from fire
Units from the Bethany Beach, Millville and Rehoboth Beach fire departments responded Friday, March 18, to a house fire in the 600 block of Second Street in Bethany Beach, near Evans Avenue.

Blowing pipes
There’s just something about bagpipe music. People invariably describe it as yearning, plaintive, mournful.

At your service
There's plenty of traffic around, but limousines are rare enough that they still have the power to turn heads in Sussex County.

Girls steamroll St. Mark's
The Indian River varsity softball team enacted the mercy rule as they steam-rolled St. Marks, 11-0, in five innings on March 22.

Lady Indians shut down Smyrna in opener
The Lady Indians varsity soccer team jumped out to a 1-0 record after shutting out Smyrna, 2-0, in their season opener, March 22.

Boys battle, but fall just short at end
The Indian River varsity boy's tennis team lost a close 3-2 match to Smyrna March 22.

IR drops one to defending champs
The Indian River varsity baseball team dropped a tough 9-2 loss to last year's state champion, St. Mark's, on March 22.

Girls fall short in touch match with Smyrna
Having lost the first set 4-6, Erica and Alison Evans (sophomore and senior, respectively) played hard in the second set and eventually tied it up at six all.

Warhawks shut down warriors, 21-0
Winning two games in a row is a bona fide streak, and the Sussex County Warhawks semi-pro football team accomplished just that by shutting out the Talbot County Warriors 21-0 on March 19.

Golfers tee up Sussex Central
The late golf legend Ben Hogan is probably smiling down on the Indian River golf teasm after they trounced Sussex Central178-236 at Bear Trap Dunes, on March 22.