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Coastal Point viewpoint 2006.05.19

\When Indian River senior Andrew Cordell Carey drove upstate to the Christiana Hilton for the 2006 Academic All-Stars Competition banquet last week, he didn’t know quite what to expect.

Fenwick goes to survey
Fenwick Island’s controversial proposal to control home size with a floor-area ratio (FAR) netted calls for a referendum at this month’s second public hearing.

Millville kicks off Centennial party kicks off with a parade
Since January, the seven-member Millville Centennial Committee has been planning to celebrate the town’s 100th birthday. And after months of making calls, accepting supporting donations and convincing the appropriate organizations to shut down Route 26 for an hour on an early-summer Saturday, the moment is finally here.

Dewey imposes moratorium on conversions
As concerns grow in Fenwick Island over the increasing pressure on the town’s commercial property owners to convert to residential use, officials in nearby Dewey Beach are faced with the real prospect of losing a big chunk of the town’s vital business district — and they’re taking action.

Bethany fine-tunes commercial guidelines
As Bethany Beach nears the midway point in its 180-day commercial building moratorium and a mandated public report on progress toward new commercial architecture guidelines, the draft plan is reaching the fine-tuning stages.

SBPD monitors sex offender
Full-time residents in South Bethany are on the increase and its police department is on the job, helping to keep them safe.

South Bethany delays taking stand on windmills
It’s been more than a year since South Bethany officials first heard a controversial proposal from Winergy Power LLC to place power-generating wind turbines off the coast of Southern Delaware.

The Agenda

Fenwick officials to dip into savings
Just as transfer tax revenues continue to disappoint, Fenwick Island town officials are depending more heavily on those taxes to balance a proposed 2007 fiscal-year budget.

South Bethany enacts parking changes
After months of revisions, South Bethany’s new parking ordinance was voted into place May 12, on a 6-0 vote of the council (Councilwoman Marge Gassinger absent). Last-minute tweaking to wording covering mopeds, motorcycles and other such vehicles — under the umbrella term “motorized conveyance” — completed the work, which sets requirements for all such vehicles to display a parking permit and allows the council to set fees by resolution.

Fin whale drifts ashore in South Bethany
The smell of rotten fish wafted over South Bethany, and officials struggled all weekend to remove the carcass of the 70,000-pound fin whale that washed ashore Saturday, May 13.

Ocean View officials discuss rental rax
Ocean View town officials will likely introduce an ordinance at their June council meeting that would require landlords who rent property for commercial or residential uses in town to pay a tax to the town.

OM team competing at world level
Some 19 Odyssey of the Mind (OM) teams from across Delaware won state titles this year. Out of those 19, five teams came from the Indian River School District.

Coast Guard Auxiliary outlines rules of the road
Born after Jan. 1, 1978, and planning to drive a boat or personal watercraft this summer? Seriously consider getting your certificate of boat safety education first.

Students get extra days of leisure
Indian River students will get a couple extra days off next school year, to help teachers reach professional development requirements set by the state. But they won’t lose any “instruction” time, according to Nina Lou Bunting, the school board member who presented next year’s calendar to the school board at their April meeting.

County prepares for arrival of Smith's shallop
Capt. John Smith and friends sailed their 30-foot “shallop” (single-mast skiff) into Sussex County waters just shy of 400 years ago, all the way up the Nanticoke River to what is now Phillip’s Landing in Seaford.

Obituaries

Open doors
Just inside the door of the Chalkboard Tavern and Grille sits what else? A chalkboard, of course. In addition to the extensive menu offered by the new Bethany Beach restaurant and bar, that chalkboard offers a list of its specials daily. Usually, two entrees and one appetizer are extras on the menu, which has been well received by local residents since the Chalkboard’s grand opening on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, said owner Ken Heaps.

Cruisin' in style
Bethany Beach resident John Scordo remembers growing up in Baltimore city in a hot-rod era. He remembers walking the streets of Baltimore, being in awe of the 1949 Mercurys, and the old Hudsons, just to name a couple models.

Indians take down Caravel on the diamond
Indian River’s head baseball coach Howard Smack looked like a kid on Christmas morning following the team’s 5-2 win over No.3-ranked Caravel on May 15. He couldn’t contain his smile. But why should he? His team had won their last six games and recently won the Southern Division title, heading into its regular-season finale against Sussex Central on May 17.

Girls close soccer season with eight straight
The Indian River girls soccer team (13-3 overall) owned the Henlopen Conference this season, only two conference losses, to Caesar Rodney and Delmar. And the team just recently stamped its mark on two upstate teams, to conclude the regular season with eight straight wins.

Indian River wins consecutive Southern Division titles
Indian River’s golf team killed four birds with one stone on May 15, to win consecutive Southern Division championships and set a school record for wins (13) by beating Seaford and Southern contender Smyrna in a dual match at Cripple Creek Golf and Country Club.

Clash of the titans
Indian River’s 17-2 softball team hosted Caravel (16-2) on May 15 in a clash of the titans and what could very well be a preview for the state championship. But with so much talent on the field somebody still had to lose. Caravel defeated Indian River 7-1, but the game was much closer than the score indicated.

SMS sweeps season series
Winning 45 games and losing only one over a four-year period leaves fans thinking: dynasty. That a team could top such a fantastic accomplishment is beyond belief to most, but Selbyville Middle School’s baseball team did just that by notching its 46th win in a 3-1 win over long-time rival Sussex Central Middle School.

Tiffany pleased with tennis team
Of all of Indian River’s tennis teams, only the freshman second-doubles team of Taylor Rosenblit and Julia Jaquette advanced to the second round of the conference tournament at Sea Colony on May 12. But the team saw so much competition in singles matches and, having to go without Kara Roach of the first-doubles team due to business conference, head coach Elizabeth Tiffany ruled it a success.