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		Coastal Point • RUSLANA LAMBERT Early winter at the beach? Nope. Storms last Friday left this foamy mess in South Bethany.

Millville council bans house moves
The Millville Town Council at their Oct. 10 meeting unanimously approved a resolution banning the moving of homes within the town. Deputy Mayor Joan Bennett proposed the resolution as a stop-gap measure pending the town approving a permanent ordinance that would ban such moves.

CIB report blasts proposed buffers
A Center for the Inland Bays report released last week blasted the effectiveness of the proposed buffer regulation within the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s most recent draft of its Pollution Control Strategy.

Letter alleges Wichmann's censure conduct violation
An accusation letter sent to the Delaware State Public Integrity Commission regarding this summer’s controversy on the Ocean View Town Council was addressed at the last Ocean View town council meeting, Oct. 3.

Bethany man dies after moped accident
A 42-year-old Bethany Beach man died Sunday after driving his moped into the back of a parked car on Route 1 in Rehoboth.

Hyland, Phillips, debating development in fifth district
Retired teacher and current Laurel School Board member Harvey Hyland Jr., who filed to challenge incumbent County Councilman Vance Phillips (R – 5th) in the Nov. 7 election, is running on a platform familiar to anyone who has followed Phillips or Sussex County issues in recent years: Development.

Frankford's Timmons headed for Japan
Growing up as the daughter of an Army colonel, Karen Timmons saw her share of the world. She learned the Spanish language in her adolescence living in Argentina and Ecuador. She saw the beautiful landscapes of Germany when her father was stationed there.

Miller signs WWII book in Bethany Beach
Pulitzer Prize nominee and part-time Bethany Beach resident Donald L. Miller stopped by Bethany Beach Books on Saturday to sign his popular new book “Masters of the Air,” a story of American bomber crews in World War II.

Local man remembers Eighth Air Force Days
When John Fitzgerald turned 18 in the summer of 1942, the country was already entrenched in World War II. But the Boston native had no hesitation about joining the military. His father and uncles had served in World War I and he, like most kids of his generation, had impatiently waited until the time when they could serve, he said.

IWalk puts student's feet to pavement
Lord Baltimore Elementary School students put on their walking shoes and participated in IWALK 2006, a part of International Walk to School Month, on Wednesday, Oct. 4.

Sussex Tech puts on the pep
Sussex Technical High School kicked off their football team’s first home game and welcomed the freshman class with their first pep rally of the season on Friday, Sept. 29.

Obituaries
Elizabeth Anne Royle, 77
Nicholas Sowa, 72
Ralph M. Kline, 80
Carolyn J. ‘Mammy’ Cannon, 57
Frank H. Mitchell, 88
Anna Louise Coursey, 92

Life's a ball
Supporters of the South Coastal Library on Saturday jump-started a three-year campaign to raise $3.5 million for library expansion with the first annual Harvest Ball at the Baycenter in Dewey Beach.

Lady Indians keep rolling
Fresh off their fifth consecutive win, including a 2-1 victory over the Lake Forest Lady Spartans varsity field hockey team, Indian River head coach Colleen Groszer felt that her team was playing outstanding hockey.

Indians pound Lake Forest
Despite holding only a first-half 1-0 advantage over Seaford’s youthful squad on Oct. 3, the Indian River varsity soccer team (7-1) appeared on its way to an eighth straight win after defeating state tournament contenders Delmar and Dover on a pair of hat-tricks by Pierson Roenke and Peter Mais. But they fell instead, 3-2, for their first loss of the season.

Indians drop first of season to Seaford
Seaford’s three second-half goals on Oct. 3 proved enough to hand Indian River’s varsity soccer team its first loss of the fall season, and since the second round of the 2005 state tournament — but it also showed them that they aren’t invincible.

Greyhounds reach the beach
Raincoats kept them dry and warm as they walked calmly, heads held high through the streets of Dewey Beach on Friday afternoon while their pictures were posted on the windows of nearly every Honda, Explorer and Saab in sight. There appeared to be no visible sign they were aware of their infamy, aside from the subtle wag of their tails.