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Full-time SRO not going to be at LB after all By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter In a reversal, Lord Baltimore Elementary School will no longer have a fulltime school resource officer. Instead, the Indian River School District will continue providing a constable in the school. Ocean View Police Department officer Rhys Bradshaw, who assumed the new, full-time SRO position at the be-
ginning of the current school year, will no longer be assigned there. “The school district said, ‘Yes, we will help support it,’ but they were going to remove the constable that is typically at the school. Our offer was to have a police officer there for enhancement, for programs and to engage with the children, not just status quo. So we will just go back to how we have always engaged with the school district,” Town Manager
Carol Houck told the Coastal Point before the Tuesday, Oct. 11, town council meeting. The school district had agreed to pay $40,000 of Bradshaw’s annual salary of $75,658 and completely pay for the constable. OVPD Chief Kenneth McLaughlin told the Coastal Point that the change is somewhat disappointing. During the summer, Bradshaw had
completed 40 hours of training, specialized for school resource officers. Training “covered a lot of different topics, including laws involving what you can and can’t do in the schools and with juveniles,” McLaughlin said. Officers have been at Lord Baltimore for more than 20 years, but the demand has been growing. See SRO page 2
Cottage Café sold to SoDel Concepts By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter The Cottage Café Restaurant & Pub in Bethany Beach has been purchased by SoDel Concepts, representatives from both companies confirmed this week. The announcement came Tuesday, Oct. 11, after speculation spread recently that the locally owned restaurant group had purchased the popular Coastal Highway eatery. Cottage Café owners Brent Poffenberger and Tom Neville, college friends who opened the first Cottage Café in Ocean City, Md., in 1993, then opened the Bethany Beach location in 1994. SoDel President Scott Kammerer said in a statement on Tuesday that the restaurant “has such a sweet spot in the hearts of so many locals and visitors” and “attracts a loyal following and a new fan base” for the company, which now owns 20 eateries in southeastern Delaware. Back in the early days, Neville reSpecial to the Coastal Point • Marian Dowling
See COTTAGE page 3
The iconic Point at Cape Henlopen offers breathtaking views — from afar, or up close via a boat.
Work continues on Millsboro bypass project By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter Officials at DelDOT are continuing right-of-way acquisition in preparation for building a new, $130 million bypass
designed to relieve traffic jams in downtown Millsboro. “We have 47 or so parcels being impacted, that we are getting rights-ofway for. That process takes time,” Mark Whiteside, project engineer and man-
ager for Project Development South, told the Coastal Point this week. “They are both residences and businesses. It takes time, because we try to meet with adjacent property owners and stakeholders to answer questions
in regard to the rights-of-way process and any impacts. We try to be very transparent, to try to ensure the process See BYPASS page 2