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OCTOBER 21, 2022
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Beach replenishment to start next month By Mike Smith Staff Reporter Delaware beach replenishment will be accelerated with funding from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan grants. The beach replenishment in South Coastal Delaware will start with the Delaware Seashore State Park
Fenwick stakeholders look at pedestrian and bicycle safety
and North Indian River Inlet beaches in November. Visitors should anticipate partial closures of the beach at Delaware Seashore State Park’s North Inlet day-use area while heavy equipment is on site during standard business hours Monday through Thursday. DNREC beach and shoreline re-
plenishment is now being funded in large part by the American Rescue Plan. Funds totaling $1.3 million will be used by the DNREC Shoreline & Waterway Management Section for deploying small nourishment projects along the Delaware Bay beaches, including Pickering Beach, Kitts Hummock and Cape Shores, in addition to Atlantic Ocean
nourishment work at Delaware Seashore State Park’s North Inlet dayuse area. Work this fall and into winter is expected to lengthen the beach and dune life of a DNREC nourishment project that spanned five bay beach communities and was completed last See REPLENISHMENT page 2
Early bird gets the wave
By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Cyclists and pedestrians on Coastal Highway in Fenwick Island are taking their lives in their hands, and it’s time to take a look at how to make them safer. That was the conclusion of a “minisymposium” on pedestrian and bicycle safety held Tuesday, Oct. 18, at Fenwick Island Town Hall and streamed online via Zoom. The meeting, sponsored by the Town’s Planning & Zoning Commission, included presentations from the state Department of Transportation and Fenwick Island Police Chief John Devlin, as well as a man Planning Commission Chair Amy Kyle called “the most active biker I know in Fenwick Island.” John Nason told the attendees he had been cycling in Fenwick Island for 43 years, “when I haven’t been running or swimming.” Nason said that while the town’s bayside streets are “an absolute pleasure” to cycle on, Coastal See SAFETY page 2
Special to the Coastal Point • Marian Dowling
Brian Murphy caught a few waves at dawn near Bethany Beach last week.
Proposal for Lord Baltimore SRO position falters By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter When discussion between the Indian River School District and Town of Ocean View about adding an Ocean View Police Department officer as a
full-time school resource officer at Lord Baltimore Elementary School recently failed to deliver that position, it wasn’t because the district didn’t want to contribute $40,000 to help pay officer Rhys Bradshaw’s $75,658 annual salary.
“Heck no. We were delighted to put that amount of money toward the SRO,” Donald Hattier, longtime school board member, emphasized to the Coastal Point this week. “It was all about our constables,” Hattier said, explaining that the school
district is short two constables to cover all of the schools in the district, so school board officials had decided to remove the constable from Lord Baltimore and put him elsewhere, since an See SRO page 3