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NOVEMBER 25, 2022
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Volume 19, Issue 47
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IRSD to review SRO issue at Lord Baltimore By Mike Smith Staff Reporter The Indian River School District (IRSD) Board of Education will be meeting Monday evening at Indian
River High School at 7 p.m. and will discuss the topic of funding and staffing of the school constable and the additional school resource officer (SRO) combination at Lord Baltimore Elementary School in Ocean View.
New Millsboro PD building expected to open in a year
The Ocean View Police Department had allocated and re-assigned a police officer to Lord Baltimore, full-time, before a communications problem regarding the funding of the position and staff assignments led the OVPD to return
the officer to regular assignment on town duty this fall. Sgt. Rhys Bradshaw was deployed to Lord Baltimore in the first week of See IRSD page A3
Let the holidays begin
By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter A little more than one month after ground was broken for the new Millsboro police station, work is continuing on readying the concrete pad, with tentative plans to pour it next month. Even if winter weather is frigid, with rain or snow, work on the $9.3 million, 13,000-square-foot structure on West Railroad Avenue will continue, because the walls will be built off-site, then taken to the location where the building will be assembled. Walls should be up by around March, and the new headquarters is expected to open in about a year. The lot was cleared before work began because existing trees were in the way. “We couldn’t build around them. They were right in the center, but there will be a design for landscaping and grass. It has to be approved with drainage,” Millsboro Police Chief Brian Calloway said. The Town owns the West Railroad Avenue property and See BUILDING page A3
Fenwick Island considering options for canal dredging spoils By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Fenwick Island’s long-awaited channel-dredging project is inching closer to reality, with timing of the next “window” during which the project can be completed less than a year away. The major issue currently facing the Town’s Dredge Committee is where to place the material that will be dredged from two channels that lead into the Little Assawoman Bay and have become silted-over and hazardous for boats coming in and out of Fenwick Island’s canals. In recent years, the committee has been working through several scenarios for that aspect of the project. One of them, which would have had the material placed on land slated for development by Carl M. Freeman Companies, was shelved See DREDGE page A4
Coastal Point • Kerin Magill
The folks at the Millville-based Santa's Letters charity organization held their traditional "Santa's Mail Box" festivities on Saturday, Nov. 19. Santa accompanied the mailbox, arriving in a "hot rod" alongside antique fire truck from the Millville Volunteer Fire Company that carried the red mailbox. Santa's Letters founder Sean Malone said 37 children deposited their letters to Santa in the mailbox that evening during the special event, which featured children's games and activities, a bonfire with s'mores, hot chocolate, holiday music and more. In addition to collecting and facilitating answers to children's letters, the charity hopes to help make the holidays brighter for 200 children this year, Malone said. Contributions to the Santa's Letters organization can be made through its website, www.santaslettersinc.com.