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DECEMBER 2, 2022
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Volume 19, Issue 48
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Ocean View, IRSD agree to add SRO at LB Private donor swoops in to seal the deal By Mike Smith Staff Reporter A private donor who has a granddaughter attending Lord Baltimore Elementary School has provided
$40,000 toward funding a full-time Ocean View Police Department officer’s salary to have the officer as a school resource officer there this school year. The Indian River School District (IRSD) Board of Education agreed this week to accept the school resource officer (SRO) as staff support at Lord Baltimore, with the Town of Ocean
View picking up the full $75,658 annual salary tab, with Town funding supplemented by the donation. Ocean View received the additional private funding resources for school safety to add to its original offer to pay about half of the salary for Sgt. Rhys Bradshaw to serve as SRO at the school. OVPD Chief Kenneth McLaughlin has agreed to the plan,
with Constable Doug Messeck retained on the IRSD payroll. “We feel it was the right thing to do,” said McLaughlin, of the fullfunding package. “Over the past couple of years, our police presence has increased at the school, and to main-
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Selbyville’s new library hit with construction delays By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter Nearly two months after ground was broken for the new Selbyville Public Library building, construction still hasn’t begun, but Library Director Kelly Kline said there is no possibility the book will be closed on the plan. “We are definitely building a new library,” she said, adding that she is often asked when crews will begin work. “We are experiencing a delay due to funding and supply-chain issues, but we hope to get back on track very shortly,” she said. “We broke ground on the very best information we had at the time. Given the climate of the world, things can change very quickly. From the time active construction begins, it should be a year-long build,” Kline told the Coastal Point this week. Originally, the plan was to build a 14,000-square-foot, $13 million struc-
Special to the Coastal Point • Butch Comegys
Runners get up to speed during the start of the 19th Annual Sea Colony Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk on Sunday, Nov. 27. Proceeds from the event will benefit Special Olympics Delaware.
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Millville spreading the holiday spirit this weekend Crafts, carols and Claus on tap for Saturday By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter In Millville this Saturday, Dec. 3,
Santa Claus will be making the rounds of several holiday events. If you miss him in the morning at the Millville Volunteer Fire Company, don’t worry – you can catch him in the afternoon at Evans Park. The day’s festivities start with the fire company’s first Holiday Craft
Fair. Sponsored by the fire company’s Auxiliary, the fair will feature 48 crafters with treasures ranging from clocks to quilts and from sea glass to wood crafts, according to Judy Wagner, chair of the event. The Holiday Craft Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the fire hall
on Atlantic Avenue. Santa will be on hand to visit with children from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wagner said. Breakfast and lunch foods will be available for sale, as well as baked goods. Proceeds from the event will go See MILLVILLE page 4