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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
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Volume 20, Issue 37
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Ørsted’s land-based investigation for wind farm under way By Mike Smith Staff Reporter Ørsted, a clean-energy company, will conduct onshore site investigations and offshore geophysical surveys in Delaware this fall in support of Skipjack Wind’s development. Skipjack Wind is a 966-megawatt offshore wind farm that is designed to power nearly
300,000 homes in the region with renewable wind energy, create Delaware jobs and strengthen the electric grid serving Delaware. State Sen. Gerald Hocker was among the first to notify constituents of the site exploration, via social media postings over the weekend. “If it’s going to be a Maryland source of energy, let’s keep it all in Maryland,”
he said in a broadcast on social media Monday. “Let’s not jeopardize the state of Delaware. Ørsted was tasked with doing the investigation of the route. It is very upsetting to hear from a constituent that read about it in the Coastal Point, that this routing is going to be in our district.” The landfall routing process is supervised through DelDOT and DNREC.
“I think you are going to see an uproar in the public now that you are seeing these consent forms from the wind company,” he said. Hocker is referring to letters from C.W. Solutions, a real estate services and survey company with the operat-
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Incumbents, Keil triumph in Bethany By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter Three candidates elected to the Bethany Beach Town Council will be sworn in during an organizational meeting at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 18, at Bethany Beach Town Hall. Winning seats in the Saturday, Sept. 9, election were incumbent Jerry Morris, a resident, who received 410 votes; newly elected resident Theresa Keil, with 386 votes; and incumbent and non-resident Patrick Sheplee, with 347 votes. Candidate Keith Brothers received 157 votes, Russell Evans got 136, and Marc Tanowitz had 103. Other current council members are Mayor Rosemary Hardiman, Lew Killmer, Ron Calef and Mickey Hinman. Candidates on the seven-member panel serve two-year terms and are not paid. Morris, a Delaware native who, with his wife, Judi, has two sons and five grandchildren, is retired from the DuPont engineering department. A See ELECTION page 4
Special to the Coastal Point • Butch Comegys
A windsurfer appears to be perfectly in his element in Rehoboth Bay last weekend.
Warrior Families shown appreciation from community By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Nina Coble as she sat under a tent at the Bayside community west of Fenwick Island, eating dinner with her family and dozens of others gathered
for a celebration that was part of Operation SEAs the Day’s Warrior Family Beach Week on Friday, Sept. 8. Her 3-year-old son, Andrew, had fallen asleep during the parade that brought the families in three school buses, escorted by law enforcement and emergency vehicles, from Sea
Colony near Bethany Beach. He sat, still snoozing in his stroller, as his family — Nina, dad Derek and brother Sebastian, 10 — ate their dinner at a table decorated with a patriotic centerpiece. Derek Coble, 36, retired from the U.S. Army after being struck by an
IED in Afghanistan in January 2010. About six months later, doctors discovered a brain tumor, his wife said. He went through brain surgery and radiation then, and most recently had See HEROES page 6