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Four candidates have filed for Fenwick council By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Four candidates have filed as candidates in Fenwick Island’s Town Council election, set for Saturday, Aug. 3. There are three openings on the council this year. The candidates who had filed by the
Killmer to take on one more duty in Bethany Beach
June 21 deadline are Richard Benn, Susan Brennan, William Rymer and James Simpson. Rymer and Benn are incumbents. The third open seat is currently held by Ed Bishop, who said this week he is preparing to move out of Fenwick Island and therefore decided not to run for re-election. Brennan is the current chair of Fen-
wick Island’s Planning Commission. Simpson ran unsuccessfully for council last year. Each seat has a three-year term. In preparation for the Aug. 3 election, FISH — the Fenwick Island homeowners’ group — will host a candidate forum at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 13, at the Knights of Columbus hall, lo-
cated behind St. Luke’s Church at 9901 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, Md. All those who wish to vote in the town council election must be qualified as either a “bona fide resident” or “nonresident” voter as defined in the Fen-
See CANDIDATES page 3
Bright lights of Bethany
By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter Retiring Bethany Beach Councilman Lew Killmer will be grand marshal at Bethany Beach’s annual Fourth of July parade at noon on Thursday, July 4. The announcement was made by Councilman Bruce Frye during his report from parade organizers to the town council at the Friday, June 21, council meeting. “This is just one more honor for him,” Frye said as those in attendance applauded. Killmer had, earlier in the meeting, been recognized for his retirement from the council after 18 years. Parade awards will be presented at 7:15 p.m. on July 4, followed by a concert by The 1974, a 1970s tribute band, at 7:30 p.m. Commemorative T-shirts will be for sale, and hydration stations open. Organizers will gather on July 3 “for a final meeting to assure we have a well-coordinated and safe parade,” Frye said, adding that there is no rain date for the parade.
Special to the Coastal Point • Marian Dowling
It wasn’t quite a fireworks show (for more of that, turn to page 31), but a strawberry moon did a nice job of lighting up the sky over Bethany Beach last weekend.
See BETHANY page 3
National Guard armory now living the solar (panel) life By Mike Smith Staff Reporter Solar array panels installed at the Delaware Army National Guard maintenance center and Armory in Dagsboro last year are now operational and deliv-
ering peak power of 130 kilowatts back to the energy grid. The installation of the solar panels is now complete on the lower (flat) roof of the fleet vehicle maintenance building. The big news is that the Army National Guard is now able to send power
to the Delaware Electric Cooperative grid in Sussex County — which required some upgrades and changes to the power transmission grid to accept. DEC serves 84,000 customers in Sussex and Kent counties. The Field (Vehicle) Maintenance
Shop, or FMS 5, opened on July 13, 2018, nearly six years ago. “The Dagsboro Readiness Center array is at 130 KW peak. There is also a 30 KW array on top of the FMS facility See ARMORY page 2