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JANUARY 3, 2025
THE LOCAL VOICE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
Volume 22, Issue 1
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Indian River power plant to close in February By Mike Smith Staff Reporter It’s the end of coal-fired power generation in the state as PJM announced on Dec. 23 that it will close its last coalfired power plant in Delaware — oper-
St. Martha’s hosting program on racism
ating for nearly 68 years near Dagsboro. Depending on the source of the information, the February 2025 shuttering date is either two years ahead of schedule or more than two years behind the original target closure date of June 2022.
PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) is a regional transmission organization that manages the electric grid and wholesale electricity market for a 13state region that includes Delaware. It coordinates the movement of electricity, and the power-grid connections are lo-
cated at the plant near Dagsboro. U.S. Wind had recently sought to build an interconnect on land it already owns at an existing substation adjacent the plant, to onshore power from its See PLANT page 3
A bridge of joy
By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter The six-part program “Racism, What You Didn’t Learn in School,” free and open to the community, will be presented by Sue Linderman, co-founder of the Westminster Peace & Justice Work Group in Wilmington, and hosted by St. Martha’s Episcopal Church in Bethany Beach. Sessions, designed to be suitable for older teenagers and adults, will be from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on six consecutive Mondays beginning Jan. 6 as Zoom presentations and can be watched at home or at St. Martha’s. The program will focus on how racial turmoil in America can be traced through history, even before the country was founded. Many racial stereotypes are a direct consequence of “intentional economic and public policy and beliefs that have no grounding in genetics,” according to information provided by St. Martha’s. Topics and dates are: • Week 1, Monday, Jan. 6 — “Early Years,” beginning in August 1619 with the arrival in the colony of Virginia of a ship bearing more than 20 kidnapped Africans. Class will cover the establishment of slavery and its economic imperSee PROGRAM page 5
Coastal Point • Susan Lyons
There are very few local landmarks as iconic as the Indian River Inlet Bridge, and it brings a little extra magic to the area when it is lit up for the holidays.
Millsboro officials talking personnel procedures, raise By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter As the Millsboro Town Council prepares to again discuss approving a possi-
ble 16 percent raise and contract renewal for its town manager, Mayor Kimberley Kaan said she is hoping for an eventual change in the evaluation procedure. The town manager is the only Mills-
boro employee who answers directly to the council, and everyone on the council should know the results of how he is evaluated, Kaan said. The matter was tabled at the Dec. 2
council meeting after some council members said they hadn’t had enough time to decide, or enough detail about See MILLSBORO page 5