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AUGUST 22, 2025
THE LOCAL VOICE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
Volume 22, Issue 34
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County offering payment plans to some homeowners By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter The Sussex County Council, at its Tuesday, Aug. 19, meeting, unanimously authorized the County’s Finance Department to create payment plans for
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owners of primary residences whose tax bills increased by more than $300 in 2025, after court-mandated statewide property reassessments. Finance Director Gina Jenkins told the council that House Bill 241 requires counties in Delaware to allow payment
plans. Jenkins said anyone interested in setting up a plan to make monthly payments must apply to the county by Sept. 30. Visit www.sussexcountyde.gov for more information. The legislation — An Act to Amend Title 9 and Title 14 of the Delaware
Code Relating to Property Tax Collection — passed on Aug. 12 and was set to become effective with Gov. Matt Myer’s signature. It “requires the tax collecting authority of each county, in See COUNTY page 3
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By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Fenwick Island’s newest town council member said this week she is looking forward to serving the town she has grown to love since purchasing a home there 20 years ago. Lucy Wilder was sworn in earlier this month. She was the sole candidate filing for the council seat formerly held by Janice Bortner, who chose not to seek re-election. Wilder, 65, retired three years ago, after a career in information technology — most recently in global sales with the Symantec antivirus software company. Although she majored in English and creative writing at the University of Alabama, Wilder said, after she graduated, an interview she obtained through her father’s connections served as an unexpected “springboard for an IT sales career.” The decision to retire was harder than she thought it would be, Wilder said. “A large part of your identity is wrapped up in it,” she said of her career. Imagining retirement as a dive off a high diving board, she said, “One day, I walked to the edge of the board and I jumped off,” and she hasn’t regretted the
Special to the Coastal Point • Marian Dowling
Hurricanes have come, hurricanes have gone. But that sunrise just keeps coming back, and we wouldn’t have it any other way, right?
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IRSD board meetings move to former Millsboro Middle By Laura Walter Staff Reporter Indian River School District board meetings and committee meetings are always open to the public. Starting this August, those IRSD meetings will be
moving to a more central location: the former Millsboro Middle School, 302 E. State Street in Millsboro. “We think it’s going to be a good setup, because it’s more centrally located in the district,” said David Maull, IRSD spokesperson. “It’ll be a much shorter
drive for everybody, so it’s going to be convenient, and I think, tech-wise, it’s going to be a lot easier on the staff … because they can just leave the setup in there, instead of breaking it down every month.” Board of Education meetings are
typically held the fourth Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Historically, those board meetings alternated between the high schools: Indian River in the south and Sussex Central in the north. See IRSD page 3