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FEBRUARY 27, 2026
Bunting’s legacy cherished at service
THE LOCAL VOICE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
A winter bashing
By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter George Howard Bunting Jr. was remembered this week in a service that brought hundreds to an Ocean View church to honor his nearly three decades of service in the Delaware General Assembly, his successful business and his exemplary military service. Most of all, they came to honor a man they came to know as a friend and as someone they could count on when they needed help. Throughout the morning of Saturday, Feb. 21, a line of people wrapped around the inside of Mariner’s Bethel Global Methodist Church while outside, a large American flag hung above Central Avenue between ladder trucks from ladder trucks from the Roxana and Millsboro fire companies to honor the See BUNTING page A3
First Responder Awards show the best of local community service By Laura Walter Staff Reporter Last autumn, the 911 call connected, but details were fuzzy. A grandmother was attempting to share details, while physically restraining a German Shepherd from attacking a nearby toddler. It was chaos when Cpl. Catherine Craft arrived, alone, from the Dagsboro Police Department. “The child’s grandmother was on the living room floor … using her body weight to keep the animal pinned. Her hands were already injured from attempting to pull the dog off her granddaughter. A few feet away stood … the 17-month-old victim, crying and visibly injured with significant wounds to her shoulder and arm,” officials recalled. Craft made the split-second decision to grab and carry the child outside, so the dog could no longer reach her, and the grandmother could flee (no longer See AWARDS page A5
Volume 23, Issue 9
Coastal Point • Monica Fleming
Above, a tree in Blackwater Village was brought down by heavy snow and winds during this week’s blizzard. Right, courtesy of the Ocean View Police Department, the storm caused a tree to fall against a home in Judith’s Run in Savannah’s Landing in Ocean View. Nobody was injured. Below, via Darin McCann, nature in a nutshell.
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