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MAY 2, 2025
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Fenwick hopes to solve flooding, despite funding hit By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Fenwick Island’s Town Council is moving forward in its work to solve the town’s frequent bayside flooding issues despite a federal funding source drying up. At the Friday, April 25 council meeting, the town leaders discussed next steps following the announcement last month that a federal grant program it had hoped to receive funding from has been eliminated. The town had applied for a grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency more than a year ago. The agency announced recently that it was cancelling its BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) grant, calling it “wasteful and ineffective.” Fenwick Island was seeking $400,000 through the program, which would have been used to further evaluate Fenwick’s flooding issues and seek solutions. The BRIC grant program had made $1 billion available through the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to communities across the country. About $882 million will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress, the FEMA statement said. “Bayside flooding is the number one concern for the Town of Fenwick Island,” Mayor Natalie Magdeburger said at the April 25 meeting. “We hear about it whenever there’s flooding, we see it, we recognize the dangers to it, the dam-
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Tulips gone, but businesses are arriving in Bethany Beach By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter The town of Bethany Beach’s signature tulip season has ended, Mayor Ron Calef said, “after an incredible spring splash of color.” “It’s always so welcome by our local residents and our visitors. I want to
thank our Public Works Department for all their hard work. I see everything has been dug up down there and I hope some of you were able to get some bulbs as they were giving them away,” he said as the Friday, April 25, Town Council meeting began.
New businesses get OK from committee Councilman Patrick Sheplee, while presenting the Non-Residential Design Review Committee report, said members have reviewed and approved several applications including for a new sign at
the entrance of Lake Bethany; for new window signs for Sunshine Baguette off Atlantic Avenue; for Fem, a new coastal boutique on Garfield Parkway where a comics and gaming business once was; a new sign and window signs for Surfin’ Betty’s Burger Bar, coming to 786 See BETHANY page 5