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NOVEMBER 21, 2025
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Ocean View officials talk public gatherings
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By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter Changes made to an Ocean View town ordinance to regulate public gatherings were explained by Ocean View Town Solicitor Max Walton at this week’s town council meeting, but for the third consecutive month, several residents continued to oppose restrictions to public gatherings. Walton, at the Tuesday, Nov. 18, meeting, said the word “activity” was changed to “demonstrations” due to objections, and it was clarified the ordinance only applies to events on Town-owned property and that no one will be prohibited from wearing face masks for medical or religious reasons. At the Oct. 14 council meeting, a man wearing a face mask had told the council, “You’re not telling me I can’t wear a mask. I’m going to tell you something: I’m going to wear a mask. My brother lost his life to COVID. I’m not losing mine. If I have to get arrested for wearing a mask, so be it. You’re not going to kill me.” The council held a public hearing this See GATHERINGS page 5 Coastal Point • Kerin Magill
Millville approves 139 housing units on 17
The staff at B&E Tire and Auto, which was destroyed in a fire Nov. 4, has temporarily relocated to the former home of Brasure's Body Shop in Frankford. Shown at the new location, 33088 Dupont Blvd., are, from left, Kyle Tubbs, Stacey Tubbs and Randy Merritt.
By Laura Walter Staff Reporter
The fire had caught onto the tires. Once the tires B&E Tire & Auto team gets support guishers. caught, there was kinda no going back,” he said. “We had from community since f ire three fire extinguishers on the fire, and they didn’t touch it. It
It has not been decided yet whether the 139 new homes will be rented or sold, but either way, they’re coming to Millville, on Route 17. The Millville Town Council unanimously approved the final site plan for the project on Nov. 18. The residential planned community will feature 73 single-family homes, 34 duplexes and 32 townhomes. The 24.5 acres are owned by MA Housing LLC and Gerald Hocker Jr. The property (tax map ID 134-12.00-370.00) is located on Route 17, about a quarter-mile south of Route 26, near other Hocker family properties. Representatives of the developers See MILLVILLE page 5
By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter “ASAP.” That’s when B&E Tire & Auto’s owner, Stacey Tubbs, said last week he hopes to be in a brand-new building. Less than two weeks after a devastating fire destroyed the Dagsboro-area business, the staff were working hard to reopen the shop in a temporary location on Route 113 near Frankford. The auto shop was destroyed Nov. 4 when, according to Kyle Tubbs — son of the business’ owner — a spark from a tool came into contact with fuel from a fuel pump another employee was working on. “It was kind of a worst-case scenario,”Tubbs said. “Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. It was one of those freak incidents. “Once the fuel caught on fire, we went and got fire extin-
was like we weren’t even there.” An F-250 truck owned by the Town of Millsboro was destroyed as the fire ripped through the building, on Route 113 near Quarter Mile Road near Dagsboro. “We tried to push it out, but the fire had spread too fast and the black smoke became too thick, too fast. We had to get out of the building,” Kyle Tubbs said. “We grabbed our personal belongings and got out. The fire company was there right away. They tried to stop the spread, but once the tires caught, it was just too late,” he said. “We were fully staffed that day,” and all eight workers got out uninjured, Tubbs noted. Four days after the fire, they began putting some semblance of a shop back together in the former Brasure’s Body Shop on the southbound side of Route 113, just to the south. That building’s owner, Keith Bunting of Bunting’s Garage in
See B&E page 3