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NOVEMBER 7, 2025
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Volume 22, Issue 45
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DNREC to repair beach-access points in Bethany By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter DNREC officials are expected to be in Bethany Beach late this month or in early December to repair crossover access points to the beach, significantly damaged during storms in mid-October and last week. “The DNREC Shoreline and Wa-
terway Management Section will be in Bethany to repair the crossovers … (but) the project is weather-dependent and also dependent on completion of DNREC’s beach repair at Bowers Beach, which is ongoing and expected to wrap up by mid-November, though it, too, is weather dependent,” Michael Globetti, who handles public relations for DNREC, told Coastal Point.
Bethany Beach Mayor Ron Calef this week said that during the pre-Halloween storm last week, the beach was “again eroded by the strong easterlies and waves of the past week but is now rebuilding. The dune was impacted but thankfully not to a great extent. I know DNREC has several repairs including Bowers Beach and some work at the Indian River Inlet before they can get to
Bethany. We have not heard any firm date as yet.” Bowers Beach is on the western shore of the Delaware Bay in Kent County. Calef said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was expected to tour the beach and assess damage but Bethany See REPAIRS page 3
Fenwick’s Baunchalk remembered as champion of Fenwick By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Former Fenwick Island Mayor Peggy Jean Dignan Baunchalk, who died in Hockessin on Oct. 31, is being remembered as a staunch advocate for the town and a kind neighbor. “Peg” Baunchalk, 91, was mayor of Fenwick Island from 1995 to 2003, having Baunchalk first served as Council Treasurer after joining the Town Council in 1993. In 1998 she was the first winner of the “Lighthouse Award,” bestowed annually by the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce on a Chamber member who exemplifies community service. She was active in the Sussex County Democratic Party and the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 2001, she See BAUNCHALK page 7
Special to the Coastal Point • David Green
It’s views like this that make us remember that we live in a pretty special place.
Millsboro mulls residential property request on Route 113 By Laura Walter Staff Reporter When a residential property is surrounded by houses, highway and businesses — what should its future zoning be? That’s the challenge a Millsboro
family is dealing with. Amber and Jason Luckey struggled to sell about 3.2 total acres along U.S. Route 113 that is zoned residential — and for a rapidly growing region, they received almost no buyer interest. They’re now asking Millsboro Town
Council to rezone the two parcels from medium-density residential (MR) to highway commercial (HC). “It is not marketable [as] residential. We cannot sell it. We only had one offer on it,” Amber Luckey told Town Council on Nov. 3. Potential buyers only
seemed interested if the properties were rezoned as commercial, so they could pursue businesses here easily. “We’re only one of nine houses left on Route 113 that are residential” in See MILLSBORO page 3