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JANUARY 10, 2025
THE LOCAL VOICE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
Volume 22, Issue 2
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Hudson takes gavel at county council
Command performance
By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter By unanimous vote on Tuesday, Jan. 7, Sussex County Councilman Doug Hudson was elected president of the five-member board, and Councilman John Rieley was voted in as vice-president. Also at the Jan. 7 meeting, three new council members were sworn in — Republican Matt Lloyd representing District 1, Republican Steve McCarron representing District 2 and Democrat Jane Gruenebaum, representing District 3. Both Rieley and Hudson are Republicans. Lloyd, unchallenged in the general election in November, defeated longtime County Council President Mike Vincent. McCarron, also unchallenged in the general election, won over incumbent Councilwoman Cynthia Green, and Gruenebaum defeated incumbent Councilman Mark Schaeffer. Gruenebaum, retired from lobbying for policy to support environmental groups, moved to Rehoboth Beach in 2018. At the meeting this week, she called the election “a voice from our constituents throughout the county in the way development is done.” “The work ahead of us is challenging and difficult, but it is my conviction we have to find a way to promote growth in a more responsible way that ensures we have adequate transportation, affordable housing, good and adequate schools, access to doctors and other health facili-
Coastal Point • Darin J. McCann
Above, a snowman appeared on stage at the Bethany Beach Bandstand after this week’s snow storm, while an adoring crowd also popped up in the bleachers. For more coverage of the storm, turn to page 32.
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Carney, DNREC agree to $128M in wind-power benefits By Mike Smith Staff Reporter The plot thickens on offshore windpower generation in Delaware as outgoing Gov. John Carney and the state’s environmental control agency agreed this week to permit offshore wind-
power cabling through Delaware state parks, including Delaware Seashore State Park north of Bethany Beach. Carney and DNREC officials have signed agreements with U.S. Wind to provide renewable energy, community and lease benefits to Delaware and its residents — worth more than $128 million — as the company builds two pro-
posed offshore wind-power projects already approved by the federal government. The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI), joining offshore wind-power opponents, has filed an appeal of the decision of DNREC officials to permit U.S. Wind to “bring transmission lines from a proposed offshore wind farm under
the Indian River Bay and through wetlands.” The proposed onshoring would land at 3R’s Beach and run through the inland bays in an underground horizontal boring process. “Critical to the CRI appeal is that See WIND page 6