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Dewey Beach Town Council recently approved a conditional-use application from Highway One Companies to operate a public parking facility on Dagsworthy Avenue at the location of the former Ivy restaurant. Per the terms of the application, Highway One will have the right to operate the lot 24 hours a day. According to attorney Steven Spence, who attended the council’s May 16 meeting on Highway One’s behalf, folks will only be […]

In an effort to improve system resilience, Rehoboth Beach commissioners approved the hiring of George & Lynch to install a water connection with Tidewater Utilities. The connection will cost about $200,000 and be located at the city’s Well 8 site off Warrington Road. Unprecedented use of the city’s water system last summer during Fourth of July weekend led to the city implementing a conservation notice. Public Works Director Henry Matlosz […]

A bill to cancel the state’s zero-emission mandate for vehicles is still in play, but only if the California plan that Delaware follows is revoked. Senate Bill 140, sponsored by Sen. Brian Pettyjohn, R-Georgetown, would cancel a zero-emission vehicle mandate that would require an increasing percentage of new vehicles sold each year in the state to be ZEVs. However, the California Advanced Clean Car II program adopted by Delaware two […]

About 60 municipal league executive directors from across the United States and their executive board members gathered May 21 and 22, in Washington, D.C., for a fly-in event hosted by the National League of Cities.  The yearly gathering promotes dialogue between states and the federal government, and this year, the directors heard from a half-dozen executives from President Donald Trump’s intergovernmental agency about such topics as grants from Housing & […]

, , A new tool aimed at helping government officials, homeowners and business owners better plan for future flooding events made its way through Milton the week of May 23. FloodVision is a product of the national nonprofit group Climate Central, whose specialty is climate science. Climate Central has partnered with Delaware Sea Grant to begin using FloodVision across the state, hosting a kickoff event at Milton Memorial Park May […]