Alan Henney
With less than a month to election day, the commissioner candidates in Rehoboth Beach are keeping busy! Craig Thier attended meet-and-greets on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Here he is in the beautiful home of Sonie and Hoyte Decker on Friday. Thier emphasizes that he is a full-time resident with expertise in finance and prior experience serving…
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President Joe Biden cut short his beach visit after the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The President’s 20+vehicle motorcade crossed Rehoboth Beach six times this past Saturday as he spent less than a day at the beach before returning to The White House. The President hasn’t had such a hectic day in…
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Rehoboth Beach Patrol lifeguards quickly figured out where to find the most reasonable and healthiest meals in town during their lunch break… It’s at Lori’s Oy Vey! Cafe in the CAMP Rehoboth courtyard off Baltimore Avenue. Sarah Herrmann and coworker Kathy Dillon noticed that they had the same lifeguards returning each day for lunch. “We were trying…
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UPDATED – 07/09/24 – Rehoboth Beach Police have made an arrest in a sexual assault on the beach at Brooklyn Avenue on June 19. Through their on-scene investigation, Rehoboth Beach Police were able to identify the suspect, also a juvenile, and determined that they were no longer in the area. The suspect and the victim…
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Updated July 1: The Board of Commissioners will hold a special meeting next Monday, July 8 at 2pm, to discuss and consider ratification of the city manager’s contract. The meeting will include an opportunity for citizen comment. This post has been updated with this response from the City of Rehoboth Beach from earlier today (June…
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The Rehoboth Beach Police Department is down to only 10 seasonal officers (cadets) this summer. That’s three fewer than last year but just a fraction of what the city had in past years. The department was authorized to hire 20 this summer. To his knowledge, Chief Keith Banks says, this year the city has the…
Read MoreThe most serious surf injury of the season so far for Rehoboth Beach occurred this past Thursday off Hickman Street. Around 2 p.m., a man in his 60s suffered a suspected neck/back injury and cut his head while in the surf. Lifeguards came to his rescue. EMS crews took him to the Rehoboth Elementary School…
Read MoreA man in his 40s struck his head after he fell from the third-floor balcony on 46th Street in Ocean City just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Ashley Miller, police spokeswoman, says “Officers learned the male was heavily intoxicated when he fell… At this time, the fall appears to be accidental,” she added. He was last…
Read MoreOcean City Beach Patrol Capt. Butch Arbin says a surfer was cut by the skeg of his board which caused severe life-threatening bleeding this past Sunday. “The surf beach facilitator and responding supervisors controlled the bleeding using a stop-the-bleed kit that was donated by Hogs and Heroes,” he said. “The victim was flown to Shock…
Read MoreDelaware State Police conducted a death investigation this morning at Towers Beach, says Cpl. Amina Ali, state police spokesperson. “Due to the nature of the investigation, no further details will be shared,” Cpl. Ali added.
Read MoreUPDATED – 07/05/24 11:30am – Dewey Beach Police were called for a reported stabbing at the North Beach Restaurant just after 1 Friday morning. Police found a 25 year old Millsboro man on the ground with severe facial injuries and a 23 year old Millsboro man also at the scene suffering from a stab wound…
Read MoreIt’s a miracle that the pilot walked away after his banner plane, N749SK, landed upside down in some trees in the area of Rickards Road around 3:50 p.m. on Thursday. That is between Roxana and Millville. Delaware State Police and the FAA are investigating.
Read MoreThe Rehoboth Beach tent and canopy ban is now in its eighth season and continues to be a daily challenge for officials to enforce. The Rehoboth Beach Patrol ambassador called for the police three times on Saturday to help when beach visitors refused to cooperate. This couple received visits from the beach ambassador and a police cadet…
Read MoreRehoboth Beach police were called to the second block of Olive Avenue around 6:35 p.m. Saturday when this man was heard yelling, cursing and acting irrationally. Officers tried to get him to leave the area. But he continued his rant and bizarre behavior, at one point charging, spitting and yelling at an officer in a…
Read MoreMultiple agencies responded after an unconscious woman was found beneath the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City around 7 p.m. this past Saturday. Hunter Dortenzo, Natural Resources Police spokesman, says “Officers located a 64-year-old female passenger who had fallen off the back of a PWC due to sea conditions. The victim was brought to shore…
Read MoreOn June 17, 2024, at approximately 6:11 p.m., troopers responded to the beach area at the end of Camp Arrowhead Road for a death investigation. That is in the Angola Landing area. When troopers arrived, they learned that a 57-year-old man from East Prospect, Pennsylvania, swam from shore to check crab pots and became distressed.…
Read MoreThis past week the world paused to recognize the 80th anniversary of D-Day. And what a more appropriate place to hold such a ceremony in Delaware than at the Fort Miles Museum Overlook, on the other edge of the Atlantic, in the Cape Henlopen State Park? “I’d like them to remember the sacrifices that everyday…
Read MoreAbout 65 participants marched on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk late Friday afternoon to bring attention to gun violence. Sherrie Walker, a representative from the local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Safety in America, said they are a nonpartisan group that advocates for background checks, gun safety courses and safe gun storage. Gun violence,…
Read MoreWednesday’s ceremony at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstand was part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run which leads up to the Summer Games for Special Olympics Delaware. Law enforcement officers carried the Flame of Hope to Rehoboth for this particular leg that began in Fenwick Island, explains Corinne Plummer, director of special events for Special Olympics…
Read MoreThe deadline was 4:30 p.m. today to file to run for the two soon-to-be-open commissioner seats. Joseph Cardinale, Suzanne Goode, Rachel Macha, Mark Saunders and Craig Their have filed to run. Commissioners Tim Bennett and Toni Sharp said this past weekend that they would not seek re-election.
Read MoreA persistent and vocal group of about 45 Free Palestine protesters pursued the President to his normally peaceful mass at Saint Edmond’s Catholic Church in downtown Rehoboth this past Saturday. Reverend Cathy Rion Starr, a Unitarian Universalist minister and protester representative, said they were a group of Delawareans here to protest “because Biden should have…
Read MoreDelaware troopers are investigating a critical shooting that was reported around 11:45 p.m. Saturday on South Old State Road just south of Ellendale. A man was found in traumatic cardiac arrest, shot in the chest. He was taken to a hospital. No word yet on any motive or suspect.
Read More“The thing that I love about local government is that you really can see that impact on a daily basis of the work that we do. So whether that’s a park bench that’s freshly painted, or the landscaping that’s really well kept, that all adds up,” says Taylour Tedder, Rehoboth’s new city manager. Tedder began…
Read MoreAfter years of inactivity, the Rehoboth Beach Patrol has placed its 19-foot fiberglass-hull dory back in service. Chief Derek Shockro spearheaded the project last fall to refurbish the boat for use this season. This style of boat is popular with beach patrols at the Jersey shore, Chief Shockro points out, because many of those beaches,…
Read MoreThe Rehoboth Beach Patrol started the season operating from a shipping container in the parking lot between the old Pennsylvania Railroad House and the Village Improvement Association. “It almost feels like we are at the Cape Henlopen State Park, camping,” says Chief Derek Shockro of the Rehoboth Beach Patrol. “We have still all the amenities…
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