Selbyville News

Each and every day, members of local law enforcement agencies, fire departments and EMS services put their own lives on the line to ensure welfare of members of the community. Oftentimes their deeds go unnoticed except by those who experience their courageous and selfless acts firsthand. But once a year, the Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce takes time to recognize the outstanding individuals from local departments and companies who make local residents’ and visitors’ lives safer.

A group of Indian River School District students will pause from feeding their creativity to feed the community at a pasta dinner fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 25.

For months, Councilman Frank Smith III has made the same comment at Selbyville Town Council meetings: there’s a layer of scum on the wastewater at the Church Street pump station.

The Selbyville Planning & Zoning Commission voted this week to recommend that the Town Council approve a request for a farmers’ market to be held at the corner of Route 17 and Williams Street in Selbyville.

Berlin, Md., resident Jeannie Mariner had approached the council Jan. 9 for permission to host a weekly farmers’ market at the lot her family owns in Selbyville.

After years of construction, delay and turbulent waters, the Indian River Inlet Bridge opened to traffic last Friday, with Gov. Jack Markell taking the maiden ride across its span.

Looking to join many of the area’s towns, Selbyville is now considering a farmers’ market of its own. Jeannie Mariner of Berlin, Md., requested to use her family-owned property at the corner of Route 17 and Williams Street as a farmers’ market.

In an effort to move the Route 54 Improvement Project toward completion, the Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announced Thursday, Jan. 5, that contractor Mumford & Miller, will be doing paving operations this weekend.  Unseasonably warm weather will allow a portion of the project to be paved now instead of in the spring, officials said. 
 

Delaware State Police and officers from the Ocean View Police Department this week arrested two Ocean View-area residents in connection with a string of armed robberies at businesses throughout the area.

Maryland Route 610, southwest of Selbyville, was closed for several hours on Tuesday, Jan. 3, when a tour bus rear-ended a car. Maryland State Police said they responded to the call at 4:05 p.m. and found the incident on Route 610 east of Peerless Road, which is 2.5 miles west of Route 113.

Employees of local businesses are being encouraged to check currency after counterfeit money was passed to Selbyville businesses in December of 2011. Four counterfeit $20 bills and one counterfeit $50 bill were found at McDonald’s, Family Dollar and Dollar General during the busy holiday season, beginning Dec. 11, 2011.

An isolated robbery at Fox’s Pizza Den in Millville has snowballed into a string of robberies as Holt’s Liquors and Pomeroy’s, Inc., were hit within the last week.

Police responded to a fight at Pomeroy’s Tavern in Selbyville that injured one security staff member early Saturday, Dec. 24, around 1:30 a.m.

The Selbyville Town Council won’t order new restrictions on restaurants yet, having tabled a proposed law that would regulate some alcohol sales and consumption.

Southern Delaware Choral Society returns to its roots with the classic Christmas show, Handel’s “Messiah.”

The Town of Selbyville is hoping to reduce crime and improve safety through some new regulations on restaurants and the sale of alcohol. Residents are being invited to a public hearing at town hall on Monday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. to discuss a proposed amendment to the Selbyville Zoning Code.

Selbyville police arrested Jeffrey Paddock, 49, of Ocean View on Wednesday, Nov. 23, for his alleged involvement in a string of local burglaries.

For Tim Munro Sr. of Fenwick Trustworthy Hardware, and his family, the Selbyville Christmas Parade has become a 15-year tradition. Each year, they decorate his 1940 Ford — and for the past five years, they have even won first place in the parade’s antique car division.

After nearly 50 years on the business stage in Selbyville, C&E Furniture will bow out by the end of this year.

The Delaware State Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for two suspicious male subjects who have reportedly followed several female juveniles in the Keenwick by the Bay development near Fenwick Island.

Home-invasion. Burglary. Robbery. Just read the police beat in any newspaper to see that what used to be once-in-a-while crimes have seemingly become all-too-frequent as the area grows and the population grows with it. Julie Dugan and her family know that all too well. She said coming to the family’s vacation home outside Selbyville has been far from relaxing these past few months, since the house been burglarized four times in the past two years and three times in the past two months alone.

Dressed in hardhats, gloves and reflective vests, a group of 20 civilians crossed the new Indian River Inlet Bridge, from end to end, for the first time. They grinned as a DelDOT tour guide led them across the newly completed 10-foot closure pour, which connected the two halves of the new bridge. Motorists had become accustomed to seeing the incomplete north and south sections move closer together until Oct. 18, when the closure pour was completed.

On Wednesday, Nov. 9, Delaware will join all other states in conducting the first nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) test. At 2 p.m., radio, television and cable stations will broadcast the familiar alert warning sound. Following the alert sound, the recorded message on broadcast media will state, “This is a test.” The audio message will be the same for both radio and television.

Delaware’s Department of Transportation has announced that beginning this evening, Wednesday, Nov. 2, there will be a shift in traffic patterns on Route 1 just north of the Indian River Inlet Bridge. The shift will be implemented to ensure continued road safety due to dune erosion adjacent to the northbound lanes, they said.

Both the northbound and southbound lanes of Route 1, near the Indian River Inlet will close at approximately 9 p.m. tonight, due to high storm tides, report  officials from the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT).

For Keenwik Sound resident Robert Lowe, the retention pond northeast of the Harris Teeter on Route 54 is cause for concern. As a volunteer working on pond maintenance for his own development, he said, he knows it takes time and money to maintain them, but he says it is worth the effort.