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FEBRUARY 16, 2024
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Volume 21, Issue 7
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Millville residents get new addressing option By Kerin Magill Staff Reporter Millville Town Manager Deborah Botchie got a parting gift from the U.S. Postal Service this week — but it was a bit more like a consolation prize. She announced at the Tuesday, Feb. 13, Millville Town Council meeting that she had received a letter this week regarding her two-year campaign to get
Millville its own ZIP code. Botchie, who will retire from her position in May, told the council that the postal service had finally given the Town its answer regarding the ZIP code issue. “We’ve been working for years to have Millville have their own identity and their own ZIP code,” Botchie said. But the letter from the U.S.P.S. said “that they’re not going to realign” the
ZIP code map so that Millville will have one ZIP code, rather than being divided into three. The postal service will instead allow addresses in Millville town limits to use that town’s name as part of their address, along with whichever of the three existing ZIP codes that address has already been assigned. Currently, those who are assigned 19970 must use Ocean View as part of their address, while
those who are assigned 19945 must use Frankford and those who are assigned 19967 may use Millville. The only addressee currently in the 19945 zone is Beebe Healthcare’s South Coastal emergency facility and cancer center, which has been using the Frankford address even though it is located
See MILLVILLE page 2
Delmar man arrested after series of pursuits By Susan Canfora Staff Reporter A 25-year-old Delmar, Del., man was being held in the Sussex Correctional Institution this week on $48,000 bond and nine active arrest warrants after what Ocean View Police Department Chief Kenneth McLaughlin described as a “lengthy and inherently dangerous vehicle pursuit.” Brown Marc Anthony Brown was “successfully taken into law enforcement custody with minimal injury to Brown, no injury to innocent citizens and no injuries to any law enforcement officers,” McLaughlin said. On Monday, Feb. 12, after a highspeed chase involving several police Special to the Coastal Point • Marian Dowling
See ARREST page 3
Pick a season. Any season. Trap Pond is still a beautiful place to visit.
Hocker, Gray aim to force wind-power companies to pay upfront By Mike Smith Staff Reporter Delaware Senate Minority Leader Gerald Hocker (R-20th) and state Rep. Ron Gray (R-38th) announced on Friday, Feb. 9, their intention to introduce a joint resolution to force wind-power companies pay for wind-
farm decommissioning upfront and secure bonds before they build offshore wind infrastructure. “We are trying to protect our coast. At some point, somebody has to pay for all of this,” Gray told the Coastal Point about the proposed decommissioning bond. “We want to make sure they will post that bond and do what
they actually said. When you get to the end of the project, you see that these companies run out of money. This puts the onus on U.S. Wind to make sure we don’t have to look at them if they are not being used,” he said of the turbines. “We are disappointed that the governor has made this agreement and is
making an MOU to have the Maryland power lines come through the state park here at the Indian River Inlet,” said Gray of the onshoring of the cables and the State’s memorandum-of-understanding. “We might get 30 years out of it, See RESOLUTION page 4