Fenwick Island News

FENWICK ISLAND -- Standing before his sand pulpit, Eltrut's flock anticipated the appearance of an old friend, Dolores the Lunchlady.

During their practice tour, naturalists from the Delaware Seashore State Park and their boat captain worked the kinks out of routines they will run on inland bay pontoon tours each Thursday in July and August.

'A most melancholy catastrophe,' the Pennsylvania Packet reported, 'occurred on Thursday the 1st instant, near the capes of Delaware.

Beach & Bay Cottage Tour to benefit South Coastal Library iin Bethany The 17th annual Beach & Bay Cottage Tour to benefit the Friends of the South Coastal Library will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., ...

The man found dead in a canal off Fenwick Island this weekend has been identified.

A weekend fatality in Fenwick is being called an accident. Friday night, a boater found the body of a black male floating in a canal near Harpoon Hanna's on Route 54.

FENWICK ISLAND - The man found dead in a canal in Fenwick Island on Friday, July 11, has been identified as 38-year-old Ricky Lee Crippen of Witman, Va.

INDIAN RIVER -- During their practice tour, naturalists from the Delaware Seashore State Park and their boat captain worked the kinks out of routines they will run on Inland Bay pontoon tours each Thursday in ...

LEWES -- Salisbury University is reaching out to children in the coastal community by offering its first SU at the Seashore camp series in Fenwick Island.

BETHANY BEACH -- Delaware's resort beaches are reporting mostly business as usual this year, with many vendors saying they're not feeling the effects of the sagging economy.

SEAFORD -- The Seaford District Library's Teen Summer Reading Program 'Metamorphosis' will hold an 'Extreme Makeover' program Thursday at 4 p.m. Sign-ups for the program are at the library's front desk for ...

BETHANY BEACH -- Some towns -- such as Bethany Beach, Fenwick Island and South Bethany -- have instituted curbside recycling over the past year, and some people are concerned the measure has created less of a ...

With the Dagsboro Church of God out of the firework-celebration business for a couple years now, local residents may have to travel a little farther for the traditional Fourth of July fireworks, but there is ...

Tom Light of Pittsburgh was planning to find a fireworks stand and create his own Fourth of July display on the beach.

Lauren Gulbronson discovered nature's water shooter -- a sea squirt. She picked up a brown blob and got sprayed in the chest.

Medical doctors, notorious for illegible handwriting, now are hitting the "Enter" key when writing a patient's prescription at some hospitals.

ROXANA -- After an abundance of fish deaths early in the season, the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control reported these events could forecast a busy summer season of similar events.

Delaware environmental officials say a lack of dissolved oxygen in the water caused a fish kill last week in Dirickson Creek, a tributary of Assawoman Bay near Fenwick Island.

FENWICK ISLAND - A fish kill this week involving an estimated 30,000 young menhaden in the Dirickson Creek tributary of the Assawoman Bay was blamed on an insufficient amount of dissolved oxygen in the water, ...

After another warm weekend of temperatures exceeding 90 degrees, the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has reported one confirmed fish kill in the area of Whites Pond in Lewes and ...