Silver-Beach News

Swimmers are being advised to avoid the ocean near Silver Beach Avenue and International Speedway Boulevard because of fecal bacteria found in the water, a spokeswoman for the Volusia County Health Department said this week.

The surf at the Silver Beach Avenue approach has been given the all clear from the Volusia County Health Department.

Swimming in the ocean is not recommended near the Silver Beach Avenue area of the beach until further notice, Volusia County Health Department officials said Friday.

It is not hard to see the appeal in the Dennisport cottage colonies, the small clutch of mostly seasonal homes and trailers on Old Wharf Road at the lip of Nantucket Sound.

It's been a rough, rare summer for concession stands at the Cape's town beaches: a rainy June, then a meteorologically schizophrenic July, a sweltering August, and a couple tropical storms for good measure.

With all the other controversies swirling around Falmouth Town Hall, did the board of selectmen really need to step into this quagmire? First, a former town employee accused the town manager of sexual harassment.

The prayer station at Old Silver Beach is not a test of free speech, but a clear violation of the use of public land for religious purposes.

Some beachgoers say beachina and preachina shouldna t go together. Theya re offended after a Christian prayer station was set up in the parking lot of Old Silver Beach in North Falmouth.

Share + Aug 13, 2009 8:20 am US/Eastern Reporting David Robichaud FALMOUTH Don't preach at the beach! That's what some sun bathers are saying on the Cape, where a group of churches have set up a "prayer station" at the beach.

A snack bar. An ice cream truck. Even an annual sunrise service. But a prayer booth in the beach parking lot? Earlier this month, selectmen voted 4-0 to allow volunteers from four Upper Cape churches to set up a prayer booth in the Old Silver Beach parking lot.

Jon Simmons won first place in the Cape Cod Bay Watch Fittest Lifeguard Photo Contest.