Celebrating Fourth of July at Rehoboth Beach? Don t plan on fireworks sussexcountian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sussexcountian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
You may be out of luck.
Rehoboth Beach City Manager Sharon Lynn recommended canceling the city’s Fourth of July fireworks during a special meeting Tuesday afternoon.
While Lynn did not announce an official decision, she said “it’s going to be virtually impossible to look at the mandates for fireworks (and) gathering in common municipal areas.”
If the city would go forward with a fireworks display, Lynn and other city staff would have to consider the following:
The city is responsible for contact tracing, or keeping track of who may have been exposed to COVID-19.
In the event of a COVID-19 outbreak, the city must publish a press release.
Delaware News Journal
Imagine returning to your Delaware beach home to find that strangers had been living there – using your heat, water and cable for days.
This misfortune has been a familiar one for resort towns where many residents vacate their homes during the winter, only noticing that something is wrong when their electric bills spike or a neighbor calls about suspicious activity.
In towns like Dewey Beach, where most of its 2,000 homes are emptied in the winter, squatting or burglary incidents are an inherent risk, said Sgt. Cliff Dempsey, spokesperson for the Dewey Beach Police Department.
More recently, signs like increase bills or calls to law enforcement led Dewey Beach Police Department to investigate several burglaries in December and January.