Rehoboth Beach Main Street steps up to organize fundraising
Rehoboth Beach Main Street was able to tap a variety of funding sources to help businesses and the City of Rehoboth provide safer outdoor experiences for residents and visitors this summer. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS May 7, 2021
Pedestrian walkway barriers like these on Wilmington Avenue will be supplemented with flower-filled planters as the weather warms up.
Rehoboth Beach Main Street recently announced that it had raised sufficient money to pay the full cost of pedestrian walkway barriers and planters that will be used to create safer outdoor dining and retail areas around town this summer. These outdoor solutions were a response to COVID-19 social distancing guidelines imposed last year when the pandemic hit.
Scott’s Chapel and Cottage as displayed on the Rehoboth Avenue 1910 diorama. May 3, 2021
Actual 1900 photo of Scott’s Chapel and Cottage.
Rehoboth Beach historian Paul Lovett has mounted models of Scott’s Chapel and its adjacent cottage to his diorama of 1910 Rehoboth Avenue.
Scott’s Chapel was built in 1880. It was largely financed by Baltimore magnate James E. Hooper, a descendent owner of the Baltimore firm that controlled the duck cotton industry. Duck cotton was used as sailcloth for merchant sailing ships of the time and for such things as canvas for oil paintings.
Hopper had his summer cottage on the Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue. He and a friend built Scott’s Chapel as a nondenominational meeting place for Rehoboth’s summer residents. The structure was named after the beloved Bishop Scott who was prominent in early Rehoboth and who preached the first sermon at Rehoboth’s newly built campgrounds tabernacle in July 1873.
April 27, 2021
Fair housing webinar set April 29
Pathways to Success will sponsor a free virtual town hall to discuss fair housing issues from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, April 29. To register, go to pathways-2-success.org/events. The purpose is to raise awareness about the continued presence of housing discrimination and how people can work to fix it. Topics include the importance of the Fair Housing Act, Delaware’s Landlord & Tenant Code, housing legislation and policy, and housing advocacy. For details, email dscott@pathways-2-success.org.
Milton BoA meeting canceled
Milton Board of Adjustment has canceled its Tuesday, April 27 meeting due to a lack of agenda items. The board is next scheduled to meet Tuesday, May 25.
The reintroduction of musical acts at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstand this summer is an indication that life is slowly returning to normal. However, things are not fully back to normal, and city commissioners recently spent time discussing how masks are still required in all public spaces and that the city’s playgrounds are still closed.
Commissioner Richard Byrne brought up the subject during the commissioner comment portion of an April 5 workshop. He said he had received a number of constituent complaints about visitors who weren’t wearing masks, adding that he had seen the city’s playgrounds were being used frequently.
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