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Azaleas and tulips at Mill Pond Garden. SUBMITTED PHOTOS April 13, 2021
Native Virginia bluebells, Mill Pond Garden.
Ephemeral means brief.
Spring ephemerals, the jewels of the forest, are early-flowering perennial herbaceous plants that come up every year in early spring, complete flowering and set seed before the overhead forest canopy grows in to shut out sunlight. Their foliage dies to the ground by summer.
Mill Pond Garden at 31401 Melloy Court, Lewes, grows a collection of ephemeral species tucked into edges of the woodlands which can be viewed during an open garden day from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sunday, April 18. The garden will also feature hundreds of azaleas and tulips in bloom. To subscribe free to the invitation list or purchase tickets, go to millpondgarden.com.
April 9, 2021
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, or perhaps because of it, development in Delaware’s Cape Region continues at a robust pace.
Numerous residential, commercial and industrial projects are underway in and around Lewes, Milton and Rehoboth Beach, pressuring not only our roads, but also the stock of available employees. This is good for the local economy, but challenging as well.
Many years ago, an Annapolis-based land-use consultant named Bruce Galloway assisted Lewes and Rehoboth Beach governments with planning efforts. Knowing the attractiveness of the resort communities, the natural amenities including parks and beaches, the emerging trails system, and Delaware and Sussex County’s low taxes, Galloway sounded a cautionary note. Be careful, he said, about making your communities too nice. It’s not easy to keep people away from a good thing, and they will come.
The Rev. Dr. Shannon Smythe & Elder David H. Wall April 9, 2021
We write this letter in response to the March 10 article by Ellen Driscoll, in which CAMP Rehoboth Youth Coordinator Barbara L. Antlitz noted that “the majority of Christians . . . support equality for LGBTQ people, including the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.”
To that we say, “Amen!” and we want to add our denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA), to Antlitz’s list. Not every Presbyterian Church in the Cape Region is PC(USA), but both Westminster Presbyterian Church and Coolspring Presbyterian Church are, and we stand with our denomination’s full support for and celebration of people of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations. We welcome all people to join our communities of faith in worship, fellowship, and service.
Cape High students involved in accident
Ellen Driscoll and Ryan Mavity April 8, 2021
Cape Henlopen High School sophomore Margaret “Maggie” Browne was killed April 6 after the John Deere Gator she was in with four other teens overturned on a private driveway off Robinsonville Road near Lewes. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 14, in Rehoboth Beach. SUBMITTED PHOTO
A 16-year-old girl died April 6 as the result of a utility vehicle crash on a private asphalt driveway off Robinsonville Road in Lewes.
Master Cpl. Heather Pepper, spokeswoman for Delaware State Police, said at 6:47 p.m., the driver of a John Deere Gator, who was not identified, tried to negotiate a left curve at a high rate of speed. The Gator began skidding and overturned off the roadway, striking a tree and coming to rest on its roof, Pepper said.