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Two local ice cream moguls cross paths in Rehoboth
Tom King, of Kings Ice Cream fame in Lewes and Milton, and Chip Hearn, of the Ice Cream Store in Rehoboth Beach, encountered one another outside Hearn's emporium Friday night. The scene was electric...
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Offloading eels in the upper Chesapeake for rockfish
Owen Clark culls dead eels from live eels in the live box where he keeps his catch while waiting for his New England buyer. "There will always be some dead ones," he says, "but when the water up here...
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Old campaign sign finds a home in Silver Lake
The 2015 election season is drawing to a close but the 2016 season - a presidential election year - has plenty of legs already. I was reminded - as if I needed a reminder - that politics can often be...
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Library roofers trying to beat the rain
Contractors at the new Lewes Public Library jumped on the job early this morning as they continue to fasten down the roof on the new structure. With lots of rain on us and more coming, many people...
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Reflections on an October coastal storm
As it is with meteorologists, journalists get excited when coastal storms and blizzards start heading our way. Such was the case last week with the highly unusual scenario of all kinds of weather...
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Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival under way
The 18th annual Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival opened its transitional season this weekend with a variety of films in the theater at Cape Henlopen High School. Enthusiastic crowds filled the...
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New Year's Eve eve: Dogfish, Notting Hill and DMV
DECEMBER 30, 2015 - Renewed my Delaware registration today for my pick-up. I call her Sweetheart. She's a 2004 Toyota Tacoma with 150,000 miles on her and a few more. On the way home, passing by the...
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David Bowie, Little Black Sambo, Transcendentalism
 WINTER MORNING, JANUARY 2016 The beat is strong. Heavy bass drum, insistent tomtom, crackling snare. David Bowie’s Modern Love. What a rocker! Get me to the church on time. Before dawn, before the...
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We've all gone to look for America
18 January 2016 - We're rolling across the flat, winter-whitened moonscape of North Dakota. Churchs Ferry. 7:56 a.m. Minus nine degrees. We boarded Amtrak's Empire Builder at 3:15 p.m. Sunday...
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Seattle, Chicago: architecture, Wright, Gehry, photos
20 January 2016 - Woke this morning to sounds of a city under construction. Jack hammers. Beeps from backing trucks. Tower 12 Apartments going up a block away. Big-time residential city with lots of...
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Observations on Dogfish’s Chesapeake and Maine
Mariah, Sam, Nick, Chef Kevin and lots of other Dogfish Head folks hosted a media dinner recently in advance of the opening of the new Chesapeake and Maine restaurant on Rehoboth Avenue. Next door to...
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Starbucks, Red Bull, Marijuana, L-Theanine in Seattle
Just exactly how do our brains work - I mean, when they do work. Take Seattle. It's a brainy town, wouldn't you say? Lots of rainy days to sit around and talk and think up cool things like Boeing...
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Passing by a pound net in Albemarle Sound
Good sized body of tea-colored water in northeastern North Carolina. Great expanses of cypress swamps and their tannin-loaded needles give the water its unique hue. Brackish, the sound almost totally...
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Arts patron Lucienne Wolfe and Lewes artist Badialov
25 March 2016 - Friends and family gathered in St. Peters Church in Lewes Friday morning to celebrate the life of Lucienne Vignol Wolfe. A great patron of the arts, Lucienne passed on to her next...
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