THE ANNUAL AWARENESS AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORT OFFER TIPS FOR PREPARING FOR A SAFE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, PLUS A NEW ONLINE TOOL THAT DEMONSTRATES THE VARIOUS DANGERS OF IMPAIRED DRIVING. DOVER, DE — Labor Day weekend is historically one of the deadliest times of the year on roadways in Delaware and nationwide. According to the National Highway Traffic […]
Continue ReadingThe Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will reduce the lifeguarding hours at two of its Delaware State Parks ocean swimming beaches starting next week. From Monday, August 23 through Friday, September 3, 2021 Delaware Seashore State Park’s Tower Road beach will be unguarded during the week, but will remain guarded on weekends. […]
Continue ReadingVolunteers Also Invited to Clean Up Close to Home in September Volunteers for the 34th annual Delaware Coastal Cleanup will have two options this year to help keep the state’s beaches and waterways free of trash through a widespread effort that also touches Delaware’s natural areas and neighborhoods. The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and […]
Continue ReadingA living shoreline project developed by the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary to help Lewes, Delaware with shoreline stabilization was completed in partnership with Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Delaware Living Shorelines Committee. The Lewes Canal project was a joint effort to add a […]
Continue ReadingREHOBOTH BEACH, DE – The Rehoboth Art League’s signature summer event, its Annual Outdoor Fine Art and Fine Craft Show, returns to Henlopen Acres for the first two weekends in August. After going virtual in 2020, the Outdoor Show is pleased to bring artists back to coastal Delaware to showcase and sell their artwork. Now […]
Continue ReadingThe Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will host a virtual meeting for the public to review and comment on the White Clay Creek State Park Master Plan proposed final draft from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Monday, August 2, 2021. The proposed final draft and instructions to join the virtual meeting are available […]
Continue ReadingIn April of 2021 photographer Steve Atkinson began a new photographic project, Chesapeake Country Roads. Now he is announcing the publication of a 16-month Wall Calendar of these photographs. Most of the photographs were taken in Kent and Queen Anne’s Counties. The calendar can be purchased at the Website ChesapeakeCountryRoads.com/Calendar. Even though he had been […]
Continue ReadingThe Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will close a section of the Tri-Valley Trail at White Clay Creek State Park for drainage repairs starting Monday, July 12. The section of affected trail spans from Smith Mill Road to Paper Mill Road/Corner Ketch Road. Repairs are expected to last up to one week. […]
Continue ReadingREHOBOTH BEACH, DE – From 10am-4pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 13 and 14, 2021 the Rehoboth Art League will celebrate the finale of its first-ever virtual Cottage Tour with Hospitality Days at its historic Henlopen Acres campus. Though this year’s Cottage Tour is presented online through July 14, the public is invited to celebrate […]
Continue ReadingREHOBOTH BEACH, DE – Painted screens are an authentic urban folk art created in Baltimore row house neighborhoods in 1913. Painted door screens provided an unobstructed view of the street to the row house owner, while the colorful images stopped people on the sidewalk from seeing in. Guest artist John Iampieri will teach this art […]
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