Oh September, the best month in Dewey Beach! Crowds are gone, water is still warm, easy to park and our four-legged friends can be back full time on the beach! The new town hall and public safety building is finished with the exception of the elevator. Once the elevator is finished and inspected, we'll be applying for the certificate of occupancy. We appreciate all your support and patience as Phase 1 of the new building is finishing up. The Phase 1 open house is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7, from 4 to 6 p.m. Phase 2, the paramedic station, will start in mid-October.

Work on the Dickinson Avenue bayside flood mitigation project started the week of Sept. 21. The project will be upgrading the storm drain, installing an easy clean check valve, cleaning out the storm drain pipe and resetting the landscaping tarp/rocks. This work will take about two weeks to complete depending on the weather. I applied for state CTF funding grant, $45,000, for this project, which was supported and approved by Rep. Claire Snyder-Hall and Sen. Russ Huxtable. Thank you! 

In our continued quest to improve the median center island, I want to point out all the hard work by our new full-time maintenance employee John Koshar. John is a jack-of-all-trades, keeping our town clean and the center island looking beautiful. If you see John around town on the golf cart, please say hello.

IQ Fiber will be installing a fiber optic line underground on the street rights-of-way starting in October. This will give all Dewey Beach residents another option for internet service.

I'd like to thank former Mayor Diane Hanson for her donation to purchase mums for the center island at Van Dyke Avenue and at town hall. The mums look beautiful. Thank you!