Rehoboth Beach getting ready for summer season
Parking season in Rehoboth Beach is just around the corner, which means the city is in full getting-ready-for-summer mode.
In advance of the meters being turned on, and in an effort to make parking easier, city officials have marked the entrances of the 30-minute spots around town. In the past, among the more frequent complaints by visitors is that the signage for the 30-minute spots wasn’t visible enough, which led to vehicles pulling in and then having to pull out.
The city’s downtown water towers have also been cleaned up for the summer. A crew recently power-washed the water tower near city hall and has since moved on to painting the water tower on Lincoln Street.
Also, during a city commissioner workshop April 8, Interim City Manager Evan Miller said foot wash stations on the Boardwalk are being prepared, catch basins cleaned, bike racks and trash cans replaced, and the beach rakes fine-tuned.
“May is upon us, so preparations for the new season are in full swing within the streets department and across the city,” said Miller.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
