Sally Slook leaving Henlopen Acres town manager position
About eight months after beginning her tenure as Henlopen Acres town manager, Sally Slook has stepped down.
Mayor Joni Reich said Slook resigned as of Feb. 9 due to unforeseen personal family circumstances.
Slook took over in July, replacing former Town Manager Tom Roth, who had been with the town for 19 years.
Slook will remain an employee through May 10 to assist the town with its search and transition to a new town manager, said Reich. The town will begin those recruitment efforts next week, she said.
Henlopen Acres is a triangle-shaped community that sits on 123 acres – Rehoboth Beach is immediately to the south, the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal is to the north and the Atlantic Ocean is to the east. It was officially incorporated as a town in 1970 after being developed in the 1930s by Col. Wilbur S. Corkran.
The resignation of Slook now means Lewes, Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres are all looking for a town manager at the same time.
Ann Marie Townshend stepped down from the position in Lewes in August after six years. She took a job with a Dover-area consulting firm.
Laurence Christian stepped down in Rehoboth Beach in November after nine months on the job. He left for the same reason as Slook – unforeseen family matters.
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.
