Thier and Goode win Rehoboth Beach election
In a four-person race for two seats, Craig Thier and Suzanne Goode are the winners in Rehoboth Beach’s 2024 municipal election.
The election took place Saturday, Aug. 10 – Thier finished first with 611 votes, Goode finished second with 521, Mark Saunders finished third with 489 and Rachel Macha finished fourth with 448.
In all there were 1,147 votes cast – 652 in person, 495 absentee. A total of 1,655 voters were registered. It was the city’s first election in three years.
Sitting Commissioners Toni Sharp and Tim Bennett did not seek re-election. Sharp was in the first term of her second stint as commissioner. Bennett served one term.
See more in the Tuesday, Aug. 12 edition of the Cape Gazette.
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.
