Choppin' Wood

Abandoned ashes deserve a dignified resting place too

Chris Flood
2 years ago
I don’t always thumb through the Gazette looking for column ideas, but sometimes I do, and last...

As it should, Rehoboth’s merman has a Pride flag as...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
I got to Rehoboth Beach a little early for an interview the other day, so I killed time by walking...

H.O.B. needed a crosswalk, not 16 no-parking signs

Chris Flood
2 years ago
I’ve written in the past about how my kids are walkers at H.O. Brittingham Elementary School in...

Summer humidity is here; cue the sweat

Chris Flood
2 years ago
This past week has been hot and humid here in the Cape Region, which is great for visitors going to...

Lifeguards must train in the rain

Chris Flood
2 years ago
The past few days in the Cape Region have been windy and wet, which was good for my dried-out rain...

If you can’t make it, cancel your surf-fishing...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
Over the last handful of years, few decisions made by Department of Natural Resources and...

Memorial Day is here; let’s talk eels, turtles,...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
Every year, in late February and early March, freshwater streams and rivers along the eastern...

Family album survives fire that destroyed everything...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
I’ve known Sussex Consortium Principal Dr. Vivian Bush for more than a decade. My wife used to work...

DelDOT went all winter without replenishing its salt

Chris Flood
2 years ago
Other than a brief spell of freezing temperatures in late December, this past winter was relatively...

Browseabout’s bestseller list is 50-year snapshot of...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
When the ownership of a longtime business changes, even if things stay essentially the same, the...

As Sussex’s population grows, so does need for pet...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
One of the good things about having this column is that it gives me the opportunity to write about...

Of his costumes, John Milton would dislike this one...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
At the bottom of the hill in Milton’s Mill Park, sitting on a bench under a pergola, is a statue of...

Medical marijuana dispensaries should be allowed to...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
I wasn’t working as a reporter in Delaware when the law creating the state’s medical marijuana...

Mike Clampitt is Milton's king of Fat Tuesday king...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
Fat Tuesday is next week. While a lot of local restaurants will have drink and food specials to...

Carmine, Paulson cultivated culture in the Cape Region

Chris Flood
2 years ago
Over the course of the past few weeks, I’ve noticed on the pages of the Gazette that two people...

Signs point to Cape Henlopen State Park’s military...

Chris Flood
2 years ago
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a walk-and-talk event in Cape Henlopen State Park for California-...

Recent weather patterns have been a tale of extremes

Chris Flood
3 years ago
I don’t know about anyone else, but it’s crazy that as I sit down to type this column Jan. 4, we...

Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus’ beard is real

Chris Flood
3 years ago
For the past two months, my every-other-week turn for a column has fallen on the Friday of two...

For now, female ‘living fossils’ avoid threat of...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
A few years ago, as part of a series on the state’s new aquaculture program, I went out with Dewey’...

Delaware seeing sobering trend in traffic-related...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
When I saw I had a column due the day after Thanksgiving, I was thinking about writing something...

Briggs team hands off Rehoboth Christmas tree-moving...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Weather permitting, about this time next week, a crew from Rehoboth Beach’s Streets Department will...

It’s time for Rehoboth to remove memorial tree markers

Chris Flood
3 years ago
I’ve done a lot of walking around Rehoboth Beach in the past few weeks. In addition to my normal...

After dry summmer, rain brings out huge swarm of midges

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Last week’s five-day-long storm did more than bring rain and localized flooding to the area, it...

Kindness vigilantes make their way to Rehoboth Beach

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Sometime in August, while driving through downtown Rehoboth Beach, a 3-foot-tall sign on a utility...

Long Neck Road is the busiest dead end in Delaware

Chris Flood
3 years ago
A couple of months ago, the Delaware Department of Transportation issued an email saying its 2021...

Mom and daughter Holsteins are last of Hopkins cows

Chris Flood
3 years ago
The Hopkins family ended its eight-decade-old dairy farm operation after selling its 1,000 cows...

New wheelchair gets Kenny Simpler Sr. back on the beach

Chris Flood
3 years ago
This past weekend might have been the nicest multi-day stretch of the entire summer. A weeks-long...

Leave it to beavers to control the flow of water

Chris Flood
3 years ago
A couple of months ago, the Delaware Department of Transportation replaced the crossroad pipes at...

Headline mistakes in a story can be a distracting ...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Today’s column is not what I had intended on writing about, but I’m quickly learning that I have...

Hard work of fireworks crews should not go unnoticed

Chris Flood
3 years ago
From the gathering-information perspective I take into a reporting assignment, one of the...

Celebrating Father’s Day the best way I know how

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Looking ahead on the every-other-week schedule I’m sharing with colleague Ron MacArthur, I knew...

When Biden is in town, even the haters get excited

Chris Flood
3 years ago
When President Joe Biden is in town, there’s an undeniable energy, and pretty much everyone – yes,...

Obituary photo serves as reminder that everyone has...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
I grew up in this business. One of the important things I took in as a child and then as a...

Living by the ocean sometimes means getting wet

Chris Flood
3 years ago
What do bird lovers, amusement park operators and avid runners all have in common? When they live...

Celestial viewing and spring renewal in the early...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
The day this column runs in print is Arbor Day 2022, which is why I had intended it to be primarily...

Mike Mixon: Baseball and music are my life

Chris Flood
3 years ago
As long as I lived in this area as an adult, one of the most interesting sign boards along Route 1...

Nelson Warren uses his beef cows’ manure to his...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
A few weeks ago, in the comments section of this paper’s Facebook page, Rehoboth farmer Nelson...

Nanticoke Indian Association celebrating 100 years...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
The Nanticoke Indian Tribe has been in and around this area of the Delmarva Peninsula for thousands...

Always something new to see where pond and river meet

Chris Flood
3 years ago
For the majority of days this past school year, except in the rain and when work doesn’t allow it,...

Murat Tan: Success not guaranteed; giving up not an...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
With everything that’s changed in the past two years – I’m writing this the morning my kids...

Get your steps in on The Point before its annual...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
For almost two decades, the state has closed The Point in Cape Henlopen State Park annually so...

Changes are inevitable – and a brief introduction to...

Chris Flood
3 years ago
Ron MacArthur was correct a couple of weeks ago in his first Around Sussex column when he said...