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Rehoboth’s pollution efforts deserve publicity
7 years ago
Rehoboth Beach, at the insistence of the state, began testing stormwater outfall this summer to...
Cape Flavors
Give dishes a burst of flavor with sea salts
Denise Clemons
7 years ago
A few weeks ago, Jack gave me a set of gourmet sea salts (see photo). It arrived beautifully gift-...
Golf
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Fritz Schranck
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Sawyer Brockstedt should really enjoy writing her What I Did This Summer essay during this first...
People in Sports
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Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Fall foliage - The Lake Forest Invitational cross country festival at Killens Pond this Saturday at...
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Tim Bamforth
7 years ago
The 27th Seashore Striders Summer Racing Series wrapped up this past weekend with the Last Blast...
Traveler Series
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Cape Gazette reader Carol Hall of Rehoboth Beach recently went on an exciting two-week trip to...
Thoughts from the Sidelines
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Sumner Spence
7 years ago
A surprising amount of American women are succeeding in this year's US Open. For the first time...
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‘J-1 Visa’
Chris Wildt
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Consistency is key to getting faster, stronger
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Consistency. It's a term I'm sure you have heard from a coach or training partner, but do you fully...
The outer reaches of Lewes dining
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As a preemptive strike against itchy email trigger fingers (you know who you are!), this week's...
Old Tom
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Thomas Mitchell Morris, Sr., (1821-1908) better known as "old" Tom (because he had a son who was...
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Fall into locals’ mode
Rich King
7 years ago
Hope everyone had a great Labor Day! Despite the bad weather start it turned into a fun weekend...
Thoughts on Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Episode 1 - “Awake”
Cassie Gotto White
7 years ago
This article contains spoilers for Life is Strange (2015).
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Garlic is rich in antioxidants, minerals and vitamins
Paul Barbano
7 years ago
It is home to the first mail-order business (Montgomery Ward & Co.), the first skyscraper, the...
Ask the right questions before buying a hearing aid
Fred Cicetti
7 years ago
[This is the second of two columns on hearing aids.]
About one in three Americans over 60...
Delaware Cape Region History in Photographs
Route 9, Georgetown to Lewes, in the 1920s
7 years ago
Raining and flooding cause problems in lots of areas. With last weekend’s rain, and all eyes now on...
People in Sports
Saturday morning packed with three Pop Warner games and clouds of rain
Dave Frederick
7 years ago
It’s Eclectic! Boogie Woogie - A Cape Vikings Pop Warner tripleheader versus Smyrna at Legends...
Saltwater Portraits
Trip Wilkinson: Living history in Rehoboth Beach
Ryan Mavity
7 years ago
When the Rehoboth Beach Museum decided to show the results of a 2012 oral history project featuring...
Taking on critics over climate change column
Gary Foertsch
7 years ago
I was going to write about something different this month but the climate change brigade continued...
Editorials
Combat illegal dumping with bulky item trash days
7 years ago
In March, county officials found a 19-acre site strewn with 147,000 pounds of trash. Now that site...
Commentary
Farmers need relief from hungry deer
Kitty Holtz
7 years ago
Delaware farmers are pleading for relief from severe damage to their crops caused by an increasing...
Editorial Cartoon
‘Preparation Procrastination’
Chris Wildt
7 years ago
Community Photo Showcase
Late-Summer Sunrise
7 years ago
Keith Misener sent this image of sunrise at Herring Point at Cape Henlopen State Park. Late summer...
White Rhone wine: hidden gems at bargain prices
John McDonald
7 years ago
I found it difficult to focus on writing this week's column with the tragedy in the Gulf all over...
A solar eclipse and a monkey at large
Lisa Graff
7 years ago
I enjoy reading local newspapers whenever I travel, as I learn a great deal about other local...
Support ovarian cancer awareness with a touch of teal
Nancy Katz
7 years ago
The color is teal, sometimes described as a greenish-blue. The month is September. And the cause is...
Summer films best represented by the ‘meh’ emoji
Rob Rector
7 years ago
While school-aged children in the area are scrambling to get a summer's worth of assigned projects...
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy impressions
Cassie Gotto White
7 years ago
When I heard Uncharted 4 was going to have a single-player DLC, it was music to my ears. Most DLC...
Traveler Series
Local sheep read the Gazette at the Delaware State Fair
7 years ago
Cape Gazette reader Bethany Killmon of Bridgeville enjoyed reading her Cape Gazette with her...
Outdoors
New state record for golden tilefish seems likely
Eric Burnley
7 years ago
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The Business of Eating
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7 years ago
The presence of a pastry chef - especially in a resort town - is one of the signs that a restaurant...
Barefootin'
Liberal lessons from Oberlin and Frank Shapiro
Dennis Forney
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Cape Flavors
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Golf
Hyde wins Lett Scholarship
Fritz Schranck
7 years ago
Sarah Hyde of Rehoboth Beach won the 2017 Stephen R. Lett Scholarship, worth $2,500 per year for...
People in Sports
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7 years ago
Jim Brown - I walked next to Jim Brown inside the Philadelphia International Airport in 1964, a...
Running
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7 years ago
I had a chance to sit down this week with Cape cross country coach Matt Lindell. We chatted about...
Traveler Series
Cape Gazette travels to Greece
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This group of Gazette readers from Rehoboth Beach recently traveled to Greece. Pictured (l to r)...
Editorials
The demise of Punkin Chunkin
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It started as entertainment, opposite to a predecessor competition called the anvil toss, which had...
Editorial Cartoon
‘Paradox or Irony’
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Hanging onto summer
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Despite the Phillies' dismal season, there is actually a good reason to continue to watch the rest...
The cheesesteak survival guide
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Our proximity to Philadelphia and Wilmington requires, at the minimum, a working knowledge of...
Fishing Report
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Divide flowering perennials at the proper time
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Whether it is kids at a party or an entire nation, it seems things divide us. In the Old Testament...
Hearing loss has variety of causes
Fred Cicetti
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Q. I think I need a hearing aid. Any recommendations?
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People in Sports
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Ocean Atlantic - Swimmers crossed the finish line before runners and biathletes at the Aug. 27...
Saltwater Portraits
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Dennis Bartow's eyes lit up as a viceroy butterfly fluttered across a path at James Farm Ecological...
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