Zwaanendael Maritime Celebration: “A Sailor’s Life for Me” in Lewes, Del. over the 2018 Memorial Day weekend
Historical and Cultural Affairs | Newsroom | Sussex County | Date Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2018
Event provides visitors with an opportunity to experience seafaring lives of adventure, romance, excitement and hardships, and to honor mariners who made the ultimate sacrifice.
“Lost off Lewes: The British warship DeBraak”
Historical and Cultural Affairs | Newsroom | Sussex County | Date Posted: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Tours explore the surviving hull section of an 18th-century shipwreck
Governor Carney celebrates Arbor Day at St. Jones Reserve in Dover
Department of Agriculture | Forest Service | Kent County | New Castle County | Sussex County | Date Posted: Monday, May 7, 2018
Governor John C. Carney, Jr. presided over the Delaware Forest Service’s 2018 Arbor Day Celebration at DNERR St. Jones Reserve in Dover on Friday, May 4.
Joined by Rep. Harvey Kenton, Rep. David Wilson, Agriculture Secretary Michael T. Scuse, and DNREC Secretary Shawn M. Garvin, Governor Carney honored the winners of the Delaware Forest Service’s Arbor Day School Poster Contest, including Statewide Winner Amelia Meyer of Southern Delaware School of the Arts in Selbyville. The 2018 poster contest theme was “Trees are Terrific… and Perfect for Pollinators!” The Governor also recognized representatives from some of Delaware’s 17 Tree City USA communities, including Dover Air Force Base and Arden. The event culminated with the planting of two new hawthorn trees, part of a new “science garden” at the reserve, in keeping the 2018 poster contest theme and its focus on pollinators.
DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife sets Saturday, May 5 training in Lewes for volunteer beachnesting bird monitors
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Fish and Wildlife | Sussex County | Date Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2018
Volunteers wanting to help protect Delaware’s endangered piping plovers and other beachnesting birds are invited to join DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife monitoring team and attend a training session held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 5, at Cape Henlopen State Park’s Biden Environmental Training Center.
I-95 Coalition and DelDOT Launch Mileage-Based User Fee Study
Department of Transportation | Kent County | New Castle County | Newsroom | Sussex County | Date Posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2018
The I-95 Corridor Coalition, with the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) as the lead, has launched a three month pilot study to begin exploring the feasibility of replacing the current fuel tax with a mileage-based user fee (MBUF). “The fundamental question we are beginning to address is, as fuel tax revenue declines in the future […]
