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  Category: Sussex County


All Aboard: Delaware and the Railroad”: Chautauqua tent shows in Lewes, Del. from Sept. 13 to 15, 2018

Historical and Cultural Affairs | News | Sussex County | Date Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Traditionally held in June, Delaware’s 2018 Chautauqua will take place in September.




Zwaanendael Maritime Celebration: “A Sailor’s Life for Me” in Lewes, Del. over the 2018 Memorial Day weekend

Historical and Cultural Affairs | News | 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 | News | 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.







  Category: Sussex County

All Aboard: Delaware and the Railroad”: Chautauqua tent shows in Lewes, Del. from Sept. 13 to 15, 2018

Historical and Cultural Affairs | News | Sussex County | Date Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Traditionally held in June, Delaware’s 2018 Chautauqua will take place in September.




Zwaanendael Maritime Celebration: “A Sailor’s Life for Me” in Lewes, Del. over the 2018 Memorial Day weekend

Historical and Cultural Affairs | News | 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 | News | 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.