Millville

In March, the Millville Town Council approved spending $650 for an initial study by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for the Town’s need for police coverage. This week, the council again discussed spending the money at a workshop in light of the recent developments with the Delaware State Police.

On April 26 the town of Ocean View awarded Millville Volunteer Fire Company with a grant of $68,000 from their Emergency Services Enhancement Fund.

On April 13, Millville Mayor Gerald “Gerry” Hocker Jr. announced that the town would be “entering into a mutually beneficial arrangement whereby the Delaware State Police personnel from Troop 4 will utilize space in the Millville town hall for a state police community office.”

The Town of Millville has proven recently that it is able to back up the talk about providing increased police coverage to their town with action.

With decreased funding and increasing costs, the Millville Volunteer Fire Company addressed the Millville Town Council on April 12 regarding new, creative ideas for the budget.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A COASTAL FLOOD WARNING AND WIND ADVISORY FOE THE AREA UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS NORTH AND WEST DUE TO THE SAME STORM SYSTEM.

When the Millville Volunteer Fire Company formed in 1936, they had 23 members and a barn. This weekend, more than 150 active and lifetime members will celebrate the company’s 75th anniversary.

As warmer weather slowly approaches, it signals the first sign of spring. And with each and every season – at least for the past 29 years – so returns the Springtime Jamboree. For nearly three decades, local businessman and current state Rep.

Newly elected Millville Mayor Gerry Hocker announced at the March town council meeting that there will be an open house at the town hall April 12, before the council meeting, from 4 to 7 p.m., for anyone interested in viewing the recently completed addition to the building.

Carwashes and bake sales are common fundraising avenues, but there’s nothing like some good-old fashioned competition to really get people paying attention. The folks at Bethel Tabernacle Church of God in Clarksville know that all too well, so they decided to make their big push for fundraising a little more fun with a friendly little men-versus-women competition. The losers have to sleep on the roof of the church — come rain, sleet or snow.

UPDATE: The tornado watch for Sussex County has been dropped as of 7:05 a.m.

The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, N.J., has issued a wind advisory that is in effect from 1 to 6 p.m. Monday, April 4. The advisory covers the southern two-thirds of Delaware, a portion of Maryland’s Eastern Shore and a portion of southeast New Jersey.

Ocean View police arrested a man Tuesday afternoon for allegedly robbing Banks Wines & Spirits the previous night, but it took a tussle between the man and police on Route 26 to bring him into custody.

The Millville town council met March 22 to discuss and review the draft budget for fiscal year 2012.

Let’s face it. Most of us are ready for summer to get here – sunny skies, warmer temperatures and a savory, refreshing ice cream cone. Bonnie and Keith Gordon certainly are, and they’ve wasted no time in bringing a little bit of the summer spirit to the Delaware shore. Their York, Pa.-area ice cream and snowball shop – Bonkey’s – has created such a stir that they decided to share their success, opening their third location in Millville, along Route 26, this past week.

Phase I of the streetscape project on Cedar Drive sidewalks will be starting soon, said Millville Town Manager Debbie Botchie at the Millville Town Council meeting this week.

The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, N.J., has expanded a flood watch to include portions of Delaware, Northeast Maryland and New Jersey, including the Delaware beaches and inland Sussex County from Thursday morning through Friday morning.

A 5K run, 1-mile walk and kids’ fun run are scheduled for Sunday, April 17, in the Assawoman Wildlife Refuge and Camp Barnes to promote the summer camp offered at Camp Barnes.

Guitarist Slash of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver. Talk-show host Montel Williams. Photographer Nigel Barker of “America’s Next Top Model.” Delaware state Rep. Gerald Hocker. Humane Society of the United States Senior Vice President Dr. John Grandy.

Millville businesses owners represented nearly every local industry at the Millville Business Persons’ Breakfast on Feb. 16.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW THAT IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM EST TUESDAY.

* LOCATIONS...THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF DELAWARE.

* HAZARD TYPES... SNOW. A LITTLE SLEET IS POSSIBLE IN THE TRANSITION FROM RAIN TO SNOW BETWEEN 9 PM AND MIDNIGHT.

* ACCUMULATIONS... 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW.

...HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST THIS EVENING...

* LOCATIONS...THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND, DELAWARE, EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND MUCH OF NEW JERSEY.

* HAZARDS...LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED TODAY INTO THIS EVENING.

* WINDS...NORTHWEST SUSTAINED AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH.

“It was an ordinary morning until…”

Participants fill in the blank after a prompt, such as the one above, at the weekly “Free Write!” sponsored by the Rehoboth Beach Writer’s Guild and held each Friday at the Super G in Millville, in the upstairs conference room. Participants are welcome to bring their laptops or pen and paper to participate in the exercise.

As of 2006, opioid painkillers were involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, according to figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Eight local fire and police departments recognized the dedication and courage that their members possess and execute each and every day when the 2011 Joshua M. Freeman Valor Awards were presented to police officers and firefighters this past Friday, Feb. 11, at DiFebo’s Bistro on the Green at Bear Trap Dunes.

Although it might not be obvious from the outside, the inside of Millville’s own magic theater continues to be newsworthy. Most recently, the Dickens Parlour Theatre completely renovated a the main house into a real “parlour” – offering a new dining hall for pre-show dinners and post-show desserts.

The Millville Town Council will be hiring a consultant to assess the Town’s possible need and options for future public safety patrols. Deputy Mayor Gerald “Gerry” Hocker Jr., at the council’s Feb. 8 meeting, said that, in the last council workshop, “everyone seemed to be in support of doing a study and cost analysis of our town’s police department.”

A group of residents along White’s Creek in Millville and Ocean View met this week to recall the history of mute swans along the creek and the killing of a pair of the swans last month by state Fish & Wildlife employees, and to make a plan they hope will offer a way forward for both the swans and state policy.

Banks Wines and Spirits in Millville will host a fundraiser on Friday, Feb. 18, from 6 to 11 p.m., at Cripple Creek Golf and Country Club in Dagsboro, to benefit Millville Volunteer Fire Company’s emergency medical service – specifically to fund the purchase of a bariatric stretcher, which is used for larger patients.

The Millville Town Council will be hiring a consultant to assess the Town’s possible need and options for future public safety patrols. Deputy Mayor Gerald “Gerry” Hocker Jr., at the council’s Feb. 8 meeting, said that, in the last council workshop, “everyone seemed to be in support of doing a study and cost analysis of our town’s police department.”