Selbyville News

Selbyville Town Council members voted on Monday to keep the town’s property tax rate unchanged again in the 2009 fiscal year, at $1.85 per $100 of assessed value. The rate has remained at that level for more than 15 years.

Existing standards for public roads in Sussex County are admittedly less stringent than those imposed by the State of Delaware, but that could cease to be the case under a directive passed by the Sussex County Council at their Tuesday, Jan. 8, meeting.

The Sussex County Council on Jan. 8 granted unanimous approval of a conditional use for PMP Associates, which plans to bring a facility for healthcare and medical offices to a location near the intersection of Routes 54 and 20.

Selbyville officials have set public hearings on several ordinance changes for the start of their Feb. 4 meeting, lining up changes for neighborhood business uses and in setbacks in the town’s residential districts.

Selbyville’s industrial park has a vacancy for a new tenant, after the closing of local operations by Valmont Structures, one of the two largest facilities operating at the industrial park to date.

Selbyville’s industrial park has a vacancy for a new tenant, after the closing of local operations by Valmont Structures, one of the two largest facilities operating at the industrial park to date.

Selbyville is once again preparing for the town’s Halloween extravaganza, set for Wednesday, Oct. 24, right at the center of town. The event, nearly half a century in the making, runs from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. and draws an extensive crowd each year, inviting friends and family from surrounding areas.

Ray and Cheryl Stancill have successfully expanded a loving marriage into a well-developed business partnership. The two spent more than 20 years in western Maryland in the pool industry — a career that came seemingly naturally with Ray Stancill’s experience in construction.

With major changes for municipal elections around the state, thanks to legislative reforms on the state level, Selbyville is not alone in having to change how it conducts is annual town council elections. Council members mulled some of their choices at their Oct.

Selbyville is one of the focuses of recent growth in Sussex County, and town officials moved Monday night to ensure that their infrastructure can keep up with that growth by more than doubling the town’s water service impact fee.

Under a red-and-white striped tent in a troubled Selbyville-area community, Donald Johnson bangs on the keyboard and Daren Purnell holds a beat on the drums. More than a dozen people have visited the tent on this Tuesday to hear Johnson preach and attempt to uplift a community beleaguered by drug problems and among some, a general unwillingness to change.

Karaoke nights on Tuesdays had been good to Sean Oates’ Dublin Steakhouse. Locals had shown up in droves to the Selbyville spot in the Mason Dixon Shopping Center to belt out throaty versions of 80’s hair-band songs and soulful country-western melodies.

Salvatore and Carmelita Liberto moved from a troubled Baltimore neighborhood on May 15, 2002, into a home in Fenwick West, off of Route 20. Retired, the two do not work and live on a fixed income. But on Saturday, they will be two of hundreds of residents voting on a proposed Sussex County sewer district that will cost them thousands upfront and year after year, if the district is approved.

State legislators approved a sweeping revenue package with the 2008 fiscal year budget this weekend, raising $572 million over the next six years to help cover a $1.5 billion shortfall in the capital transportation program and, perhaps, saving some roadway projects that were left in jeopardy.

Low-income homeowners outside Selbyville and in Ocean View will receive funding through the federal government’s community development block grant program this year to fix up their homes or connect to central water service, according to county officials.

The skies over coastal Delaware will light up over the Fourth of July holiday with a variety of pyrotechnics displays.

But not all of them will be legal.

State legislation up for approval this week would allow state transportation officials to begin work on the much-anticipated Indian River Inlet Bridge project that was delayed again in late April.

After weeks of anticipation and months of work, the inaugural Bethany Beach Farmers’ Market is set to open, from 8 a.m. to noon on Sunday, July 1, in the Mercantile Peninsula Bank parking lot in town.

The 25-member working group made up of civic leaders coming Millsboro south to Selbyville have officially recommended building a highway that will bypass U.S. 113 from north of Millsboro to south of Frankford.

For years, Old Timer’s Day prospered as Selbyville’s signature event, attracting people from across the county and state to tour the small town. The event, while a potential fund-raising option, is not a fundraiser for the town and is instead aimed at showing off the town to visitors and prospective homeowners.

Selbyville town officials decided to make their opinion official in the process to select a proposed solution to cure future congestion problems on U.S. 113.

Last year’s Old Timer’s Day will certainly be hard to top. Selbyville town officials estimated this week that roughly 2,000 attended the festivities, eating, playing games, walking the town and admiring the more than 180 entrants in the Classic Car and Truck Show, which included antique cars, trucks, relic police cars and emergency vehicles.

Clara Banks, a 91-year-old Selbyville resident, vividly remembers a frightening day earlier this year when, choking and fearing for her life, she called 911. A man, whose vehicle was affixed with sirens and a license plate normally associated with that of a trained emergency responder, was the first to enter her home and attempt to address the issue.

Delaware State Police officials were searching mid-week for Jose L. Estrada, a 26-year-old Selbyville resident and sex offender who had failed to re-register his address. Estrada – who also goes by the names Anemida Dejesusvargas, Anrudi D.

Development plans presented to Selbyville Town Council on Monday sparked a discussion regarding the necessity of facilitating commercial growth. Don Conaway, a Realtor with Seashore Realty in Fenwick Island, presented conceptual plans Monday to build a mixed-used commercial and residential development at the corner of Hudson Road and Route 54 on the east side of the town.