Rehoboth Beach

A New Jersey company is proposing to build about 200 wind turbines, each taller than the Statue of Liberty, in the Atlantic Ocean or Delaware Bay that would whirl within view of some of the region's most popular beaches. Officials with Bluewater Wind of Hoboken hope their $1 billion offshore wind farm will be the first in U.S. waters. Similar proposals are pending for wind farms off Cape Cod, Mass., and Long Island, N.Y., but they have drawn protests and lawsuits from homeowners who say their water views would be defiled by the towers.

The death notices for my old friend Grace Shockley Copper ran in at least four newspapers, in Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Washington, as well as her home in Rehoboth Beach, Del. Grace, who died at age 86 on Aug. 23, was entirely up to the billing of three big cities and the small town where she earned a reputation as an unforgettable person. Here was a woman who made a deep and wide impression, although she never ventured far from the home where she was born and spent all her life. No.

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. -- Living life in a shell, Lucky wasn't used to all the attention. As tourists poked, petted and photographed her, the old girl - judging from the barnacles on her back, she'd been around a while - squirmed impatiently, not realizing how good she had it. Diamondback terrapins along Delaware's coast face fates far worse than being a prop in a science presentation, and Lucky's short and involuntary appearance at Delaware Seashore State...

Summertime in Ocean City and Rehoboth Beach: Barely an inch of blanket space on the beach, little kids kicking sand in your face and a crush of foot traffic trampling down the boardwalk. Is this really getting away? Plenty of quieter coastal options do exist. Among those: Lewes, Broadkill and Slaughter beaches in Delaware and Assateaugue seashore in Maryland. On a recent weekday afternoon, barely a dozen people were at Delaware's Slaughter Beach. Sylvia Smith and her granddaughter Khari Vance were two of them.

Rehoboth Beach Rehoboth Beach has been described as being a touch Cape Cod and a little Key West. That's not as true as it used to be. With the real-estate boom, many of the town's old-fashioned clapboard and shingle cottages are being replaced by expensive condos. Affluent vacationers have made Rehoboth their destination beach, which is changing the character of the place - sometimes for the worse, but usually for the better. Over the years, the town has become increasingly cosmopolitan.

EMERY W. (TED) TETRAULT, son of Emery and Flora Tetrault, died after along illness at age 75 on February 8, 2006, at Lewes Convalescent Center, Lewes, Delaware. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Joan, and his children, William of Brooklyn, NY, Joseph of Baltimore, MD, Theresa Moller of Washington, DC, Robert of Rockville, MD, and Julie of Laurel, MD. He is also survived by four grandchildren. Ted was born September 27, 1930 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Assumption College in 1952 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force that year.

On January 9, 2006, JAMES B. BYRNES III, son of the late James B. Byrnes, Jr. and Ruth Thiede of Rehoboth Beach, brother of Regina Wheeler. Services private. Memorial service will be held at a later date. Arrangements handled by Parsell Funeral Homes, Lewes, DE. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions be made to Delaware Hospice, 600 N. Du Pont Highway, Suite 600, Georgetown, DE 19947.

GERALD V. EMGE, SR., age 94, of Rehoboth Beach, DE died Sunday, October 30, 2005, at Brandywine Assisted Living in Rehoboth Beach. Mr. Emge was born May 31, 1911 in Baltimore, MD son of the late Frederick and Julia (Mc Rae) Emge. Mr. Emge retired from Black & Decker in the Towson, MD area in 1974 where he had worked as a accountant. He was also a former member of the American Legion. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife Virginia in 2003 and his son Gerald V. Emge, Jr. He is survived by his daughter Donna Merrill of Kiowa Island, SC; his son Kirk J. Emge of Falls Church, VA; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

RANDALL DAVID HECKER, age 46, of Lewes, DE passed away Thursday, October 6, 2005 at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, DE. Mr. Hecker was born March 25, 1959 in Baltimore, MD to the late Harold Edwin Hecker and Nancy (Hallam) Hecker of Lewes, DE. Mr. Hecker was a Signal Foreman for Amtrak in Washington, DC for 16 years, retiring in l995. He was a veteran of the United States Army. Mr. Hecker loved working with his hands especially in electrical projects. He is survived by his mother Nancy H. Hecker; two sons, Jeremy Christopher Hecker of North Carolina and Christopher Thomas Hecker of Salisbury, MD and one sister, Holly Anne Reynolds of Isle of Palms, SC. Funeral services will be held on Monday October 10, 2005 at 2 PM at Epworth United Methodist Church, 20 Baltimore Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, DE with Reverend Jack Abel officiating.

JULE "Toby" WILLIAM HALLET, age 76, of Rehoboth Beach, DE died Saturday, October 1, 2005, at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, DE. Mr. Hallet was born January 6, 1929 in Lena, WI to the late Edwin and Mabel Hallet. Mr. Hallet was the former owner of Midway Chevrolet, Oldsmobile & Cadillac of Pocomoke City, MD in the 1960s and he also owned and operated Toby Hallet Oldsmobiles of Baltimore, Maryland in the 1970s. He officially retired in the 1980s from various other automotive positions. He was a member of St. Jude The Apostle Catholic Church, the Cape Henlopen Elks Lodge #2540 of Lewes and the Rehoboth Beach American Legion Post.