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A Reader's Guide to Sussex County's Land-Use Reform Working Group

Every recommendation, every ordinance, every member. The running guide to the most consequential housing policy work happening in Sussex County today.

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Verification in progress · Council News

What Sussex County Council Decided April 14

A 210-unit rezoning on New Road. A 25-acre solar farm in Dagsboro. Three community grants. Here's what happened and what's next.

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Verification in progress · Community

Inside the 30-Day Fight to Save the Milton Theatre's Quayside

$150,000 in 30 days. Dogfish Head, Irish Eyes, anonymous donors, a 100-year-old theater, and a town that decided not to lose a piece of its downtown.

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Humanitarian Profile

Four Generations at Annapolis: The Carter Family's Century of Service

Frank Saulsbury Carter Sr. on battleships in WWI. His son at Fort Miles in WWII. Nick Carter, Class of '70, twice in the Gulf of Tonkin. And now Frank IV, newly commissioned, headed to Submarine Force. One Lewes family. One century.

Community Service

The Meals That Make It Through

CHEER delivers 295,000 meals a year to homebound Sussex County seniors. For many, the volunteer at the door is the only face they see all day. A ride-along with the program that holds Sussex together.

Policy Deep-Dive

The Proposal to Drop Sussex Rental Program's Affordable Set-Aside from 25% to 15%

One ordinance. Two futures for Sussex workforce housing. The math, actually shown — who gains, who loses, what the numbers really say.

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