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INSIDE: 50€ i Tragedy strikes at Cape High. pg. 14 Delaware's Cape Region € Friday, June 9 - Thursday, June 15, 2000 € www.capegazette.com € Volume 8 No. 3 State may move ahead with bicycle rail trail Even if route from Lewes to Rehoboth has missing links By Michael Short A bike and walking trail along parts of the abandoned railroad line between Rehoboth Beach and Lewes could go for- ward even though the state has not yet acquired the entire route. A major parcel of land at the Lewes end is still in private hands and some relatively minor right-of-way requirements must still be met at the Rehoboth Beach end. The state has been in the midst of a mas- sive land buying program along the out: skirts of the park in order to preserve open space, which is under intense development pressure. That land west of the park will provide a buffer for the park land, but it can also incorporate the long discussed rail trail route between the two towns. Delaware now has bought up most of that four-mile stretch of land, which clears the way to begin moving forward on a trail for biking, walking and jogging. The state, in particular, has locked up the center portion between Sussex 270 and Sussex 271 and controls the two bridge areas which any path would have to cross. The long debated trail has been champi- oned by many, but the land has been in pri- vate hands. While it was considered less environmentally sensitive than a route through the park, the issue of not owning the abandoned railroad line had always doomed the project. The parks division has since moved ahead to create at least a part of a trail through the existing park land, beginning work on a controversial Gordon's Pond area project. Continued on page 17 Cape lighthouse project tops out at $10.6 million Funding study is prelude to blue ribbon committee By Jim Cresson Rebuilding the famed Cape Henlopen Lighthouse to its full scale of 69-feet-3- inches tall and with the same type of 1767 construction materials would cost $10.6 million, according to a study completed June 7. Sen. David McBride, D-Hawk's Nest, obtained Bond Bill Committee funding in the amount of $20,000 for the study last year and championed the study to rebuild the lighthouse as the first step toward recre- ating one of the earliest and most famous lighthouses in the New World. McBride reviewed the lighthouse recon- struction feasibility study prepared by Wilmington architects Bernardon & Asso- ciates, and said the cost may seem stagger- Continued on page 11 Bob Bowden photo A smile as bright as the future for graduating Cape High seniors D'Anna Fluharty is all smiles Tuesday evening, June 6, as she and her classmates listen to commencement speaker Bob Keeney, a retiring Cape High teacher, address the Cape High class of 2000. The Cape Gazette will publish a spe- cial section featuring student photos and honors - Graduation 2000 - which will appear in the June 23 edition. who said he had been approached by a number of people in town who were con- cerned about preservation. "We know there are concerns and we want to hear what the people of town have to say about things," said the mayor. City Manager Elaine Bisbee explained that there ia set of historic preservation regulations on the books in Lewes that haven't been enforced for a number of years. "There are regulations but no guide- lines," said Bisbee. She said the regula- tions in place discuss establishment of an architectural review commission that has the responsibility of approving demolition, erection, reconstruction, alteration, restora- tion or general exterior repairs to structures located in the town's designated historic district. That district, she said, includes about two-thirds of the mainland side of town including all of the homes between the canal and McFee Street, inclusive; all the homes along Pilottown Road out to the Episcopal Cemetery; all the homes east of Burton Avenue to the perimeter of Block- , Continued on page 16 Mayor agrees to appoint committee to review rules By Dennis Forney A group of Lewes residents heated by historic preservation fever and clamoring for government intervention filled a Lewes Mayor and Council workshop meeting Monday, June 5. Concerned about older homes being demolished and replaced with "inappropri- ate" structures,' the crowd called on city leaders to revive and begin enforcing his- toric district regulations that were last dis- cussed in 1988. By the close of the hour-long meeting, Mayor George H.P. Smith agreed to appoint a committee at the July 10 meeting of Mayor and Council to review the present set of regulations and chart a path for future preservation. He called on the crowd for volunteers to serve on the committee and several placed their name on a list. Smith noted the meeting was called on the initiative of Councilman Jim Ippolito, Lewes residents clamor for historic district regs