Your account does not include highlighter on images.
Save Pages in Scrapbooks
Community Sponsors
| December 7, 2001 Cape Gazette |  |
|
©
Cape Gazette. All rights reserved. Upgrade to access Premium Tools
PAGE 19 (19 of 116 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Jumbo Image Save To Scrapbook Set Notifiers PDF JPG
December 7, 2001 |
|
|
Website © 2024. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader 
|
'-I'-
CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, Dec. 7 - Dec. 13, 2001 - 19
Blue Plate Diner owners will have to defend liquor license request
Bridin Reynolds-Hughes
Due to some local opposition,
owners of The Blue Plate Diner in
Lewes, Jim Pasla:vski and Mark
Grabowski, will have to defend
their request for on-premise alco-
hol beverage license at an open
hearing of the Alcohol Beverage
Control Commissioner Monday,
Dec. 17.
The commissioner will hear
from the petitioner, the owners
and any public participants.
The owners filed a request for a
liquor license for No. 1 Down-
town Partners, Inc., trading as
Blue Plate Diner in early October.
As part of their compliance they
ran public advertiselnents of their
request and sent by certified mail
to property owners within a 300
foot radius of their 329 Savannah
Road property. During the notifi-
cation process, a petition against
the application was submitted.
The protest petition originated
from Lewes resident Jim Gay-
hardt. Gayhardt lives four houses
down from the restaurant on Sa-
vannah Road. "This is not person-
al, we just think there are enough
liquor licenses in Lewes. It's not
Repair work ahead of
schedule on local bridges
An acceleration agreement between the Department of Trans-
portation and its contractor on the Route 1 repair project has result-
ed in rapid progress as repairs to the Nassau and Broadkill bridges
near Lewes have been completed well ahead of schedule. Work on
both bridges were initially estimated at as many as 60 days, howev-
er, because of the acceleration agreement the bridges were finished
in only 36 days.
In fact, the repair work on the bridges was completed even ahead
of the accelerated schedule. Repairs to the bridges began Oct. 1 and
the acceleration agreement allowed 40 days for completion, yet the
work was finished four days earlier.
By Nov. 5, both bridges were reopened, eliminating the lane re-
strictions on the Broadkill Bridge and also the "short detour from
Route 1 onto Nassau Road that kept northbound traffic off the Nas-
sau Bridge. The contractor received financial incentives to speed up
the bridge work. Secretary Nathan Hayward III is committed to
making DelDOT more accessible, responsive and efficient, and his
successful blitz techniques (project accelerations) enable DelDOT
to more efficiently and more quickly complete projects with only
minimal disruptions.
The work on the Nassau and Broadkill bridges was part of the
$4. I million repair and repaying project now underway on Route 1
from Route t6 to near Five Points. The acceleration agreement will
also help reduce by about two months the total time it takes to com-
plete the entire project. Paving currently underway in northbound
lanes will be completed by Dec. 15, and there will be no work on
the highway during the winter months. Paving on the southbound
lanes of Route 1 will begin in March and is to be completed by
mid-May of next year,
The contractor on the project is Sparr Associates, while subcon-
tractor George & Lynch performed the repairs to the Nassau and
Broadkill bridges.
like we are lacking in places to
drink. This extends the availabili-
ty of alcohol too far into a residen-
tim area. That location has always
been grandfathered in as commer-
cial, and we don't object toa
restaurant, but we don't want a
bar," he said. The property, for-
mer home of The Aurora Grill, is
situated between Third and Fourth
streets in Lewes. The Aurora Grill
did not have a liquor license.
"We are not asking to create a
new liquor license in town, with
Kupchicks Restaurant closed, the
number of licenses would not in-
crease. We are the only bona fide
restaurant in town that can not
serve alcohol. We just want to be
able to fairly compete." said
Grabowsk Hk dded that the pe-
tition ha.,, cost them business dur-
ing the profitable holiday party
season. The Blue Plate offers
breakfast, lunch and dinner and is
a nonsmoking establishment.
Gayhardt gathered slightly
more than the 10 signatures re-
quired by the ABCC for a valid
petition and submitted it in No-
vemberto the ABCC office in
Wilmington. According to Gay-
hardt, concerns over lowered
property values and maintaining a
residential feel to the block moti-
vated his fellow petitioners.
In response, Paslawski and
Grabowski circulated their own
petition. "We have had 86 per-
cent, of our neighbors sign in th-
vor of our having a liquor license.
We are pretty confident that the
hearing w.'ill go our way," said
Grabowski.
Despite the support they have
garnered, a public hearing is a
state requirement flw any protest-
ed liquor application. The restau-
rateurs will be attending the hear-
ing with their attorney Dan Mey-
ers of the Rehoboth office of Hud-
son, Jones, Jaywork and Fisher
The public protest hearing will
be held at the Delaware Technical
and Community College Theater
in Georgetown. at 5 p.m., Mon-
day, Dec. 17.
You Gotta Get OUTLET More Often:
For outlet-rageous holiday values, shop over 140 tax-free stores.
While you're here, pick up a bundle of center-wide gift certificates
at the Customer Service Center in Center 3. From December 13th
through December 24th, have your gifts wrapped at The Gift Wrap
Station at Center 3 next to Mikasa -- all proceeds benefit the
Sussex Family YMCA Campaign for Kids.
REHOBOi"H
RI 1 in Rehobolh Beach, DE • Mon.-Sal.lO AM-9 PM & SunlO AM-6 PM • 302-226-9223 • VISIT US ONLINE AT SHOPREHOBOTH.COM