Goode, Thier sworn in as Rehoboth Beach commissioners
Craig Thier and Suzanne Goode were sworn in as Rehoboth Beach commissioners Sept. 20. Their terms are for three years.
Thier and Goode, both first-time commissioners, defeated fellow candidates Rachel Macha and Mark Saunders during an election in August. Thier was the highest vote getter with 611 votes. Goode finished second with 521 votes.
In all there were 1,147 votes cast – 652 in person, 495 absentee. A total of 1,655 voters were registered. It was the city’s first election in three years.
Thier and Goode are filling the seats of former Commissioners Toni Sharp and Tim Bennett, who both decided to not run for re-election. Serving one term, it was Sharp’s second time as commissioner. Bennett’s three-year-term was his first.
In addition to the swearing-in, commissioners chose board officers. Mayor Stan Mills, board president, presented a slate that included Commissioner Patrick Gossett as vice president, Commissioner Ed Chrzanowski as secretary, City Secretary Ann Womach as assistant secretary and Mary Moore as treasurer. The vote was unanimous in favor of the slate.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014 and has the local parking passes to prove it. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories, random stories on subjects he finds interesting and has a column called ‘Choppin’ Wood’ that runs every other week. Additionally, Chris moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes during daylight hours that are jammed with coins, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design. People are often surprised to learn that Chris was able to convince someone to marry him and, more surprisingly, convince that person to then have kids with him.
