Marasco gets leadership award
Lewes City Councilperson Amy Marasco has been given a top honor by the Delaware Chapter of the American Planning Association.
Marasco was honored with the Distinguished Leadership Award, given to an elected or appointed official, for her work as former chair of the Lewes Planning Commission’s Environmental Subcommittee.
She accepted the award on behalf of the city at an event held Dec. 4 in Newark.
Mayor and city council recognized the award at its Dec. 9 meeting.
“What the Delaware Planning Association said was, it was Lewes’ initiative that is going to help other coastal communities, because we balanced it, we found common ground, based in science,” she said. “This is a major step to make our community more resilient.”
Bill Shull has been covering Lewes for the Cape Gazette since 2023. He comes to the world of print journalism after 40 years in TV news. Bill has worked in his hometown of Philadelphia, as well as Atlanta and Washington, D.C. He came to Lewes in 2014 to help launch WRDE-TV. Bill served as WRDE’s news director for more than eight years, working in Lewes and Milton. He is a 1986 graduate of Penn State University. Bill is an avid aviation and wildlife photographer, and a big Penn State football, Phillies and PGA Tour golf fan. Bill, his wife Jill and their rescue cat, Lucky, live in Rehoboth Beach.
