Choppin' Wood

Chris Flood has lived in or visited family in Delaware his whole life. He grew up in Maine, but a block of scrapple was always in the freezer of his parents’ house during his childhood. Contact him at cflood@capegazette.com.

Sussex saw moderate spike in air pollutants during...

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3 days ago
A couple weekends ago, I woke up to an air-quality alert on my phone. Curious, I went to the airnow...

I would have liked to have seen Biden do a local...

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2 weeks ago
Joe Biden’s time as president of the United States ended this past week, and with that ends four...

Driving in snowstorms is easier than sunny-day...

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1 month ago
As my short bio at the end of this column says, I grew up in Maine, which means I’ve got plenty of...

Henlopen Acres’ traffic lights reminds me of...

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1 month ago
For the past few years, my wife, kids, myself and family friend Melanie have gone up to Longwood...

McDonald’s in Milton opens with a mocha frappe

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1 month ago
After watching the new McDonald’s in Milton get built from the ground up, I was interested to see...

Butchering hundreds of deer a year is bullwork

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2 months ago
If recent trends hold, there will be more than 14,000 deer harvested in Delaware during the 2024-25...

Don’t rely on machine votes to win in Delaware

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2 months ago
On Election Day last week, I was assigned to cover the watch party for Stell Parker Selby, the...

County’s elections director just followed his dad to...

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3 months ago
In some way or another, Kenneth “Bo” McDowell has been involved with elections in Sussex County for...

New pod brings Blood Bank of Delmarva to the people

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3 months ago
Readers of this column know this space primarily serves as a way for me to write about the random...

Time to mentally prepare for quarter-mile-tall wind...

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4 months ago
I attended a meeting about offshore wind outside Rehoboth Beach last week that was hosted by the...

Georgetown bike enthusiast sees you H8N his Land Doo

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4 months ago
In case anyone doesn’t know why there were so many motorcyclists around here last weekend, it was...

Alley Oop’s green Cadillac limo lives on in Google...

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5 months ago
I don’t have a great way to explain why I came across Alley Oop Skim Camp’s old green Cadillac limo...

The Vineyards using PooPrints to prevent unsightly...

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5 months ago
While I am pretty much always on the lookout for column ideas, sometimes they fall into my lap...

House for sale on Lewes Beach has interesting history

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6 months ago
A few months ago, a local Realtor had an ad in the Gazette about an open house for a small cottage...

Library banishes news crews to Rehoboth’s Forbidden...

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6 months ago
This past weekend, President Joe Biden made worldwide news when he announced he will not seek re-...

Nicola Pizza’s herb garden is all about quality control

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6 months ago
My family and I ate dinner at Nicola Pizza recently. We were seated at one of the big tables by the...

Museum’s large farm equipment is gone, but being...

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7 months ago
With July 4 just around the corner, Route 1 is about to go from annoyingly busy to pull-your-hair-...

Remember all that winter rain? It’s mostly dried up

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7 months ago
Back in March, I wrote a column about how this past winter was a wet one. While it wasn’t going to...

Buying waterfront? Check out these two websites

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8 months ago
Delaware is the lowest-lying state in the country. Over the years, the Gazette has documented flood...

I’ll be interested to see how Five Points roundabout...

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8 months ago
By the time this is read, the new roundabout at Malfunction Junction will be fully open . Over the...

I didn’t know skimboarding with a winch was a thing

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9 months ago
I don’t live close enough to the beach to be there every day, but I’m down there pretty often...

Acres should consider changing name of town’s cemetery

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10 months ago
I’ve been covering Henlopen Acres for a few years now. One of things that I’ve always wondered...

Good on Harry Caswell for fixing historic water...

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10 months ago
I was in Rehoboth Beach the other day, and I came across Harry Caswell and one of his employees,...

This won’t be Delaware’s wettest winter, but it will...

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11 months ago
It doesn’t take a genius to know there’s been a lot of rain in the past few months. There are...

You’ve been warned: No trespassing at Biden’s house

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11 months ago
I like to drive by President Joe Biden’s house in North Shores every few months. There’s a...

As we wait for farm fields, solar panels crop up on...

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1 year ago
A couple weeks ago, my colleague Ron MacArthur wrote a story about how, since the summer of 2021,...

Number of traffic fatalities returns to normal level...

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1 year ago
Around Thanksgiving of 2022, I wrote a column about how, with more than a month to go, it was...

Horseshoe crab tagging program is useful and fun

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1 year ago
One of the benefits of covering an area with beaches is that every now and then, when I’ve got a...

It’s good for Tom Griffith’s mental health to work...

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1 year ago
I don’t remember how long ago I first noticed a near-naked man working out along Route 1 near the...

Piece of Sussex County, U.S. history is for sale in...

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1 year ago
I’m going to begin this column with a brief thought exercise. I’d like you to take a second to...

DelDOT’s patriotic paint job is first of its kind in...

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1 year ago
Typically, this space is saved for my observations in Sussex County. However, Delaware is really...

Former Royal Treat building is being picked for...

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1 year ago
Two things immediately came to mind when I heard the Royal Treat building on Wilmington Avenue in...

Magee Farms changing things up this winter at Lewes...

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1 year ago
I stopped by the Magee Farms stand off Wescoats Road outside Lewes the other day to pick up some...

Shifting sands, a host of sparrows and pickin’ chicken

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1 year ago
The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park reopened for the winter season Oct. 1. My family and I were...

Cape grad inducted into Biddeford Hall of Fame

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1 year ago
Long before parents had the ability to use social media to embarrass their kids with unnecessary...

Artist Gary Hughes connects Rehoboth Beach and San...

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1 year ago
About two-and-a-half years ago – March 2021 – Rehoboth Beach and the Rehoboth Art League partnered...

Lewes oyster hatchery has successful growing season

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1 year ago
From going out to leased aquaculture sites in Rehoboth Bay to sitting through hours-long meetings,...

Abandoned ashes deserve a dignified resting place too

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1 year ago
I don’t always thumb through the Gazette looking for column ideas, but sometimes I do, and last...

As it should, Rehoboth’s merman has a Pride flag as...

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1 year ago
I got to Rehoboth Beach a little early for an interview the other day, so I killed time by walking...

H.O.B. needed a crosswalk, not 16 no-parking signs

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1 year ago
I’ve written in the past about how my kids are walkers at H.O. Brittingham Elementary School in...

Summer humidity is here; cue the sweat

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1 year ago
This past week has been hot and humid here in the Cape Region, which is great for visitors going to...

Lifeguards must train in the rain

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1 year ago
The past few days in the Cape Region have been windy and wet, which was good for my dried-out rain...

If you can’t make it, cancel your surf-fishing...

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1 year ago
Over the last handful of years, few decisions made by Department of Natural Resources and...

Memorial Day is here; let’s talk eels, turtles,...

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1 year ago
Every year, in late February and early March, freshwater streams and rivers along the eastern...

Family album survives fire that destroyed everything...

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1 year ago
I’ve known Sussex Consortium Principal Dr. Vivian Bush for more than a decade. My wife used to work...

DelDOT went all winter without replenishing its salt

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1 year ago
Other than a brief spell of freezing temperatures in late December, this past winter was relatively...

Browseabout’s bestseller list is 50-year snapshot of...

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1 year ago
When the ownership of a longtime business changes, even if things stay essentially the same, the...

As Sussex’s population grows, so does need for pet...

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1 year ago
One of the good things about having this column is that it gives me the opportunity to write about...

Of his costumes, John Milton would dislike this one...

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1 year ago
At the bottom of the hill in Milton’s Mill Park, sitting on a bench under a pergola, is a statue of...

Medical marijuana dispensaries should be allowed to...

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1 year ago
I wasn’t working as a reporter in Delaware when the law creating the state’s medical marijuana...

Mike Clampitt is Milton's king of Fat Tuesday king...

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1 year ago
Fat Tuesday is next week. While a lot of local restaurants will have drink and food specials to...

Carmine, Paulson cultivated culture in the Cape Region

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2 years ago
Over the course of the past few weeks, I’ve noticed on the pages of the Gazette that two people...

Signs point to Cape Henlopen State Park’s military...

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2 years ago
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a walk-and-talk event in Cape Henlopen State Park for California-...

Recent weather patterns have been a tale of extremes

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2 years ago
I don’t know about anyone else, but it’s crazy that as I sit down to type this column Jan. 4, we...

Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus’ beard is real

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2 years ago
For the past two months, my every-other-week turn for a column has fallen on the Friday of two...

For now, female ‘living fossils’ avoid threat of...

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2 years ago
A few years ago, as part of a series on the state’s new aquaculture program, I went out with Dewey’...

Delaware seeing sobering trend in traffic-related...

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2 years ago
When I saw I had a column due the day after Thanksgiving, I was thinking about writing something...

Briggs team hands off Rehoboth Christmas tree-moving...

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2 years ago
Weather permitting, about this time next week, a crew from Rehoboth Beach’s Streets Department will...

It’s time for Rehoboth to remove memorial tree markers

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2 years ago
I’ve done a lot of walking around Rehoboth Beach in the past few weeks. In addition to my normal...

After dry summmer, rain brings out huge swarm of midges

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2 years ago
Last week’s five-day-long storm did more than bring rain and localized flooding to the area, it...