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Camp Arrowhead has been the place to make childhood memories for more than 60 years. The 110-acre camp, tucked away near the end of Camp Arrowhead Road on Rehoboth Bay, has provided outdoor activities on land and water for countless numbers of children and staff since 1954, when the Episcopal Church in Delaware took over ownership. But, according to Executive Director Walt Lafontaine, a crossroads has been reached, and the camp must upgrade its 58-year-old main dining hall-retreat center for no...

Judy Kane January 22, 2021 The history here is sad.  An ill-planned crosswalk across a curve, no less, on Camp Arrowhead Road.  Years ago a plan to straighten out the road didn’t go anywhere. Lots of accidents; at least two fatalities. More developments - one a shared-amenity community.  Much outcry. A DelDOT decision last August to remove the crosswalk, placed only to accommodate a shared-amenity community. Then a DelDOT reversal made just a few months ago.  So the people who w...

Jim Rodgers December 24, 2020 As a resident of Angola I was shocked to read the Gazette article about the incredibly dangerous S-curve crosswalk at Marsh Farm Estates on Camp Arrowhead Road.  In response to the community’s outrage at rescinding recently retired Secretary Jennifer Cohan’s commitment to removing the crosswalk, C.R. McLeod, DelDOT director of communications, is quoted as saying: “We’d have to remove the shared-use paths - constructed by the developer - on both...

Judy Kane December 24, 2020 During a Zoom meeting on Dec. 5, Shante Hastings, acting deputy secretary of DelDOT, told us the crosswalk on Camp Arrowhead will remain, with a rapid flashing light to warn drivers. To say we were all surprised at this revelation would be an understatement. Personally I was horrified. For those not familiar with Camp Arrowhead Road, it connects Route 24 at the Valero gas station corner, and Angola Road. It is the site of three new developments and probab...

Lewes  Delaware  19958United States It appears state transportation officials will not back up a statement to remove a crosswalk near a curve on Camp Arrowhead Road made in August by former Delaware Department of Transportation Secretary Jennifer Cohan. According to C.R. McLeod, director of communications, DelDOT engineers have determined that the project would include more than removing striping on the roadway. “We’d have to remove the shared-use paths – constructed by the developer ...