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1 week ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
Something profound struck me on Monday while I was standing with my family on the Bethany Beach boardwalk, listening to the speakers during the Memorial Day ceremony: Funnel cakes and boardwalk fries seem like a darn-good idea.
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2 weeks ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
It was 25 years ago this week when Susan Lyons asked me a question that would change my life forever. “Do you want to be editor of the Wave,” she asked. “Absolutely,” I responded. And then I took a quick glance at the calendar and realized it was the week of putting together the Memorial Day issue, and I instantly wondered why I didn’t take a week to mull over my decision.
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3 weeks ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
Hey, did any of you out there hear that there’s a referendum coming up to raise money for the schools? I ask that because... Oh, you guys know why I ask that. Perhaps no single issue has caused as much division, derision and confusion as this referendum has in this community, outside of fighting over windmills, and whether a mallet should or should not be used when busting open crabs over your favorite weekly newspaper. It’s been nasty.
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1 month ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
With opening ceremonies for the Millsboro and Lower Sussex Little Leagues now in our rear mirror, it’s time we make our annual plea to the parents of our young aspiring athletes: Don’t be a jerk. It sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? It sounds like it should take little to no effort at all, right? Go to the practices. Go to the games. Help out when asked for help, or approach a coach with respect if you think you have something constructive to offer. And then, well, don’t be a jerk. Just don’t do it.
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1 month ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
A lot has changed in this community over the years. And that, dear readers, is why I get paid the big bucks. Keen observations like that one. You are welcome. Of course things have changed here. They’ve changed everywhere. Let’s just examine the time period since we started publishing the Coastal Point in February 2004.
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1 month ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
Who doesn’t love a good soap opera? You know: A couple falls in love, they face a challenge as the woman’s ex returned after decades spent planting tulips in the Amazon rainforest, get back on track after a meteor falls on the ex while he’s teaching orphans in Antarctica to play the clarinet, see more conflict as it comes out that the man in the relationship is really a notorious criminal wanted for destroying tulips in the Amazon rainforest and… But I digress.
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1 month ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
“We had a bird in the house,” read the text from my wife. “It was a morning.”There were two different directions for me to go upon hearing this news. The sophomoric, adolescent angle would have been to bust out laughing at the image of wife and daughter trying to evacuate a bird from the house with a dog and two cats trying to get the bird first. The adult take would have been to say, “Oh, no. Are you girls OK?” So, once I stopped laughing, I asked if they were OK. No immediate answer.
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1 month ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
I got a good lesson in perspective earlier this week. You ever catch one of those? There you are, just trying to hold tight to the metaphorical steering wheel that is leading you from one task to the next as you attempt to navigate the violent tides of your day-to-day life, and an epiphany strikes you in the face like a piece of cold deli-sliced ham. No? Just me? You more of a pastrami person?
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1 month ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
From the trusted hands of one ownership entity to the trusted hands of another, Coastal Kayak will see itself under new management for the first time in its 28 years of operation. Lisa Daisey-DiFebo — the owner of Ecobay Kayak & Stand Up Paddle for the past 20-plus years — will be taking over the iconic Fenwick Island business this year, according to Coastal Kayak’s original owners. “It’s hard to know when to give up a good thing, if ever,” said Mitch Mitchell and Jenifer Adams-Mitchell.
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2 months ago | 
coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann
So, before I became this stunningly handsome newspaper editor that you see here today, I was a stunningly handsome reporter who covered the “Cops & Courts” beat, both at daily and weekly papers. It wasn’t always a fun beat, to be fair.
