SATURDAY 4/13: Stand-Up Comedy at Palace Theatre
The Palace of Comedy Show is 8 p.m. Saturday, April 13, for adults only (minimum 18). [Read more…]
TOWN COUNCIL:
Historic District Board Resigns After Being Overruled
Proposed harbor access road linking Stone Road with Old Cape Charles Road. Click on map to view larger image.
By DORIE SOUTHERN
Cape Charles Wave
February 26, 2013
Cape Charles Town Council voted 4-0 February 21 to overrule the Town’s Historic District Review Board and approve the balcony design of Hotel Cape Charles.
In so doing, the Town gained a hotel but lost a Review Board. As of yesterday, four of the five persons on the Review Board had either resigned or intended to do so.
The Review Board twice refused to issue a Certificate of Appropriateness for the hotel, which was needed in order to obtain a permanent Certificate of Occupancy.
With Town Council’s override, Hotel Cape Charles now will be allowed to reopen March 1. [Read more…]
HISTORIC DISTRICT BOARD:
Is Yogurt Bar in Town’s Future After All?
By DORIE SOUTHERN
Cape Charles Wave
February 25, 2013
Well before the Brown Dog Ice Cream Shop opened last summer on Mason Avenue, the Delisheries building next door displayed a sign: “Yogurt Bar coming soon.”
But the next sign seen on the building was a STOP WORK order by Cape Charles Code Enforcement official Jeb Brady.
Brady issued the order after asbestos was found in the building. Eventually the “Coming Soon” sign disappeared, and nothing has happened in the building since.
But at the February 19 meeting of the Town’s Historic District Review Board, town planner Tom Bonadeo reported that he and Brady have been meeting for several months with the building owners and their architect regarding rehabilitation plans.
The original plans for the yoghurt shop were approved long ago by the Review Board.
Bonadeo said he believes that a yogurt bar is still planned for the building.
The plans also include adding two floors of residential apartments — one on a new second floor and one on a third floor.
No ongoing construction is apparent, and no opening date for a yogurt bar has been announced.
In other business at the Historic Review Board meeting, Bonadeo announced plans to hire consultants to train members of the Board. [Read more…]
Mary Belle Crockett, 82, Former Town Harbor Master
February 24, 2013
Mary Belle Crockett, 82, wife of the late John Pardy Crockett and a resident of Cedar Grove, passed away Sunday, February 24, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox.
She was Harbor Master for the Town of Cape Charles for 30 years.
The funeral will be 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 26, at Lower Northampton Baptist Church with the Rev. Jeff Conrow officiating. Interment will follow in the Cape Charles Cemetery. Family will join friends at Wilkins-Doughty Funeral Home on Monday evening from 7 to 8:30.
A native of Wango, MD, Mrs. Crockett was the daughter of the late Clyde Charles Darby and the late Sarah Ann Darby. [Read more…]
WEDNESDAY 2/27: Let’s Line Dance at Rec Center
Let’s Line Dance! To the right, to the right, to the right, to the right. To the left, to the left, to the left, to the left; and kick, kick, kick, kick; now walk it on your own, walk it on your own. That’s the Cupid Shuffle and it’s that easy! [Read more…]
THURSDAY 2/28: ‘Peaceful Warrior’ Film on Health and Wellness
“The Peaceful Warrior” will be shown 6:30 p.m. Thursday, February 28, at Rejuvenating Body Therapies. [Read more…]
HOTEL CAPE CHARLES DESIGN APPROVED:
Town Council Overturns Historic District Review Board
CAPE CHARLES WAVE
February 21, 2013
Cape Charles Town Council voted 4-0 tonight to approve the design of Hotel Cape Charles. (See earlier story.)
Town Council exercised its authority to overrule the Historic District Review Board, which had twice refused to issue a Certificate of Appropriateness required to obtain a permanent Certificate of Occupancy.
Hotel Cape Charles now will be allowed to reopen March 1.
The Wave will publish a full report of the meeting next week.
TOWN COUNCIL:
Final Appeal Tonight on Hotel Cape Charles
By GEORGE SOUTHERN
Cape Charles Wave
February 21, 2013
The scene: A 1950s movie. Two teenagers in hotrods are playing a deadly game of chicken on a deserted dark highway. As they roar head-on toward one another, one of them has to swerve. If neither gives up, they both die.
Tonight, the Town of Cape Charles and Hotel Cape Charles face off in their own version of “chicken.” Either one party wins and the other loses, or if neither side gives in, they both go down in flames.
The stand-off is over the design of the hotel building — specifically the glass-walled balconies. When hotel owner David Gammino originally submitted his design proposals to the Town’s Historic District Review Board, the balconies were shown in wrought iron, and that’s what the Board approved.
Gammino later changed his mind, but never advised the Board. And although the Town was supposed to monitor the construction, no one noticed that the building didn’t look like the approved design until it was too late.
The hotel received a temporary occupancy permit, allowing it to open last summer. Meanwhile, the Historic Review Board instructed Gammino to go back to the drawing board and come up with balcony walls that looked more “historic.”
Gammino dutifully sent new architectural drawings showing wood surrounds on the glass. But the Review Board rejected the proposal, and turned the case over to Town Council.
And so tonight, six citizens who have never claimed any expertise in historic architectural style will determine whether Hotel Cape Charles is allowed to reopen. [Read more…]
