Feast on the Beach: The Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Shorebird Connection
Date Posted: Monday, April 3rd, 2017Shorebird and horseshoe crab connection highlighted in new film from the Delaware Shorebird Project Feast on the Beach: The Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Shorebird Connection film educates, entertains and encourages ecotourism The Delaware Shorebird Project today premiered Feast on the Beach: The Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Shorebird Connection, a film produced to raise awareness and […]
Public Restrooms
Date Posted: Monday, April 3rd, 2017The public restrooms located at the pavilion are now open for the season.
DNREC offers new flood planning tool for determining risk for home and business development projects
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 15th, 2017DOVER (March 15, 2017) – DNREC’s Division of Watershed Stewardship’s Shoreline & Waterway Management Section now offers an interactive Flood Planning Tool with up-to-date information for helping to determine flood risk for homes and businesses and for designing development projects in accordance with floodplain codes. The Flood Planning Tool website is designed to provide residents, […]
SB Seals at the 2017 Lewes Polar Bear Plunge
Date Posted: Sunday, February 26th, 2017The Slaughter Beach Seals, led by Jackson Gingrich, raised a total of $2576 for the Special Olympics. The Seal team ranked 31st out of 289 teams in terms of fundraising. Team members were Jackson, Harry, Gail, Becky, Kelly and Ken. The Plunge helps 4,000 Special Olympics athletes!!! 3,602 Bears raised $900,000 and counting … […]
Volunteer Opportunities for Horseshoe Crab Spawning and DuPont Nature Center Opening
Date Posted: Sunday, February 26th, 2017Interested in lending a hand. Delaware Nature Society will once again be conducting the Horseshoe Crab Spawning at Slaughter Beach. A training session will be help for in April. Here is information about training and also the spawning dates: training-flyer-word-format-2017-1 Dupont Nature Center will be open April 1st. In March they will be holding a […]
Memorial Fire Co Roast Beef Dinner
Date Posted: Friday, January 20th, 2017The Memorial Fire Co. will be holding a roast beef dinner on Sunday April 2nd from 12:00 to 3:00, the cost is $12. Tickets can be purchased by calling 302-422-4032, must be purchased by 3/19.
Santa Coming to Town on Dec 10th at 7PM
Date Posted: Monday, December 5th, 2016Santa’s Coming to Town on Dec 10th at 7PM. See the flier for more details. Flier
Website Down for Maintenance
Date Posted: Saturday, November 19th, 2016This site will be down for maintenance purposes on Sunday, November 20th. This maintenance will happen from approximately 4:00AM to 9:00AM.
Community Resilient Partnership Workshop Sat. Oct. 8 at 10AM
Date Posted: Thursday, October 6th, 2016Delaware Nature Society’s Autumn at Abbott’s Festival
Date Posted: Saturday, October 1st, 2016As a final celebration of Abbott’s Mill Nature Center’s 35th Anniversary, we are bringing back our Autumn at Abbott’s Festival, which was previously held every fall for 24 years. Historically, this festival has featured a variety of artisan craft demonstrators, live music, children’s activities, hay rides, live animal shows, and tours of our historic Abbott’s […]
