Stan Mills over Paul Kuhns for mayor in Rehoboth
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Rehoboth Beach Convention Center
229 Rehoboth Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States
By a vote of 876 to 587, former Commissioner Stan Mills has been elected as mayor of Rehoboth Beach. He defeated opponent and incumbent Mayor Paul Kuhns.
In the race for two open commissioner seats, Patrick Gossett and Jay Lagree won, with 824 and 882 votes. Rachel Macha finished third with 582 votes. Hugh Fuller finished fourth with 563 votes.
There were 325 voters the day of the election and 1,146 absentee voters, for a total of 1,471 voters. There were 1,731 registered voters.
Mills, Gossett and Lagree will be sworn into office at the regular commissioner meeting Friday, Sept. 18. The length of term is three years.
Sitting Commissioners Lisa Schlosser and Steve Scheffer did not run for re-election. See more in the Tuesday, Aug. 11 edition of the Cape Gazette.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories, random stories on subjects he finds interesting and has a column called ‘Choppin’ Wood’ that runs every other week. Additionally, Chris moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes during daylight hours that are jammed with coins, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
