It’s Bennett and Sharp in Rehoboth Beach’s 2021 election
Mary A. ‘Toni’ Sharp and Tim Bennett have won the 2021 election in Rehoboth Beach.
Sharp was the high vote-getter with 622 votes. Bennett received 621 votes. Finishing in third was Richard Byrne, with 559 votes. Rachel Macha finished fourth with 491 votes.
A total of 1,190 votes were cast in the election, with 618 the day of and 572 absentee. There were 1,703 registered voters.
Sharp and Bennett will be sworn into office at the regular commissioners meeting Friday, Sept. 17. The length of the term is three years.
Sitting Commissioner Pat Coluzzi did not run for re-election. See more in the Tuesday, Aug. 17 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.
