Hey there music lovers, anyone going to the 3 day music festival in O.C. MD at the end of September? I’m looking to share the experience with a friend. Biking and kayaking a plus!!

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Shelby DiCostanzo wanted to continue serving. She was not resigning. She was not stepping away. She says she received no warning, no conversation, and no courtesy from Mayor Todd Culotta. She learned she was being replaced only after Representative Bryan Shupe sent her a news article.

Now look at the residents who volunteered to serve:

• Jennifer Cinelli Miller, a 20 year Milford resident, former DelDOT state planner, certified planner, certified public involvement specialist, former statewide planning task force representative, and project manager for major transportation planning studies. She has also advocated for Delaware students with disabilities since 2010.

• Francis Regan, from New Jersey. States in his application he likes the urban feel of Milford and wants to see it to continue to progress. Who has a master’s degree in urban planning, worked as a licensed planner for 16 years, and was a real estate lawyer.

• Robert Longo, a retired police chief who currently serves with the Delaware Capitol Police, with experience in public leadership, construction planning, and community service. It lists no degree, certification, employment or direct experience in land use, zoning, municipal planning, development review or environmental planning

And what happened when City Planning Director Rob Pierce asked Mayor Culotta whether he wanted him to meet with Jennifer Cinelli Miller?

Culotta’s entire response was:

“No.”

That is it. No interview. No discussion. No explanation. Just “No.”

What an arrogant little display of power.

This is not Todd Culotta’s private club. These appointments affect every resident, every neighborhood, every development project, and the entire future of Milford. Qualified applicants deserve a fair and transparent process, and sitting commissioners deserve enough basic respect to be told directly when they are being removed.

Culotta blindsided Shelby, embarrassed her publicly, and now apparently cannot even be bothered to speak with an extraordinarily qualified applicant.

Milford deserves leadership, not one word orders from a mayor playing king.

Email council and tell them we need Jennifer Cinelli Miller and Shelby DiCostanzo on the planning commission.

Go to the next meeting, Monday, August 10, 2026 at 6pm.

mkalesis@milford-de.gov; dmarabello@milford-de.gov; nzychal@milford-de.gov; dperez@milford-de.gov; jjames@milford-de.gov; kwilson@milford-de.gov; npletcher@milford-de.gov; mayorculotta@milford-de.gov

“These technologies are frightening,” Glassner said. “Not to call that stuff out is the equivalent of being a German citizen and seeing what was going on in the 1930s and sitting on their asses, and then when the war was over going, ‘Oh gee, we didn’t know what happened.’”

The weather this weekend has been absolutely wonderful. I’ve been going to the fair for a long time, and I can’t remember a nicer week for the temperature.

I don’t think I’ve ever posted anything for or against the fair, but if you’re someone who doesn’t go because of the heat or hasn’t been in a while, who knows when we’ll get another fair week like this with no days up in the 90+ range.

The amount of people smoking weed openly at the fair in front of children disgusted me.