K. Graves 1971–1972 Tilton D. McNeal 1972–1973 William J. Collins 1973–1974 Louis Brilliant 1974–1977 Sidney A. Bennett 1977–1978 Robert C. Maxwell 1978–1981 Vernon H. Dibeler 1981–1982 William J. Collins 1982–1983 Millard P. Rummel 1983–1984 Jesse A. Rawley, Jr. 1984–1991 Dr. Robert Parsons 1991–1997 Charles J. Bartlett 1997–2005 Joseph F. McHugh 2005–2006 Jack Walsh 2006–2008 Carol Olmstead 2008–2014 Tony McClenny 2014–present Jack Gordon Alderman's Court The town's Alderman's Court consists of two appointed judges. They adjudicate violations of town ordinances. Police department The Bethany Beach Police Department has a staff of nine full-time officers. During the summer, it also employs 15 to 17 seasonal officers, some of them college students in training. The department operates seven cars, five of them patrol cars, and once won a national award from Law and Order magazine for the design of its patrol cars. The police department maintains a low-key but highly visible presence. Fire department The Bethany Beach Fire Department is a combination fire department that operates two quints, two engines, a rescue pumper, an aerial unit, a brush truck, three ambulances, and multiple other utility pieces. The fire department serves the entire area south of Indian River Inlet, east of the Assawoman Canal, and north of the Maryland state line at the southern edge of Fenwick Island, Delaware. It has a fire station in Bethany Beach and a substation in Fenwick Island and offers an emergency medical center, operated for it by the Beebe Medical Center of Lewes, Delaware. It cooperates fully with the fire departments of Dagsboro, Frankford, Millville, Rehoboth Beach, Roxana, and Selbyville, Delaware, and Ocean City, Maryland. The fire department was formed in June 1948 with ten members. It received its first equipment, a single used pumper, later that summer and answered its first call in September 1948. The town purchased property for its fire station in 1949, and the fire department held its first bingo game in March 1957. Its emergency medical center opened in the early 1980s, and its Fenwick Island substation began operations in July 1987. Infrastructure Transportation The main north–south road in Bethany Beach is Delaware Route 1 (Coastal Highway). This route runs north along the coast through Delaware Seashore State Park, crossing the Indian River Inlet on the Indian River Inlet Bridge, toward Rehoboth Beach, and south along the coast toward Ocean City, Maryland. The main east–west road in Bethany Beach is Delaware Route 26