Return of Punkin Chunkin draws crowds

— with one-hundred and nine teams signed up. event officials say — between eight-thosouand and ten-thousand pumpkins will fly across sussex county skies this weekend. in years past — about 20-thousand people have flooded to bridgeville for the three-day weekend. the event — draws plenty of local residents — but also many who traveled hours and across state lines for the experience. seen it on tv. one of the people my husband works with said he had been, so we just thought we’d check it out it’s fun. punkin chunkin is sort of like…basketball player meets geek. it’s some engineering, it’s fun, it’s a competition now — there are new rules for spectators this year — pertaining to alcohol. we have those details during a live report in the next half hour of the newscast. and you can always find more of our coverage of punkin chunkin online – just logon to 47-abc-dot-com. switching gears now — in wicomico county —