A Checks & Balances Project (C&BP) review of the Stony Creek Volunteer Rescue Squad’s (SCVRS) publicly available tax returns from 2015 to 2019 showed the squad made $755,775 in revenues and had expenses worth $451,293, for a surplus of $304,482 over five years. Stony Creek routinely runs a surplus, then-Sussex County Fire Chief Nick Sheffield told the board of supervisors during a contentious April 17, 2025, meeting in which they directed the co…
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