Salesianums RJ Johnson attempts a layup at The Slam Dunk to the Beach Photo courtesy of Nick Halliday

Courtside View – Week 3 boys basketball top 10 rankings

Jason WinchellSports, Headlines

The Boy’s  basketball season heads into the 2024 portion of its schedule this week as teams start getting into their heavy part of the schedule.  Lots of big games on tap the next few weeks of the season.   The Blue Hen Fight A conference opener for both William Penn and Appoquinimink kicks off Thursday night at Appoquinimink.  That’s a …

The proposed US Wind benefits package includes annual payments over 20 years, worth $2 million dollars to each town.

US Wind offers 5 Delaware beach towns $2 million each

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Business

A national offshore wind energy development company is making its case to Delaware’s coastal towns. US Wind, Inc. recently presented a package of community benefits for Delaware’s coastal residents to the Delaware Association of Coastal Towns. The community benefits package includes a stream of annual payments over 20 years, worth $2 million dollars to each town.  The payments would begin …

Delaware's school choice application window closes Jan. 10.

School choice window closes next week 

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Parents have eight days to submit applications if they wish to send their children to a school outside of their residential district or assigned school. Delaware is one of the 13 states in the country that allows families to apply for their children to attend any public school – district or charter – rather than sending them to the neighborhood …

Delaware Blue Coats Ricky Counsil hammers a dunk against Go Go photo courtesy of Ben Fulton

Lofton’s impressive debut helps Blue Coats earn the win

Patrick GaryantesHeadlines, Sports

WILMINGTON- The Blue Coats returned home to begin their regular season schedule on Wednesday.  The Capital City Go-Go visited the Chase Center after the annual G-League Winter Showcase wrapped up last week in Orlando.   The Winter Showcase is a unique concept in the G-League that is focused on giving the over 200 G-League players as much exposure to NBA …

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Salesianum falls short at Slam Dunk to the Beach

Joe SinglesHeadlines, Sports

Salesianum basketball team traveled to Cape Henlopen High School Wednesday night to play the College Achieve Public Charter Phoenix’s at the 2023 Slam Dunk to the Beach. After suffering a tough out of state loss last weekend to Archbishop Wood in Warminster, PA, the Sals bounced back with a 74-71 win over in state rival Appoquinimink HS exactly a week …

The Taylor Swift-themed course consists of eight workshops this year. (Original photo by Suzanne Cordeiro, AFP for Getty Images)

Taylor Swift economics workshops launched at UD

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The Swiftie lore has reached the University of Delaware. The largest university in the First State has recently introduced a Taylor Swift-themed data visualization course for undergraduate students. “Data Enchanted: Transforming Numbers Into Knowledge” is taught by Kathryn Bender, an assistant professor of economics who wasn’t a huge Taylor Swift fan herself until doing research for the class. “So I …

Along with the TreeCycle event, Delaware has 24 sites to recycle this year's Christmas trees.

Turn your Christmas tree into rich soil by doing this

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Culture

Keep the holiday cheer alive while transitioning to 2024 and help conserve and improve Delaware’s soil by recycling your Christmas tree.  The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and the Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH) are asking First Staters to give their real trees to a yard waste recycling site rather than dumping them off in landfills.  The …

There's more than a dozen First Day Hikes available for Delawareans on New Year's Day.

First Day Hikes: get active on New Year’s with these trails

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Culture

You can get 2024 off to a vigorous — or ambling — start by taking part in one of the annual free New Year’s Days hikes at Delaware parks. They range from flat, easy courses to more challenging ones. You can even bring your favorite mug to Rockwood Park on Monday, Jan. 1, and the museum staff will make you …

Cory Hafer from Middletown High School is this year's state teacher of the year.

Meet Cory Hafer, Delaware’s 2024 Teacher of Year 

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Newark’s Cory Hafer entered the University of Michigan in 2005 planning on becoming a marine biologist or doctor.  Nearly two decades later, he’s making an impact in a different way: educating the youth in such an excellent manner that he was named the Delaware 2024 Teacher of the Year. RELATED: Middletown’s Cory Hafer named 2024 Teacher of the Year “Mr. …