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. …

Delaware has several New Year's celebrations throughout the state this weekend.

Your Delaware New Year’s 2024 holiday guide

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Culture

Whether you have some eager ambitions for the New Year, are continuing your established habits and routines, or are somewhere in between, it is likely that you’ll be traveling to celebrate the holiday. Including Christmas, 330,000 Delawareans are traveling for the end-of-year holidays, an increase of 2.6% over last year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic, a regional travel agency. Here’s what …

train A study starts in 2024 to resume passenger rail service from Wilmington (shown in this photo) or Newark to downstate Delaware. (David Wilson photo from Wikimedia Commons)

DelDOT to study restoring passenger rail service downstate

Ken MammarellaGovernment, Headlines

A Delaware Department of Transportation unit has received a federal grant of up to $500,000 to study bringing back passenger rail service to the Delmarva Peninsula. “The Diamond State Line will provide rail service south from Wilmington or Newark through Dover to Harrington, and then continue southbound along one of two potential routes, based on the presence of existing railroad …

Valerie Jones Giltner GOP candidate District 37

A new Republican woman returns to 37th District House seat

Jarek RutzGovernment, Headlines

Thursday’s election to replace Representative Ruth Briggs King – the only Republican woman in the Delaware General Assembly – and fill the seat of the 37th district, has been decided. Republican Valerie Jones Giltner has defeated Democrat Jane Hovington Here are the results: Republican Valerie Jones Giltner defeats Democrat Jane Hovington to replace (R.) Ruth Briggs King’s vacant 37th seat, …

Caesar Rodneys Ben Donato tilts Laurels Reginald Ferdinand for backpoints in their 106 pound bout. Donato won the match with a 123 pin photo courtesy of Eric Donato 1

Caesar Rodney records seven pins to get past Laurel

Benny MitchellHeadlines, Sports

Laurel – Most wrestling coaches know matches don’t always go as planned and that was the case Wednesday night as both teams were without their top wrestler heading into the dual meet between Caesar Rodney and Laurel. Neither the Bulldogs Stanley Pete, ranked number one at 150 pounds, nor Trevor Copes ranked number one at 126 pounds were to step on …

Google will pay out $630 million in restitution to consumers.

Delaware involved in $700 million settlement with Google Play

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Government

Delaware is part of a national  $700 million agreement with Google in its lawsuit about Google’s anticompetitive conduct with the Google Play Store. The settlement involved Attorney General Kathy Jennings and a bipartisan group of 52 other attorneys general. Google will pay $630 million in restitution, minus costs and fees, to consumers who made purchases on the Google Play Store …