Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Interchange of I-95, Route 896 to be redone, starting in May Delaware ranked worst for savings rate Culture Bellevue State Park announces summer concerts 42 nights of free music at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstand Business Veolia work would raise average monthly bill $4.51 Neighbors …
Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Charter Schools sue Holodick over special ed payments School board candidate listings delayed by background checks Delaware offers second round of child care worker bonuses Culture ‘Book of Mormon’ for $25? Playhouse offers ticket lottery Mt. Cuba: Sedges should be welcome addition to gardens …
A new transportation plan for Newport might revive a way of traveling from a century ago and also anticipates how people are increasingly shopping online. The Wilmington Area Planning Council is hosting a public workshop on the plan 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, in the Old Newport Town Hall, 15, N. Augustine St. Work on the plan began in 2021 …
A new history trail at Iron Hill Museum documents the existence and lives of free Black families who began settling there in the 1930s. No one knows if any of those who lived there had been slaves, although it’s certainly possible, historians said after the trail’s ribbon cutting on a gloriously sunny afternoon. The families included the Congos, Websters, Earls, …
Plans underway to improve transportation safety in Arden, Ardencroft and Ardentown would, among other things, aim to slow down traffic on the communities’ major roads. The next meeting on the plan, organized by the Wilmington Area Planning Council, will be Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Buzz Ware Village Center, 2119 The Highway, Arden. An 11-page …
Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Legislators call for means testing for property tax credits Parents plead for safety in heated Brandywine board meeting Will foam cups, containers be banned like plastic bags? Business Brandywine Town Center redevelopment tweaked Super Bowl ads to be heavy on nostalgia, AB&C exec says …
Delaware’s largest city has a master plan to improve transportation and the quality of life, and it’s called the Wilmington Initiatives. Ten projects are listed on a landing page maintained by the Wilmington Area Planning Council. Creating a park over Interstate 95 is the most prominent and most expensive. The initiatives go back to 1996, when Wilmington started to …
The news coverage of what’s happening at the old Tri-State Mall (which closed in 2015, leaving a small strip shopping center still running) has largely ignored a store that’s thrived there since 1984. Tri-State Liquors is still in business, as several signs on chain link fencing along Naamans Road proclaim, and it’s planning to move soon across the parking lot to …
Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Once more unto the breach: Osienski refiles marijuana bills Carney: State will focus on jobs, schools, safety Bill to add retirees to health panels passes Senate Meet the Learning Collab’s 3 parent representatives Culture Cab student plays Young Simba in ‘Lion King’ on Broadway …
The first Broadway show that KJ Johnson saw was “The Lion King.” And now the Cab Calloway School of the Arts student is in the hit Disney musical, as one of two actors playing Young Simba. When KJ and his father, Kenneth E. Johnson, got the news that he was cast, “There was a lot of jumping and screaming and …
