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DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – April 21, 2024

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Review Includes: State committee endorses pricey, private garage tunnel Landmark Chadds Ford restaurant The Gables to start B&B Meet Bobby Pancake, celebrating High 5 Hospitality’s 20 years Assisted suicide finally passes House, GOP with major concerns 93 honored as 2024 Secretary of Education Scholars No. 7 Polytech rallies past Smyrna Click on the image below to read these …

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Dover Motor Speedway honors NASCAR legend Richard Petty

Bryan ShupeBusiness, Headlines

  Petty, a seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and seven-time Monster Mile winner, to make appearances before Würth 400 NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, April 28. Petty Family is celebrating its 75th anniversary in NASCAR this season. LEGACY MOTOR CLUB co-owner Jimmie Johnson, an 11-time Dover winner, also to appear on the Monster Monument and race in the Würth 400. Visit DoverMotorSpeedway.com to …

NASCAR comes to Dover Motor Speedway April 26-28.

Dover Fan Zone adds DockDogs, Mirror Men and Robocars

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Culture, Sports

Team mascots, diving dogs, bumper cars and a giant rubber duck will add to the merriment at  the Dover Speedway’s Fan Zone April 26-28. Best part: It’s all free as the speedway hosts a  NASCAR tripleheader weekend. “It’s not only the action on the track that makes a Dover NASCAR weekend a one-of-a-kind experience, but also all the entertainment outside …

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These holiday lights will help you get your glow on

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  We might be living through the golden age of holiday lights displays. Whether you want inside or out, huge or just enough, artistic or deliberately tacky, walk-through or drive-through, free or you’re willing to pay, there’s a display for you either here in the First State or right over the state line. In Delaware, many of the displays have …

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Firefly ’23 canceled to ‘recharge lights,’ whatever that means

Charlie MegginsonCulture, Headlines

Organizers for Delaware’s largest and most successful music festival have announced that next year’s event will not be happening. “After 10 magical years of Firefly in The Woodlands, we’ve decided to take a year to recharge our lights,” the announcement said. “We will see you in 2024!” Organizers didn’t offer any explanation for the cancellation.  Dover Motor Speedway, which owns …

Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition

Breast Cancer fundraisers spread through September, October

Terry RogersCulture

  Although October is recognized as breast cancer awareness month, community partnership breast cancer awareness events and fundraisers begin to take place in September. The cooler fall weather provides a great opportunity for the community to plan or support a DBCC partnership. Partnership events help our organization support survivors in our state who have, and who are currently battling breast …

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Firefly releases daily lineup, one-day passes available Friday

Charlie MegginsonCulture, Headlines

Not everyone wants to trudge through the mud and muck for all four days of Dover’s Firefly Music Festival. For those who don’t, organizers on Monday released each day’s lineup, including headliners.  Single-day passes will go on sale Friday, July 15.  The annual festival, which takes place at The Woodlands of Dover Motor Speedway, will be held from Thursday, Sept. …

Milton’s Jimmie Allen to perform at NASCAR Cup Series race

Charlie MegginsonCulture, Headlines

One of Delaware’s brightest stars will return home for Dover Motor Speedway’s biggest NASCAR weekend ever. Multi-platinum selling, award-winning country music superstar and Milton native Jimmie Allen will perform a pre-race concert at the Monster Mile on Sunday, May 1.  The 12:45 p.m. concert at the Embrace Home Loans Stage in Victory Plaza will immediately precede the DuraMAX Drydene 400 …