The Jester Artspace will be in a Grubb Road farmhouse that dates back to at least 1849. (Ken Mammarella photo)

Big plans: Creating Jester Artspace in Brandywine Hundred

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines

The people creating the Jester Artspace have big plans for a small(ish), long-abandoned building. ā€œItā€™s slow going,ā€ said board president Alan Baseden, who grew up across Grubb Road from the old farmstead that they are renovating, with the help of New Castle County. ā€œA lot longer than I expected.ā€ When the building gets its certificate of occupancy, Baseden hopes that …

The crowd at a DelDOT open house on plans for Foulk Road (Ken Mammarella photo)

Foulk Road reconfiguration draws intense interest

Ken MammarellaGovernment, Headlines

An open house that was billed the ā€œabsolute beginning of the processā€ to reconfigure Foulk Road generated intense interest from neighbors and owners of local businesses. It did not, however, generate a lot of answers. Nor did it generate a large number of people favoring the project to cut the road from four lanes, improve it for cyclists and pedestrians …