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Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Mar. 26, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines School mentors: Who they are, what they do may surprise you 43 to compete for 23 school board seats in May 9 election Culture SALSTHON smashes fundraising goal: $243,791 to help children Pete du Pont records archive opens at Hagley Library Business Women-led Compact …

Hagley Museum and Library reading room du Pont

Pete du Pont records archive opens at Hagley Library

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

A collection of Pete du Pont’s papers is now open to the public at Hagley Museum and Library. It includes decades 0f the former Delaware governor’s public writing, as well as photos, scrapbooks, recordings and correspondence with family members. Among the material in the archive are items related to du Pont’s 1988 campaign to be the Republican nominee for president …

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – May 1, 2022

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Red Clay, Capital school board candidates answer forum questions Weed, taxes, police reform likely to dominate end of GA session Culture Take a first peek at new Museum of Nature and Science Conference hailing Black musicians, composers taking place in Wilmington Once controversial Kalmar Nyckel tall ship celebrates 25th anniversary Delaware hunters harvest 15,000 …

Pete du Pont remembered as great governor, even better dad

Charlie MegginsonCulture, Headlines

He was a tonic in human form – a stimulant for all who had the pleasure of his company. That’s how Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist George Will described the late Pierre “Pete” du Pont Friday.  Hundreds gathered at the Playhouse on Rodney Square in the Hotel duPont for a celebration of life service nearly a year after the former …

Life and legacy of Pete du Pont to be celebrated Friday

Charlie MegginsonCulture, Headlines

Pierre S. Du Pont IV | CREDIT: WILLIAM FOLEY/THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION VIA GETTY IMAGES   A memorial service for former Congressman and Delaware Governor Pete du Pont will be held Friday in Wilmington. The public event, promoted as a celebration of du Pont’s life and legacy, will begin at 2 p.m. at The Playhouse on Rodney Square. A reception …