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DelawareLIVE Weekly Review – April 16, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Will Carney let marijuana bills become law without signing? Caesar Rodney teaching elementary students gun safety Delaware’s last Korean War Veterans chapter to dissolve 5 school districts drop virtual option for board meetings Culture ‘Man of La Mancha’s’ Don Quixote: Stuck in the middle …

UDance 2023 will be held April 23 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

7,000 to attend UDance, raise $$$ for childhood cancer

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

About 7,000 University of Delaware students are expected to hit the dance floor for 12 hours later this month to try to raise at least $1.8 million for children fighting cancer.  “It’s just really incredible to see how the entire University of Delaware community comes together for such a great cause,” said senior Sabrina Schipper.  Schipper is the digital communications …

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 …

UDance 2022 raises $1.8 million for childhood cancer

Charlie MegginsonCulture, Headlines

University of Delaware students raised more than $1.8 million for The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation. Submitted photo/Rob Naylor. More than $1.8 million will go toward the fight against childhood cancer after the University of Delaware’s UDance Marathon wrapped up fundraising during it’s annual event Sunday.  That brings the philanthropy’s lifetime fundraising total to $16,503,120 since its inaugural event in 2007.  …

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – April 17, 2022

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Bentz reverses course: Pot bill to get full public hearing Bentz, Dems refuse to allow public comment on marijuana bill Middletown residents fight to stop warehouse construction Seaford test scores improve with focus on science of reading Red Clay board votes to do compliance review of Wilmington Charter Culture UDance hopes to break fundraising …

UDance hopes to break fundraising record for childhood cancer

Charlie MegginsonEducation, Headlines

Photo courtesy of UDance. The country’s fifth-largest college dance marathon and University of Delaware’s largest student-run philanthropy event will “return to the Bob” this year for the first full-scale event since the onset of COVID.  UDance, which aims to raise awareness and funds for the fight against childhood cancer, has raised $14,688,690 since it began in 2007. The event will …