Ursuline Academy wants to renovate an adjacent church into a performing arts center. Ken Mammarella photo

Ursuline plans adjacent performing arts, community space

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines

Plans are afoot to turn a 112-year-old church next to Ursuline Academy into a multipurpose space that emphasizes the arts and the community. The building, at 1201 N. Van Buren St., Wilmington, now carries a banner calling it the Ursuline Academy Performing Arts Center. A school official shared a document with DelawareLive calling it the Center for Arts and Leadership …

Sanford verse Ursuline girls basketball state championship game photo courtesy of Ben Fulton

Courtside View – Week 1 girls basketball top 10 rankings

Jason WinchellHeadlines, Sports

The Fall sports season ended on December 2nd and now is the time to focus on the winter sports that kicked off their season.  Here are my Girls high school basketball courtside notes for this week and the first rankings for Delaware Live.   Former Ursuline and Villanova basketball player Adrianna Hahn is the new coach at Tower Hill and …

NEW Ursuline basketball plater Jezelle GG Banks drives against Peyton Keeler of Woodbidge in the DIAA semi finals photo by Mike Lang

Sanford, Ursuline advance to girls basketball final 

Nick HallidayHeadlines

The No. 1 and No. 2 prospective teams all year will face off in this year’s DIAA Girls Basketball state championship Friday night at the Bob Carpenter center. Sanford holds the number 1 seed right now, but Ursuline held it for many weeks until the two teams faced off against one another. Sanford defeated Ursuline in their only matchup back …

A recent SALSATHON, a fundraiser uniting Salesianum, Padua and Ursuline.

SALSTHON sets $175K goal for Ronald McDonald House

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

Students at  Salesianum, Ursuline and Padua will dance their hearts out from dusk to dawn in March as they attempt to raise $175,000 for children in need.  SALSTHON is an annual event inspired by Penn State University’s THON, which has become so popular that many high schools in the country have some version of the all-night dance marathon.  The student …

DelawareLive Oct 16

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Oct. 16, 2022

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Delaware retailers must accept cash under new law Milford’s Ashley Lockwood named 2023 teacher of year Boost ‘22 collab results in 88% of city students graduating Culture ‘Revisionists’ is latest addition to haunted NCC scene Wilmington glass artisan specializes in cremation art Business Low-cost …

DelawareLive Sept 4

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Sept. 4, 2022

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Teachers no longer granted 10-day COVID leave Odyssey to offer state’s first AP African American history course Labor Day weekend in Delaware: Here’s what to know Judge tosses 1 McGuiness conviction, upholds 2 others Culture Libraries test tech allowing patrons to self-checkout The Point …