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Severe storms bring down trees across region; NJ apartment fire possibly caused by lightning
Severe storms brought down trees across the Delaware Valley on Tuesday night and possibly caused an apartment fire that left several people displaced.In New Castle County, two people were rushed to the hospital after a tree fell onto a house.It happened just before 9 p.m. at a home on Durboraw Road in Wilmington, Delaware.Authorities responded after severe storms in the area caused a tree to fall into an occupied home.Two people were transported to Christiana Hospital in unknown conditions, officials say.No further information on this incident has been released.In Downington, Chester County, another tree also fell onto a home. It...
Roadwork on Several Sections of MD 272 in North East
The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration will begin a project to patch several sections of MD 272 in the Town of North East in Cecil County on July 21. The project should be complete in one week, weather permitting. The sections of roads to be improved are as...
Portion of Old Baltimore Pike to close this weekend
A portion of Old Baltimore Pike will be closed this weekend for work related to the ongoing Interstate 95 interchange project. Westbound Old Baltimore Pike will be closed between South College Avenue and Pleasant Valley Road from 9 p.m. July 19 to 6 a.m. July 22. Workers will be constructing a concrete median. Officials recommend using Pulaski Highway as a detour. ...
Newark approves five rental townhouses for Corbit Street
Newark City Council last week gave a developer the go-ahead to build rental townhouses on Corbit Street. Developer Mico Slijepcevic is planning to demolish two rental houses at 50 and 54 Corbit Street that are nearly 100 years old and replace them with five three-story townhouses. Each unit will have four bedrooms. A parking lot in the back will have space for 15 cars. ...
674 more houses will be built north of Middletown
Hundreds more houses will soon arrive in the fast-growing stretches of land north of Middletown and south of the canal – where new houses arrive so quickly they often seem to have fallen from the sky onto a single endless lawn. In a largely ceremonial vote July 9, the New Castle Count Council...
Music in sewers unexpected topic at State of the County
The New Castle Chamber of Commerce‘s second annual State of the County included a number of revealing, and often unexpected, moments: The county plays classical music through its sewers to see how well the sound travels and uses that information to decide whether sewer work is needed, saving time, trouble and overall expense, New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer told ... Read More
Galena, ‘gem of North Kent County,’ on exhibit at historical society
CHESTERTOWN — The Historical Society of Kent County has partnered with the Town of Galena for a new exhibit that begins with the town’s founding in the mid-18th century and traces the history of what some have called “the gem of North Kent County.”. The exhibit at...
AARP Policy Expert Shannon Guzman Visits Delaware to Keynote at Transportation Policy Forum
The "Collaborative Policy Forum: Delaware's Changing Landscape" addressed critical transportation issues facing the state's growing aging population on Wednesday, July 17th, from 8:30 am to noon at the Audion of the STAR Campus in Newark, DE. The forum, co-hosted by the Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware's...
The Battle of the Branches Coming to Local Libraries Next Month
The Battle of the Branches is a friendly competition between participating libraries to see who can recruit the most blood donors. Blood is routinely transfused to patients with cancer and other diseases, premature babies, organ transplant recipients, and trauma victims. With someone in the U.S. needing blood every two seconds, blood products must be constantly replenished. Join us in donating blood, saving lives, and showing your library pride.
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