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Meet Artelo, the Kennett Square motel with arty twist
You don’t just check into a room at Artelo in Kennett Square. You check into an artwork. The latest venture by Kennett Square’s Square Roots Collective, each of Artelo’s 14 room is decorated with a unique mural by a rea artist. In Room No. 1, the mural is about the Underground Railroad, the mural is a collaborative work by several ... Read More
Legislative Wrap-up: road, traffic, car bills passed in 2024
The Delaware General Assembly concluded its 2024 session with a flurry of bills affecting highways, traffic and cars, many focused on improving safety and reducing crashes. RELATED: Legislative Wrap-up: gun bills passed in 2024 House Bill 373 – donations for highway safety Sponsored by Rep. Bill Bush, D-Cheswold, the bill enables the Office of Highway Safety to solicit and receive ... Read More
Wilmington 4th grader named outstanding safety patroller
AAA singled out a fourth grader at Anna P. Mote Elementary School in Wilmington as an Outstanding School Safety Patroller for the 2023-2024 school year. Pedro Valle-Rodriguez was honored with the award during an end-of-year recognition ceremony. Pedro’s teachers describe him as someone who leads by example. The 4th grader was praised for his maturity and dependability and for taking his ... Read More
Superintendent’s leave overshadows other Christina news
Some important Christina School District news has been somewhat lost in coverage of the momentous decision by the board of education to suspend Superintendent Dan Shelton. Christina board OKs work on middle schools The board approved a plan to renovate Kirk and Shue-Medill middle schools and build a new Gauger-Cobbs School and then demolish the old building, WDEL reported. The ... Read More
Milford School District lowers tax rate for 8th year
Milford School District this week voted to lower the school tax rate in both Kent and Sussex counties for the eighth year in a row. The Kent County school tax rate from $1.6593 per $100 of assessed property value to $0.2807 per $100 value after receiving reassessed property values from that county. The rate in Sussex also dropped from $4.6503 ... Read More
Delawareans have won Powerball 285 times for $1.6 billion
Delaware residents have cashed in $1.6 billion in Powerball lottery winnings since 1992, a national gambling site says. That $1.6 billion is adjusted for inflation, and GambleSpot says it used data from the Powerball website to figure out how many people had won lotteries between 1992 and 2024. The site said Delaware winners have won the Match 5 266 times, Match 5 ... Read More
TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – July 11, 2024
This Week’s Top Stories Include First trail plan proposed for First State National Park Respiratory illness temporarily shuts 2 shelters’ doors to dogs Rise, Shine & Dine: 13 beach restaurants for breakfast Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame 2024 class to add 4 Christina school board puts Superintendent Shelton on leave Canal and Naamans advance to winners bracket Click on the ... Read More
Rise, shine & dine: 13 beach restaurants for breakfast
Breakfast has always been a significant dining segment at the beach, partly due to the high volume of hotel guests. However, lingering over a stack of pancakes while sipping a bloody Mary epitomizes a lazy vacation. The demand for breakfast on the Culinary Coast has led to a bevy of restaurants ready to serve hungry beachcombers. Here are some ... Read More
First trail plan proposed for First State National Park
Miles of trails in First State National Park could be closed and restored to their native state, miles could be created, and miles of roads could be closed in a new plan from the National Park Service. The 85-page Brandywine Valley Trail Plan Environmental Assessment from the National Park Service proposes spending more than $2 million on the favored plan. ... Read More
Canal and Naamans advance to winners bracket
In the opening round of the District 2 Little League Majors division Canal and Naamans both advanced to the winners bracket. Both teams had commanding wins to open the tournament. Canal Little League faced off with Newark National Little League in Game 1 of the double header. Newark National took an early 4-3 lead in the top of ... Read More
21 Del. students take home honors in national skills contest
Twenty-one Vo-Tech high school students from Delaware placed in a national competition with more than 16,000 participants. Delaware had 68 high schoolers compete in the 2024 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center the last week of June. The winners were announced this week. Students participated in events involving construction trades, video broadcasting, graphic arts, ... Read More
Exhibit showcases photographer Frank Stewart’s life work
For the first time in nine years, the Brandywine River Museum of Art has a photography exhibit on display. “Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present” runs through Sept. 22. He began shooting photos at 14 when he and his mother attended the 1963 Martin Luther King March on Washington, D.C. Now 75, Stewart said at ... Read More
Christina school board puts Superintendent Shelton on leave
Dan Shelton, voted Delaware’s Superintendent of the Year just two years ago, has been booted from Christina School District. In a meeting that started 40 minutes late Tuesday night, lasted about seven hours and wrapped up right before 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, the board argued the night away and finally voted, 4-3, to put Shelton on administrative leave. Legally, board ... Read More
Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame 2024 class to add 4
The Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame will add four new members this year: Raye Jones Avery, Julissa Coriano, Anna Marie Leo and Col. Melissa Zebley. The honorees are chosen by the The Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy and the Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame Committee. This year, they received more than 50 nominations. Jones Avery said she’s devoted her ... Read More
7 schools share $2.16 million in grants for out-of-school learning
A charter school in Wilmington plans on using a new $320,000 grant to fund after-school and summer-school programs focusing on literacy, math, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Thomas Edison Charter School is one of seven community education centers receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. Salome Thomas-EL, head of school, said he is ... Read More
Respiratory illness temporarily shuts 2 shelters’ doors to dogs
Faithful Friends Animal Society and Humane Animal Partners have temporarily stopped dog intakes and dog adoptions at their New Castle and Wilmington shelters while they treat a canine respiratory illness. “We’re taking these measures to limit the spread of the infection and help our dogs recover,” Faithful Friends announced on Facebook. “Symptoms are a cough, like a kennel cough, ... Read More
Respiratory illness temporarily shuts 2 shelters’ doors to dogs
Faithful Friends Animal Society and Humane Animal Partners have temporarily stopped dog intakes and dog adoptions at their New Castle and Wilmington shelters while they treat a canine respiratory illness. “We’re taking these measures to limit the spread of the infection and help our dogs recover,” Faithful Friends announced on Facebook. “Symptoms are a cough, like a kennel cough, ... Read More
Education group details school board agendas, legal rules
Delaware school boards operate under many rules, including having public meetings that have been advertised in advance to comply with state Freedom of Information requirements. That was one of the details that came up during a First State Educate webinar Monday night focused on how school board agendas work, the legal requirements of boards, the importance of communication and more. ... Read More
Milford family looks back on 10-year heart transplant odyssey
A Milford man diagnosed with a rare disease in 2014 said despair never took him over when he was waiting for a heart transplant. “There were ups and downs that the first year where everybody’s told there’s going to be bumps in the road,” said Todd French, “but we take it day at a time, and I work out with ... Read More
Del. 5th grader wins 2nd in national Lafayette essay contest
A Delaware youth who just finished the fourth grade just came in second place in a national writing competition about the Marquis de Lafayette. Through the process, she gained admiration for the selflessness and bravery of the subject of her essay. Caroline Grow, now a rising-fifth-grader at Wilmington’s St. Mary Magdalen School took home the silver in the 2024 Lafayette ... Read More
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