Pettinaro Management is donating 30 acres on the west side of Hercules Road in Mill Creek to New Castle County for a park. Ken Mammarella photo.

Exclusive: 30-acre park off Hercules Road in the works

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines

New Castle County is on its way to being given 30 acres for a park in the Mill Creek area. The land is part of a country club known as Hercules when it opened in 1937 (that’s why the road it’s on is called Hercules Road) and then Delaware National before being sold, with housing planned. “The project was approved …

Caravel Buccaneers baseball Timothy Tyler throws a pitch in their win over Salesianum photo courtesy of Nick Halliday

Tyler shutdowns Salesianum in Caravel win

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

  No. 3 Caravel handed No. 8 Salesianum their first loss of the season Saturday afternoon behind the arm of ace pitcher Timothy Tyler. Tyler got his second win of the season in the victory over the Sals.   Caravel got the scoring started in the bottom of the first inning. Lead off batter Zane Bohn drew a lead off …

Taste & Sea

Taste & Sea’s superb menu stresses seafood first, then steak

Pam GeorgeCulture, Headlines

Christina “Chrissy” Villare-Talbot and her husband, John, shared the dream of owning a restaurant together. Most would agree that John has the pedigree for it.  A graduate of The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, he’d worked at Creed’s Seafood & Steaks in King of Prussia since 2000, when he was hired as a sous chef. He later became executive …

Great Oaks Charter school had a three-hour community clean-up in Wilmington Friday morning.

Great Oaks students forego day off to clean up community 

Jarek RutzCulture, Headlines

The streets of Wilmington are cleaner this weekend thanks to Great Oaks Charter School.  “We decided today to help out the community a little bit by picking up the trash,” said Amir Phillips, a sophomore at the charter, who’s spending the Friday of his Spring Break giving back. In the school’s first city cleanup, a few dozen showed up to …

McDonald's wants to reduce drive-thru backups when it rebuilds its Concord Pike restaurant. Ken Mammarella photo

New McDonald’s on Concord Pike rethinks busy drive-thru

Ken MammarellaBusiness, Headlines

McDonald’s wants to rebuild its Concord Pike restaurant, destroyed by fire in January, in a way that will reduce a drive-thru line that often backed up onto the busy highway in Talleyville. The plans will be discussed at a meeting at 6 p.m. April 11, at the Talleyville Fire Company. “A plan is being prepared for submission that would three …

housing

Hearing: Nothing but love for affordable housing bills

Peter OsborneGovernment, Headlines

The words “love fest” and “legislative hearing” rarely appear together, but that was the tone  during a Delaware Senate Housing & Land Use committee hearing this week on a five-bill affordable housing package submitted by Sen. Russell Huxtable (D-Lewes). Sen. Marie Pinkney, D-Bear, even said she’s never seen such minimal opposition to legislation like the housing package. It was promoted …

Another cannabis-related bill has passed the Delaware House of Representatives.

House calls for state to let banks finance cannabis businesses

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Government

A bill that would help cannabis-related businesses with financing and accounting was passed unanimously by the state House Thursday. House Bill 355, sponsored by Rep. Ed Osienski, D-Newark, provides legal protections for financial institutions and other entities that provide financial or accounting services to cannabis-related businesses that are licensed or registered under Delaware law. It clarifies that banks, credit unions, …

Salesianum vs Tatnall Lacrosse 11

Robins OT winner lifts Salesianum over St Mary’s

Nick HallidayHeadlines, Sports

  On a cold and rainy Wednesday night the No. 24 ranked Salesianum Sal hosted the No. 21 nationally ranked St Mary’s Saints of Maryland. The two teams were ranked so close for a reason. These two teams were evenly matched and this game proved that.  The Sals and Saints were tied at halftime by a score of 4-4, then …

biden

Biden visits left Delaware police with $400K bill

Jacob OwensGovernment, Headlines

President Joe Biden’s frequent trips back to his home state have become routine to most Delawareans more than three years into his term, but the scores of trips have also become a drain on state coffers and the downtime of troopers. Last year, Biden returned to Delaware 30 times, or nearly three times the number of visits as those to …