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 boys high school basketball courtside notes for this week and the first rankings for Delaware LIve. I have enjoyed the fact that these schools are playing some great out of state competition …
Okinawa, Japan is far far away from Long Neck, Delaware. A 13 hour time difference to be exact. But that is where former two sport high school athlete Jevon Saffold has already made a name for himself fighting in the cage. Saffold, a 2019 graduate of Sussex Central High School joined the United States Air Force after graduation. He is …
Tourism is big business in Sussex County, Delaware, and the proof is in the numbers, according to Matt Parker, chair of Southern Delaware Tourism and a financial planner. In fiscal year 2023, Sussex County generated $2.7 billion in visitor spending, he noted at the Annual Tourism Awards Luncheon, held Wednesday at Lighthouse Cove Event Center in Dewey Beach. âThis is real money and …
He’s big. He’s bad. He’s Black Stache, a pirate captain with a huge black mustache he’s had since he was 10. And Michael Doherty, the actor who plays in him Delaware Theatre Co.’s “Peter and The Starcatcher,” has the merriest time cracking up the audience as the play’s vainglorious villain they can’t get enough of. “I love how unapologetic he …
Chris Buccini bristles when he hears people talk about sky-high vacancy rates and slow demand in downtown Wilmington. âWhen I look at the Northern Delaware market, we have probably had our best year ever,â says one of the three founders of Buccini/Pollin Group (BPG). Â âWeâve always been a big corporate town with companies like DuPont and MBNA, so we have …
Colonial School District is the latest to detail an operating and capital referendum to be held early next year. In the districtâs school board meeting Tuesday night, the board voted a phased approach to a local tax increase, with a spike of 25 cents per $100 of assessed property value in fiscal year 2025, 10 cents in fiscal year 2026 …
In a narrow outcome, the residents of Appoquinimink School District voted against all three questions on the ballot of Tuesday’s referendum, which would have raised taxes $435 per year for the average homeowner if successful. âObviously there is a lot of disappointment in the room tonight,” said Appo Superintendent Matt Burrows in a statement after the preliminary results were made …
Winterthur Museum, Gardens and Library will match a $125,000 historic preservation grant from the National Park Service to restore its Old Gate House. It’s the only Delaware institution to receive any money from the grant. Located on the western edge of Winterthur along Kennett Pike (Route 52), the Old Gate House is a prominent and recognizable part of the estate. …
A long-awaited report release from the American Institutes for Research on school funding has shown that Delaware needs to allocate anywhere from $590 million to $1 billion more into education. Thatâs between a 27% and 46% increase from the multi-billion dollar investment the state already has in public education, which is typically about a third of the state budget. The …
The Delaware Department of Education on Monday released a heavily anticipated independent study of Delawareâs education funding system that, among other things, the state should put more money into education, allocate money according to student need and allow districts flexibility in how that money is used. The $700,000 study by the American Institutes for Research was a part of the …
