An event this month raised $343,000 for Wilmington’s 2023 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week. The 4th Annual HBCU Week Awards Gala, held June 9 at the Hotel Dupont in downtown Wilmington, raised money to support the city’s annual HBCU Week initiative. The dates for this year’s HBCU week have not been announced, but more info is expected to …
Most Delaware places known for Fourth of July fireworks and other Independence Day activities have announced their plans. Organizers consistently ask for people to arrive early and leave late, and the Delaware Department of Transportation warns that many events close roads, too. In other words, traffic could be bad. Dusk is about 9:05 p.m. on the Tuesday, the Fourth, but …
A bill introduced Thursday adding protections for gender-affirming care in Delaware has drawn criticism from Republicans for the impact it would have on parental rights. House Bill 230, sponsored by Rep. Deshanna Neal, D-Elsmere, would protect medical providers in Delaware who provide gender-affirming care from being prosecuted by other states that ban the practice. Neal said in a statement Friday …
A home-grown company that puts advertising on cars celebrated its sleek new headquarters Thursday. Carvertise’s operations and dispatch crews moved under I-195 from its warehouse and production facility in Wilmington’s Browntown neighborhood to a $1.2 million, 15,000-square-foot home in the Shipyard Center on the Christina riverfront. The space, renovated in a modern industrial design with whites and grays and a …
The Friendly’s restaurant in the Brandywine Town Center is closing, James Phipps’ post in the Take Back Claymont group on Facebook read, and the first two responses were simply “Wow” and “Whatttttt.” The news was confirmed an hour later by Betty Baudoux. “I stopped there tonight … [and wished] the hostess n waitress well. They told me n a friend …
A post-midnight shooting at an illegal pop-up party at Glasgow Regional Park has led New Castle County Police to take “a proactive approach” on controlling parties at county parks. The party apparently involved people leaving a Newark hotel and deciding via Instagram to move to Glasgow Park, even though it was closed, according to Cpl. Michael McNasby, a spokesman for …
On Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 at Frawley Stadium the Delaware High School Baseball Hall of Fame inducted 7 new inductees. They honored Matt Brainard, Bill Brakeley, Rob Bryson, Brian Lesher, Johnny Morris, Mark Romanczuk, and Mark Rubini in front of a great crowd at Frawley. The Delaware Baseball Coaches Association began work on forming a Hall of Fame in November of 1992. With the Induction of …
A bill that would ban the use of the LGBTQ panic defense in Delaware courts passed the state House Thursday, but not before one representative brought up Jews and Nazi Germany. House Substitute 2 for House Bill 142, sponsored by Rep. Eric Morrison, D-Glasgow, would not permit a defendant to claim they reacted violently when they realized that someone else …
The Senate passed seven bills Thursday, but two of them – one about offshore wind energy and one about tenant protections – received some resistance. Senate Bill 170, sponsored by Sen. Stephanie Hansen, D-Middletown, requires the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to work with the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection to look into the viability of generating offshore wind …
Jake Gelof, formerly of Cape Henlopen high school now at University of Virginia, is heading back to the College Baseball World Series (CWS) in Omaha. After winning a state championship at Cape Henlopen in 2018 Gelof transferred to IMG Academy to finish out his high school baseball career. At IMG he earned a scholarship to play his college baseball …
