TSD Review Aug 10

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – August 10, 2023

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Lyme disease documentary, event set Friday at Screening Room Avelo to announce service expansion to tropics Thursday Want to better understand child’s testing scores? Here’s help A look at DMA’s Fusco Memorial Stadium Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

The new Bancroft School will be renamed in September.

Bancroft School’s new name may be Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The first new school in Wilmington in 50 years is expected to officially receive its highly anticipated naming in September. The board announced Tuesday that the naming committee’s final recommendation for what is now known as Bancroft School is Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy, in honor of a former Bancroft principal. On Sept. 12, Christina’s school board will officially vote on …

TSD Review June 1

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – June 1, 2023

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community Brandywine students design, make Little Free Libraries Winterthur manuscript depicts life, faith of 200 years ago Rosegate drug group could face 20 years in prison Rescue dog made Delaware’s official state pup Business Jeep to stop sending gas-powered Wranglers to DE dealers Ad agency AB&C …

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First new Wilmington school in 50 years topped off with joy 

Jarek RutzEducation, Headlines

Dozens of Wilmington elementary school students chanted “raise it up” and a drum team played while the ceremonial last beam on the first new city school in 50 years was lifted into place by a construction crane. The new $84 million Bancroft School in Christina School District, which will span several blocks in Wilmington, is expected to open for students …

TSD Review Oct 13

Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – October 13, 2022

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community ‘Revisionists’ is latest addition to haunted NCC scene I-95 southbound to close as project nears completion Wilmington glass artisan specializes in cremation art It’s raining bonsai at Longwood Gardens Hagley’s ‘Nation of Inventors’ hopes to inspire creativity Business Delaware retailers must accept cash under new …

A rendering of the new Bancroft School, which is expected to open its doors in fall 2024.

New Bancroft School under construction, may open fall ‘24 

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

The new $84 million Bancroft School, which will span across several blocks in Wilmington, may be open for students by fall 2024. By then, said George Wicks, supervisor of facilities and planning for the Christina School District, the new building should be standing and the old one torn down. The old school, which serves grades one through eight, was built …