compost guys

Community composting facility starting in Brandywine Hundred

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines

Plastic Free Delaware, a group that formed a decade ago to get rid of environmentally unfriendly single-use bags, is now tackling something that forms a quarter of municipal waste: Food scraps. It is creating its first community composting facility in Talley Day Park, behind the Brandywine Hundred Library, and prominently located right across a parking area from the playground. The …

Bridgeville angler Sydney McBroom with 53-pound Delaware record blue catfish caught on the Nanticoke River.

Another new record for state’s largest blue catfish

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines

If it’s starting to sound like a broken record, that’s what it is: For the second time in less than a month, Delaware has a new state record blue catfish. Sydney McBroom of Bridgeville landed the 53-pound whopper, which measured 46.5 inches long and is believed to be the largest freshwater fish caught since the Delaware Department of Natural Resources …

TSD Review Sept 21

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – September 21, 2023

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include: NCCo gets volumes of ideas for new Newark library UD FinTech Hub welcomes new Discover Bank fund for Delaware With record road deaths, state seeks safety ideas from public Here are nominees for Delaware’s 2024 Teacher of the Year The Corner Scoop – Week 2 field hockey Top 10 rankings Click on the image below …

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Fancy a low-digit Delaware hunting license? Enter State Fair raffle

Staff WriterGovernment, Headlines

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control  will give away a low digit hunting license during its first-ever hunting license raffle. A raffle ticket will be given to any Delaware resident hunter who buys a 2023/2024 license at the DNREC Building at the Delaware State Fair between opening day, Thursday, June 20, and noon July 27. The winner’s name …

Reimbursements for EV purchasers was discussed in a Senate committee Thursday.

EV car reimbursements, school buses discussed in Senate

Jarek RutzGovernment, Headlines

Environment-friendly cars and school buses were the focus of the Senate Environment, Energy and Transportation Committee Thursday, and legislators appeared supportive of laws regarding both. House Bill 12,  sponsored by Rep. Sophie Phillips, D-Christiana, establishes a rebate program for new and used electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, using $2 million in funding from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The bill …

Senate Bill 170 aims to evaluate the potential of offshore wind energy.

Senate passes offshore wind energy collaboration bill

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Government

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 …

TSD Review June 15

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – June 15, 2023

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Community Candlelight whodunnit makes you wonder who’s really who Tony Award winner starred in Delaware Theater play last year Playhouse season to include familiar shows, famous names Business How’s the Del. housing market? Depends on who you talk to Land cleared for multi-use Silverside Road development …

offshore wind

Offshore wind bill sent to Senate; will it hike power bills?

Sam HautGovernment, Headlines

A bill that requires DNREC to investigate offshore wind as a power source and work with electric companies to analyze its impact will head to the full Senate. Senate Bill 170, sponsored by Sen. Stephanie Hansen, D-Middletown, passed the Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee meeting Wednesday. SB 17 0 would require the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control …

wildfire

State: Complicated to ask Feds to tag smoky days as unusual

Sam HautGovernment, Headlines

A conservative institute wants Delaware to move to make sure that it’s not tagged by the feds with several bad air days because of last week’s smoky, hazy days caused by wildfires in Canada. David Stevenson, director of the Center for Energy & Environment at the Caesar Rodney Institute, has urged Delaware’s Department of National Resources & Environmental Control to …

Inspection lanes in Wilmington, Delaware City and Dover will be closed today.

Wildfires keep toll-takers off duty, shut DMV lanes

Ken MammarellaHealth, Headlines

The smoke from Canadian wildfires has caused important changes in Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles operations today. Cash booths at toll plazas will be unattended. No violations will be issued. Inspection lanes in Wilmington, Delaware City and Dover will be closed. Georgetown’s lanes will remain open at this time, the agency announced early this morning. All road testing in Wilmington, …