Photo by Utah778/Getty Images Pro. Delaware has set aside more than $3 million to audit agencies and nonprofit organizations that receive funding from federal infrastructure and COVID relief bills. The state will perform quarterly reviews of agencies and organizations receiving funds to monitor the efficacy of investments and ensure compliance. Behind those efforts is Claire DeMatteis, senior counsel and special …
Gov. John Carney said booster shots will be essential to lessening the impact of a COVID winter surge. Gov. John Carney has no immediate plans to reinstitute mask or social distancing mandates. Instead, the state will continue to rely on voluntary compliance, he said during a COVID-19 briefing Tuesday. “I think the objective obviously is to get people to wear …
Gov. John Carney addresses a Pulaski Elementary crowd about his proposed Wilmington Learning Collaborative. A meeting to get buy-in for a new program that would focus efforts on improving education for Wilmington school children often ended up in the same place: Questions about the plan’s details. “That’s been one of the more difficult things about selling the concept,” Gov. …
It’s just a matter of time before the Omicron variant of COVID-19 shows up in Delaware, state officials say. The virus strain has been found in surrounding states, but has not yet been detected in Delaware, said Dr. Karyl Rattay, director of the Division of Public Health. And they’ve looked. The state lab routinely pulls random samples of positive …
Fears of a COVID-19 winter surge in Delaware seem to be validated by quickly escalating numbers of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths in recent weeks. Vaccinations, while rising, are not keeping pace with the number of cases, hospitalizations and death, which are largely among partially or unvaccinated. The good news: The state has not yet found any cases …
Delaware has a new initiative to add to the state’s number of trees. Photo by Felix Mittermeier/Pexels In the state’s new initiative to plant a tree for every Delawarean, 20,110 are in the ground or will be soon. That leaves about 950,000 trees yet to be planted. The Tree for Every Delawarean Initiative, called TEDI for show, was announced …
State mask regulations will remain in place at Delaware schools through Feb. 8. Faculty, staff, students and visitors in Delaware’s K-12 public and private schools will be required to wear masks inside school buildings until at least Feb. 8, 2022. Gov. John Carney announced Wednesday that he will extend the emergency mandate in order to keep children protected against …
Opal Lee, left in gray, watches Gov. John Carney sign the bill making Juneteenth an official state holiday. Juneteenth is now an officially recognized state holiday in Delaware. The holiday commemorates the date on which the last enslaved African Americans in the United States were emancipated, on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the signing of the …
Holding the signed House Bill 123 behind Gov. John Carney are, left, Daykia Hunter-McKnight and Mayda Barrios. Children who spend all or part of their teen years in Delaware’s foster care system will now be able to attend state public colleges and universities free of charge. Under House Bill 123, signed into law by Gov. John Carney Thursday, foster youth …
Delaware will give hospitals, longterm care and state facilities $75 million to pay worker bonuses. Delaware will spend more than $75 million of federal COVID-19 relief funds for hospitals, long-term care centers and state operated facilities to provide hiring and retention bonuses to workers. The money is aimed at alleviating staffing shortages in the medical field by enabling providers …
