TSD Review Sept 12

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – September 12, 2024

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Stories Include Get down on it with Kool & the Gang at the Grand Gala You KNOW your little needs a photo with a Fairy Fest unicorn Meyer, Gay, McBride, Carney win Dem nominations; Ramone wins GOP Here are the nominees for Delaware Teacher of the Year Dominant second half propels Salesianum to shutout win Click on …

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You KNOW your little needs a photo with a Fairy Fest unicorn

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

If your little one is a unicorn fan, Rockwood Park’s annual Fairy Fest has a don’t-miss event for you: Pictures with unicorn ponies. It’s one of the many activities geared for childhood attention spans, when the festival returns from noon to 4 p.m. at Rockwood on Sunday, Sept. 15. A celebration of childhood imagination, Fairy Fest includes a costume parade, …

Christmas Schellville drew 163,000 people in 2022. (Schell Brothers)

Ho-ho-ho! Classic Delaware area Christmas traditions await

Ken MammarellaCulture, Headlines, RSS-Culture, Weekly Review

Here are some memorable spots to mark Christmas in Delaware and just over the border into Pennsylvania. Be prepared: some places required advance tickets, sell out or will be crowded. Longwood Gardens, for instance, drew 572,000 people in 2022 for its spectacular Christmas displays, and Schellville drew 163,000 for its extravaganza. These event run for weeks. There’s a separate list …

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Brighten up dark nights with these merry light displays

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

If you’re looking for a little holiday magic to brighten up the dark nights of winter, look no farther than the Wilmington Riverfront, where a two-mile stretch of the Riverwalk will be lit up for the Holiday Magic at Riverbright Wilmington. It’s one of more than a dozen of holiday light displays in the region, many of them free, like …

TSD Review July 13

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – July 13, 2023

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include: New worry: ‘Crime tourists’ who target expensive homes for thefts DRBA details millions going to bridge, airport infrastructure Kitchen table issues expected to be focus of 2024 election Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

Delaware Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ comes to Rockwood this week

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Delaware Shakespeare returns to Rockwood Park this month with the three witches taking on a more central role than usual. “The witches enjoy chaos as a tool for learning,” said AZ Espinoza, who returns to DelShakes to direct the Scottish play, in a press release. “They lean into the power of the natural world to seek balance and to remind …

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These holiday lights will help you get your glow on

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  We might be living through the golden age of holiday lights displays. Whether you want inside or out, huge or just enough, artistic or deliberately tacky, walk-through or drive-through, free or you’re willing to pay, there’s a display for you either here in the First State or right over the state line. In Delaware, many of the displays have …

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 …

TSD Review July 14

Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – July 14, 2022

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view the PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: COMMUNITY Interest intense on reconfiguration of Foulk Road Trolley Square project turns utility boxes into art ‘Tempest’ marks Delaware Shakespeare return to Rockwood Firefly releases daily lineup, one-day passes available Friday Rehoboth to host lifeguard championships July 13 Winterthur’s Artisan Market: Where to find the goods …

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Festival fun: Ice cream, Midsommar compete for attention Saturday

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  Ice cream or Swedish meatballs? That’s the decision festival goers will have to make Saturday, June, 25, as both the New Castle County’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Festival at Rockford Park and the first Midsommar Festival at the Old Swedes Historic Site compete for your summer fun attention. There’s music, vendors and food at both. But only one has ice …