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LaVante’ Dorsey shatters stigma of mental health with women-focused business

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Health, Women Owned Businesses

LaVante’ Dorsey spends many of her free days at Battery Park in New Castle, where she sets up a chair and a little table with a sign that says “Need to talk it out? Have a seat.” It’s the latest example of her dedication to civil and social service, coming on the heels of her winning the 2024 Minority Small …

Caesar Rodney's Sage Sawhney will be the student representative on the Delaware State Board of Education for the 2024-2025 school year.

State board’s new student rep. focus on STEM, mental health 

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Caesar Rodney High School senior Sage Sawhney has always had a passion for service and promoting student well-being, and he hopes to carry that into a new position at the state level.  Sawhney thought he had no shot being selected among a pool of nearly 50 applicants to be the lone student representative on the Delaware State Board of Education. …

Children's Theatre

Children’s Theatre seeks its tribe to help mark 50 years

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

If you ever performed with Delaware Children’s Theatre, helped get shows on to the boards or brought grandkids to enjoy a performance in the historic Victorian building, your tribe is hunting for you. On Jan. 27, the theater will celebrate its 50th season, the stewardship of John and Marie Swajeski and decades of bringing theater to families with the 50th …

Tower Hill's new head of school is Sarah Baker.

New Tower Hill head: Admin, mom, chef, poet, storyteller    

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Tower Hill’s new head of school Sarah Baker believes her job is to be the chief storyteller of the Wilmington private college preparatory school. “There’s a great quote by C.S. Lewis, ‘We read to know we are not alone,’ and I believe that,” she said.  Baker, who graduated from Duke University with a degree in history and a minor in …