Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – YEAR IN REVIEW 2021

This Year’s Top Headlines Include:

COMMUNITY

Kids spend afternoon building snowmen for Hockessin nursing home residents
Couple ends 50-states-by-age-of-50 quest in Delaware
Pike Creek auto center, restaurant exchange punches via funny signs
Delaware Museum of Natural History to reopen May 13 with new focus
Hagley damage may hit $2 million, and it has no flood insurance
Bench of stone books honors devoted Hockessin library volunteer
Mt. Cuba studies best way to grow a forest
Kennett book lover buys Hockessin BookShelf to keep store open
‘Miss JoAnne!’ Reading tutor, buddy forge strong relationship
Winterthur’s 2022 Jackie O exhibit to be based on letters in archive

BUSINESS

Covid. Plastic bag ban. And NOW you’re remodeling my grocery store?
For Above Seven, designing workout gear is tiny part of business plan
Talk of raising minimum wage worries restaurants still reeling from COVID-19
Joy from restaurants, customers greets first day of no masks, full capacity
Cult of Trader Joe’s loses their minds over Christiana store opening
New Bear Drive In will be built with cargo containers
Restaurants cut hours as struggle with hiring continues
Somerville Manning forced to move anniversary show because of flooding
Del. utility workers fight labeling as federal contractors, vaccine mandate
New StretchPlex program to offer individualized stretching, massage
Delaware men create pill bottle cap that uses thumbprint to open

FOOD

Win-win: Hottest trend at Delaware liquor stores is local craft brews 
Milford’s Benvenuto invites mixologists to compete in the Thirsty Games
Snuff Mill Restaurant to open in Independence Mall in July
Wilma’s hopes for strike with duckpin bowling, New Orleans dining

GOVERNMENT

After loud rally, silent protestors stand in view during virtual hearing
Dem post equating Blue Lives Matter with white supremacy sets off controversy
Purzycki hints Caesar Rodney statue will return to square
Pro-Business Delaware launches $550,000 ad urging diversity on courts
Shané Darby’s ‘Blue Klux Klan’ post draws fire from mayor, police, council
State to change way nonprofits seek community redevelopment cash
Proposed voting maps draw ire of voters, advocacy groups, GOP
Mail-in ballots, paid leave, police reform top 2022 legislative agenda

EDUCATION

Budget cuts lead UD’s theater head to retire after 2021-22 school year
Friends’ first graders create classroom jobs they apply for, get paid for
DSU’s Tony Allen tapped to head White House HBCU group
For private schools and prospective students, it’s Admission Season
Independence School’s wowzer of outdoor classroom links kids, nature

HEALTH

Hundreds gather to protest ChristianaCare’s vaccine mandate
Mistakes logging vaccine shots may mean Delaware underreported numbers
Chancery Court won’t force ChristianaCare to give COVID patient Ivermectin

SPORTS

Ursuline’s Sue Heiss announces retirement after 40-year career
Blue Coats ditch Caesar Rodney logo in favor of nondescript horse

Sonja Frey