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New floodplain maps for Kent, Sussex
State officials are developing new maps to identify areas at risk for flooding with help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FE ...
15 years ago
The Railroad played a big part in the history of Delaware. From the growth of industry in Wilmington, to getting Delaware’s peach ...
15 years ago
Frank Mugisha heads up the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda, an openly gay man in a country that is persecuting gays, and where a na ...
15 years ago
Four charter schools proposed for NCCo
Four charter schools have been proposed for New Castle County, including the new Moyer Academy and a school focused on math and science e ...
15 years ago
Lower Moreland commissioners, residents split on Wawa plan
Two months after shutting down a plan for a Wawa at Red Lion Road and Philmont Avenue, the Lower Moreland Board of Commissioners have agr ...
15 years ago
Atlantic City mayor requests meeting with Christie
In front of community leaders and members of the media, Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford yesterday put in a call to N.J. Gov. Chris C ...
15 years ago
Police arrest 2 after wild ATV chase in Philly
This from the AP: Police have two men in custody following a wild pursuit of an all-terrain vehicle through the streets, parks and ...
15 years ago
It was downright weird this week to hear Dick Cheney praise Barack Obama – an occasion long thought to be impossible, roughly akin ...
15 years ago
New study: caffeine is a hangover helper
A new study from Thomas Jefferson University researchers tells us what we (sorta) already knew: Coffee helps a hangover — but it ...
15 years ago
15 charged in NJ as part of massive mob takedown
It reads like a script from an episode of The Wire: More than a dozen people connected to the New Jersey waterfront are making cou ...
15 years ago
So, you’re probably not snowed in this morning. As anticipated, though, there was some snow fall, so the usual inconvenience ...
15 years ago
After quake and cholera, some signs of normalcy
A year ago, the Dominican town of Jimani became the meeting point of aid workers trying to get to Port-au-Prince and injured Haitians fle ...
15 years ago
Scally to run for Philadelphia City Council At-Large
After five years of chasing stories for Roxborough’s local newspaper, The Review, Bernard Scally is hoping to trade in his notebook ...
15 years ago
TLA Video will be missed by its customers
The news of TLA Video’s closing in Chestnut Hill is not sitting well with nearby residents. For the past 23 years, ...
15 years ago
Germantown – classroom in historic preservation
History buffs, planners and community development advocates from all over the Delaware Valley hopped on a bus to Germantown this week for ...
15 years ago