This report has been updated. The Milford City Council has voted to condemn eight acres of a widow’s property and pay her $20,000 for it, so the city can access the adjoining acres that it paid her brother more than $500,000 for. Milford wants the property to install bike and pedestrian paths that would help connect the town to …
When Gov. John Carney announced last week that his Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal included more than $93 million in additional spending for health care plan costs for state employees and retirees, he didnât mention that a significant portion of that is attributed to an exploding issue: weight-loss drugs. Delaware officials budgeted about $2 million in the current fiscal year …
Keep it moving — that’s the top tip for longevity from local experts to Delaware’s aging population. “As we get older, we get lazy,” said 71-year-old Rick Stetler. Stetler was wrapping up a session at Milford’s Aquacare Physical Therapy last week. He is one of the hundreds of retirees pouring into Delaware yearly and expected to dramatically increase the size …
With striped bass coming into the Delaware River and bay earlier in the year as the weather warms up earlier, DNREC plans to adjust their commercial fishing seasons. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will accept written comments on the proposed changes through Feb. 14. Stripers, as the fish are commonly called, have been coming in earlier than …
Nearly 600 Delaware workers are owed approximately $398,000 in back wages recovered by the U.S. Department of Laborâs Wage and Hour Division. This includes 268 workers in Kent County, 104 workers in New Castle County and 172 workers in Sussex County. In many cases, the employees change jobs or change addresses and cannot be notified of the money due to them. …
Matt Kern, chef and owner of One Coastal in Fenwick Island, is a semifinalist for a James Beard Award in the Best Chef Mid-Atlantic category. This is Kernâs third semifinalist nomination. He was a semifinalist in 2019 and 2020 while working at Heirloom in Lewes. âItâs way different,â this time, said Kern, who purchased One Coastal from Scott and Carlie Carey in 2022. âI have …
A Milford City Council hearing on a proposed tiny house village for the homeless packed the council chamber, lobby and a basement overflow room on Monday with people who spent four hours expressing their opinions. No vote was taken. Everyone who spoke agreed that it was important to help the homeless. They also stressed that the city should do something …
The Delaware Department of Education on Monday released a heavily anticipated independent study of Delawareâs education funding system that, among other things, the state should put more money into education, allocate money according to student need and allow districts flexibility in how that money is used. The $700,000 study by the American Institutes for Research was a part of the …
It’s not visions of sugarplums dancing in the heads of Chris and Ashley Sylvester right now. It’s visions of the flowers they will share with the public next spring when they open what they say will be Delaware’s first U-cut flower farm. “This will be the first time that customers will actually be able to come to the farm for …
A new market in Milford hopes to help the community harness the nutritional power of locally grown produce and regionally made products. The Farmacy Market at 28 South Walnut St., near My Sisterâs Fault Bakery, hosted invited friends and family Wednesday and will formally open Saturday for Small Business Saturday. It has its roots in a scary episode of …
