Milford Lions Club Announces Spaghetti Dinner Details

Terry RogersCharity, Delaware Nonprofits, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

Members of the Milford Lions Club are preparing for the 57th Annual Spaghetti Dinner which will take place on Saturday, March 4th at the Milford High School. Take out ONLY meals will be available for pick up from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Proceeds benefit many charitable activities in the area such as youth & education programs, eye exams and prescription glasses, as …

MSD announces online Kindergarten screening now available

Terry RogersEducation, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

Online kindergarten registration is now open for the 2023-2024 school year and in March MSD will begin screening students for the upcoming school year. Online registration can be found at https://www.milfordschooldistrict.org/…/registering-for… The Milford School District will begin kindergarten screening for the upcoming school year on Thursday, March 2nd. To be eligible to start kindergarten next year, your child must turn …

Melvin’s Compassion and Advocacy Earn Her a DAISY Award 

Terry RogersHeadlines, Health, Milford Headline Story

Compassion, advocacy, listening and critical thinking. These are words the daughter of a patient used when nominating Bayhealth Medical ICU Nurse Jennifer Melvin, MSN, RN, for the DAISY Award she recently received. “I am an RN myself and in 23 years and three states of practice, I can confidently say she is one of the best nurses I have encountered. …

MSD Multilingual Learner Olympics celebrate multi-lingual learning

Terry RogersEducation, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

The Milford School District hosted its third annual “ML Olympics”.  Multilingual Learner (ML) Olympics is an annual academic competition created by the staff of Milford School District to allow ML students an opportunity to showcase their academic abilities while building pride and confidence in their multilingualism. Elementary teacher Montessa Brooks explained “The first event of its kind in the state, …

Council tables requests to extend water outside city boundaries

Terry RogersGovernment, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

Two requests to extend water and sewer lines outside city boundaries were tabled by Milford City Council at a recent meeting. The first was a request from Christiana Excavating who requested the extension south of the Milford Ponds development on Walnut Street and the second was from Colony West/Colony South located north of Milford. “The properties are not contiguous with …

Armory tenant asks for long-term lease

Terry RogersCulture, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

Lillian Harrison, the Executive Director for Elevated Community Development Corporation, a non-profit that maintains the former National Guard Armory in Milford, recently provided Milford City Council with details on what her organization offers and the many programs available at the armory. “We are here to discuss consideration of the purchase of the formerly abandoned Milford Armory, now converted into a …

Changes made to fire enhancement fund

Terry RogersHeadlines, Milford Headline Story, Police & Fire

At a recent meeting, Milford City Council agreed to change the name of what was the Carlisle Fire Company Enhancement Fund to the Fire Enhancement Fund. The change was to reflect current fire service districts in Milford as there are now developments that are in Houston Fire Company district as well as one proposed that will be in the Ellendale …

City appoints first female police chief

Terry RogersGovernment, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

On Monday, February 13, Milford City Council appointed their first female police chief. Chief Cecilia Ashe will be offered an employment contract immediately. She was sworn in at the council meeting the evening her appointment was confirmed. The opening for police chief occurred when former Chief Kenneth Brown announced his retirement in August 2022. The city began a nationwide search …

Black History Month Spotlight:  The Moonlight Grill

Terry RogersCulture, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

For more than 50 years, the Moonlight Grill stood as a landmark in north Milford on the site where Milford Headstart stands today. One of the few places in Milford where African-Americans could go for a night out, the grill was a popular stop off for world-renowned musicians in the 1940s and 1950s. Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie played at …

Lead in Delaware Schools

State requiring lead testing in schools

Terry RogersEducation, Headlines, Milford Headline Story

As part of the Safe School Drinking Water Act, the State of Delaware is sampling the water in all Delaware schools to ensure that the water students have to drink is safe. Using a grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Delaware Division of Public Health, the state will begin testing lead levels in all schools. This requirement …