10 years ago:
Whitingham was preparing to kick off their 12th Old Home Week, a once-in-a-decade celebration of Whitingham, its residents, and their shared history. One of the highlights of previous celebrations was a variety show featuring theatrical acts and music by...
10 years ago:
In a bid to allay the concerns raised during their Act 250 master plan approval process, Hermitage officials sold two properties, including the so-called “East Tract,” located between Coldbrook Road and Old Ark Road in Wilmington, as well as the adjacent...
Ellie Roden
From the early 1900s through the 1970s, summer for many Jewish families meant heading to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. Just a few hours north of New York City, the Catskills became much more than a vacation destination. They were a refuge for Jewish immigrants who had come to...
Humankind is allegedly differentiated from other species by our superior ability to communicate with each other. We are story tellers. For thousands of years we have passed stories from generation to generation, at first verbally and then in written form and today on film and television. The new...
10 years ago:
Rite-Aid pharmacy staff and Deerfield Valley Rescue EMTs were credited with saving the life of a man who walked into the pharmacy with what he thought was a bad case of pollen allergies. The second-home owner thought he had been exposed to pollen while doing...
Wilmington couple renovates an ancestral home
WILMINGTON—Drivers on Route 100 between Wilmington and Dover can’t fail to notice an old house that, since early June, has been raised on four nine-foot wooden piers.
The approximately 200-year-old building was...
Aging in Place
Claudette Hollenbeck
Washington DC seems to be drowning in testosterone these days, a somewhat more hormonal swamp than was apparent in years past. The lawmakers are perpetually fluffing their feathers, dancing past every available camera with all their plumage on display. It gets me thinking, why is it that so many...
10 years ago:
Police and game wardens euthanized a bear in Dover after it was involved in a “home invasion.” According to police, a woman and her daughter returned home after watching a local fireworks display to find the bear sitting on the kitchen floor, eating garbage....
WILMINGTON- Performers for “Opening Night,” this years Wings Performing Arts Program play show off their costumes in anticipation of the show, a “musical mashup of local history and steampunk foolery” at Memorial Hall. Shows will happen July 3 and 4 at 6:30 pm and July 5 at 2 pm.
10 years ago:
Twin Valley board members were disappointed when their RFP for the development of a community center at the former high school building in Wilmington went unanswered. The board had previously been in contact with a potential bidder that expressed interest in...