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The doctor is in: Newark architect lends a listening ear at farmers market
It’s a warm Sunday morning at the Newark Natural Foods farmers market, and nestled between a produce stall and a bakery stand in the parking lot of Newark Shopping Center, Willard Hurd is talking a young man through his girlfriend troubles. The sign above him reads “ARCHITECTURAL HELP, 25¢,” but it turns out people don’t always fully read the sign. Surprisingly, the college-aged man unloading his troubles isn’t an unusual case for Hurd. Since he set up his booth nearly 17 years ago, Hurd has spent most of his Sundays answering questions about solar panels and home additions, but Hurd said every once in a while someone, seeing open seats and a smiling face behind them, will come to him with more personal problems. Playing psychiatrist has just become an occasional part of the job. “I’ve had a dozen or so people who just needed someone to talk to, and I was there, so they sit down,” Hurd said. “I’ve got nothing else going on, not a line of people, so let’s do this.” Hurd, 59, an architect and chair of the Newark Planning Commission, said he started his booth at the farmer’s market in 2009. He had just been
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Walk of Honor celebrates veterans at Elkton Middle School
ELKTON — Students and staff at Elkton Middle School lined the hallways Wednesday morning, American flags in hand, and cheered as U.S. military veterans walked past. Jilene Orman, community school advisor, said this was the first year the school on North Street invited veterans to the school for the Walk of Honor. “It was an honor making everyone feel special,” Orman said after the line of veterans representing several generations and branches of service, accompanied by a student from the school — in most cases their child, grandchild or godchild — walked through the halls. Some of the students presented the veterans with handwritten thank you cards from the 6th grade. “It meant a lot to me,” said Cory Fairfield. He made the Walk of Honor accompanied by his son Bryce, 12, and his daughter Lyric, 3. “I wanted to show my son I served this country and that he can serve too,” he said. Fairfield was in the Army from 2011 to 2013, serving in the 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment. “It was awesome,” said Michael Wolf, who served in the Marine Corps from 2004 to 2008. The corporal’s service included deployment to Iraq, where he worked in vehicle
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Biden Hall to open on UD campus in 2029
A new building at the University of Delaware, named for former President Joe Biden, will serve as an interdisciplinary hub for the social sciences. Biden Hall will be located on the South Green, between Morris Library and Robinson Hall. Once it opens in fall 2029, it will be the first new building on The Green since Gore Hall and an expanded DuPont Hall opened in 1998 and 2002, respectively. UD officials are referring to it as “the final planned building on UD’s iconic Green.” “It’s the job of this university to help students make sense of the world around them — to prepare students as it prepared me to get engaged,” Biden said in a prepared statement. “Biden Hall will be a place for students to answer for themselves and for this country: Who are we? What do we stand for? What do we believe? And maybe more importantly: Who are we going to be?” UD officials broke ground on the building during a private ceremony Monday, which was attended by the former president, according to a posting on the university’s marketing website. Members of the media were barred from covering the event. The three-story, 30,000-square-foot Biden Hall will house
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Longwood Gardens Appoints Three New Members to Board of Trustees
Longwood Gardens has appointed Carol Chan, Inter-American Development Bank; Avery Stabler, Walmart Connect; and Michael Vaughan, University of Delaware (UD) to its Board of Trustees. They join the board as Michael Bontrager, Robert “Bob” McCracken Peck, and Margaretta “Peg” K. Stabler conclude their service. “We are...