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A vacant home in Cecil County was on fire Tuesday morning, and Deputy State Fire Marshal say the fire was set intentionally.

A fast food restaurant with Cajun flair and a fitness center that promises to be judgment free are planning to open near Route 13 in Smyrna. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is proposed for a site between Firestone and Waffle House just east of Route 13 on South Cory Lane. ...

The Army Corps of Engineers did not meet the North East River dredging deadline this year due to scheduling and permit issues. However, Cecil County Government has completed its part of the project by preparing the site for the dredging material.

A $630,000 winning lottery ticket that was sold back in October has been claimed. Full story below courtesy of the Maryland Lottery:. “He started playing Multi-Match earlier this year, the anonymous winner said, sitting with his wife in the Maryland Lottery Winner’s Circle after claiming a $630,000 jackpot prize. The Eastern Shore resident, who visits several Lottery retailers to play his favorite game, happened to stop by Eagles Nest in Chesapeake City on Oct. 12 to try his luck with a Multi-Match ticket. The lucky player bought a $10 ticket for that night’s drawing, using a mix of personal numbers and quick-pick numbers to fill out his playslip.

The Maryland Crab Cake Tour made a fun and informative stop at the new sportsbook at Hollywood Casino in Perryville. Vice President and General Manager Amy Brennan tells Nestor why she came back to Perryville after being a part of the original 2010 opening team to make it even better for local players to feel comfortable and play their favorite casino games in a friendly environment in Cecil County right next to the new Great Wolf Lodge.

DOVER, Del. - Troopers say 59-year-old Eva Buck, of Hartly, died in a crash on Dec. 1. Delaware State Police say 2001 Buick Century, driven by Buck, was waiting at the stop sign on eastbound Rose Bowl Road, at North Dupont Highway. At the same time, troopers say a 2012 Nissan Sentra was traveling southbound in the left lane of North Dupont Highway, approaching Rose Bowl Road.

A pair of crashes in the past couple of days sent six people to Christiana Hospital, several of them in critical condition. New Castle County Paramedics, and rescue personnel from several area fire companies, found a 21-year-old man, 20-year-old woman, and 16-year-old girl at an accident scene on Union Church Road near Blackbird Landing Road shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday, December 2, 2023.

Police safely located a missing 1-year-old girl, who was abducted from a 7-Eleven store in Newark, Delaware, on Nov. 29, outside a liquor store in Philadelphia.

Cecil County received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). This award acknowledges the county's comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2022. An impartial panel judged the report and found it met the program's high standards, including clear communication of the county's financial situation.

I find the application for 206 Cannon Street to be inappropriate with the immediate neighborhood and believe the proposed development will degrade the Historic District at this end of town. It is completely incongruent with the intimate and historic character of the residential neighborhood. The proposed 8,000 square foot house qualifies as an estate house insensitively imposed on a humble, yet highly historically significant, neighborhood where houses average about 1,800 square feet. The site layout with various features further distances the development from the prevailing residential context and in tandem with the house design, would establish a harmful precedent if the application is approved. The following details are presented to support these opinions.

The Town of Townsend and Immanuel United Methodist Church are hosting the 2023 Tree Lighting & Caroling in the Park. The event is on Friday, December 8th, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. at Townsend Municipal Park, Delaware. The Odessa High School Band will perform, and a special guest will appear at 7:00 p.m.

Interested in adopting a pet — or just looking at some adorable pets near you up for adoption? There are dozens of endearing pets up for adoption at animal shelters in and around delaware city..

It's 'the night before Christmas' all month-long at the Historic Odessa Foundation's new exhibit inspired by a classic poem.

Wesley Wofford, known for his Harriet Tubman sculpture in Rainey Park, Georgetown, has been hired to create a new piece for the Georgetown Library. The Friends of the Georgetown Library commissioned the work, named 'Whispers of My Ancestor'. They are currently raising funds to cover the costs, with a target of $40,000.

New Castle County police are investigating a crash Tuesday morning, December 5, 2023, in Hockessin that sent a 90-year old woman to the hospital. The incident was reported shortly before 9 a.m. on Mill Creek Road near Brackenville Road. A car had gone off the roadway, down an embankment, and...

When Niki Johnson became a single mother at sixteen, she wasn’t about to shy away from the profound responsibility of raising her daughter. Searching for a way to earn an income and always interested in hairstyling and cosmetics by working with her family and friends, Johnson turned that talent into a self-employment opportunity by going to cosmetology school when she was old enough to drive and commute.

We’ve had a string of foggy days over here on the Eastern Shore. Sure, I could tell you that fog is simply an aerosol of small water droplets at or near ground level sufficiently dense enough to reduce horizontal visibility to less than one-thousand meters, or give you all the technical names for the various types of fog, but that would only reduce the phenomenon of fog to mere science. But I not going to do that because to me, fog is more art than science. Of all of Mother Nature’s wondrous weather wizardry, fog is a state of mind, a stupendous atmospheric work of art than has the power to transform the mundane into the marvelous. It’s a primed canvas worthy of a master, or in all fairness to Mother Nature, a mistress. It absorbs her brush strokes, removes all the extraneous material—even sound!—and leaves us spellbound by the simplicity of a black-and-white world.

The Historical Society of Kent County is pleased to announce the appointment of Maria Wood as its new Executive Director. Wood, a local Chestertown resident with deep Eastern Shore roots, brings a wealth of relevant experience to the Society. From her days at Smith College to founding a national non-profit for children’s music to producing a film about sea level rise on the Eastern Shore, Wood has covered the landscape of projects that reach deep into the community. “Her course at Washington College’s Academy of Lifelong Learning, her occasional Chestertown Spy articles, and her leadership at River Arts make her well-known in Kent County. We are very fortunate to have someone with her breadth of experience and talent join us as the Society strives to rebuild and expand after the pandemic,” said Historical Society president Barbara Jorgenson.

A New Jersey trampoline/amusement center is coming to the former Kmart site off Route 40 in Bear. A coming soon sign for Fun City Adventure Park was recently added. Fun City operates a site in Blackwood, NJ, with another in the works in Millville, NJ, about an hour’s drive from Bear.

New Castle County is creating a new County Public Arts Commission. The Public Arts Commission will oversee the procurement, location, acquisition, and conservation of art on New Castle County property and in County public areas. The commission will also advocate arts policy for the County’s community spaces and developments.