Greenwood News

GEORGETOWN - The Democratic candidate who dropped out of the special election race for the late Thurman Adams' Senate seat said today he quit because of insufficient support from some corners of the party.

The two candidates seeking the Senate seat of the late Thurman Adams will meet tonight in their first public forum.

A daughter of Thurman Adams wants to run for her late father's state Senate seat, but she faces at least one challenger.

Sussex County Republicans have tapped state Rep. Joe Booth, R- Georgetown, to run for the seat vacated by the late Sen.

With little fanfare or public comment, Sussex County Council unanimously passed a lean, baseline $128 million budget.

Sudden downpours broke out across Delaware Saturday, continuing the trend for a rain-soaked June.

Some foreclosed homes in Sussex County soon will be occupied by new residents as $2 million in federal funding to help low- and moderate-income families buy houses is ready to be spent.

After one councilman and two members of the public protested, Sussex County Council delayed action Tuesday, April 28, on a proposed increase in register of wills fees.

LEWES --The Advisory Council on Recreational Fishing Funding will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Division of Soil and Water Conservation building next to the new Lewes boat ramp at the western end of Pilottown Road in Lewes.

The bookmobile will be making fewer stops in Sussex County this year. Faced with a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall and shrinking interest, county officials have agreed to cut the number of stops that the 33-foot-long vehicle makes in developments or residential communities.

Sussex County Habitat for Humanity is looking for a few families to join the ranks of Habitat homeowners.

The yellow submarine came to visit Sussex Technical High School late last fall. Actually, it was a Navigator autonomous submarine used by NASA at Wallops Island, Va.

In an open courtyard in the center of Phillis Wheatley Middle School, birds hang out at feeders, cattails sprout at the edges of a pond and a wooden bridge and tables provide a pleasant area for a break.

Until recently, the most valuable natural resources to be harvested from Newton Pond were sand and gravel.

A Greenwood-area man was charged Wednesday in the hit-and-run deaths of two girls killed Tuesday night when the car he was driving crashed into a van carrying the victims and 11 other people, 10 of whom were ...

A stolen car crashed into a van containing 13 people last night on Route 13 in Bridgeville, leaving two girls dead.

Dan Kramer of Greenwood, who caused a stir when he questioned Sussex County Council's amended public participation policy, now wants county officials to open their email files and cell-phone records.

The fallout from Sussex County Council's recently enacted public participation policy has been slow to fall to earth, but it has now settled in.

GREENWOOD, Del. - The Delaware Electric Cooperative has deferred an anticipated April rate increase.

A Delaware man has been arrested on bomb threat charges. Tykev McKinley Colbert of Greenwood, Delaware is facing multiple charges.