Hockessin News

Perennial candidate Mike Protack, who lost a second bid for governor last year, is back for another electoral try, but is setting his sights a little lower this time.

Delaware households and businesses face a big surprise at their wastebaskets next year: a 50 percent landfill fee hike.

Shrimp, scallops and lobster from Baywood Clubhouse Restaurant. Welcome to Home Skillet, where we're already thinking about Christmas cookies.

A Football Feast will be held Nov. 1 at the Hockessin Police Athletic League to raise money for the Aubrey Spicer Trust Fund.

It takes eight adults joining hands to encircle the big white oak in Lynn Robinson's Hockessin yard.

In honor of Make A Difference Day, about 100 parents, teachers, students and community members volunteered Saturday to spruce up Elbert-Palmer Elementary School in Wilmington.

At what age should a parent begin reading a nightly bedtime story to a young child? As soon as the parent brings him or her home from the hospital, says storyteller Terry Colonna of Hockessin.

It wasn't even thought of as a local one. Basically, a few guys gathered in the woods to drink and launch pumpkins off of flatbed trucks with contraptions made from tree branches, for no other reason than to watch the fruit fly.

Warm up to six of these pumpkin-inspired sips and savories at local spots. or bowl at the restaurant, but it's also available to-go by the pint and quart .

Three undocumented workers from Pennsylvania were arrested early Sunday when troopers found them parked in a lot in Hockessin with drugs in the car.

Two men who were spotted wearing gloves while running through the woods near a Pike Creek home burglarized last week have been linked to other residential break-ins in the Centreville area, New Castle County police said.

A tale involving obsession, infidelity and drug use ended in Tweed's Park near Hockessin in 2006 with the bodies of a mother and her new boyfriend found inside the family mini-van burned almost beyond recognition, according to prosecutors.

Jack Cohen and Jill Cohen are brother and sister founders of Kohath Ministries Incorporated.

If you work in the Hockessin, Delaware area, here are some awesome lunch take-out restaurants for you to check out.

These bargains are for the birds -- cheap, cheap, cheap. Newark's biggest yard sale, set for Saturday, has members flocking to Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research Inc.

GREENVILLE, Del. - September 29, 2009 -- The search is on for a crook who's targeting upscale neighborhoods north of Wilmington, Delaware.

Great things take time. After all, inventor Thomas Edison was in his 30s when he invented the phonograph and perfected the light bulb.

New Castle County councilman William Tansey says a Hockessin-area woman should be allowed to raise chickens in her backyard.

HOCKESSIN, Del. - September 23, 2009 -- A New Castle County woman's henhouse is causing a rooster of a ruckus in her community.

From the time Cyrus Moqtaderi showed up for work Saturday till the time he called it quits, he never sat down.