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Monday Jun 29 | News Journal

NCCo civic league faces council's ire

The Civic League for New Castle County, Delaware's oldest and largest civic organization, is getting some heat from New Castle County Council over an article in its current newsletter that some elected leaders are lambasting as false and irresponsible.

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Tue Jun 09, 2009

News Journal

Historic foundation exhibit reveals jobs, dress of early Odessa

The historic homes of Odessa go far to evoke the bygone era of shipping by ship, transit by horse and communication by letter.

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Sat May 16, 2009

Delaware Online

Woman killed, boy injured on Del. 1

A woman was killed and an 11-year-old boy was in serious condition after a single-car crash Friday that shut northbound Del.

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Fri May 15, 2009

6 ABC

Woman dies after ejected from car

ODESSA, Del. - May 15, 2009 -- A woman has died after a single-vehicle crash in Delaware.

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Tue May 12, 2009

News Journal

Trooper accused of extorting sexual act

A Delaware State Police corporal is charged with sexual extortion and other offenses for allegedly engaging in a sexual act with a woman he had arrested on a shoplifting charge.

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Mon Apr 20, 2009

News Journal

Clean it up, Delaware

Three times a week, Carole McKinney gets out her dustpan and broom and walks to a nearby Market Street corner, where she sweeps up trash that accumulates around some businesses.

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Thu Apr 16, 2009

News Journal

Second group forms to represent MOT

A new group is forming to represent the concerns of residents who live in New Castle County below the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal.

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Wed Apr 01, 2009

Middletown Transcript

Umbrella civic organization invites all local residents to join

Local residents met March 30 to form an organization to represent the Middletown-Odessa-Townsend area at the county and state level, and they're looking for concerned citizens to join.

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Thu Mar 26, 2009

Smyrna/Clayton Sun-Times

Fire north of Smyrna ruled arson

A fire at a vacant house north of Smyrna March 18 was intentionally set, the State Fire Marshal's Office has ruled.

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Mon Mar 23, 2009

News Journal

ODESSA Protecting the past Preparing a future

Some 30 years back, Kathy and Rusty Harvey of Centreville headed south to Odessa for the small-town life.

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Sun Mar 15, 2009

News Journal

Litterbugs not letting up

As children, we're taught to sing "America the Beautiful." As adults, we don't think twice about trashing it by throwing refuse out car windows, on beaches or even in wildlife preserves.

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Thu Feb 26, 2009

News Journal

Crashes snarl roads around Odessa

A pair of accidents that happened on parallel highways Wednesday afternoon near Odessa -- the second apparently caused by motorists slowing to look at wreckage from the first -- left at least four people ...

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Wed Feb 25, 2009

Middletown Transcript

DelDOT, WILMAPCO seek input on where to spend stimulus funds

The Delaware Department of Transportation has more than $200 million in projects they're considering funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that President Barack Obama signed Feb.

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Mon Feb 23, 2009

News Journal

Reliving slaves' journey to freedom

Watching for people in pursuit, children will dash from a muskrat-skinning shed to the side door of an old house and up skinny winding stairs in a program designed to help them feel like slaves fleeing to ...

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Tue Feb 10, 2009

WRDX-FM Claymont

Stimulus Plan Could Fund Delaware Transportation Projects

Governor Markell says 1,200 jobs could be created if Delaware receives economic stimulus funding for a series of transportation-related projects.

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Sat Feb 07, 2009

Middletown Transcript

Middletown Council ratifies wastewater agreement, buys property

The Town of Middletown Mayor and Council ratified a contract with the Town of Odessa to sell Odessa 100,000 gallons worth of sewer treatment capacity.

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Thu Feb 05, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Black woman finds out slave owner was Underground Railroad hero in Odessa, Del.

She just didn't believe her mother. No matter how many times Bertice Berry's mother, Beatrice, told her that the family was not descended from slaves, Bertice dismissed the statement.

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Wed Jan 21, 2009

Middletown Transcript

Wilmington University launches new campus in Middletown

The Wilmington University Middletown campus was officially opened Jan. 8 with a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house.

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Thu Jan 08, 2009

Middletown Transcript

A final farewell for fallen firefighter

Family and friends, as well as hundreds of firefighters, police officers, emergency service personnel and dignitaries, paid their respects and said their goodbyes to fallen Delaware City Volunteer Fire Company ...

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Sat Dec 20, 2008

Middletown Transcript

Townsend unveils historical marker from Delaware Public Archives

On Dec. 12, the Town of Townsend revealed its new historic marker courtesy the Delaware Public Archives.

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