Townsend News

Some Comcast customers lost service Tuesday afternoon. Officials say a concrete mixing truck hit a utility pole in Townsend, Delaware, cutting a Comcast fiber line.

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.

New Castle County Paramedics say it happened Friday at 4pm. They found the 55-year old victim in a ditch, thrown from his bike on the 800 block of Vandyke Greenspring Road.

Townsend leaders are looking for bands, clubs and others to march in their small-town parade.

The Dela-bration Mug Night drew 1,700 to a large tent on The Green. YoUDee leads the charge as the Blue Hen 5K race gets under way.

Townsend leaders have drawn a red, white and blue circle around the date April 18.

After she was laid off in October, construction inspector Lear Lockwood had mounting bills and few job prospects in her field.

Winners of Townsend's record-setting election last weekend will take office at a special meeting next week.

A 19-year-old Townsend man was arrested Monday for posing as a fire inspector over the weekend to inspect the fire alarm system at the Smyrna Opera House, state fire officials said.

A 19 year Townsend man has been charged with impersonating a fire official. Shawn Evans of Townsend told Smyrna Opera House officials Saturday night that he was a firefighter and that he needed to inspect the building's fire suppression system.

State Police say a Middletown man has turned himself in to face charges he shot someone in Townsend last Monday.

About a year ago, a motorist drove off Del. 1 near Christiana, careened down a 50-foot embankment and took out a section of boardwalk that ran under the highway and hugged the Christina River.

State Police are investigating a shooting in the community of Townsend Village-Two in New Castle County.

Douglas Harris, who served in the Navy from 1951 to 1954, said he never saw such a "great, beautiful" appreciation of veterans.

Townsend plans to thank veterans in a big but small-town way. All veterans in the 19734 ZIP code are invited to a luncheon and recognition ceremony April 18, where each will be awarded a certificate of appreciation.

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.

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

"What's the silent beat called?" Music Teacher Susan Osborn asked a class of 23 third-grade students, all with fingers strategically placed on their recorders as they stared at the "rest" on their sheet music.

With highs in the mid-70s throughout the state, Delawareans flocked outside Saturday to forget the snow and freezing temperatures that covered the region just days ago.

A 51-year-old Townsend man was killed Friday when the pickup truck he was driving struck a tree, state police said.