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The Delaware Safety Council is joining with more than 70 traffic safety and advocacy groups nationwide to observe National Passenger Safety Week, Jan. 19-26.  This critical lifesaving initiative empowers passengers to take an active role in promoting safety and preventing crashes by speaking up when confronted with dangerous driving behaviors. Reckless behaviors such as speeding, impaired driving and distracted driving continue to threaten lives across the nation and locally. Passengers […]

Coastal Concerts will present Invoke, an innovative string quartet, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 10, at Bethel United Methodist Church, Fourth and Market streets in Lewes. Lani Spahr will present a Performance Insights lecture at 1 p.m. prior to the concert. Musicians are Nick Montopoli on violin, banjo and vocals; Zach Matteson on violin and vocals; Karl Mitze on viola, mandolin and vocals; and Geoff Manyin on cello and vocals. […]

A Lewes woman will serve three years probation, have to enter into a substance abuse program and lose her license as a result of a guilty plea to four charges related to a motor vehicle accident involving an international student worker. Megan Smith pleaded guilty in Delaware Superior Court to charges of possession of a fictitious license, DUI, inattentive driving and second-degree vehicular assault for the accident that occurred in […]

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has started treating every reported dead snow goose as if it is infected with bird flu. A DNREC spokesman said reports of sick and dead geese started coming in before Christmas. Dead birds have been seen on the beach and in the dunes at Broadkill Beach, Lewes Beach and in Cape Henlopen State Park. DNREC said it does not anticipate testing any […]

Beginning Sunday, Jan. 11, hunters in Delaware will be allowed to hunt coyotes year-round. The change in coyote-hunting season was one of a handful of hunting-related regulatory changes approved by Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Greg Patterson. The order approving the changes was issued Dec. 8. Since the regulations were first introduced in 2014, coyote hunting season has been Sept. 1 to the last day of […]