Organic café lets visitors enjoy 21st-century fare in a 19th-century setting

The Hagley Museum and Library is now home to an organic cafe that provides fresh food for museum visitors and locals on their lunch breaks.

Kilpatrick and Protack outline cost-cutting plans at candidates forum

Hockessin’s Republican primary candidates for New Castle County Council agree that the body they are hoping to join is too big and expensive.

Mt. Cuba Center shares the buzz about hummingbirds

Tiny hummingbirds will take center stage during a weekend full of educational seminars at Mt. Cuba Center in Hockessin.

Hagley receives grant to catalogue industrial history

The banks of the Brandywine Creek have a rich industrial history and the Hagley Museum and Library has started a new project to digitally preserve that heritage.

Summer program cultivates students' interests in science

Thirteen students from low-income families spent five weeks learning all about agriculture during the Delaware Center for Horticulture's eighth Horticulture & Environmental Leadership program.

Chaddsford Winery will chase Guinness World Record

Just across the Delaware border, Chaddsford Winery will unite with 60 other wineries in the state of Pennsylvania in The Great Pennsylvania Wine Toast, while hoping to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest wine tasting ever held.

Explore the Brandywine at Hagley next week

Believe it or not, a kids program at the Hagley Museum can teach you how to launch an air rocket and make a bird feeder in the same day.

Milltown teen's Girl Scout project makes butterflies more accessible

A Milltown teen is spending her summer making the Ashland Nature Center's butterfly house wheel chair accessible.

Annual bike ride to honor fallen Ironman

Less than one month away, the Third Annual Mike Clark Memorial Ride will host hundreds of cyclists in an event that’s not quite your typical Saturday morning ride.

Student Spotlight: A.I.'s Jacqueline DiSabatino and her triumph over dyslexia

Jacqueline DiSabatino is a young lady after Reading Assist Institute founder Ginger Biasotto’s heart. DiSabatino, 14, of Greenville, struggled for the first couple of years of her education at Corpus Christi Elementary School in Elsmere.

Delaware volunteers bring hope to Haiti

A group of Delaware volunteers are running a summer camp in Haiti for children forced to leave their homes after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the poor, Caribbean nation.

Kennett Square restaurant named among nation’s best

Discerning diners agree: The Orchard is among the nation’s best restaurants.

Based on actual diners’ reviews, the Kennett Square restaurant was named among the top 50 restaurants in the United States by OpenTable’s 2010 Diners’ Choice Awards.

Gazebo dedicated to Centreville philanthropist

The Centreville Civic Association dedicated the gazebo in Canby Grove Park to longtime philanthropist Rosa Laird Hayward McDonald on July 12.

Red Clay tax hike lower than expected

The Red Clay Consolidated School District Board of Education voted to increase 2011 fiscal year taxes by 1.3 cents at a July 7 meeting.

Residents sound off on proposed golf course development

Dozens of residents living near Delaware National Golf Course expressed concern Tuesday over plans to build a 264-home community there.

At-risk students learn a lesson in environmental stewardship

Twenty-five at-risk youth spent a week working on a marsh restoration project at the DuPont Environmental Education Center through an inaugural summer camp offered at the Delaware Nature Society.

At long last, solution found to fix Beaver Dam Road

The question over which state was responsible for the long decaying Beaver Dam Road, which starts in Delaware and loops into Pennsylvania, has been answered.

Live like a du Pont

A new line of pre-fabricated homes licensed by the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate will be ready for purchase this fall.

Taking redistricting out of the hands of politicians

There is the farm sickle, the dumb bell, the Loch Ness monster and a town divided four ways. No, this is not a pre-school lesson in shapes and tools. It's the way some of Delaware's legislative districts are drawn up thanks to that age old politcal phenomenon known as gerrymandering.

Pettinaro to develop Delaware National Country Club

The Pettinaro Company recently filed a development plan to build 264 homes on the remaining 18 holes of the Delaware National Country Club.

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