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Hockessin Soccer Club's U12 Academy LadyHawks won the under-12 elite age group of the Spirit United Kickoff Classic Tournament held August 23 and 24 in Downingtown, Pa.

The Lion's Den sports bar will reopen on Sept. 4 as Myst, a martini and wine bar that aims to offer an upscale environment reminiscent of a big city lounge.

Students, parents and faculty members helped beautify John Dickinson High School in Pike Creek during the Sports Boosters' back to school cleanup on Aug. 23. They collected trash, cleaned out flower beds and painted in preparation for the first day of school on Aug. 26.

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Leroy Watson was driving a Red Clay Consolidated School District van July 22 with six students and two other paraprofessionals headed for Meadowood Program, when he smelled the faint oder of plastic burning and followed "the rule."

The Red Clay Board of Education extended the contract between the school district and the teachers' union until  a new one can be reached. The current contract expires August 31.

The Red Clay Consolidated School District has a preliminary budget in place for the 2009 fiscal year that increases spending by 3.9 percent to $160. 6 million, while revenues are expected to be up 7.9 percent to $167 million.

Charter School of Wilmington junior David Huang won a gold medal this summer at the International Biology Olympiad held in Mumbai, India.

The 2008 Bike Show and Blues Festival  brought three great blues bands and a whole lot of motorcycles to the area August 16.

Center for the Creative Arts in Yorklyn volunteers celebrated a successful summer internship season with a party at the Yorklyn pool.

Red Clay schools' chief, Dr. Robert Andrzejewski, was looking for the right man to become the "turnaround leader" at struggling Dickinson High School. He tapped former Middletown High School assistant principal Byron Murphy, who has a strong mathematics and engineering background -- and, experience in turnaround work.

Veteran Red Clay educator Mark Pruitt has been promoted to principal of Henry C. Conrad Schools of Science. Pruitt has proved himself as a leader, be it as head boys coach at McKean High School or as an assistant principal at A.I. duPont High School, Superintendent Bob Andrzejewski said.

Yorklyn Road’s bridge over the Red Clay Creek will close 6 a.m. Tuesday August 19 for maintenance, according to the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT). The work, which includes removing lead paint, cleaning and repainting to extend the life of the bridge, is expected to be complete September 2.

A woman who paused on her walk on Beech Tree Lane in Hockessin, Friday August 15, to give a man directions at his request was lured to his automobile, to discover his genitalia exposed.

If you're looking for a combination of magic and faith-building, check out Sam Sandler's magic show at  First Alliance Church of Hockessin September 3.

Two cows munched grass in a field at Woodside Farm Creamery in Hockessin over the weekend, unperturbed, as a crowd assembled around them, waiting expectantly -- for one of them to answer nature's call.

The short-term loan will help the school district complete the longstanding Porter Road elementary project while it waits for the state to ante up its share of funds.

Paraprofessionals and secretaries in the Christina School District both have three-year contracts in place, retroactive to 2007. But they will not get raises similar to the three-year deal that was made with teachers earlier this summer.

Rev. Patricia Bryant Harris, pastor of the Marshallton United Methodist Church, will be honored Sunday for becoming the first black woman to give an opening prayer in Congress.