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DelDOT is focusing their attention on Kings Highway from Dartmouth Drive to the split with Freeman Highway.
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Next week, there’s an extra day tacked onto the end of February known as Leap Day; a necessary calendar quirk that pops up every four years.But just like every other day of the year, thousands of babies are born on Leap Day, which puts them in the unusual position of only having a birthday every four years.In this week’s edition of Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Rachel Sawicki talks with some Delawareans about life as a Leap Day baby.
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The Delaware Children's Museum is using $100,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding to help get back to business post-pandemic.
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Tariah Hyland wins the John Lewis Youth Leadership Award. The award aims to recognize young people actively working to create positive change in their communities.
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The burst of winter weather this week might make summer vacation feel a long way off, but if you’re planning to get away to the beach later this year, now is the time to book where you will stay.In recent years, rental costs have been higher, but that hasn’t deterred people from booking at the beach.Contributor Eileen Dallabrida reports on this year’s beach rental market and what to know about booking in Delaware.
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The Delaware Tourism Office is launching the Delaware Sports Tourism Capital Investment Fund to provide support to First State sports facilities.
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A task force began work last fall on examining the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association, or DIAA, following complaints about its handling of various issues, such as student transfers and coach contact with student-athletes out of season.But these individual issues have led to a larger question: is DIAA as it is currently constructed up to the challenge of governing the modern and evolving scholastic sports landscape?This week, Delaware Public Media’s Tom Byrne sits down with DIAA executive director David Baylor to discuss the issues that DIAA faces.
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About 70,000 fans will watch the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off in this year’s Super Bowl at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The rest of us, roughly 100 million people, will watch the CBS broadcast or stream it, and that means Super Bowl commercials.For the second straight year, the average cost of a 30-second ad spot during the big game is $7 million, a price tag that guarantees an opportunity to reach by far the largest U.S. television audience of the year.In this edition of Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon is joined by Steve Merino – Owner and Chief Creative Officer of the Wilmington-based ad agency Aloysius Butler and Clark – to learn more about Super Bowl commercials and what to expect this year.