Claymont redevelopment plans reshape to match changing landscape
The pandemic has not only slowed some development projects down – it’s also changed the nature of some projects.
One example is the long planned First State Crossing project and others meant to transform large portions of the Claymont area.
Contributor Larry Nagengast takes a closer look at where these efforts stand and how they are evolving.
Meet Delaware's new Teacher of the Year
Delaware named its 2022 Teacher of the Year this week
The honor goes to Jahsha Tabron, a special education teacher at Brandywine High School.
Tabron is co-teacher in English classes there with a primary focus on ninth-grade special education students transitioning to the high school.
And we visited her in her classroomat Brandywine High.
Arts Playlist: Fantasy and the Medieval Past
A new Delaware Art Museum exhibition traces medieval fantasy themes through American illustrator and author Howard Pyle and young adult literature.
Fantasy and the Medieval Past was conceived by University of Delaware instructor Emily Shartrand and in this week’s Arts Playlist, she joins Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele totalk about the exhibit and how America’s concept of medieval fantasy has changed over the last century:
Enlighten Me: Climate-driven disasters raise environmental justice concerns in Delaware
Poor neighborhoods are often hit harder by natural disasters — and struggle more than wealthier ones to recover.
The historic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida last month devastated a low-income neighborhood of Wilmington.
As climate change drives more extreme weather — should the First State look at preparedness through an environmental justice lens?
Delaware Public Media’s Sophia Schmidt explores this question with Victor Perez at the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center.