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Delaware Public Media’s partnership with Delaware Independent gives us a chance to help highlight more stories in Southern Delaware.Delaware Independent is a website and email newsletter offering a combination of in-depth and hyper-local coverage of Southern Delaware.We feature some of their stories in our newscasts and this week on The Green we chat with Delaware Independent’s Andrew Sharp about some of their recent stories.

The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs recently received a donation of pottery fragments from a site known as the Green Pottery site in Smyrna.Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs curator of archaeology Paul Nasca visits to discuss the collection and Delaware’s roots in redware pottery.

Last summer, we took you to the Newark Union Church and Cemetery where Bob and Anne Daly – a retired couple – are working to preserve and restore this little-known piece of history nestled in Brandywine Hundred.This week, contributor Larry Nagengast takes us back there to check in on substantial progress they’ve made.

The critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof pulls into Wilmington next month, playing at The Playhouse on Rodney SquareAndrew Hendrick plays one of the main characters - Lazar Wolf, the village butcher - in this production and he joins Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele for this week’s Arts Playlist.

Delaware’s language immersion program in public schools launched in 2011 - meaning some of the students who were there at the start are now in high school.So how is the program - and the students in it - faring?Contributor Larry Nagengast takes a closer look this week.

Delaware...dinosaurs... and a deep-sea dive.A wide range of experiences await visitors to the newly-reopened and newly-named Delaware Museum of Nature and Science.Delaware Public Media contributor Mark Fowser takes us on a visit.

May is Mental Health Awareness month - an opportunity to work to erase stigmas, educate the public, and advocate for those with mental illnesses.And while progress has been made in these areas, Univ. of Delaware senior and Delaware Public Median intern Gabrielle Wuensch reports there’s still work to be done - especially among young people.

From time to time, we like to highlight work from student journalists.And in this week’s Enlighten Me, we bring you a story from Abe Burr – a senior in the radio career pathway at Mount Pleasant High who has spent time this spring as an intern with Delaware Public Media.As part of that internship, Abe reports on how high schools like Mount Pleasant are preparing to hold graduation ceremonies a bit closer to what we saw pre-pandemic.

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Throughout the war in Ukraine, that nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has been the face of its efforts to repel Russia’s 3-month-old invasion.Now, TidalWave Comics is telling Zelensky’s story in comic book form.In this week’s Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele chats with the comic book’s author Michael Frizell about it and the decision to add Zelensky’s story to the ones it has selected to highlight.