Hello everyone,
The surge in Covid 19 stories and the president’s shortened vacation topped the list of most-read August stories on the Delaware Business Now website.
The top story came with Delaware moving into the “very high risk” category by Covid ActNow after cases and hospitalizations continued to climb in August, thanks in large part to the faster-spreading Delta variant and a slowdown in vaccinations.
Preparations were underway for a Rehoboth Beach area vacation for President and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden beginning in August.
However, the fall of the Afghan government and delays in passing the infrastructure bill in the Senate led to one long weekend at the Greenville-area home and short stays at the presidential retreat at Camp David in the Maryland mountains.
Other top stories included a Harrington woman pleading guilty to pocketing withheld employment taxes at a family-owned business and Friends Schools, being unfriendly, and suing its neighbors over their failure to approve putting two schools on one site in the quiet Alapocas neighborhood near Wilmington.
The suit was triggered by the school agreeing to sell a tract for $50 million that now houses one school to fast-growing pharma company Incyte. Friends would then build a new school on the same site as the school for the upper grades.
The sale hinges on Friends getting an OK to build the new school and zoning for the Incyte expansion.
Below are links to the top seven stories.
- Top trending: Delaware in ‘very high risk’ Covid-19 category.
- Bidens spend long weekend in Greenville after signs first pointed to a Rehoboth visit.
- Harrington woman pleads guilty to not submitting nearly $900,000 in withheld employment taxes at HVAC business.
- Friends School sues Alapocas neighbors over denial of plans to put 2 schools on one site.
- Henri likely to bring rough seas to the south, rainfall in northern Delaware.
- Ocean City Margaritaville in early stages of development.
- Delmarva Corrugated Packaging plant in Dover plans October opening.
Stay safe and dry as the remnants of Ida make their way to Delaware. This newsletter will take a break on Monday for the Labor Day holiday. – Doug Rainey, chief content officer.
