Good afternoon everyone,
The weather edged out Covid-19 when it came to the most-viewed stories on the Delaware Business Now website as of late January.
The top story’s topic was an early January storm that hammered portions of Kent and Sussex counties. A storm over the weekend hit the same areas along with coastal towns like Bethany Beach.
Not far behind, was news of a record number of Covid-19 hospitalizations during the month. Fortunately, the number has declined in the past couple of weeks, although the outbreak, driven by the Omicron variant added to a death toll that is now approaching the population of the town of Bridgeville in Sussex County.
Other top stories included the Cape Gazette, Lewes, remaining under local ownership, Mountaire workers voting out the union at one plant, the Bidens having a New Year’s Eve lunch in Wilmington and Gov. John Carney bringing back mandatory masking after hospitals went above capacity, due to the Omicron-driven surge.
Enjoy your day and watch out for slippery conditions during this slow thaw. – Doug Rainey, chief content officer.
Below are links to the top 20.
- Snow hammers portion of central, southern Delaware
- Covid-related hospitalizations, new cases, break record
- Delaware under Winter Storm Warning beginning tonight
- Cape Gazette keeps it local with sale to co-publisher
- Analysis: Mountaire Selbyville workers get benefits boost after union is voted out
- Friday storm drops 2-3 inches of snow in much of state
- Covid update: Record number of hospitalizations, new daily cases
- Covid hospitalizations break record as samples confirm dominance of Omicron
- Trending: Bidens New Year’s Eve featured lunch at Wilmington seafood restaurant
- News Journal dropping Saturday print edition
- Indoor masking order returns on Tuesday as Covid cases surge
- Food and Drink – Newark Restaurant Week, Wilmington dining deal, Bardea Steak, ‘most anticipated’, Peruvian chicken fad over?, What about Hamilton’s?
- Prominent Wilmington attorney, Logan House owner, Michael P. Kelly dies
- As labor crunch worsens, Bayhealth works to lure part-timers
- DART cuts northern Delaware weekday bus service due to staff shortage
- State’s hospitals now operating in crisis care mode
- State to seek help from feds in dealing with surge in Covid cases and hospitalizations
- General Assembly to meet in person, but committee meetings will be Zoom only
- Navient settles student loan suit $1.85 billion while adamantly denying wrongdoing
- Small business sees flaws in paid family leave bill
