Bill that would allow school boards to hike taxes without taxpayer OK...
Legislation that would allow school boards to approve small yearly increases in the property tax levy has been introduced by a group of Democratic legislators.
The bill would allow boards to OK tax increases that...
Pencader’s second brewery opens over weekend
The Pencader business and industrial area south of Newark will get its second brewery beginning on Saturday.
Autumn Arch Beer Project will feature eight brews and will be open between noon. and 11 p.m. The...
Landscape-fencing contractor faces charges of home improvement fraud
A landscape-fencing contractor has been charged with home improvement fraud.
New Castle County Division of Police officers were dispatched to the 900 block of Clydesdale Drive in the community of Rolling Meadows.
They learned that the...
Lantern fly quarantine order calls on businesses, residents to look for egg masses
The Delaware Department of Agriculture (DDA) is quarantining 11 zip codes in northern New Castle County in an effort to eradicate, control, and prevent the spread of spotted lanternfly in Delaware and to surrounding...
Wingstop lands in Bear
Wingstop has opened a location in Bear at Glendale Plaza near the intersection of Routes 40 and 7.
Wingstop got its start in 1994 as a Buffalo-style chicken wing restaurant in Garland, TX It now has...
Community Powered Federal Credit union joins Home Loan Bank
Bear-based Community Powered Federal Credit Union was one of three financial institutions to join The Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh in the second half of 2018.
As FHLBank members, Arch Reinsurance Company, Community Powered...
Cat dealer Foley Equipment rebrands former Giles & Ransome location in Bear
Foley Equipment has rebranded the former Giles & Ransome location in Bear to its name.
The northern New Jersey-based Caterpillar construction equipment dealer acquired the Delaware Valley-based Giles and Ransome last year.
Included in the transaction was...
Updated: LA Fitness in Bear reopens after apparent water damage
The LA Fitness Center at the Eden Square Shopping Center has reopened.
The newly opened center suffered apparent water damage, with clean-up crews on the scene this week.
The closing came on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. A notice...
Fire damages apartments in Bear
The Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal has determined that the two alarm apartment building fire in Bear was was accidental. The blaze led to two cases of smoke inhalation.
The blaze, reported shortly...
Delaware’s only governor from Bear was sportsman, farmer & executive
(From the Delaware Public Archives)
(Editor's note: Allied Kid was the name of a leather manufacturer that was also known as New Castle Leather). Leather tanning as well as shipbuilding were major industries in Wilmington).