Wilmington

Hello everyone, I received a few responses to yesterday's column on the decision to take down and store the Wilmington statues of Caesar Rodney and Christopher Columbus. One reader and friend of this newsletter noted that...

The City of Wilmington is removing the statues of Christopher Columbus on Pennsylvania Avenue and Caesar Rodney in Rodney Square. The Columbus statue is being removed this morning. The Caesar Rodney statue is scheduled to...

Wilmington Alliance announced the formation of the Wilmington is Working Equitable Technology Fund. The anchor supporter is  Barclays US Consumer Bank. The fund aims to address the digital divide by increasing access to online job...

Saint Francis Healthcare, Wilmington,  recently added the da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgical System to its operating rooms. This new technology aids surgeons in procedures and doubles the amount of robot-aided surgeries the hospital can perform. Surgeons...

Relief Therapeutics  Holding and NeuroRx, Wilmington, filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the US Food and Drug Administration for a phase 2 trial of RLF-100 (Aviptadil) in the treatment of patients with...

 Dan Shelton was approved  Thursday at a  Christina School District’s Board of Education meeting as the next superintendent of schools. The appointment will take effect on July 1. Shelton brings more than 22 years of...

Wilmington Mayor MIke Purzycki issued the following message on Thursday. “Since last Saturday night’s demonstration and the violence that ensued, I have received many emails either condemning our weak police response to the lawbreaking or...

Delaware State Police issued the following statement as sometimes violent protests continued throughout the nation following the death of George Floyd. Floyd died after a Minneapolis Police officer kneeled on his neck as fellow officers...

A clean-up effort that included volunteers took place on  Market Street in downtown Wilmington on Sunday after protests over the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police. Downtown Visions, the agency that provides cleaning and...

My sister and I  were lucky to have a mother and father who brought us up the right way. Both of my parents were Southerners. My dad, who worked at a copper mine,  was born...