07/12/11 There is no doubt the lines designating Sussex County Council districts will change under the current redistricting process. Population growth on the eastern side of the county has far outpaced population growth on the western side. While county officials work on their own map, as promised, the League of Women Voters of Sussex County has its own ideas what new council districts should look like ...
07/08/11 SEAFORD -- Allen Family Foods, the bankrupt Seaford-based poultry producer, is seeking a judge's permission to pay executives up to $200,000 in bonuses to complete a sale of the company that would result in 1,600 people losing their jobs.
07/07/11 Delaware State Police say an 80-year-old man was killed Wednesday when his car left the road and hit a telephone pole near Millsboro.
07/07/11 Two area teens were arrested July 5 for allegedly trying to break into a Georgetown mobile home. Police received a 911 call from a concerned neighbor and went to the unit block of Marcella Street in the Fish Hook Mobile Home Park in Georgetown just after 11 p.m., said Cpl. Bruce Harris of the Delaware State Police. When they arrived, Harris said police saw Benjamin A. Steward, 19, of Millsboro ...
07/07/11 An 80-year-old Millsboro man died July 6 after an afternoon crash along Long Neck Road. Herbert E. Crossan Jr. was driving a 2000 Ford Taurus when for an unknown reason he drove off the roadway and ran into a telephone pole, said Cpl. Bruce Harris of the Delaware State Police. He died as a result of the crash, Harris said. Anyone with more information on the crash is asked to call police at 302 ...
07/07/11 Authorities say a lightning strike is to blame for a Wednesday afternoon fire that heavily damaged a building belonging to the Mountaire Farms poultry company in Millsboro.
07/07/11 FRUITLAND -- A pedestrian was transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center after being struck by a car on Route 13 in the area of Stockyard Road Wednesday at about 12:40 p.m.
06/25/11 Advanced Aerosol in Seaford, has a new name ActivAir Inc.with new product catalogs and expanded capabilities.
06/22/11 Delaware State Police are investigating five incidents of robberies and assaults in the Rehoboth area, but they are not saying whether the crimes are related. Rehoboth Beach police Chief Keith Banks said several teens arrested during a fight at First Street Station gave witnesses the impression they were members of a gang while taunting the group of teens they were fighting with. Banks said his ...
06/22/11 REHOBOTH BEACH -- Two women walking home from work were assaulted and robbed by two assailants who attacked them from behind near Rehoboth Beach, police said.
06/22/11 Hundreds of volunteers packed boxes of food for the needy, provided by Mountaire, last year at Thanksgiving. The poultry company is buying the assets of Allen Family Foods, which declared bankruptcy, and plans to expand its operations in Selbyville.
06/20/11 It's not a good time to be an employee of Allen Family Foods. News that the poultry company based in Seaford, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy is potentially devastating to Delmarva's economy as well as to the company's workers. This global poultry exporter employs some 2,400 people directly. Its collapse will also affect more than 230 independent growers across Delmarva who will need to find ...
06/19/11 Mountaire Farms of Delmarva in Selbyville is home to a processing plant, as well as nearby hatcheries and feedmills. Mountaire Farms Inc. is in the process of expanding its reach by attempting to acquire most of the assets of its bankrupt former competitor, Allen Family Foods.
06/17/11 A week after Seaford poultry producer Allen Family Foods filed for bankruptcy protection, more details about the company's failure, and the fate of its 1,600 Delaware employees, have only begun to trickle out.
06/15/11 DAGSBORO -- As the season ends for high school baseball teams, play is already under way in the American Legion summer baseball league.
06/15/11 A loan request from Seaford poultry producer Allen Family Foods was rebuffed by the state before the ailing firm filed for federal bankruptcy protection last week and agreed to sell most of its assets to cross-county rival Mountaire Farms, of Millsboro.
06/14/11 A loan request from Seaford poultry producer Allen Family Foods was rebuffed by the state before the ailing firm filed for federal bankruptcy protection last week and agreed to sell most of its assets to cross-county rival Mountaire Farms, of Millsboro.
06/11/11 MILLSBORO, Del. - It's National Fishing Week, and on Saturday, the 25th Annual Youth Fishing Tournament took place at Ingram Pond in Millsboro. However, there is more to the event than catching the big fish.
06/10/11 SEAFORD, DEL. Allen Family Foods Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, with plans calling for the sale of most of its assets to another company with oprations on Delmarva.
06/10/11 The Delaware subsidiary of one of Arkansas' largest private companies is planning to expand and aims to buy the assets of a competitor that filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday morning. | 
