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In response to the hospital staffing shortage and omicron surge, the bill lets the health department shorten the certification program by 59 hours.

FIRST Lady Jill Biden will be taking her first vacation since her husband President Joe Biden took office in January.The Biden’s will be spending a

Fulltime employees: 9 Date filled: 2/5/17 This position was created specifically to increase a part time employee to a full time position. Outreach Initiatives: During the filing period, WKNZ worked with Delaware Technical and Community College and hosted an internship with 1 student for 3 months. WKNZ also coordinated with Delmarva Christian Schools for a broadcast writing and production project and worked with students in producing content that aired daily. Employee training: During the filin...

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment! Asian American women leaders former Rep. Patsy Mink, Tina Tchen, Katherine Tai and former Oakland mayor Jean Quan—painted by Melanie Humble. It’s Asian Pacific American Heritage month in the Uni...

May 6, 2021 David Leon Graves passed away in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 1, 2021,in Dover, Del.,ith his children by his side. David was born in Dunkirk, NY, the eldest child of Howard A. and Dolores L. (Anderson) Graves on July 23, 1949. He lived in Dunkirk and attended Dunkirk schools until enlisting in the U.S Air Force in 1970. During his 20 plus years in the U.S.Air Force David was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base for basic training and tech school and then off to Dover, De...

As America’s First Working First Lady, Jill Biden Redefines the Role The longtime educator is leaning on her experience to inform the administration’s thinking. On the first full day of Joe Biden’s presidency, First Lady Jill Biden, a longtime educator, hosted the presidents of the country’s two teachers unions at the White House and reiterated her promise during the campaign that teachers would “always have a seat at the table” in the Biden administration. “I could not wa...

Bill Jordan of Millsboro is an accidental farmer whos growing crops without soil. “I was going to make alcohol from corn or peaches to supplement fuel when fuel prices got stupid,” Jordan recalled, but he quickly realized that was not profitable. As part of his research, though, he saw that some hydroponic farms use what’s left of the corn or peaches from the alcohol-making process as a fertilizer. “That’s what led me to it,” he said. About 15 years ago when he lived in Maryland, he...

Boys & Girls Club of Milford executive honored by national organization Delaware News Desk The Boys and Girls Club of Milford announced the selection of Executive Director Paul B. Dorey Jr. as one of Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware’s Joseph Dulin Staff of the Year award recipients.   This annual, statewide honor goes to the staff person who exemplifies the attributes embodied in the Joe Dulin Staff of the Year Award.   Dorey has been with the Boys and Girls Club organization since 2007. Befo...

What kind of doctor is Jill Biden? In the column, Epstein wrote, “Madame First Lady — Mrs Biden — Jill — kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr’ before your name? ‘Dr Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic.” Following the column and the subsequent Twitter storm it caused, Dr Biden commented on the issue. “That was such a surprise,"...

Award-winning duck carver, Doug Gibson, celebrated his 98 th birthday on February 28. Gibson has received many awards for his duck carvings, including Ducks Unlimited Carver of the Year and an invitation to the Smithsonian Institute’s Arts and Crafts Festival in Washington DC in 2003. At this event, Gibson demonstrated his methodology as well as his technique and was featured on a German TV news show. Gibson was born in 1923 in Trappe, Maryland, the ninth of ten children. He spent his childho...