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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 wait one more day to have this meeting, because I have never felt prouder of our profession,” Biden ...

Bill Jordan of Millsboro is an accidental farmer who's 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 started taking courses on hydroponics and visiting hydroponic farms. He built his own greenhouse a...

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. Before his appointment as executive director of the Milford Club, a position he accepted in 2019, he ser...

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," she said in an interview alongside her husband on ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’. "...

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 childhood on a farm and decided very early in life that he was going to find a way to get off the farm and ...