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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2006

VOL. 11 NO. 16

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NEWS HEADLINES WORLD SERIES - The Nanticoke Little League Senior League softball team, representing District III in the 2006 World Series, is shown during the opening day ceremony on Sunday. Coverage begins on page 41. Photo by Mike McClure

DELIGHTED SCHOOL - After state test scores were released recently, one area high school is ‘delighted.’ Page 2 CARNIVAL TIME - What brings people back to the Sharptown Carnival every year? Page 8 YOUTH SOCCER - Local youth soccer players took part in the NYSA Kinder Kicks soccer program last week. Page 41

SEAFORD OFFICER INJURED - EMS personnel from Seaford and Blades place Cpl. Aaron Mitchell, a member of the Seaford Police Department Motorcycle Unit, into a Delaware State Police helicopter as it sits on Stein Highway following an accident Wednesday morning. Mitchell, who collided with a car at the intersection of Stein Highway and Shipley Street around 10 a.m., was flown to Christiana Hospital in Newark for treatment. At press time on Wednesday, his condition was unknown. Members of the Seaford and Delaware State Police are conducting the accident investigation. Photo by Ronald MacArthur

EASTERN SHORE AFRAM FESTIVAL - This is the weekend for the 2006 Eastern Shore AFRAM Festival on Friday and Saturday, August 11 and 12, in Nutter Park. See pages 13 - 20 for details. Above, members of the Sankofa drummers are shown entertaining at last year’s AFRAM Festival. Photo by Ronald MacArthur

INSIDE THE STAR BUSINESS

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Residents of Hearn’s Pond area protest annexation of 600 acres By Lynn R. Parks Residents of the Hearn’s Pond area packed into Seaford City Hall Tuesday night to protest the proposed annexation of more than 600 acres. Brenda Stover, speaking for the Hearn’s Pond citizens group HAPPEN (HearnsPond Association for its Protection, Preservation, Enhancement and Naturalization), cautioned that annexation of the land without a clear plan of how it will be developed could turn Seaford into “Potterville,” the dismal town in the Jimmy Stewart classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” “It is my nightmare that this development will attract people unwilling to obtain the working skills that are valuable to the community,” she said. She also cautioned that the development could generate too much traffic for roads to accommodate. “This development, as proposed, will cause catastrophic flooding in

Seaford,” she added. “What happens to Hearn’s Pond happens to all of Seaford.” Five of the six parcels in question are located in a square bounded on three sides by Conrail Road (Sussex 546), Hearn’s Pond Road and alternate U.S. 13. Those parcels comprise 558 acres. The sixth parcel sits on the other side of U.S. 13, on Old Furnace Road. Owner of that 45-acre parcel, Nanette Corey, Bridgeville, is requesting that the property be zoned for single-family homes. But it was the five parcels near Hearn’s Pond with which the people at Tuesday night’s city council meeting were most concerned. Owners of two of those parcels, Ray S. Mears and Sons and Tuong T. Quan, are requesting that their properties be annexed with R-3 zonings, Seaford’s high-density residential zoning. That zoning permits up to 14 units per acre. Owners of another two parcels, St.

Rockland & Company (137 acres) and Morris Properties (46 acres) are requesting that their properties be mixed zoning, for high-density residential and light commercial building. Owners of the fifth parcel, Steven and Cynthia Yingling, are requesting that that parcel be zoned for light industrial development. Mears indicated that St. Rockland, a development company based in Wilmington, would develop all of the property. He compared that company to Lacrosse Homes, the company that with Mears is developing Mearfield, a housing community at the intersection of alternate U.S. 13 and Herring Run Road. “The people from St. Rockland are of the same caliber,” he said. “If they tell you they will do something, it will be done as they say. I do trust them.” Susan Messick, who lives on Continued to page four


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