Wilmington property owners were shocked by their assessments this spring. The average assessment increased by 47%. Unfortunately, this probably is not the end of this trend. While assessments are Wilmington’s hot-topic of the year, short-term vacation rentals are the region’s hot-topic ...
Dmitry Feld is a tough act to follow, yet the connections, goodwill, and example he set resulted in many people working together to continue his legacy. That collective can-do spirit was fully in bloom at the Shipman Youth Center’s Dmitry’s Feast of the Peaks and Music Festival, aka ...
Eminent herpetologist James Gibbs, commenting on a disturbing video of a giant tortoise slowly and clumsily stalking and finally devouring a seabird chick in the Galpagos, observed, “It’s a very interesting combination of diligence and incompetence.” Apparently, before this video came ...
Train exodus - The Delaware and Hudson Railway station was a busy place Monday evening with the annual Labor Day exodus from this resort. In all, 41 pullmans and coaches left the station in four sections carrying vacationists back to their homes in the Northeast. The crowd included ...
This Labor Day weekend, the Weibrecht family is launching a year-long 100th anniversary celebration of the Mirror Lake Inn, a storied hotel rated as one of the finest in the nation in everything from Conde Nast publications to four decades of winning the AAA Four Diamond Award of ...
Last week, childless cat ladies were in the news, as well as in this column. This week, I’m still thinking about cats. I’ve just read Daniel Mason’s wonderful novel “North Woods” (Random House, 2023). This imaginative account of the goings-on of humans and wildlife over several ...