More and larger community gardens are cropping up this spring, the latest including plots at Salvation Army’s Greenwood Lake Camp, Ross Street Park and the Delaware County Community Market.
While tapping the Utica Shale that much of Delaware County sits atop of could create riches for residents, the process is also fraught with environmental risks.
From left, Willis Intermediate Principal Heidi Kegley gives a package of apple slices to sixth-grader Shyanne Burns as part of the school’s fruit and vegetable challenge. The event, in which students this week will receive free samples of fruits and veggies, is sponsored with funding from the Friends for Life grant through the Delaware General Health District. Students are being encouraged to increase their fruit and vegetable intake while tracking consumption in their classrooms. On Friday, the classroom with the highest increase of fruits and vegetables consumed will win a classroom party with fruit smoothies and fruit kabobs. (Gazette | Melissa Mackey)
The 2011 holiday season featured a marked drop in drunken driving arrests in the City of Delaware, while the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office had an even busier season taking impaired drivers off of the road.
Local law enforcement officers and highway safety promoters are presenting big bright red bows to taverns across Delaware County to remind patrons to always have a sober driver.
A popular Powell restaurant’s food service license was revoked this week due to numerous critical and repeated food safety violations.
Buckeye Valley parents can now log on to pay for and find out exactly what their children are eating at school through a recently launched school program.
You know that you have a substantial domestic problem when news agencies an ocean away take note of it. It caught my attention, therefore, when the British Broadcasting Corporation recently completed a report titled, “Major Epidemic: The Untold Story of Child Abuse in the U.S.”