The City of Delaware was dealt a setback Thursday as the state announced that it would not receive $3 million in grant funding that would have opened up nearly 300 acres of industrial land and created thousands of new jobs.
With just under a week until Delaware County voters cast their ballots to decide two county commissioner races, two candidates have opened commanding leads in at least one important metric.
In the wake of a Gazette report detailing Delaware County Commissioner Ken O’Brien’s request for an investigation into county economic development director Gus Comstock’s acceptance of tickets to sporting events, fellow commissioner Dennis Stapleton asked Monday for the investigation to expand to cover all county employees and the gifts they may have accepted.
The recent discovery of unmarked graves on the former Delaware County Home property could foil the Delaware County commissioners’ plans to demolish the dilapidated building that once housed the area’s poor, elderly and mentally ill.
The old Delaware County Home, which formerly housed the county’s poor, elderly and mentally ill, could be slated for a spring 2012 demolition following a vote from Delaware County commissioners to hire an inspector to examine the derelict property for historic value.
The city of Delaware will soon have a new representative heading up its job creation and retention efforts. The city has hired Dan Whited to serve as its next economic development coordinator.
Delaware County could be on the hook for another $125,000 to help renovate a juvenile detention facility in Marysville that it shares with three other counties.