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New City Manager Becomes City's Highest Paid Employee One Less Great~r Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 .++• 99th Year, 39th Issue ©2008 ---..-.....--- ~ Newark!.. Del. Up FRONT New city manager Newark Post honored to stand becomes city's with real heroes highest paid By MARTY VALANIA employee [email protected] By SCOTT GOSS 2008 t was billed as a "Night of [email protected] I Heroes" and never have I felt so undeserving or out ewark's new city manager became of place. the city's highest-paid municipal The Newark Post had N employee this week, despite hav­ the great honor of .receiv­ ing yet to work a single day on the job. ing the Outstanding Media City Council voted unanimously on award from Special Olympics Monday to approve a $140,000 salary and Delaware during a very spe­ benefits package for new City Manager cial event at Clayton Hall last Kyle A. Sonnenberg, who is expected to week. report for duty on Nov. 1. As general manager of Sonnenberg's starting salary is nearly the paper, I was By SCOTT GOSS cially kicks off this weekend. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on $22,000 more. than former city manager proud of the Carl Luft was earning when he retired ear­ [email protected] Friday and Saturday, members of coverage we've lier this year after 21 years on the job. provided and the organization will sell the 14- ost of us won't begin the relationship ounce bags of soup mix outside See COUNCIL, 13 ~ we've developed M preparing for the holi­ a half dozen local businesses in with Special day season for at least what they somewhat misleadingly Olympics. Our another month. refer to as "Good Neighbor Day." But the Newark Area Welfare Good "We don't really raise a whole editor Scott Goss L.:i.....L...._ One less credit and former edi- Valania Committee is already working .......... lot of money from selling the tor Christine Neff overtime to ensure that the city's soup mix," explained organizer neediest residents have something c.tncAbout are the ones that get the credit UleH .......... Rosemarie White. "But what to graduate for that effort. to celebrate this year. Good Neighbor Day gives us is The fact is, though, we at Last month, volunteers with the W........ an opportunity to reach out to the Christine District graduates the Newark Post were just local, 80-year-old charity began ............. community and raise awareness doing our jobs, while most stuffing hundreds of bags full of of our larger mission." in 2009 not required to bean soup mix for their biggest .Mdr.ONr other people in attendance See FOOD, 20 ~ - honorees and non-honorees fund drive of the year, which offi- 70,... have a Senior Project credit alike - go way beyond that every single day. BY MARY E. PETZAK The investntent of time, effort and passion from people [email protected] like Newark's own Sue Poley is beyond amazing. eniors currently enrolled in high Poley has been a volunteer Sschools in the Christina School with Special Olympics since District were recently told they 1990 when, as arnember of the need one less credit to graduate in Newark Police Oepartment, 2009. she served on the Torch Run According to a memo sent to seniors Executive Committee. It and their parents last week, the total would take pages and pages credits required for graduatiqn for the to list everything that she does Class of 2009 has been reduced to for Special Olympics - efforts 26 after the Senior Project credit was that earned her the title of waived. Volunteer of the Year. The district was the only one in north­ Kathy Denny, who was ern New Castle County with a Senior named Outstanding Coach Project credit requirement, listed among by the Special Olympics, also the options for senior year credits on the has made a similar, Personal Delaware Department of Education Web investment. site as follows: Denny started with the Research indicates that a strong and Special Olympics nine years meaningful senior year dramatically ago, when she was looking to PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE NEWARK POST improves a student's chances of success make a little extra cash while Members of the Newark Area Welfare CommiHee stuff bags with bean soup mix in prepara­ after high school. Under the new gradu- attending the University of tion for Good Neighbor Day. Delaware. Well, guess what? See SCHOOLS, 3 ~ See UPFROIT, 17 ~ IN SPORTS: St. Mark's Morrin wins UD Invitational • William & Mary to provide another tough test for UD, page 16. 2 Can we help? POLICE BLOTTER • Police Blotter is compiled the College Square Shopping Other Incidents altercation in the 400 block of ~ each week from the files of the Center. Wollaston Avenue at approxi­ ::r 0HIces: The paper's offices are Police charged 23-year-old (1) Newark Police Department. An unknown suspect stole mately 1:43 a.m. on Oct. 11. located convenient~ in Suite 109, Additional blotter listing will a 200-lbs. pumpkin valued at Mauricio Bermeo of Newark A 21-year-old Wilmington Z Pomeroy Station, 218 E. Main (1) St., appear on the Newark Post $200 from a home in the unit with criminal impersonation at man reported being punched ~ Newark, DE 19711. Office hours Web site. block of Haines Street before 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 7, after he and kicked during an alter­ '"1 are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. smashing the vegetable in front allegedly provided an officer cation in the unit block of ~ PIIoIe: (302) 737-0724 of a fraternity house in the with a fake identification card Benny Street at approximate­ ~ Theft and Robbery 0 facslldle: (302) 737-9019 100 block of South Chapel during a traffic stop at East ly 2: 15 a.m. on Oct. 11. r:n An unknown suspect broke Main and Academy streets. ... E-aI: [email protected] Street, sometime between 10 A couple was barred from into a home in the 500 block p.m. on Oct. 10 and 8 a.m. on Police charged 23-year-old Sears in the College Square • " ........ To begin aconvenient of Stamford Drive and stole Oct. 11. William Kent of Newark with Shopping Center on Oct. 11 0 home-delivery subscription, call 1- jewelry, coins and prescription resisting arrest, disorderly ('"') An unknown suspect broke after their children, ages 6 ... 800-220-3311. medication, collectively valued into a home in the 7100 block conduct and offensive touch­ and 7, allegedly used a maker 0 at $6,500, sometime between cr' Te ,.. • cIaIIIIItII at call 1-800- of Scholar Drive, causing an ing at 11 :42 p.m. on Oct. 8, to vandalize 15 refrigerators, (1) 6:30 a.m. and 4: 10 p.m. on '"1 220-3311. estimated $220 in damages, after he allegedly refused to poured several quarts of oil Oct. 6. ...... 1',.. •......, at Gall 737-0724 . at approximately 4:18 a.m. on leave Kildare's Irish Pub in on a basket of stuffed birds ~....:r An unknown suspect broke Oct. 11. No items were report­ the unit block of East Main and dumped paste on several NJ into trailer in the 100 block of ed missing. Street and twice spat on an shelves, causing an estimat­ 0 ~E STAfF of the Newarlc Post is Sandy Drive and stole tools, officer. 0 eager to assist readers and adver- ed $220 worth of damages, 00 collectively valued at $1,473, Police charged a 17-year­ between 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. tisers. Reporters, writers, editors and sometime between 4 p.m. on Vehicles Targeted old Newark teenager with salespeople can be contacted as listed: A 30-year-old man from Oct. 8 and 7:45 a.m. on Oct. An unknown suspect stole terroristic threatening at 2:09 Conowingo, Md. reported ..., VaIIIIa is the General 10. a 2007 Chevrolet Avalanche p.m. on Oct. 9, after she alleg­ being punched and hit with a Manager of the NewarI< Post. He sets A pair of unknown sus­ valued at $19,000 from Porter edly threatened the employ­ beer bottle during an alterca­ policies and manages all departments pects stole a 1,000-foot roll Ford in the 600 block of ees and customers of A Cut tion at Kildares Irish Pub in in the Newark office. Cal him at 7rI. of wire valued at $276 from Ogletown Road, sometime Above in the unit block of the unit block of East Main me. Home Depot in the Suburban between 4:45 p.m. and 9 p.m. East Main Street. Street at approximately 12:37 ....... is the news editor. He Shopping Center, at approxi­ on Oct. 6. Delaware State An unknown suspect van­ a.m. on Oct. 12. leads the day.to-day operation of the mately 5:43 p.m. on Oct. 8. Police recovered the vehicle dalized a 2005 Pontiac GTO A 19-year-old man from newsroom. caY him at 7rI-IlIl Police charged Wilmington at the Porter Industrial Park and a home in the 300 block New Jersey reported being residents Alan D. Laws, 48, the following morning - minus of South Chapel Street, punched in the face by an ..,L ..... isaslaff and Randall D. Moore, 46, four wheels and a GP~ unit. sometime between midnight unknown suspect during an reporter and specializes in IIIIuaItion with shoplifting at 8:43 p.m. coverage. Reach her at 7rI.fII4. An unknown suspect van­ on Oct. 10 and 3 p.m. on altercation in the unit block on Oct. 9, after they alleg­ dalized a 2000 Mercury Oct.
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