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UD, Newark police beef up patrols. • Chuck Stone returns to Newark. sEE PAGE4 ....• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 ....• 94th Year, Issue 41 ©2003 October 31, 2003 Newark, Del. • 50¢ UP FRONT Tax Vinny's hike take on People came out by the thousands to the downtown sought Halloween Parade and Trick Or Treat Main Street, some as pint ..... Newark sized ghouls or superheroes, others as families hoping to catch a glimpse of the large furry creatures dancing on top of the fire By DARhE( W. COLE engines. By JIM STREIT NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER First they watched as almost 50 parade entrants marched proposed property tax rate NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER downtown, led by parade mar shal Tubby A_!.ncrease for Newark city resi NEVER, repeat never Raymond, the . dents and reductions in city ! miss an opportunity to former spending are some of the ways officials drive down Main Street. University of hope to keep up with the ever-increasing Newark's downtown is what Delaware foot costs of providing basic services to resi attracted me here and I love ball coach, who dents, according to the city's proposed it more each time I travel donned his "D" $30.5 million 2004 budget. through it. baseball cap and Taxpayers probably won't notice a Some days, rode in a red con decrease in city services, but the proper I'll travel its vertible. ty tax increase, some increases in per length five to But maybe mits and license fees and continued belt eight times. more of a tightening will qelp the city avoid a Even though was the adorable shortfall in 2004. the 896 exit off collection of cos Meanwhile, to meet an expected I-95 is the tumed tiny tots shortfall for the 2003 budget year-due shortest route along the parade route. to unexpected decreases in utility rev to my home, I They waited patiently enues - the city plans to transfer an usually get off Streit along Main Street, 273 so I can eagerly looking for See BUDGET, 30 travel completely through the first sights or sounds business district on my way of the parade leaders. to my Cherry Hill home. Living in a town of 65 in Scouts coastal Maine but wanting to return to the mid-Atlantic area to be near family, I was more than a little bit wary of attack moving here. Let me be honest: Newark ranks only below the Oranges and Newark, N.J., in ugliness when viewed solely from I- violence 95. Heading north from Baltimore back to Maine, I'd hit the Delaware line, look at By DARREL W. COLE its 1950s-ish rest stop and NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER think "God, this place is ugly." HE 10- and 12-year-old Girl When job hunting more TScouts from Newark are like most than a decade ago, the com girls their age. They feel safest pany was right. The job when they are with loving mothers and description seemed a good fit fathers, they fear being teased, judged or for the talents and experience bullied, and they have continuous fear of I've tallied. threats to their safety. But I was leery of Newark. But they also understand more of See UP FRONT, 11 ~ what goes on around them than adults probably give them credit for. "I've seen lots of kids bullied at school," said a Cadette Girl Scout, 12, of Newark. "I feel bad for them because everyone has the right to be who they are. I worry about being teased at school See VIOLENCE, 30 . .. .. .. f ... "'""'·... .... 7 9"9 46l 0'0"002'' 3 ' m.~PO;il 3. Battle Dl the lillbeateli teams tonight. P o ~& 21J. :;; Yellowjackets girls win volleylial: m:e, j)a!J~ 20 . PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • O CTOBER 31, 2003 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 • www.ncbl.com/post/ • [email protected] help? NEWARK PosT ·:· POLICE BLOTTER Can we • Police Blotter is compiled Offices: The paper's offices are each week from the files of the BOUT 5 p.m., Sunday, Newark. police in the 7 located conveniently in Suite Newark Police Department, New A Oct. 26, a University of on East Delaware Avenue. 206, Madeline Crossing, 168 Castle County Police and the Two Delaware student was They were taken into~ Elkton Rd., Newark, DE Delaware State Police by the accosted by two teenage males and the student was able .to 19711 . Office hours are 8:30 newspaper staff in the walkway next to Alison positively identify them. a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. arrested Hall. He was riding his bike Both suspects-one from Phone: (302) 737-0724 when they stopped him and Wilmington and the other from Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 indicated they were doing a New Castle-were charged church survey, according to with attempted robbery and e-mail: [email protected] Bear man after UDaily. conspiracy and were committed To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or When the student stopped, early Monday morning to a 1-800-220-3311 . Cost is held for they demanded he empty his juvenile detention facility in $15.95 per year to New Castle attempted pockets, and he told them all lieu of bond, UDaily said. County addresses. To begin a he had was his cell phone. The The student was not injUR<l. subscription, simply call. UD student tried to ride away, "The timely reporting of this To place a classified: Call 737- aHempted robbery but one of the teenagers incident along with a detailed 0724 or 1-800-220-3311. blocked his path. The student description of the suspects fur To place a display ad: Call 737- offered his bike to the two nished by the victim and wit murder nesses, coupled with the coop 0724 or 1-800-220-3311 . males and then walked away, keeping his cell phone, UDaily eration between UD and THE STAFF of the Newark Post is EW Castle County Police reported. Newark Police, resulted in the eager to assist readers and advertis N have arrested Oteenie H. The student then returned to apprehension of those responsi ers. Reporters , writers, editors and Wright, 30, of Bear and his residence hall, contacted ble," Lawrence 0. Thornton, salespeople can be contacted as listed: charged him with attempted mur some friends and called 9-1-1. director of public safety at UD, James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher der in the first degree and posses The responding UD police offi said. "The student also showed of the Newark Post. He sets policies and sion of a firearm during the com cer got a description of the good judgment in this situation manages all departments in the Newark mission of a felony. office . Call him at 737-0724. assailants and broadcast it. by offering to give up his bike. Police reported that on A few minutes later, the two Possessions can always be Darrel W. Cole is the news editor. Sunday, Oct. 26, at 9:27 p.m., He leads the day-to-day operation of the suspects were observed by the replaced.'' newsroom . Call him at 737-0724. police responded to the area of Marty Valania prepares the sports Poe Road in the community of pages of this newspaper. The sports Woodland Trails after receiving a with Delaware tags and left the Police Department, 366-7120, or in Wilmington, as one of the sus editor is seldom in the office , however, report that a man had been shot. area. Delaware Crime Stoppers, 1-800- pects involved in a robbery at he checks in frequently. Leave mes The investigation revealed the The suspects are described as TIP-3333. The Home Depot in Center Point sages for Marty at 1-800-220-3311. victim and his friend met a black males, 18-23 years-old. Plaza. Kathy Burr is the office manager female subject at the Wright resi The first suspect has a thin build, Two flee Home Depot Police said two men were and editorial assistant who processes dence. When Wright returned military style hair cut, medium attempting to shoplift home most press releases. She prepares home, he saw two men inside his brown complexion, wearing a after shoplifting improvement items when store obituaries and People briefs. She is residence run out of the rear door. white T-shirt. Delaware State Troopers have employees confronted them. The assisted by Ginni Buongiovanni. Wright, armed with a hand The second suspect is Contact them at 737-0724. identified a suspect wanted for a pair brandished knives to make gun, fired several shots at the two described as a male with a thin robbery that occurred in January. their escape. Center Point Plaza Robin Broomall is a staff reporter. men as they ran toward their car build, military style hair cut, is located off of Stanton Reach her at 737-0724. Troopers identified Robert J. and attempted to flee, police said. medium brown complexion. Hughes, 47, whose last known Ogletown Road. Phil Toman has been the paper's One 22-year-old victim suffered Persons with information are address was on Maryland Avenue Hughes is described as a white arts editor since 1969. Well-known in two gunshot wounds. His friend asked to contact the Newark male, five feet, 10 inches and the arts community, he writes his col was not injured. weighs about 190 pounds. umn from his Newark home. Leave Investigators arrested Wright Anyone with information is messages for him at 737-0724. at his home without further inci asked to contact the state police Other contributing writers include dent.