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Galleria eatery prospect gets extension from city council. PAGE a r I l ••• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •!• 95th Year, Issue 14 ©2004 April 30, 2004 Newark, Del. • 50¢ UP FRONT Council mutes reservoir engineer of the project's design at the Kalbacher raised the question of releases and the court documents, URS wanted Monday, April 26 public meet the appropriateness of URS while pointing out that even the Something to assure residents ing. speaking publicly while the com council has been advised to not design is safe City Solicitor Roger Akin told pany and the city have been sued comment on the issues involved. has been lost the council reservoir engineering by reservoir builder Donald M. Akin said he agreed with city By DARREL W. COLE and construction consultants Durkin Contracting, whose con staff that the public should hear By JIM STREIT URS Corporation of Wilmington tract was terminated in February. from URS to be assured of the NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER asked to give a presentation. City Also in the audience Monday company's commitment to the NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER staff supported the idea, and URS were two officials with Durkin. project and that, contrary to law officials were ready at Monday's "I have concerns because suits, the design is safe. AST WEEK, our par EWARK'S City Council meeting with large display whenever you speak on the pub "Staff felt strongly that with ent company hosted N shut down an effort by boards, design documents and lic record, that can be used in a all the adverse publicity in the another in a continuing city staff and the city their attorneys. court case," Kalbacher said. He press and in light of the public series of libel seminars. solicitor to let engineers of the But before they had a chance said there is enough of a public Frankly, I didn't feel all that city reservoir discuss the "safety" to talk, Councilman Karl record from three city press SEE laJlED, 20 warm and fuzzy as I drove home from Chestertown after the day-long session. In today's litigious society, more than ever before, news papers, large and small, must be careful not to allow them Adifferent kind selves to be vulnerable to suits. However, readers and journalists lose of house painter something in the process. Our compa ean Crosby can't stop talk as little as four days - pro ny's libel attor ing. All the while apologiz duce a product they may use in ing he nonetheless contin their own home or sell for a ney pointed out Streit a sobering fact. ues because when it comes profit. He hopes to get his new Even though our company to painting, his passion for the decorative painting studio has "prevailed" in every case, subject comes through by way completed in the new we did not win. With a huge of a verbal barrage accompa Madeline Crossing building on deductible on libel insurance, nied by hand gestures. Crosby, Elkton Road (It's also home to defending against any suit - a self-taught decorative the Newark Post) in time for a even a nuisance suit - can be painter, exudes energy because May 17-20 course on how to costly and devastating to he loves his chosen profession paint wood grain. newspapers or electronic and believes that his technique The school is an affiliate of media outlets. can be taught - and explained The Finishing School, one of One of the deadliest areas -to anyone. the oldest and most highly for publishers is letters to the Crosby has brought his regarded schools of decorative editor. Our attorney urges world-renowned skills and painting in the U.S. Crosby, a great caution when consider abilities to Newark where he Master Decorator, also teaches ing what correspondence to will teach courses for begin print. ners and pros, who will - in See SEAN, 16~ Letter writers often oper ate under the misconception that because a letter is signed Not the Sistine by the sender, the guise of being a writer's opinion frees the paper of any liability. chapel, but just Wrong. In fact, a plantiff likely would go after the per ceived deeper pockets of a as amazing newspaper company than a private citizen letter writer. ean Crosby, self-described S"advanced house painter," has See UP FRONT, 19 ~ more in common with Renaissance painters thari the images he chooses for his murals. While many artists today are more concerned with the message of their art, Crosby would rather See PAINTER, 17. 7 99462 OdO 2 3 I I ' IN SPUt~TS: Delaware Blue Hens drafted by NFL, page 14. • St. Mark's girls top Newark. page 14. PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • APRIL 30, 2004 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 NEWARK POST •!• POLICE BLOTTER Can we help? • Police Blotter is compiled THE RETURN OF WILBURFEST? OHices: The paper's offices are each week from the files of the located conveniently in Suite Newark Police Department, New 206, Madeline Crossing, 168 Castle County Police and the Elkton Rd., Newark, DE Delaware State Police by the 19711 . Office hours are 8:30 newspaper staff. Three police agencies a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Phone: (302) 737-0724 Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 e-mail: [email protected] Sidewalk disperse large crowds To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or 1-800-220-3311. To begin a ILBURFEST may offi cers witnessed an assault take Sunday, April 25, officers were convenient home-delivery sub assault W cially be dead but a place at Wilbur Street and summoned back to the unit block scription, simply call. similar event Saturday Prospect Place. The victim suf of Wilbur Street to investigate a To place a classified or display EWARK police are inves attracted 15 police officers from fered facial injuries, was incoher report of a fight. tigating an assault that ad: Call737-0724 or 1-800- N the Newark, University of ent, and was found laying in the Officers were told that a side took place outside the 220-3311. Delaware and Delaware State middle of the roadway. porch railing had been destroyed Cold Stone Creamery, 168 E. police. Officers dispersed a The injured man was trans and a 24-year-old Riverside, N.J., THE STAFF of the Newark Post is Main St., at 8:24 p.m. Saturday, crowd of "several hundred" in ported by the Aetna Hose Hook man had been struck in the face eager to assist readers and advertis April24. the roadway and behind resi and Ladder Company ambulance with a beer bottle. ers. Reporters, writers, editors and The victim told police that he salespeople can be contacted as listed: dences in the unit and 100 blocks to the Christiana Hospital emer Police said the man had a 2- and other teens were sitting in of Wilbur Street. gency room for treatment, police James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher front of the restaurant when a inch gash above his right eye but Police were summoned to the said. Officers believe an alterca he declined medical treatment by of the Newark Post. He sets policies and group of passers-by punched him area on Saturday, April 24, at tion started when the victim was manages all departments in the Newark in the face, spit on him, and threw the Aetna Hose Hook and Ladder office. Call him at 737-0724. 6:57 p.m. after neighbors com sitting on the suspect's car. Company ambulance crew. a chair before walking away. plained of drunken and unruly Charges are pending, police said. Darrel W. Cole is the news editor. Investigation is continuing, The victim said he would have He leads the day-to-day operation of the partiers throwing beer bottles. Benjamin F. Haddon, 21, of newsroom. Call him at 737-0724. police said. When they arrived, officers Rockville, Md., and John A. friends take him to treatment. Marty Valanla prepares the sports encountered large crowds in the Marino, 23, of Delanco, N.J., Police said Christopher pages of this newspaper. The sports Vehicles attacked street and behind four homes. At each were charged with main Darsney, 21, of Wilmington, was editor is seldom in the office, however, one residence, party-goers were taining a disorderly premise. charged with assault, arraigned he checks in frequently. leave mes Newark police reported that Ryan C. Donnelly, 22, of via videophone and released on sages for Marty at 1-800-220-3311. sitting in a shopping cart that was thieves and vandals targeted a being pushed down a hill into a Cinnaminson, N.J., was charged $8,000 unsecured bond. Jan Blankenship is the office number of vehicles here recently. fence. with loitering. Police said all Until the mid-1990s, manager and editorial assistant who Some of the reports include: Police said plastic cups, beer were released pending court Wilburfest was a regular street processes most press releases. She 81 W. Delaware Ave., on bottles and cans and other items appearances. festival each spring. However, prepares obituaries and People briefs. Sunday, April 25, at 8:52 a.m., She is assisted by Kathy Burr. Contact were strewn over the roadway Police said other warrants in unruly crowds, public urination them at 737-0724. passenger window shattered; and yards. Loud music was blar connection with the incidents are and drunkeness forced city offi 115 S. Chapel St., on Sunday, Robin Broomall is a staff reporter. ing as well, police reported. expected. cials to cease issuing permits for April 25, at 12:54 a.m., a man During the incident, two offi- Hours iater, at 12:47 a.m.