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· ewspaper Since 191 0 •:• 88th Y~ar, Issue 14 01998 May 1, 1998 Newark, Del. • 50¢ TmsWEEK Lower IN SPORTS rates NEWARK NINE wanted PUTS TOGE1HER By MARY E. PETZAK WIN NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER ESIDENTS OF THE STREAK. Southridge Condominiums 16 R want the city of Newark to change its law regarding commercial electric rates in common area of con i ' .. IN. LIFESTYLE dominium . After orne di cus ion, i',. ~, ~ •.:. i ~ L. :. l "'~·"' , council voted 5-1 on Monday night to table the motion for further study. According to Michael Goyda, pre - ident of the Southridge Condominium RAMP PROVES Associalion, the 86 members of the community want all their electric charge. to be at residential rates. HELPFUL TO Goyda claim · the prese nt structure which charges higher commercial rates for common areas in condos is unfair. YOUNG City manager arl Luft ~aid Newark has th same rate ~t ructur e BOY. NEWARK POST PHOTO BY JOHN CHABALKO regarding condominiums as that of like many other places In Newark this SprlnP,. the home of Howard and Alice Nielsen on Brook Drive in other electric utilities in Delaware, Silverbrook bloomed extravagantly after a m1ld and wet winter. including Dover, Seaford, Milford , Middletown and Delmarva Power & IN THE NEWS See RATES, 4 ..... BINGE School board tax credit acceptable By MARY E. PETZAK regarding a propo al in the School board member Ter a keeping with what vo lunteer fire DRINKING Delaware A embly to pay chool Schooley agreed with Kent. "1 am men receive in Delaware. "But NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER board members statewide $100 for totally opposed to reimbursement," where there is not direct compensa TARGETED each meeting they attend, not to said Schooley. "However. I would tion, they do accept a tate tax cred ESPITE THE LONG exceed $1 ,500 per year. be intere ted in hearing about a it," explained Ulbrich. ··considering hour and traditional lack According to Evan , 70 percent of credit.'' the challenges (school board mem BY BIDEN, D of candidate for their the fund would come from the tate A eparate bi II propo ed in the ber ) have to deal with. J think you jobs, members of the Christina and 30 percent from the district. the State House of Repre entatives need more incentives." Di trict School Board decline to Board member James W. Kent would make school board members Kent aid he believed incentive UD. accept direct compen ation. The aid he refu ed to take money from eligible for an annual tax credit of were needed to get people to volunteer board agreed, however to use a educational purpose and direct it $150 in the event they decline to be their time to the board. "I would say an tate tax credit, if offered one. for services rendered. "Despite the reimbursed. $150 credit i · a nice start but in tenus ·3 At their regular April meeting, fact that we earn it, and deserve it, " State repre entative Stephanie of making a real difference, it won't vice-president George Evans sought aid Kent, "thi i not the place to Ulbrich (R-Newark South) told the matter one way or another to me - but I INDEX input from other board members take money." board the compensation wa in uppose you have to 'tart omewhere." NEWS 1-5 POLICE BLOTTER 2 OPINION 6 Students follow LIFESTYLE 8 THE ARTS 9 what they see DIVERSIONS 10 By PATRICIA A. KOLY you find the heaviest drinkers, o CROSSWORD PUZZLE 11 you would expect college students NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER to follow that pattern.'' SPORTS 16-19 According to junior Danielle PEOPLENEWS 14 LCOHOL AND MARI Ragazzo, 17, "if you know the right JUANA, al o known a people, it eem ea y" to get drug . OBITUARIES 20-21 A pot or weed, are ea ily The Christiana tudent said she has CLASSIFIEDS 23-28 available to area high school stu seen an increase in teen drinking dents, ac~ording to tudents at and pot smoking since she started Christiana and Glasgow High high school. "But drinking i wor e chools. becau e it has become so normal.'' Thi bear out what University Kelly M. Zayakosky, 18, a enior of Delaware officials said this week at Christiana, aid the drug problem in a press conference about binge in her school wa wor e in her drinking on college campu es. ophomore year. "Everybody in NEWARK POST PHOTO BY JOHN CHABAlKO "Most students drank before they school has passed out from drink came to college." aid University ing," Zayakosky said. Most of tile tlllngsat "Spring Tiling 91" appear to have been liquid judg It . pre ident David Ro elle. "The Ing by the Irish left ltehlnd In the party area after thousands of partters 7 9946 . Northeastern United States is where See DRUGS, 2 • ftuiiJ 1111. I ' ,....,. '", I I 1' ' ' . '' PAcE 2 • NEWARK Posr • MAY 1, 1998 Visit us on the World Wide Web POlleE BWTIER PUGLISI CASE Driver avoids hitting Men assaulted on · child on Reybold Rd. Amstel Ave. Flagg could also be suspe.et County police report that on On April 26 around 1:30 a.m. one April 23 around 7:50 a.m. a 1992 22-year-old Newark man was hit in lnternational school bus was the face with a piece of wood and a in Newark assault case stopped on eastbound Reybold second 22-year-old Newark man was Road with its red lights activated punched in the face in the unit block of EWARK POLICE said ted the murder and kidnapping. attempted to exually as ault wait ing to pick up a ix-year-old Amstel Avenue. Police charged James this week they are Newark Police ·chief William her, spraying her with mace, E. Gadsen, 18, of Wilmington in the child. A J 991 Jeep Wrangler driven N reviewing a11 open' Hogan refused to comment on beating her and forcing her to incident. Additional charges are pend by Charles Hackett, 19, of Heather ca es with su pects who fit the whether hi s department believed the ground before fleeing. ing against other pos ible uspects. Flagg might be involved in any Police are al o investigating Woods traveling wes tbound on description of Donald Flagg, arrested on April 24 for the mur particular Newark case. "We 're Flagg's po ible links to other Reybold tried to stop but began to Shoplifter at Pathmark der of Anthony Puglisi and the reviewing any and all case ," crime. including a Glasgow slide toward the child crossing the kidnapping and sexual assault of Hogan aiel. woman found dead along Route road. Hackett steered into the east Newark Police report that on Debra Pugli si. Hogan conceded one of the 273 in October 1997. bound Jan s and hit the school bus April 22 around 10:20 p.m. Denni s · Flagg was arrested on the job cases could be an attempted sex Funeral service· for Anthony causing ex tensive front end damage M. Prado, 23, of Wilmington wa at Ne~ark's Chrysler Assembly ual assault on Bark dale Road in PugJi i were held this week. to the Wrangler. Neither the child in observed at the Pathmark in Co ll ege Plant after an imprisoned Debra September 1997. The su pect Debra Puglisi attended the view the road, n r the bu. driv r nor Square removing store items va lued Puglisi made a desperate 911 was described as a black male ing and funeral with her two another chi ld .on the bus were at $144. During their investigation, call from Flagg's WeiJington with med ium build, appn xi children and other family mem injured. Hackett, who required six poli ce found a plastic bag wi th a Woods home. mately 6 feet tall , with a mus bers and friend . stitches on a cut on his his face , was trace amount of heroin on the us She had been kept tied up in tache and short hair, and wear Flagg, charged wi th murder, cited for careless driving. peeL Prado was charged with the Bear residence ince ing a denim jacket. po e sion of a firearm during shoplifting. Monday, April 20, whe n Flagg According to police, the sus the comm ission of a fe lony, entered her home in Academy pect grabbed the 29-year-old unlawful sexual conduct and Residence entered Hill and shot her husband before victim while she was walking kidnapping, remains in Gander Underage drinkers abducting her in the trunk of hi from the bu top around l0:30 Hill Pri son after being denied Sometime between 7 and I 0 a.m. car. Flagg ha reportedly admit- p.m. on Sept. 24. The man bail. on April 25, unknown persons on Main Street entered a residence in the 900 block Newark police report that on of Alexandria Drive through an Apri l 24 around 1 a.m. officers unlocked door. The suspects took responded to a complaint of di ·or the keys to a 1984 Oldsmobile derly subjects in the parking lot at Cutlass and !led with the vehicle. 334 E. Main St. Police charged The car was round around 10:20 JeffreyS. McKenzie, 19, and Jame Alcohol the most popular drug among teens a. m. the ~arne mornin g on Shull Fenimore, 19, with underage pos Drive in Newark. session of alcohol. ~DRUGS , from 1 dents who smoke pot with their par stance abuse. ent ', "Some parents are co I with Some of the findings: more than "There's a lot of drug use," ·aid it," said the junior.