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.... ~ Greater N~wark' s Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 .:• '92nd Year, Issue 42 ©2001 November 7, 2001 Newark, Delaware • 50¢ Newarkers Find places Tubby goes remember as to go this after 300th days go by. weekend. career victory ; UpFRONf Bar owners facing 80 percent fee hike • Amick's from recent rate adjustments. City's 2002 However, business license fees for retail liquor stores, meter has Operating Budget restaurants, bars and taverns that sell and serve alcoholic bever includes tax and ages in Newark will increase 80 expired licensing increas~ percent. "The average license fee for these merchants is $680 es for ABCC plan which would increase to $1,225 By JIM STREIT based on the recommendation," By MARY E. PETZAK said Luft. "The net effect will be NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER to generate $20,000 in additional NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER revenue to support the alcohol SK most anybody and usiness license fees will , beverage control program." they'll tell you down A be going up by a whop- Included in the cost of the pro town Newark's great B ping 80 percent for bar gram is $186,285 in the police est weakness is parking. owners and others who serve budget for three new officers, Frankly, I think this is more additional overtime, tools, uni of a percep alcoholic beverages in Newark, if city council adopts a staff recom- forms and supplies. Luft said the tion problem mendation to implement and city also would need funds to than lack of purchase radios as well as pay supply but a sub shop, Chinese and Mexican restaurants, a enforce local alcohol beverage legal fees and recording services perception is New stores still opening control regulations. connected with the ABCC pro- dry cleaners, and a laundry. All but one of the According to city manager reality. stores are leased at the 6.5-acre shopping center After a despite economic downturn Carl Luft, the proposal is gr~ty councilmembers and res on Kirkwood Highway where the rest will open by designed to improve upon the decade of mid-December. level of service currently being idents asked city staff·to consider dealing with By KATY CIAMARICONE There is only a 9,000 square foot "pad," or provided by the Delaware the increased regulati,on .(ollow this some freestanding space still available for rent, said Alcohol and Beverage Control ing the deaths of four .teens in a times con NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER head-on crash with a drunk driver developer Greg Pettinaro. Commission (ABCC). tentious issue, Streit Friends Jane Wright, Randy Richardson and Under the 2002 General' on Otts Chapel Road in March. one notable volunteer is let the nation's time of uncertainty contin Alison Natasse are opening up Trilogy, a boutique Laura "Ashley" Kauffman, 17, ting his meter expire, so to ues, more and more businesses are and day spa, in early December as a mecca for Operating Budget, Luft said the Chad A. Stein Reeves, 18, and A city would pay for the proposed Shaun Loomis, 16, all of Elkton, speak. eporting losses, laying off employees - men and women who love to be pampered. This is ABCC plan with a property tax f Last month,. Art Amick. and even shutting down. the girls' ftrst adventure in ownership after work- rate increase of 1 cent $100 and Aaron ~tahl, 15,.0 Newark, ~ .. .. I;UllClll- - HUe- - LU- ~J<;ClILI) ; - <111 driver of the other vehicle, James Partnership's Parking - Owners of a"lieXlcan grocery, a sportibar and "There are a lot of other day spas in the area, across-the-board increase in · Galyen, 26, of Elkton. Committee. Previously, he a hardware store opened as planned at Red Mill but ours is going to be big, with four rooms," business license fees of 15 per Square in October, despite the September events One passenger in the teens' served on the board of the Wright said. One room will be for body treat- cent, and 9-1-1 emergency COIll now-defunct Newark Parking that blasted the hopes of many others. munication fees, with the remain These stores will soon be joined by a day spa, See RED MILL, 3 ~ Authority. der made up of utility revenues See BUDGET, 3 ~ Amici} led the DNP park ing co~ttee into a new era and there were some touchy, difficult steps along the way. His mild manner, compe--. Revised Neighborhood Schools plan under PINNING tence and obvious commit ment to Newark helped ease parking operations into the public review in Christina District tonight THEIR HOPFS mainstream of city business. come from iow-income households. bers after the October board meeting. The I've come to know Art District staff trumps District officials announced on Thursday approved plan will then go to the state Board and his wife of 55 years, that they have created another Neighborhood of Education. Dee, recently when he joined committee plan with Schools plan under which elementary school Dr. Nicholas Fischer, ·the district superin the Newark Senior Center students would continue to attend the same tenden.t, told committee members at the end board during my watch as its alternative closer to schools to accommodate concerns that reas of the October school board meeting that staff ~eader. But I have been signing students to schools closest to their members would come up with a plan that met aware of Art's community school board concept homes would create a racial and socioeco the requests of the board. District staff decid service for years. By KATY CIAMARICONE nomic imbalance within the district. ed to keep attendance boundaries intact for all The Amicks moved to "(District staff) decided the only thing we grades except high schools which will remain Newark in 1959 after their NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER can do to maintain equity in this district is to as they are in the committee's plan. «new" house in Nottingham maintain the status quo," said Deborah Former Gov. Thomas Carper signed the Green was built. A mechani ight months of meetings, research, Rodenhouser, who was involved in creating Neighborhood Schools Bill in April of 2000, cal engineer for Dupont for E draft plans and public hearings by the both plans. thereby ruling that each district in the county 33 years, the Amicks left Christina District's Neighborhood According to Rodenhouser, the current come up with a plan that assigns all students twice - once to Argentina · Schools Committee might result in almost no attendance boundaries in grades K -4 are to their closest schools. However, district and later to Germany - but change to attendance boundaries in the dis based on a major realignment plan imple board members must consider whether it is always returned here. trict. mented this year, and does send most students more important to send students to the In spite of his best efforts, A majority of school board members at to their closest schools. schools closest their homes, or to balance Art didn't solve our parking their Oct. 16 meeting said they would not Both plans will be submitted for vote at the socioeconomic levels within district schools. woes. But his leadership was approve of the committee's plan, which district's Nov. 13 board meeting: one devel School board president Michael Guilfoyle effective and he set an exam assigns many students to their closest schools. oped by a 36-member committee of parents, Bear residents Evan Bark, 14, ple for community service That plan also creates schools - most in teachers and community members; the alter See SCHOOLS, 3 ~ and his sister, Jordan, 9, that every Newarkers should Wilmington - in which 90 percent of students native created by about 10 district staff mem- (above) wanted to help those emulate. affected by the disasters of 8ept.11. They came up with Unforeseen towing from private parking the idea to make flag pins with red, white and blue beads. They set a goal of $1,000, but have already area makes a comeback in Newark raised more than $1,700. POLICE REPORTS 2 People at businesses as far Police, the piece of roadway addition to towing restrictions, which has had a small adminis away as Nothrop-Grumman in OPINION 4 Parking on lyre stretching from Delaware Avenue the signs must note the name, trative office and parking area Baltimore, Md., and Avenue extension to a locked chainlink fence adja address and telephone number just off the road at Delaware Mechanical Contractors of LIFESTYLE 6 cent to the University Courtyard where towed vehicles can be Avenue for a number of years. America in Washington, D.C., costly for some student housing complex is not a located, and the maximum cost to However, Capes Riley, assistant have ordered pins. Closer to DIVERSIONS 7 city or state road. "I believe it is violators, including towing, stor superintendent for facilities man home, people from Holy By MARY E. PETZAK the property of the apartment age and other fees. agement in the Christina District, Family CCD, Lums Pond CROSSWORD 8 complex," said Lt. Thomas The signs must be at each admitted he did not know exactly Animal Hospital, Agilenl NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER LeMin of the city's Traffic entrance to the lot and additional who owned the property. Technologies, Rockwell OBITUARIES 8 Division. "If so, it is treated as signs must be posted for every 50 Riley did recall the "land ASSOCiates, and Bancroft t started as a simple question, part of their parking lot for tow parking spaces. swap" arrangement, voted on by SPORTS 10-12 Elementary School are sup I but became very complicat ing purposes, and they would be As of Nov.

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