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.++• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 .++• 93rd Year, Issue 1 ©2001 January 23, 2002 Newark, Delaware • 50¢ Gathering Renassiance Newark wins new members ceramics in eighth straight every day. first exhibit. DpFRONT The 'great outdoors' becomes classroom Designing According to Downes staff, Amphitheater-like the area of the classroom will be stabilized so materials will not be the Design space will serve swept into the Christina Creek students as well and no potable water or toilet facilities are part of the plan. Committee as the community "The project will enhance the school grounds and infringe min By JIM STREIT By MARY E. PETZAK imally on the floodplain," said Downes principal Charles NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Haywood. "It will have the impact of a fallen tree." AST WEEK in this taff at Downes City planning director Roy L space, I wrote about the S Elementary School are Lopata said that outdoor recre dozens of volunteers who creating an outdoor open ational equipment of this type is work to preserve and improve classroom at the rear of the permitted in the Open Floodw~y Newark's unique downtown. school property. District, subject to certam Today, I want to salute one According to information pro requirements. The planning important con- vided staff at Downes, the new department has suggested that tributor. facility will include a set of trees in the immediate area be The green, flat benches, six and eight evaluated for safety concerns Downtown feet in length, arranged around a before the classroom is installed. Newark four-foot square central table. "We put the classroom on the Partnership was The size and number of benches wood's edge," explained Newark created about will allow 30 to 32 students at a resident Doug Janec, who works three years ago time to receive hands-on educa for the Army Corps of Engineers. tion ill the natural sciences. as a reincarna NEWARK POST PHOTO BY KATY CIAMARICONE "We looked at lots of areas which tion of the Because a portion of the struc were already taken up by parking The old farm off Paper Mill Road in Newark s!iII stands whil~ awaiting the begin~ing.of construct!on Newark ture will encroach on Newark's and the athletic fields and then of the city's reservoir in April. An archeological study reqUlr~d by the S~ate .Hlstor.lc Preservation Business Open Floodway District, the city Office before any digging on the property is amol1g the most time-consuming Items In the construc council reviewed the plan on Jan. Association. New and tion permit process. See CLASSROOM, 3 ~ improved, the Partnership 14 to grant a special use permit. brin s all the stakeholders in uownwwn - tne LUy, me "'''''' ... ''''' ........... ""'. "V:J • • ",.~GI' ~I" dance with Maryland regulations and hlfd it University, business operators reviewed by a retired dam safety expert in LIDrilry AVenUe lU De and residents - together at one permit application for work Pennsylvania. "The dam safety review is done policy-making table. By MARY E. PETZAK and is now a non-issue," said Dombrowski. Long before the DNP was The item causing the most concern, according closed this summer born, one of its key committees NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER to city staff, was a cultural resources survey was functioning under the quiet required by the State Historic Preservation Office will be finished before the nurturing of Gunter Shaffer:. ity of Newark officials said they are and started in July 2001. "This item commonly Passenger cars University of Delaware's fall Low key in nature but visiQn C doing everything possible to keep the slows projects down," said Dombrowski, adding semester starts. ary in perspectiv~, Gunter has reservoir construction project on sched that the city hoped to have an answer soon. will be detoured The road closure will also worked for morfi~an five ule and on budget. "This is the one item we're most nervous conincide with part of the time years now leadiqg the Design Bid documents and specifications were expect about," said city manager Carl Luft. Luft told city to Marrows Road when the Newark Library will be Committee. This; panel of ed to go out this week, but other details have been council that a representative from the By KATY CIAMARICONE closed ~ during expansion. architects, engin~~rs, officials in process for months. Preservation Office showed him a pottery shard According to library director and businesspersons deals with "We're pushing everyone to keep this mov found on the site. ''The fact that they're finding NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Charlesa Lowell, that final stage issues concerning the "look"'of ing," said city water director Joseph Dombrowski. anything makes us nervous," Luft said. of renovations at the facility Newark's downtown. "We've been told the reservoir and the iron Dombrowski said the city expected the state's oadwork beginning in takes place from April to Plodding along, often in the removal treatment plant in Newark are on recommendations on this item last week and addi R May along Library October. early days with little assistance, (Governor Minner's) A-list." tional archeological work would be likely before Avenue/Route 72 in According to representatives Gunter shaped the creation of According to Dombrowski, the city expects a and after construction. "We started 'whining' to Newark will mean a summer of pf the Delaware Department of ide lines relating to design favorable review from both the Delaware the state about this in October and here it is detours for area commuters. Transportation, the planned road d fa<;:ades of future Main Department of Natural Resources and the almost February and we're still waiting for an Between June 15 and Aug. 23, work includes repaving from Street development - Delaware River Basin Commission regarding a answer," he said. City councilmembers and the road is expected to be com Kensington Lane at Brookside to I~~treetscape" in planner lingo:.. request for a total withdraw of 18 mgd (million Dombrowski agreed to contact the governor's pletely closed from Delaware Route 273, and replacement of The new Happy Harry's gallons per day) from the White Clay Creek. office, if necessary, to assure this item did not stall Avenue to Route 4. curb, sidewalks and guardrails one building that looks like Dombrowski said up to five mgd is needed for the the project. Alan Marteney of Century from Kensington Lane to the 'three - is a product of this water plant and the remainder for the reservoir The cultural survey is among the contingency Engineers said state transporta Amtrak Bridge. !effort. The attractive new refill. items that already have added to the original cost tion officials considered keeping Crosswalks like the one put in :aowntown street signs, parking Permits and assessments must be received and of the reservoir project. To date, the survey has one lane open each way all the last summer at Library Avenue !''trailblazing'' signage, the side completed to do work affecting the Creek as well cost more than $51,000, and Luft said in October, way down Route 72 during the and Main StreetIRoute 273 will walk sweeper, and some ordi as wildlife, vegetation and other environment it could go as high as $100,000. construction. But then it would allow pedestrians to cross .~ ~nce changes are other fruits impacted by the construction. In order to keep within the budget, take about two years to complete Library Avenue at Delaware 'of Gunter's labor. "Those items are going (this week and next)," Dombrowski said funding for optional items like the roadwork, he said, so they Avenue and at Wyoming Road to Gunter underwent surgery · said Dombrowski on Jan. 14. some landscaping and an outlook at the reservoir decided to make it a "blitz" pro the College Square Shopping last year and there's a full Since Delaware is one of two states without a ject, with contractors working Center. :Schedule of treatments ahead. dam safety program, the city's consultant engi- See RESERVOIR, 2 ~ about 20 hours per day, seven 1'm happy to report that he's days per week so renovations See LIBRARY AVE, 2 ~ upbeat and as optimistic about his health and he always has ~been about Newark's down !Qwn. Police target vandals smashing holes in cemetery wall agement at the University of pleted in the spring of 2001, ~nd RR trespassers Delaware, said there have been at continues to be maintained, by least four instances of damage to the University of Delaware facil also a problem the wall. "As soon as we repair ities department. NEWS 1-3,5 By MARX. E. PETZAK them, almost immediately, it hap "There's been a lot of discus POLICE REPORTS 2 pens again," said Ruble last sion with people in-house (at the NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER week. ''We finished repairing one University) and at the city," OPINION 4 on Monday (Jan. 14) and appar Ruble said. "They're starting to t's hard to believe but some ently late Tuesday afternoon or make plans to catch the perpetra LIFESTYLE 8 I one is repeatedly smashing early ev·ening, more damage was tors - they're giving it more holes in the masonry wall put done." attention." DIVERSIONS 9 · up with so much angst along the According to Ruble, the wall Ruble would like area resi Newark Cemetery and Frazer extension built through the joint dents to keep their eyes open for PEOPLE 11 Field. efforts of the CSX Railroad, the anyone suspicious in the area. He According to Newark resident University of Delaware and the doesn't £hink it is a University of CROSSWORD 11 Robert McAlpine, he first noticed city of Newark, is made of pre Delaware student casually cut a hole when he was visiting his cast concrete panels, each ting through the cemetery.

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