Newspaper Since 1910 .:. 97th Year, Seventh Issue ©2006 March 10, 2006 Newark, Del. • 50¢ - Up FRONT North St. Weathering the storm homes By JIM STREIT NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER okayed LIMY celebrtity P.R. Commons project now Sflacks tell their clients that any publicity is goes to Newark City good, even if for bad things. In 1989 I struck up a Council for approval barroom conversation in I Manhattan Beach, Calif., By CHRISTINE NEFF with Manny Somebody, who was a P.R. agent for NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER low-level movie stars in Hollywood. Chewing the stub T Tuesday's meeting, the plan­ of a long-extin­ Guest soprano will A ning commission voted 3-2 to guished cigar, recommend the city council Manny boasted accompany Newark approve a townhouse project, known as loudly (even North Street Cbmmons, for the comer though I was Symphony Orchestra of North and Wilbur streets. Developers the only person propose to build 10 townhouse-style listening) that "a By CHRISTINE NEFF apartments on the half-acre lot that is the movie star get­ former home of Angie's Sub Shop. ting arrested for NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Owner Ed Sobolewski told planners DUI is about as his proposal provided "a chance to reju­ good as it gets Streit The final note, and a sigh of relief. venate an old part of town." The site is in my world!" Members of the Newark Symphony across the street from several older rental He professed the collar gets Orchestra homes and Fox Croft Townhouses. the star plastered over the caught their See ORTH,12 pages of mainstream publica­ breath after tions as well as the scandal a recent sheets. Plus, he said, such an rehearsal of incident brings the movie star a beautiful down to a normal person's and challeng­ Wilson helps level and elicits public sym­ ing piece by pathy while building name German com­ recognition. "Because," poser Richard fire victims Manny told me in his heavy Strauss. Brooklyn accent, "a lot of us As By MARY E. PETZAK have been bitten by DUIs, Conductor you know." I believed him. Roman NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER I doubt that University of Pawlowski Maestro Roman Delaware president David congratulated Pawlowski leads the OR the second time in two months, Roselle, athletic director the group on Newark Symphony Orchestra in Last Four Pa fire has displaced a Wilson Edgar Johnson and foot- ajob well Elementary School student and his ball coach K.c. Keeler can done, he Songs, accompanied family. "One of our students lived at find any P.R. benefit to the assured them by PhiJdadelphia-based The Bluffs [apartments] where there television news reports and they weren't soprano Helen Huse was a fire yesterday," explained Rocco front-page headlines that alone in find­ Ralston. Toccafondi, principal of Wilson on announced the arrest here ing Strauss' Monday, March 6. "He didn't come in earlier this week of three UD "Don Juan" to be difficult. today but I received an e-mail saying his football players on a host of At its 1888 premiere in Weimar, family is staying in a hotel about a 45- See Germany, he told the group, a hom player minute drive from here." , was overheard saying, "What did we do According to the American Red Cross to deserve this? Such a masterpiece, we'll of Delmarva Penninsula, 10 families have to play it over and over again." were homeless after the early morning See SYMPHONY, 24 fire on Sunday, March 5, at the Bluffs apartment complex. Red Cross Disaster Action Team volunteers helped the fami­ lies with their immediate needs, includ- - - - -- 7 99462 00002 3 : iN SPORTS THIS WEEK: Hockey team coming to Newark, page 15. • Blue Hens season comes to a close, page 14. PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • MARCH 10, 2006 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 NEWARK POST .:. POLICE BLOTTER Can we help? • Police Blotter is compiled OUlces: The paper's offices each week from the files of the Office Of Jl.ldicia.1.Aff'airs has takes. are located conveniently in Newark Police Department, New the necessary$tep~ toexpel the stu. Castle County Police and the . F~;:~h£i{~:;:~~:are dents from tbe campus,acco.r!iing t9 Suite 206, Madeline Crossing, March 5, and charged with several procedures set forth in the Student 168 Elkton Rd., Ne}Vark, DE Delaware / State Police by the newspaper staff. cQunt$ offirst degree robbery and Guide to University Policies. This 19711. Office hours are 8:30 burglary after an early morning inci­ action will remain in effect until the a.m. to 5 p.m, weekdays, dent at an off-campus apartment of charges are dismissed or until the stu­ Phone: (302) 737·0724 two other students in Newark. dents are acquitted of the charges." According to Newark police and UD head football coach K. C. Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 Armed a report of the UDaily web site, . Keeler announced the immediate e-mail: [email protected] arrested were Demetrice Alexander, suspension of the three players. They 20, Jeffery Robinson, 20, and Daniel will be terminated from the program, ¥ To subscribe: 73 Jones, 19, and Tyrone Heggins, 22, permanently if they are found to have HlElO·22 1i a robbery at all of Newark. any involvement in the ewe. convenient h livery l'Iub~ Three are members of the UD , "People are innocentunplpr9ven scription, sl I. football team: Alexander is a sopho­ guilty, but due to the severity of this "more linebacker, Jones is a sopho­ situation, We are suspending $es~ To hotel here back and Robinson is three immediately," Keeler said, , de~feI1Si,{e back. Heggins is a .THE Newark Police Department "If any of the three is found. to 100 is looking for the suspect of an involved in. thi& cri.lJl~ jn ~iiy wa.y, armed robbery that occurred each will be terminated." at Howard Johnson Inn & .Suites, AccordiIlg. to P01ic~f at 1119 S. College Ave:, on Tuesday, a,m., on Sunday Feb. 28. old male UD stude Around 10:14 p.m., police were on his apitttll).ept door. in told, a black male 5 '7" to 5' 10" wearing a face mask and black cloth­ ing, came into the lobby of the hotel. The man approached the counter, porch of a home in the unit block Investigation is continuing and at worker at Matilda's, 801 S. College showed a small, black handgun, and Kershaw Strett. least one warrant is expected soon, Ave., on Wednesday, March 1, at demanded money, said police. The victim told officers that two police said . 3:50 p.m. The suspect then fled the lobby on white men walked onto his deck and The incendiary devices were foot with an undisclosed amount of punched him in the head on Sunday, found next to dumpster in the rear of -cash, heaQing southbound towards 1- March 5, at 3 a.m. The victim police 001 arrest the restaurant. 95, police were told. Police searched that the attack was unprovoked. A 33-year-old New Jersey man Investigation is continuing, police the area without success. The assailants got into a red truck was arrested for driving while intoxi­ said. Anyone with information is and fled before police arrived. cated after a traffic collision on East asked to contact the Newark Police Main Street near South College Department at 366-7111 or Delaware Avenue at 11 :59 p.m. on Tuesday, $60 scam Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333. Knife in school Feb. 28 .• Newark police were told on Newark police were called to Newark police said a 2006 BMW Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 4:09 p.m., that Newark motorcyclist John R. Downes Elementary School, driven by Nicholas A. Antonelli, 33, a man had come into Cold Stone 220 ' Casho Mill Road, on Thursday, of Sewell, N.J., had collided with Creamery, 168 E. Main St., and injured in crash March 2, at 9:43 a.m. and told that a another vehicle. approached an employee. A 43-year-old Newark man was 6-inch knife had been found inside a Police said Antonelli was charged The man claimed he had children critically injured in a motorcycle student's book bag. with driving under the influence of on a bus and needed money to pay crash at North DuPont Highway and School officials also contacted the alcohol and following too .closely. the driver. After giving the employee Christiana Road on Sunday, March lO-year-old student's parent, police He was x;eleased to the custody of a "cheap" gold ring, watch and cell 5, around 9 p.m., said the Delaware said. his wife pending a court appearance, phone, the man was given $60 in State Police. No one was injured or threat­ police said. cash. The man fled on foot, east­ Police said the driver of a 1999 ened. bound on Main Street. Harley Davidson motorcycle, Russell Men hit with bottle Brown, of Newark, tried to make a Tapes being reviewed left tum onto Christiana Road when Two men, ages 23 and 25, told Other incidents he cut the tum short, striking the Newark police are viewing sur­ Newark police that they were struck Newark police are investigating center concrete median. veillance video shot on Thursday, in their heads with a thrown beer the theft of a woman's purse during Brown laid the motorcycle down March 2, between 1 and 2 a.m. when bottle behind Shaggy's On Main res­ a domestic dispute in the unit block on its right side and slid about 75 a number of vehicles left the City taurant, 45 E.