etown Newspaper Since 1910 .:. ber 10, 2008 Newark, Del. Cereal Bowl makes Main St. debut Company opens first Wall Street's in trouble, Will Main Street be next franchise outside Miami By MARTY VALlNIA By SCDn GDSS [email protected] [email protected] ailouts, failures, col­ reakfast cereal will make the B lapse. B leap from the kitchen table to The market is down Main Street this weekend when 700 points one day and up Newark's newest - and perhaps most 300 points the next. It's an unique - restaurant makes its official economic crisis, but will it debut. impact both Wall Street and The Cereal Bowl, at the comer of Main Street? East Main and North Chapel streets, will It's been a difficult few host Trix the Rabbit and other colorful weeks for everyone as we've characters while dishing out bowls of watched our entire economic cereal, oatmeal and yogurt during its foundation shaken to its core. official grand opening on Saturday. There have been unprec­ The Newark location is just the sec­ edented failures ond Cereal Bowl franchise in the nation, and lots of finger although chief executive officer Michael pointing. Despite significant community opposition in the planning phase, Home Depot opened Its new Glassman said the Miami-based compa­ It's nuts. 145,OOO-sq.-ft. store behind the Suburban Plaza Shopping ~enter in late September. ny is slated to open two more locations So we all know Opinions mixed on selection of appliances and an take a hit from the opening of in Florida, before expanding to another that WaIl Street is expanded design center. It also the Home Depot. 22 locations nationwide. on shaky ground, new store's impact houses a tool rental center, Last year, Curro was out­ See CEREAL, 3 ~ but what about something. the other nearby spoken against the Home Main Street? By JOSH SHANNON stores do not have. Depot and launched a petition Well, there's Valania The Home Depot project drive that he said collected Local educators in hunt no question that NEWARK POST CONTRIBUTING WRITER has been controversial since almost 4,000 signatures. foreclosures are up and401(k)s for Teacher of the Year it was proposed more than Curro, who opened his are down. Tensions are high e Home Depot on two years ago. In January store 16 years ago and employs MARY E. PETZAK as people worry about what's BY TIElkton Road is' now 2006, citing traffic concerns 14 people, said he could be happening on WaIl Street. open for business, but and fears the new store could forced to close his business [email protected] But take a walk down our not everyone is welcoming the change the character of the due to a drop in sales. Main Street any afternoon or national chain to Newark. ineteen of Delaware's best edu­ community, the city's plan­ "You're always optimistic evening and you'll see that Manager Douglas Goto cators have been nominated for ning commission unanimous­ that you can rebound, but I N it doesn't appear that we're said the site has done well Delaware Teacher of the Year, ly recommended that City don't know if this town has headed for boarded up vacant since opening Sept 25. including six from school districts in New - Council reject Home Depot's given me enough reason to be buildings any time soon. ''When you talk to people, request to rezone the 13-acre Castle County. For a long time, I've main­ one of the first things out of optimistic," he said Gov. Ruth Ann Minner will announce property to allow for the home Goto, on the other hand, tained that Newark is a spe­ their mouth is the convenience improvement store. the state's 2009 Teacher of the Year dur­ cial place. I'm not saying it's of the store, so obviously our said many of his customers ing a ceremony at the Dover Downs At a contentious meeting in tell him that they used to shop immune to national economic location is important to our Febrwuy 2CXT1, council dead­ Hotel on Oct. 21. problems. I am saying, how­ customer base," he said at otbe.r Home Depot loca­ New Castle County nominees locked on a revised version of tions, so by opemDg the new ever, that it's better suited to The Newark Home Depot the plan wlienMayor Vance A include: withstand these types of prob­ store, the compaay is helping joins the chain's stores Fnak m cast thO ~ • Gretchen Wolfe, Christina lems than most other towns. on Churchmans Road in to bep their mooey in the • Barbara Prillaman, Red Clay vote in fiWor oldie ~ city. We've seen Chrysler Christiana and atPeoples Plaza '1t brings additional rev­ • Jennifer Bonham, Colonial announce that it will shut down in Glasgow, but Goto said the Browsing ~ Newark • Kathleen A. Gilbert, Brandywine of its plant in Newark next enue to 1M dty' " terms of Home Depot on a ~ after­ new location is designed to ~ ~.and sewer s81es • Debbie Kirk, Appoquinimink year. We've seen Avon say that cater to the large customer flOOD,o Carolyn Bnmaer said • Justin T. Benz, New Castle County aDd it briDa' to the dty dje ae­ _ 1ibs the store beicause it it's shutting down its facility base residing in Newark. ation Of over 100 new jQb( Vo-Tech as well. We've seen the market '1 don't know if you've Funk saicl this week. • tow ~ gtUter:~ The Delaware Teacher of the Year pro­ battered and tattered in ways aadisclOseto_N~ ever driven from here to the Wldttbe imJ1t'M.iag~ gram honors educators deemed worthy that haven't happened since Gleenbome. Christiana [area], but it's a ~ of the CtiaYsfa' plant. jpb.t Ire of representing the positive contributions the Great Depression. of an incoovenient drive for needed .,Newaik,:,* __ ., bate to see 1bo~ of all teachers statewide. This year's ~ their cuStl[JJlla·~___ J~ : There are dozens examples the folks," be said. "Newark 'l1le ~ 1bae Depot 15 women and four men were chosen of towns throughout the coun­ GIlt o,f bwI.~ UIBIfI. has a large population base of ~ ~ 31 peo.-: ·... by their respective school districts from try - especially in the Midwest more than 30,000 ~and ~ 10 ~~wIaOQ'lweae ~ nearly 7,500 teachers statewide. - not being able to withstand I dUnk it's good to be .... hired the ... GotO *~ Bl'UI.. ···~ The Delaware Teacher of the Year such blows. Goto S8ld the 145 DeW" tideclioDS program is administered by the Delaware .said. haW ...... -..- Yet, Newark keeps chug­ ~-foot~~is Yet, ~ miliftH-.r« Department of Education. The Teacher ging along. There are new ~ than the ChriStiana ~ the k>1lt1)\.~ :va~gel~. ' 'TDl PioIi~y of the Year automatically becomes the buildings and improvements ~stores.~~ COQle state's candidate for the National Teacher happening up and down Main it to c6r inole itemS,.a ~ Street and, thankfully, Elkton See TEACHER, 3 ~ Road as well. See UPFRDNT, 3 ~ IN SPORTS: Newark-Glasgow prep for district grid showdown, page 16. • Hens get ready to face Maine, page 17. 2 Can we help? POLICE BLOTTER ..., • Police Blotter is compiled each week from the files of the ::r' Offices: The paper's offices are The couple that scraps metal together ~ Newark Police Department, located conveniently in Suite 109, Z New Castle County Police and Suspected scrap metal and recognizing it as the same staying also turned up a crack Pomeroy Station, 218 E. Main St., the Delaware State Police. Newark, DE 19711. Office hours sweethearts were put behind vehicle that had been reported pipe and a hypodermic needle, '"1~ are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Those who live in iron bars last week after as suspicious no less than five according to police. )/';" PlIo.: (302) 737-0724 reportedly leading police to times since Sept. 17. Blumm and Achuff also '"d glass houses ••• the scene of their latest crime. The couple's next stop was were charged in connection 0 Faadndkr. (302) 737-9019 ......~ Police reported four separate According to the Newark the home of their latest victim, with the theft of a beer keg E.... II: [email protected] incidents in which an unknown Police pepartment, Bryan J. who police believe was struck from the garage of a home in • To suIIscrIbe: To begin aconvenient suspect use a rock to break: out BlUllllD, 30, and Dorothy G. by the same thieves a few the 100 block ofWtlbur Street 0 home-delivery subscription, call 1- the windows of Newark homes Achuff, 28, were caught red­ weeks earlier. on Sept. 23. ......("") 800-220-3311. last weekend. handed loading their GMC A search of the couple's Blumm was committed to 0 0" To place a classllled ad: Call 1-800- The first reported incident Safari van with scrap metal van turned up a GPS unit Howard Young Correctional ~ 220-3311. occurred in the 200 block of taken from the backyard of a reported as stolen two days Facility in default of a $10,501 '"1 home in the unit block of Kells earlier and 62 receipts for the secured bail, while Achuff I-' To place a display ad: call 737 -0724. South Chapel Street, some­ ~o time between midnight and 2 Avenue at 3 a.m. on Oct. 3. sale of scrap metal between was committed to Women's N:l a.m. on Oct. 1. Police said they began fol­ Sept. 4 and Oct. 2, police said. Correctional Institution in 0 THE STAFF of the Newark Post is Police also were called to lowing the couple after see­ A search of a motel room in default of a -$10,501 secured 0 eager to assist readers and adver- <:Xl apartments in the 5200 and ing their van at a gas station Bear where the couple was bail.