NSIDE: CHECK OUT OUR CLASSIFIED SECTION •:• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •:• ·90th Year, Issue 49 © 1999 January 14, 2000 Newark, Del. • 50¢ Overlapping TrnsWEEK oversight - IN SPORTS overdone NEWARK Too much traffic GIRLS TOP direction, CHRISTIANA says city RIVill. council. By MARY E. PETZAK 12 NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER IN LIFESTYLE he city of Newark has too many fingers in the broth T of traffic flowing down­ town, according to some mem­ bers of city council. MEMORIES UD PHOTO SERVICES BY JACK BUXBAUM ""Do we have a problem of About 550 of the 1,185 graudates attended the University of Delaware's winter commencement overlapping. authority with the last Saturday with their families and friends. Newark Traffic Relief THAT SPAN Committee?" asked District 6 member Gerald Grant, noting that traffic group had apparently ACENTURY UD graduates last clas of century talked to the Delaware The University of Delaware held com­ uates to not blind themselves to the good that Department of Transportation mencement for the last class of the century is around them. "Don't forget Delaware," he directly about signals at Main 8 Street crosswalks instead of when 1,185 students graduated on Jan. 8. said. "In many ways, Delaware is truly a Approximately 550 of the graduates in the microcosm of the country. We have nearly making a recommendation I Class of 1999, together with family and everything there is to have- and we have it through counciL IN THE NEWS "I was going to talk to (NTRC friends, attended the ceremony held at the on a manageable, and easily accessible, chair) David Athey and Bob Carpenter Center. The new graduates scale."· DelDOT," said Mayor Hal completed their degree requirements in Stark, also an adjunct professor at the Godwin. "I think the NTRC has DOWNES August and December 1999. University, is the ·author of "Choosing a gained more influence than "They are also welcome to attend the Leader: Party leadership Contests in Britain we're comfortable with- they ' re commencement that will be held in May," from Macmillan to Blair." not supposed to set policy - PARENTS SEEK said John Brennan, assistant director of pub­ During the commencement, University that's for (council) to do." lic relations for the Unjversity. trustees also honored the Rev. Jane Nuckols Councilmembers and city CoMMUNITY Leonard P. Stark, a 1991 graduate, Rhodes Garrett, a 1957 alumna and senior editor at staff at Monday's council meet­ Scholar, and currently a litigation associate at Alfred A. Kn·opf Inc in New York with the ing also discussed their concerns a Wilmington law firm, was the featured University's Medal of Distinction for her at having a city Traffic HELP. speaker. In his remarks, Stark urged the grad- · professional acillevements . Committee and the more recent NTRC reviewing some of the 3 See TRAFFIC, 3 ..... INDEX Bus link sought for Newark-Elkton NEWS 1-5 Special from the CeCil Whig 279 interchange. "At some point really depends on money. That's . "This could be a precursor to POliCE BLOTTER 2 there may be a park-and-ride the key thing to seeing if we can having (commuter) rail service f an Newark-Elkton bus line there. So that may be a good even do this." come through the (Elkton) area," OPINION 6 is to start later this year, as spot," Sennstrom said. Lopata said a bus station in Sennstom said. LIFESTYLE 8 I Delaware and Cecil trans- ~~ In either case, Sennstrom said, Newark wouldn't be the destina- One obstacle facing tran~­ portation officials hope, a sub- a different bus would gather com­ tion for Elkton commuters. portation planners is that Cecil THE ARTS 9 stantial kink needs to be worked muters from local stops for the Instead, the bus would make County's two greatest population DIVERSIONS 10 out first. interstate ride. The bus which stops at the Newark Train centers are spread out between "Right now, we 're looking to currently makes stops . around Station, downtown Newark, the Elkton and North East. CROSSWORD PUZZLE . 11 find out how it will be funded," Elkton has been eyed to provide University of Delaware and per- "The big hurdle is getting peo­ said Cecil County planner Eric that local service, Sennstrom haps the Ogletown area, where ple out of their automobiles and SPORTS 12-14 Sennstrom. "Everybody has been said. there is a variety of businesses. onto the bus," Sennstrom said. COMMUNITY 4-5 receptive to the idea. The legality "Several years ago there was "We want to see if thi s kind of "Obviously, what we want to do and insurance issues have been an Elkton-Newark intermobile transit has any kind of an impact is reduce the number of vehicle OBITUARIES 15-17 looked at and also proposed plan," Sennstrom said: He said on traffic," Lopata said. trips between Cecil County and CLASSIFIEDS 18-24 routes and schedules." the plan was adopted last June by Sennstrom said Cecil officials Newark." Prices for the proposed service the Wilmington Area Planning got in touch with Delaware The federal Environmental have not been established, Commission (WILAMPCO), Transit Corporation, the city of Protection Agency has called for Sennstrom said, which studied the area. and rec- Newark, the Maryland tighter restrictions on air quality, The most likely scenario for a omrnended an interstate bus line. Department of Transportation, he said. "And 40 people in a bus bus service would have com- In Newark, reducing traffic is · the Mass Transit Administration, beats 40 people in 40 cars, from routers shuttling between a major objective, according to the town of Elkton, the an air quality standpoint," Elkton's Amtrak station and city planning director Roy University of Delaware and Sennstrom said. Newark, Sennstrom said. L<;>pata. He said an interstate bus Delaware Department of Union Hospital spokeswoman ~n9th~r p~an, he •s .aid. , wq~ld I , l,in~ mar ,h.e!P. t~a! ~~u.se. • ' • • ' • Transportation. Last February, Kathy McKinney said a large have an Elkton bus station based We Ie -loeking at this as an llie' agencie's. 6eg'an " to. pursue ·a~ ~ • • • • ~ - . • - - •. 7 99462 0_0002 3 near the Interstate 95 and Route · experiment,_" Lopara· said. "It' plan. See LINK, 4 ..... PACE 2 • NEWARK POST • jAN UA RY 14, 2000 Visit us on the World Wide Web · NEWARK PosT ·:· NEWS - - ~~- . Can we help? PouCE BRIEFS Offices: The paper's offices are located conveniently in the Man arrested in after failing to post bond. baggies of crack cocaine and sus­ Parkway near Elkton Road ·saw Robscott Building, 153 E. pected drug money. Investigation the vehicle in front of her swerve Chestnut Hill Rd ., Newark, DE December shooting Home invasion at revealed the suspect had been and observed a bow ling ball 19713. Office hours are 8:30 at Elks Club selling crack cocaine from her bouncing_toward her car on the a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. West Knoll apts residence. The Division of roadway. The ball struck the vic- · Phone: (302) 737-0724 Family Services took custody of tim's vehicle, causing $1,000 On Jan. 7, Newark Police Newark Police are investigat­ Collins' 10-year-old daughter damage to the grill and front Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 arrested James E. Thompson, 17, ing an armed home invasion that who was present at the residence bumper. Police collected a pink­ To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or of Newark and charged him with occurred at the West KnolJ apart­ when the drugs were found. colored piece of a bowling ball at 1-800-220-3311 . Cost is attempted murder in connection ment complex on Jan. 8 around 3 Collins was committed to prison the site. There were no injuries in $15.95 per year to New Castle with a Dec. 29 shooting at the a.m. The 21-year-old male victim after failing to post bond. either incident. Anyone with County addresses. To begin a Elks Club on Cleveland Avenue. said two unknown suspects information is asked to call subscription , simply call. Thompson allegedly left the club entered his apartment while he police at 366-7111 . and waited outside after a fight Traffic stop results HE STAFF of the Newark Post is was sleeping. One suspect, Tan xious to assist readers and - with the victim who was shot described as a black male, twice in the abdomen as he exit­ in drug charges advertisers. Reporters, writers, edi· approximately 6 feet, 3 inches Middletown man tors and salespeop le can be contact· ed the club. taU, weighing 200 pounds, was On Jan. 4 around 10 a.m., charged.with ed as listed : armed with a handgun. During a New Castle County Police arrest­ James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher Husband charged brief struggle, the victim was ed Donna Harvey, 38, of Newark threatening officer of the Newark Post. He sets pol icies struck with the gun. The incident after she was stopped for a traffic and manages all departments in the in domestic assault was reported by the Newark violation on Tree Lane Terrace On Jan. 10 New Castle Newark office. Call him at 737-0724. Emergency Room after a friend and found to be intoxicated. County Police arrested Dale New Castle County Police Mary E. Petzak is the editor. She is took the victim there for treat­ Police also found her in posses­ Argoe, 38, of Middletown and responsible for all copy in the paper arrested Robert Shilling, 32, of ment for his injuries. No descrip­ sion of heroin and cocaine. charged him with terroristic except sports and advertising . Newark on Jan. 15 around 10:30 tion was available for the other Investigation revealed a passen­ threatening after he threatened to Contact her at 737-0724.