New downtown cafe nears opening. PAGE3 • Reed resigns board seat. PAGE3 •••• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •:• 95th Year, Issue 33 ©2004 September 17, 2004 Newark, Del. • 50¢ UP FRONT District 4,700, get city's huh? approval By JIM STREIT By DARREL W. COLE NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER ~sion C tery provides NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER HAT were they place ofbonor for state,s vets W thinking? Sherry unanimous Newark City CounCil Freebery tallied A approved the Christina School 4,703 votes in the District's revised and scaled Democratic primary By DARREL W. COLE and JOHN UERA . o• ' .:· ~<~."K"- down proposal to convert its headquar­ Saturday. Naturally, you'd be daily tabulation of Memorial Cemetery in Bear. whom are buried in the ters at 83 East Main St. into a permanent NETworks home. expect her to vote for herself. soldier deaths in Iraq With the current $5.4 mil­ Veterans Cemetery. "You've done what we asked of you Also Tom Gordon and her and elsewhere are lion construction project, the The cemetery's expansion benefactor. grim reminders of the price cemetery is guaranteeing that will almost double the num­ and I very much appreciate your efforts," said Newark City Councilman But where of war. it will continue to serve vet­ ber of graves it can hold, Karl Kalbacher at the Monday, Sept. 13 did those 4, 700 And there is no more hal­ erans for many years to from the almost 7 ,600-plus other votes lowed place to remember the come. buried there now to an addi­ meeting. come from? Americans who have died Ten Delawareans have tional 6,069 single and dou­ While some council members contin­ Yes, this is for their country in all wars died on active duty in the ble vaults. Also, an addition­ ued to express some concerns about parking and traffic, it appears as of now · America where than the Delaware Veterans past year, including some of al 700 cremation niches will all are innocent be installed. The state that NETworks, for the first time, will until tried and also operates a smaller have its first central location. Currently found guilty. veterans cemetery in the instructional, business and trade pro­ But the Sussex County. gram for special needs students operates indictments Streit According to See DISTRICT, 12 .... against Freebery and current Antonio Davila, county exec Gordon are Director of the merely the latest in a long Delaware Commission history of heavy-handed of Veterans Affairs, Reservoir management and abuse of there are 84,280 veter­ power, something the voters ans living in the state, apparently (and wisely) con­ including 46,908 in sidered when going into the New Castle County. Of cleanup booth. Their style of leader­ those, the majority are ship (and I use that word Vietnam veterans, loosely here) might work in although he said more paramilitary organizations World War II veterans to begin like the police department, day each year. but it proved ineffective and Cemetery disastrous for the county gov­ Conservation City agrees to work with ernment. Technicians Jennifer original design firm to This mess is embarrassing Gabriele and Charles to a good county in a good O'Donnell take serious complete construction state. their daily job of caring When I moved here in for the cemetery, and By DARREL W. COLE 1992, I was struck by the pain both are veterans. NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER that citizens, otherwise full of "It's an honor to pride to be Delawareans, felt. work here," said When I asked questions ir'l my Gabriele. INCE no companies bid to finish effort to become familiar with O'Donnell said, Sthe construction of the 70-percent First State politics, person "We're veterans serving complete city reservoir, the city veterans." hopes to work out a deal with reservoir See UP FRONT, 7 .... Burial in the veterans design firm URS to do the job instead. cemeteries is free to vet­ URS is a large publicly-traded corpo­ erans. ration which provides a variety of relat­ The construction at the ed services world wide, including hav­ cemetery is being done ing its own construction division. City by A-Del Construction Manager Carl Luft saitl if URS' con­ and could be complete by struction division doesn'f at the work, November. the corporation could hire contractors • See VOl , 26 .... 7 99 462 00002 3 .. PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • SEPTEMBER 17, 2004 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 NEWARK PosT ·:· POLICE BLOTTER Can we help? • Police· Blotter is compiled Offices: The paper's offices are each week from the files of the By DARREL W. COLE sibly a body" but did not visually located conveniently in Suite Newark Police Department, New Four check out what it was. While the 206, Madeline Crossing, 168 Castle County Police and the NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER train did stop, workers di<l not have Elkton Rd., Newark, DE Delaware State Police by the time to do more because another 19711. Office hours are 8:30 newspaper staff. N light of the gruesome death of train was close behind, according to trains University of Delaware freshman a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. I authorities. Rachel Payne early Sunday morn­ Newark Police Chief Gerald Phone: (302) 737-0724 ing, Sept. 12, Newark officials are Conway said be will have "conversa­ Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 pass hoping to further open up the lines of tions" with CSX officials to set up a e-mail: [email protected] Newark communication between CSX rail.! process where local police would To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or body road officials and city police. also be notified when train operators 1-800-220-3311. To begin a The reason: Although the freight report·similar sightings. convenient home-delivery sub­ train that first hit Payne about 3:25 Conway said CSX did nothing mother City wants a.m. did not know it did so, two of scription, simply call. wrong and followed its own protocol, better the four freight trains that subse­ but having a better notification To place a classified or display communication quently passed by or hit the girl's process "is something we'll definite­ ad: Call 737-0724 or 1-800- - arrested body had reported to their dispatch ly be looking at." 220-3311. with railroad seeing a "bundle" or "pile" of clothes Payne's body was finally discov­ HE STAFF of the Newark Post is or "rags" where the girl's body ered on the railroad trestle at North T EW Castle County Police would have been. Chapel Street about 6:25 a.m. by a eager to assist readers and advertis­ have arrested Charlaine ers. Reporters, writers, editors and N Despite reporting that information fifth freight train which was told to salespeople can be contacted as listed: Hopkins, 22, of Newark. She is accused of striking her son in his to CSX dispatch, the sightings were stop to check out what the fourth James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher head with a caller ID box. never checked out by CSX work train had reported. of the Newark Post. He sets policies and On Tuesday, Sept. 7, at ll a.m., crews, nor was the information It's unclear if any of the three manages all departments in the Newark county officers went to Carleton passed on to Newark police, authori­ other trains hit the 18-year-old's office. Call him at 737-0724. Court Apartments after receiving a ties said. body. Authorities said the trains were Darrel W. Cole is the news editor. report of alleged child abuse. • In addition, the fourth train - probably traveling at speeds between He leads the day-to-day operation of the Officers at the scene met with nearly 2 112 hours after the girl was newsroom, Call him at 737·0724. 35-40 mph but are so heavy that they officials from the Department of first struck - reported to its dispatch would not notice hitting a person. Marty Valania prepares the sports Family Services (DFS) regarding an that it ran over a "pile of rags or pas- pages of this newspaper. The sports injured 5-year-old boy. DFS was See DEATH, 22 ..,._ editor is seldom in the office, however, contacted after the child showed up he checks in frequently. Leave mes­ for school injured. sages for Marty at 1-800·220·3311. counts of assault and resisting arrest. Street; Haines Street and East Newark police on Monday, Sept 6, Police said that an investigation A 17-year-old juvenile was cited for Delaware Avenue; and Church Street at 7:33 p.m., that someone entered Jan Blankenship is the office revealed that the mother threw a two counts of assault and underage and New London Road. the home through a rear door during manager and editorial assistant who caller ID box at the child out of consumption of alcohol. the day and removed a laptop com­ processes most press releases. She anger. Her other two children were Both were released pending court puter valued at $770. prepares obituaries and People briefs. standing near him at the time of the appearances, police said. Swimmer arrested Police said the same home had Contact her at 737-0724. attack. A man seen swimming in the been burglarized one week earlier. Robin Broomall is a staff reporter. Police said the child was taken to Bird feeder down Oaklands Swim Club pool, 301 Reach her at 737·0724. the AL Dupont Hospital where he Hillside Road, on Friday, Sept. 10, at Street assault received three sutures for the injury.