•:• . Greater Newark's Hometown.. Newspaper Since 1910 •:• 92nd Year, Issue 17 ©2001 May 18, 2001 Newark, Delaware • 50¢ Memorial weekend- Police are Newark girls always on will honor top Glasgow. the front line. veterans Deer Park patrons prove they never know when to quit while others took signs, door­ .. Night of pilfering knobs, chairs and pieces of the front door. and wild abandon ''They took everything that closes down the wasn't screwed into the wall," said bartender Mark Silvestro. historic tavern Rumored to be a haven for Edgar Allen Poe, and part of the By KATY CIAMARICONE Underground Railroad, the tav­ ern, which owner Leonard Reed NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER recently sold to local restauran­ teur Robert Ashby, will be open he neon beer signs are gone, and so are the again in the fall, after extensive T renovations. clocks. And the bar stools. Ashby, owner of two All of them. McGlynn's pubs in the area, has Someone took a piece of the said that he plans to restore the wooden wall paneling. Someone building; to open up the second else ripped out the Exit sign from and third floors for offices and a above the door to the women's fine dining area, build verandas bathroom. The video games are outside some of the windows, and gone. The Raven is no longer add a porch onto the second floor. perched in a glass case next to the But, even though the walls will main bar. be cleaner and the bar won't smell At 1 a.m. Tuesday, the walls of like a mixture of beer and vomit the Deer Park Tavern, yellowed anymore, some people will miss with smoke and hamburger the "as is" atmosphere of the bar. grease, only boasted whiter The Deer Park Tavern as they squares where pictures of a 19th now know it will be nevermore. century unpaved Main Street once "It's like the end of an era," hung. - -1- -.a.- ..l ~L - said Lauren Ha e , 24 who attenae of When the bartenders stopped Delaware. serving alcohol and the Vybe Vince Lewis, 29, came from stopped playing music around Albany, New York, to spend one 11:30 p.m., approximately 500 last night at the historic watering college students, "townies," and hole. "I grew up here, I went to anyone else who wanted to be a part of the Deer Park's last harrah, school in the area, I drank right here," he said, while he leaned spilled out onto sidewalk, street against the main bar, because the and nearby railroad tracks. stools were gone. "My buddy They spent the next two hours called me Saturday night and taking pictures, dancing, climbing said, 'man, the Deer Park is clos­ up onto the roof, scaling tele­ ing down.' I took off work and phone poles, shaking signs, play­ hopped on a train and came ing drums, and taking swigs from down," he said. "It's gonna be bottles of alcoholic brews stolen craz:y here - no more (urine) all from behind the bar on the way over the floors, no more hippie out. girls dancing like crazy." Everyone wanted a piece of Reed, who purchased the Deer Deer Park history Monday night. Park in 1976, and also owns the Some people took pictures or had their friends sign Deer Park shirts, See DEER PARK 2 .... Holiday trash collection Trash in the city of Newark nor­ mally collected on Monday, May Live. entertainment, Happy 28, will be collected on Tuesday, Performing arts May 29. Trash normJIIY collect­ ed on Tuesday, May 29, will be collected on Wednesday, May Hours, OK'd for restaurants center could be 30. Please feel free to contact the city's Public Works number of people who would be (at a city council Department at 366-7045 for Residents, business owners, meeting) if we arrested a string quartet." additional information regarding welcome m.ore Main Street One guy with amplification sounds like a hip­ in Newark's future this change. hop DJ," said Christine Rewa. "I have a problem ambiance and possibilities with this." Rewa also said she had a hard time with any Marriott Hotel also the fall," he said. business saying they have to lower prices to do The first pubic announce­ By MARY E. PETZAK business. "It's simply not true," she claimed. "Why coming to UD site ment of the phinned center NEWS 1-31 5 do we have to have Happy Hours?" came when Armitage told NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER on Route 896 Newark's city council about the POLICE BLOTTER 2 But councilmember Thomas Wampler and Lopata pointed out that businesses in the same area proposed plan on Monday. "We By MARY E. PETZAK had to tell the University OPINION 4 ity councilmembers thought long and hard, just outside the 300-foot limit can have Happy and even changed their minds a few times, Hours. "The current regulations are unfair," said Trustees first," he said, explain­ C NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER ing subcommittee reports were LIFESTYLE 6 before voting to approve alcohol amend­ Lopata. ments benefiting some local restaurant owners. City solicitor Roger Akin told councilmembers performing arts center included in the packet for the DIVERSIONS 7 Under the new provisions, restaurants selling there is a possibility that businesses which current­ • open to the whole trustees May boatd meeting. alcoholic beverages within 300 feet of "protected" ly have "grandfathered" permission to operate on a community becomes a The proposed center and a PEOPLE 8 uses like churches can now have one-person elec­ basis not currently permitted to other similar busi­ possibility if the University of parking deck for about 600 cars will sit behind the Public Safety tronically amplified performances or any number of nesses, such as Happy Hours, could have their his~ Delaware Trustees OK plans for COMMUNITY 9 non-amplified performers. toric right reversed. a feasibility study of the project. building on Amstel Avenue. These businesses also can now have Happy Councilmember John Farrell said he preferred to "This has been going "Public Safety is slated to be SPORTS 10-11 Hours or offer <lririli specials which must be served attack the competition in that way. "Extending through the Board of Trustees tom down at some time in the only with orders of food. Further, cover charges are Happy Hours is going in the wrong direction," said subcommittees for some time future," said Armitage, "but it OBITUARIES 12 &14 not allowed in these full service restaurants which Farrell. "It's refreshing to hear we can take away and we expect the full board to will remain for now. The Orchard Road parking lot cur­ CROSSWORD 14 must serve food during all hours of operation. 'grandfathering' and tone down restaurants into approve the move forward Finally, banners advertising any form of alcohol restaurants." when they meet on May 22," rently has 575 spaces and some will remain, so we will actually CLASSIFIEDS B1-6 beverage promotion will not be permitted on the But, Lopata cautioned council that the process to said Rick Armitage, director of outside of any businesses selling alcohol for con­ achieve that result would be time-consuming, com­ government and public rela­ end up with more parking." sumption on or off the premises. plicated and probably would involve a trip to court. tions at the University. There's an" incredible City planning director Roy Lopata said the enter­ Wampler said he was comfortable with the University . departments demand" for practice space, tainment change is in response to instances of pre­ amendments but would like to take a closer look at presently housed in Pearson, according to Armitage, because viously banned events -an electronically amplified all signage, not just banners. ''Ten years ago we did­ DuPont and Hartshorn halls will more students interested in guitar player who performed on occasion at the Iron . n't have a restaurant classy enough for a string be able to expand into the new music are coming to the Hill Brewery and an outdoor string quartet which quartet," he Safd. ''The message we're sending is facility to be built on a portion University. ''This will double provided background music on the patio at Caffe that grown people can go out to a restaurant and of the University's Orchard the practice space available for Gelato last summer. have alcohol (without causing problems) .. .! invite Road parking lot. "We expect to music students," he said. "We are not concerned about this kind of activi­ young people to come up on Main Street and we'll have something ready for public 7 99 462 00002 3 , ty," said Lopata, explaining why the city staff viewing at a "show and tell" in See ARTS CENTER 3 .... sought the amendments. 1'You can imagine the See RESTAURANTS, 5 .... PAGE 2 • NEWARK PosT • MAv 18, 2001 Visit us on the World Wide Web NEWARK PosT ·:· IN THE NEWS PouCE BRIEFS------------------ U.S. Marshal's task force was The crash remains under Woman imperson· Newark man found contacted and arrested Gilchrist investigation and np charges have ates police officer to have child without incident in Tracy, Calif. been ftled. Alcohol was not a fac­ Man in serious condition On Saturday, May 12, at on April 24. He was extradited tor. approximately 6 p.m., a 24-year­ porn on computer back to Delaware on May 11. New Castle County Police after fall from balcony old Newark man at the Farmers Boy, 14, charged Market located at Hares Corner have arrested a 23-year-old Newark man on 15 counts of Collision causes A 24-year-old man who fell "They told me he suddenly ran was approached by a woman, with trafficking unlawfully dealing in child from a second-floor balcony in out of the residence onto the bal­ described as a biack female, 25- massive head Newark around 8:10 p.m.