c.reater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 •!• 88th Year. Issue 46 © 1998 December 11 , 1998 Newark, Del. • 50¢ THis WEEK Stafford si·te IN SPORTS • DEFENSE KEYS grow1ng By MARY E. PETZAK NEWARK's NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER IDENING of Route STATE 273/0gletown Road wa W fini hed thi month, making that job five months ahead of TITit 19 · chedule. But motorists barely had time to get u ed to the improved traffic flow before con truction equipment IN LIFESTYLE showed up to break ground for build­ ings totaling 281 ,200 quare-feet in the proposed Stafford Corporate Cen- ' ter. WILSON Presently going up on the approx­ imately 22.6 acre-site are five mini­ storage buildings and an office which STUDENTS TRY will total 101 ,000 square feet of space. According to New Ca tie RussiAN See STAFFORD, 7 ..... ART. 8 Tech park IN THE NEWS blooming STUDENT By MARY E. PETZAK NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER BRINGS GUN ONG-DELAYED financing and completion of Wyoming L Road through the Delaware TO GlASGOW Technology Park mean building expansion there will be taking off. "Right now we're waiting for Del­ HIGH. DOT t0 put in the traffic ignals o we can open Wyoming Road," said Park pre ident W. W. Maggard this week. 3 The 40-acre facility is planned for 320,000 square-feet of construction See PARK, 5 ..... INDEX NEWS 1-7 POLICE BLOTIER 2 New OPINION 8 LIFESTYLE 10 Newark High football players Mike Fisher (30), Amy Hunt (middle) and Orien Harris (52) celebrate Leasure THE ARTS 11 the Yellowjackets' state football championship with their teammates following Saturday night's DIVERSIONS 12 22-6 victory over Caesar Rodney. delayed CROSSWORD PUZZLE 13 SPORTS 19-25 Newark wins football title By STEVE WESTRICK PEOPLENEWS 14-15 _ NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER OBITUARIES 26-28 Newark High defeated Caesar Rodney 22- to Newark's succe sin the tate champion. hip 6 Saturday night at Middletown's Bill Billings game. The YeJlowjacket held a potent Cae ar HE OPENING of the new CLASSIFIEDS 31-36 Stadium to capture its second straight Rodney offense to negative eight-yard dur­ Lea ure Elementary School Delaware High School Division 1 football ing the first half of play. T in Bear, already delayed championship. "I'm happy for our coaching taff and our once, i now cheduled for July of The win over the Riders completed a per­ players," said Newark coach Butch Simpson, 1999. fect 12-0 season for Newark, which also won who notched his fourth state title. "They have The chool at the intersection of its second straight Blue Hen Conference an overwhelming corrtittment to our program Route 40 and Church Road was orig­ Flight A crown as well. The 12 straight victo­ and to our team." inally supposed to open this past Sep­ ries improved Newark's on-field win streak to For more details on the Yellowjacket ' sec­ tember for the 1998-99 school year. 24 straight games. ond straight state football championship, see That date was moved back to the Defense, as it was all season, was the key the Sports ection beginning on page 19. See LEASURE, I~ 7 99462 00002 3 PAGE 2 • E\\1\RK. PoST • DECEMBER 11, 1998 Visit us on the World Wide Web • Police Beat is compiled each week from the files of the Newark Teen charged with Police Department by staff writer attempted murder Mary Petzak. red in crash On Dec. 7 around 12:40 a.m. Newark Police charged 19-year-old Bear man charged .J esse Paul Brown of Greenbridge Mustang traveling In the northbound lanes of South Coll,e Avenue nur Heward with toddler ass~ult Drive in Newark with attempted conllroll1and veered over the median around 2:15 P·"'· on Saturday, ec. 5. The Ford struck murder, reckless endangering, pos­ soullhbo1und. Pollee did not release the names of either driver. Bolli drlvet'l were A 27-year-old Bear man ha been session of a deadly weapon during in SeriOUS COnditiOn. NEW~K POST PHOTO BY HEIDI SCHfiNG charged with a ault of a two-year­ the commission of a felony, bur­ old boy in a Scottfield re idence. glary and resisting arrest after they New Ca tie County Police went to responded to a domestic incident at Christiana Ho pital on Dec . 7 a residence in Fairfield Crest. around 11 a.m. after they were told Armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, a mother wa taking a eriously Brown allegedly broke into the resi­ injured child there. dence occupied by his mother and Police aid the child had a frac­ an acquaintance. tured kull, injury to hi genital , Police said Brown intended to and brui e and welling on hi face. murder the acquaintance and during He wa tran ferred to A. l. DuPont a struggle the weqpon di charged Hospital where he wa admitted in into a wall of the home. eriou condition. No one was injured. According to county police, Charle Gardner of Samantha Drive in Bear all egedly assaulted his girl­ Man assaults friend's child wh ile the mother was pregnant friend asleep. He was committed to Gander On Dec. 14 around 6:50 a.m. Hill prison in li eu of $8,000 ecured New Ca tie County Police respond­ bail. ed to a dome tic incident on Moo­ terry Drive in Brookside Park. robbery and home invasion which Dec, 2 around 5:40 p.m. all egedly Police are investigating. Anyone A J 7-year-old woman told occurred on I"fov. 23 in the unit was involved earlier in a fight at with information is a ked to call Cocaine dealer arrested po l ice her boyfriend, Matthew block of Sutton Lane in New Ca 'tie. College Square. Darnell Harrigan, police at 366-7111. Pfromm, 20, punched her in the Police report a 27 -year-old 33, told police hi s vehicle was Newark Police arre ted Edward female resident was leaving her bumped ·by a car driven by Barry Cordero, 28, of Chestnut Crossing stomach during an altercation. home around 4:30 p.m. when she Phipp , 20, and pushed across the Murdered man's car Apartment on drug charge after a The victim was transported to wa approached by two black male median causing Harrigan to collide two-month inve tigation by Newark Christiana Hospital where she suf­ found in Bear ages 20 to 24. One man asked for with a westbound car driven by 58- Police. fered a miscarriage but doctors were directions as the other man dis­ year-old William C. MahJey. Phipps A 1993 Lexus 300, owned by a Cordero was charged on Dec. 4 unable to determine if it was the played a handgun. The· suspect Wilmington doctor found murdered around 3 p.m. on three counts of result of the assault. Pfromm was left the scene of the accident but demanded money and ransacked the near Chesapeake City, Md., on Dec. trafficking in cocaine, three co unt charged with assault and relea ed later returned. He to ld police Harri ­ 3, wa located by New Castle Coun­ of delivery of cocai ne and th ree with orders not to contact the victim. home before fleei ng in a white older gan hit him with a metal pipe during ty Police the same night in the unit counts of maintaining a vehicle for When he went to the hospital, he model Chev rol et Caprice. The an altercation in the parking Jot of woman was not injured. block of Arnold Place off Route 7 in delivering controlled substances. was again arrested and committed to W.SFS at the shopping center before Anyone with informati n can Bear. Pollee report he wa arrestetl Gander .Hill Pri on. driving away down Capitol Trail. after he old cocaine to an under­ He later posted bond and was ca11 county police at 571-7924. Phipps denied hitting Harrigan's Maryland police reported the cover police officer in the Newark released a second time. car and said he was following Harri­ vehicle missing after Joseph area. Police seek info in crash gan who tried to make a U-turn · Edward Belgrade, 68, a semi-retired Police also seized approximately Info sought on invaders across the median. Harrigan suf­ physician, was found dead in a two ounces of cocaine together with Newark police report that one of fered a lacerated scalp and Mahley farmhouse he owned in Cecil Coun­ the defendant' vehicle and cellular New Castle County Police are the drivers injured in an accident .on was · admitted to the hospital with a ty. phone. seeking information regarding a Capitol Trail near Anna Way on lacerated spleen and bruised ribs. 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