•••• Greater Newark's Hometown.Newspaper .Since 1910 •!• 94th _Year, Issue 46 ©2003 December 5, 2003 Newark, Del. • 50¢ UP FRONT Hub of I didn't know his first name activity New transit center to be is Oscar Parking downtown isn't focal point for new DART By JIM STREIT so complicated, just knQw bus service, bikepath where you are going NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER By DARREl W. COlE N four days, Gene Trivits By DARREL W. COLE NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER I will enjoy a special day in ........, .• .•••••••••.••••••••••••••_. ,. •.••• ,..,!!,••·······•••1''11 his honor - his birthday. NE.WARK POST STAFF WRITER state proposal for a $2 million However nice the celebration downtown transit hub would may be, I suspect it will pale A ON'T fret, le~ To lQCals. include a new lane connecting in comparison to this fall turn that's a well-knoWn phrase Delaware Avenue to Main Street, allow when the Delaware National wheo ariving along downtown for bus passenger drop offs, pick ups and Guard paid tribute to this Newark's one-way ~treyt. For transfers, include a new downtown loop Newarker. Main others, especially those coming down~ bus route and extend the bikeway from I met Gene just days after town for holiday shopping visiting Delaware Avenue to downtown. I arrived here or the first-ever Santa's Wp~ppp, Wsipg The Newark Transit Hub would be in 1992. As that advice could drasticallyreduce the stress of built on a 1.1 acre site by the Delaware the new news­ finding parking. Transit Corporation, a division of the paper publish­ Along Main .Street, three city parking lots Delaware Department of Transportation, er,-I was quick­ are accessible by way of Maip Stn~et or or DART. The property is off East ly drafted to .. .DelawartrAvenue, but if you miss them don't Delaware Avenue, west of city parking attend the first meeting of a worry, said city Parking Adn:linisttatot Lot #5 and east of the Main Street Court Andrew Haines. Just remember to turn left, subdivision. committee, one turn left, turn left and turn left, he said. that would be Streit Doing so will take you back to the other end See HUB , 5 destined to of Main Street, where you can take another raise funds for a then-only­ shot at finding the parking lots·. imagined new Newark Senior "If you miss signs, don't panic,''.said • Center. At the time, the cen­ Haines. "Keep going, tumii:tgle:ft, Until you ter was operating in aged, Main get back to MailLStreet,." cramped quarters on Main Large black and gold lettered parking Street. signs point you to the city lots~ ' I knew few people in With the holiday shopp;ing season kicke<;l Newark, and no one seated off as of I;Uack Friday, merchants and city Street around the table that day in parking officials and others want visitors to the board room of the ' know there .is room to park; hutgetting there . Wilmington Trust building in might not be the easiest of tasks. downtown Newark. re1gns I watched as fund-raising consultant Richard Macintyre described the campaign Santa's Workshop draws plans. I sat quietly, listened, nodded in agreement from in 600, downtown · time to time, and observed merchants praise shoppers the players. Of the dozen or so movers­ By DARREl W. COlE and-shakers assembled, two stood out to me. NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER One was Dr. William UE to rain Santa's sleigh ride Keene, the former state super­ D down Main Street will take place intendent of schools. The Friday, Dec. 5 at 6:30 p.m., but other was an impressive man that didn't stop shoppers from giving downtown merchants some good busi­ See UP FRONT, 19 .-. ness last week, the official start of holi­ day shopping. Chris Locke, organizer of the first- · ever Santa's Workshop downtown com­ plete with Santa and Mrs. Claus, said more than 600 people visited the work- See SHOPPERS, 18 ..... 7 99462 00002 3 IN SPORTS: Newark, St. Mark's in state football final, page 16. • UD's Blue Hens host N. Iowa, page 18. PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • DECEMBER 5, 2003 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 • www.ncbl.com/post/ • [email protected] NEWARK Posr ·:· POLICE BLOTTER • Police Blotter is compiled and Dec. 5, 2002, and Jan. 20, 21, 26 each week from the files of the and 27, 2003; Mobil Gas Station, 728 33-year-old Stafford charged air bags. Newark Police Department, New E. Chestnut Hill Roap, Tuesday, Jan. The crash knocked out the 21, 2003; 7-Eleven, 3700 Kirkwood Aman was charged with Castle County Police and the Car building's electrical service and Hwy., Jan. 27, 2003; 7-Eleven, 2010 driving. under the influ­ Delaware State Police by the Limestone Rd., Jan. 27, 2003; and, 7- ence of alcohol early Monday a mail box, which had been newspaper staff Eleven, 284 Christiana Rd., Jan. 27, morning after the car he was along the front curb, was locat­ 2003. crashes driving crashed into a neigh­ ed on the roof of the garage. bor's home. The driver, James E. DUI arrests here Newark police were sum­ Noonan, 33, of the 500 block into moned to the home in the 400 Stafford Drive, was arrested at Serial After a Newark police officer saw block Stafford Avenue just the accident scene, transported a VW Jetta going the wrong way on before 1:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. to Newark police headquarters Main Street at 1:59 a.m. on Sunday, Stafford Nov. 23, a Dover man was charged 1. They discovered that a 1999 for processing and sobriety robber with "zero tolerance" DUI. Saturn had crashed into the tests, and charged with DUI, Police reported the car was home side of the home's garage. police reported. He was stopped by police on South College Police said the car had severe released pending a court Avenue at Amstel. damage, flat tires, and dis- appearance. arrested After conducting sobriety tests, Marc William Lillard, 20, was ELAWARE State Police charged with driving under the influ­ Shoplifting suspect told that a stereo had been taken from search along with .the Department of arrested a Newark man who is ence of alcohol, driving the wrong a home in the unit block West Natural Resources and D Delaware Avenue while the owner Environmental Control. accused of robbing or way on a one-way street, and under­ wears high heels age consumption of alcohol. He was was away. Thieves apparently attempting to rob 10 convenience Newark police arrested one man opened a bedroom to retrieve the stores between October 2002 and released pending court appearances, for shoplifting and are looking for unit, which was valued at $250. Naked man charged January 2003. police said. another suspect after two men, one of At 2:42 p.m., officers were called Two Newark officers saw a man, Donald Lee Carroll, 31, of In a separate incident, a police them dressed as a female, left the Sandalwood Apartments, was extra­ officer on patrol had to stop quickly to a home in the unit block Elkton naked from the waist down, at 5:37 Pathmark store at College Square Road. The first resident to return dited to Delaware from Caroline to avoid a collision at 1:12 a.m. on p.m. at 43 W. Delaware Ave. without paying for 15 DVDs. after the weekend discovered that a The policemen investigated and County, Md., on Nov. 24. Sunday, Nov. 23, after a pick-up Leavor Mills, 24, of Claymont, truck was leaving the Ivy Hall apart­ water cooler had been thrown were told by the naked man that he Carroll has been charged with six was charged with shoplifting and through a rear window. Inside, bed­ counts of robbery 1st degree, two ments. had mistakenly put his sweat pants released following the 5:23p.m. inci­ room doors were kicked open. counts of attempted robbery 2nd The officer reported that after he on backwards earlier. He began to dent on Tuesday, Nov. 25. Some of the missing items includ­ put the pants on correctly, but decid­ degree, attempted robbery 1st stopped his marked patrol car, he had Police said Mills was apprehend­ to sound his hom because the truck ed a Sony Playstation, numerous ed to stay naked, police reported. degree, six counts of possession of a ed by store personnel outside the DVDs, an X-Box and hockey equip­ firearm during the commission of a kept approaching. The pick-up Daryl Nashold, 21, of Frederica, food store but another suspect fled. ment, police reported. was charged with lewdness and felony, five counts of possession of a stopped just six inches from the Police described the wanted man as a deadly weapon during the commis­ police car. · released pending a court appearance, black male, six feet tall, age 20 to 25, police said. sion of a felony, seven counts of The driver of the truck was ques­ who was wearing camoflauge pants Cougar spotted wearing a disguise during the com­ tioned, administered sobriety tests and high heels when seen fleeing. mission of a felony, and attempted and arrested for "zero tolerance" near Christiana Mall Indecent exposures theft. driving under the influence of alco­ Delaware State Police are investi­ Carroll was committed to Gander hol,. underage consumption of alco­ Happy Thanksgiving? gating a reported sighting of a cougar Two separate indecent exposure incidents were reported to Newark Hill Prison in default of $521,000 hol and failing to yield right-of-way, Residents of a home in the unit around the Thanksgiving holiday.