The Delaware Department of Transportation announced that temporary road closures for a short period of time will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, and end at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, pending weather, to move an oversized load to Maryland.

The Stone Square Lodge No. 22 of Middletown has rescheduled its Black History Month luncheon, originally scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 6, due to the snowstorm that is expected to hit the Delmarva Peninsula tonight and tomorrow. The new date for the luncheon is March. 20.

    During a public hearing before the Feb. 3 Townsend Town Council meeting, the Mayor and Council accepted revisions to the land use portion of the Town’s comprehensive plan, which will be submitted to the Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination and reviewed in a Preliminary Land Use Service meeting.

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Students at Silver Lake Elementary School in Middletown got their hearts racing and muscles pumping Feb. 2.

    The Middletown Police Department has welcomed a new member to the force. Ares, a 13-month-old German Shepherd/Belgian Malinois mix from Czechoslovakia is in training to become the department’s second K-9 officer.

New Castle County Executive Chris Coons vows to bring “new energy and a new approach” to Washington.

    The Middletown Mayor and Council approved one ordinance and two resolutions regarding sewers at its Feb. 1 meeting that the Town hopes will jumpstart Middletown’s economy.

The Odessa Mayor and Town Council unanimously denied an ordinance at their Feb. 1 meeting that would require owners of vacant buildings in Town limits to either rehabilitate their buildings or pay increasing fines.

Detectives from the Troop 2 Financial Crimes Division completed a long-term investigation and arrested Andrew Chambers, 25, of East Dickerson Lane in Middletown, for theft and falsifying business records, both felonies.

    It’s the one day in winter when it’s completely normal to take a dip into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Thousands of people will assemble on the sands of Rehoboth Beach Saturday to take the Lewes Polar Bear Plunge and raise money for Special Olympics Delaware.

The Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council, Inc. (GSCBC), was joined by civic and community leaders Feb. 1 in dedicating the Council’s Science and Technology Lodge in honor of former Council Board President and lifelong environmental advocate Lynn W. Williams.

    On Feb. 1, a 27-year-old Warwick, Md. man was arrested by Middletown Police after he initially refused to leave the East Lake St. area in the early morning.

Royal Pest Management is offering a $500 Scholarship to one student from Middletown High School who has a declared major in entomology, applied ecology, wildlife conservation, environmental studies or any major that benefits the environment in a “planet-friendly” manner.

Included in an omnibus bill that’s heading to Gov. Jack Markell to be signed into law is a controversial funding mechanism to finance design and land acquisition for the hotly-contested U.S. 301 Bypass project.