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Community Brief: Youth Philanthropy Board seeks grant applications (The Newark Post)Delaware Community Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Board will award $15,000 in grants next year to schools and qualified non-profit organizations in New Castle County.

Leaders offer advice at Business Women's Expo (The Delaware Business Ledger)The 18th Annual Business Women's Expo featured two respected business leaders, Lynn Nathan and Judith Spires.A highlight of the recent New Castle County Chamber of Commerce event at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington was the presentation of the 2008 Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year Award to Lynn Nathan, owner of Power Sports East. The award is presented annually by the Delaware ...

DELAWARE: DNREC, DOC team up against hunger (Delaware Coast Press)GEORGETOWN — The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Department of Correction have joined forces with the Bay Shore Community Church’s food pantry tfor the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife-sponsored Delaware Sportsmen Against Hunger Program.

2 Del. teens charged in delivery driver robberies (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)New Castle County Police have charged two teens from Bear in a series of robberies.

Real Estate (Mondaq)On February 26, 2008, New Castle County, Delaware, in an attempt to address a perceived lack of new construction of low or moderately priced housing within the County, enacted Ordinance No. 07-150.

Around Delaware (The News Journal)The Democrats have selected Michael Migliore to run for the 6th House District seat vacated by former Rep. Diana McWilliams, who resigned last week to take a job in New Mexico. A special election will be held Dec. 20.

Bookseller wins international award (The Delaware Business Ledger)The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB for English-speakers and LILA for French-speakers) has named Robert D. Fleck of New Castle, Delaware, a President of Honour, at their recent Congress in Madrid, Spain.

Stolen headsets turn up on eBay, lead to arrest (The News Journal)When four Bose aviation headsets turned up missing at New Castle Airport earlier this month, investigators with the Delaware River and Bay Authority turned to eBay.

Man nabbed in plane parts theft (Gloucester County Times)NEW CASTLE, Del. A Delaware man has been arrested by Delaware River and Bay Authority police officers for receiving and selling stolen property.

DELAWARE: New law helps cut teen marriages (Delaware Coast Press)WILMINGTON — The number of underage marriages in Delaware is dropping due to a new law that restricts the ability of teenagers to wed without parental consent.