Townsend News

A 19-year old Townsend man is arrested and charged with stealing a "running" car at an area gas station.

Three men were arrested on drug charges early Monday after a county officer found prescription pills and marijuana in their car during a stop near Newark, police said.

Thomas George Moore Jr. of Smyrna and Jessica Grace Cox of Downington, Pa. Doublas Robert Morgan of Lincoln and Stacy Lynn Dotterer of Milford.

A 66-year-old man was thrown 20 feet off of his bike after he collided head-on with an SUV near Townsend on Tuesday afternoon.

About 20 photographers strolled through Old New Castle on Sunday, recording images of the 350-year-old community as the evening sun dappled the streets.

Townsend today will open its new park with an 11 a.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony, following a parade through town.

Townsend leaders this year postponed the annual summer fair, a fundraiser for the growing town's new park.

Three groups have combined forces for a "Save Lewes" campaign to oppose a rezoning application on a parcel of land along Kings Highway in Lewes.

The ugliness of graffiti surfaced this summer in this quiet town, with the recent discovery that playground equipment and concrete walks at Townsend Elementary School were spray-painted. Town Councilman John Hanlin II said the since-removed graffiti wasn't the complex "tagging" that has been found in New Castle County, resulting in the arrests of ...

The ugliness of graffiti surfaced this summer in this quiet town, with the recent discovery that playground equipment and concrete walks at Townsend Elementary School were spray-painted. Town Councilman John Hanlin II said the since-removed graffiti wasn't the complex "tagging" that has been found in New Castle County, resulting in the arrests of ...

The ugliness of graffiti surfaced this summer in this quiet town, with the recent discovery that playground equipment and concrete walks at Townsend Elementary School were spray-painted. Town Councilman John Hanlin II said the since-removed graffiti wasn't the complex "tagging" that has been found in New Castle County, resulting in the arrests of ...

The water tower here has gone the way of many small-town tanks across the nation, losing its vital role as a sole water source.

The wheels of justice turn against a New Castle County judge named in a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing a boy.

Some Comcast customers lost service Tuesday afternoon. Officials say a concrete mixing truck hit a utility pole in Townsend, Delaware, cutting a Comcast fiber line.

The Civic League for New Castle County, Delaware's oldest and largest civic organization, is getting some heat from New Castle County Council over an article in its current newsletter that some elected leaders are lambasting as false and irresponsible.

New Castle County Paramedics say it happened Friday at 4pm. They found the 55-year old victim in a ditch, thrown from his bike on the 800 block of Vandyke Greenspring Road.

Townsend leaders are looking for bands, clubs and others to march in their small-town parade.

The Dela-bration Mug Night drew 1,700 to a large tent on The Green. YoUDee leads the charge as the Blue Hen 5K race gets under way.

Townsend leaders have drawn a red, white and blue circle around the date April 18.

After she was laid off in October, construction inspector Lear Lockwood had mounting bills and few job prospects in her field.