Daily Archives: February 9, 2024

New building planned for Greenwood Elementary

Plans for a new Greenwood Elementary School moved a step closer to reality after the Feb. 7 Kennett Township meeting. Township supervisors approved the conditional land development plan to build a new 105,000-square-foot building on the same property as the current school at 420 Greenwood Road. The township’s planning commission voted to recommend approval for the supervisors. Diane Hicks, Kennett Township’s director of planning and…

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Conservancy holds flood study meeting

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Flooding in Wilmington on Sept. 1, 2021. “What we do upstream impacts downstream,” according to Brandywine Conservancy Director of Community Services for the conservancy Grant DeCosta. Emergency services couldn’t get from one side of the city to the other. He called that situation “unacceptable.”

The Brandywine Conservancy and the city of Wilmington joined forces to give area residents an update on the flood study prompted by Hurricane Ida. Director of Community Services for the conservancy Grant DeCosta was joined by Wilmington’s Assistant Water Division Director Bryan Lennon. DeCosta said Ida was “the catalyst” for the study but that the study won’t be finished until this summer. He said the…

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