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🌱 How Newark’s new development blueprint could change your neighborhood

Newark, Delaware Patch AM: a 4 min read

Greetings Newark! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Newark’s new development blueprint could change your neighborhood
  • Curious about Newark’s newest church serving both students and longtime residents?
  • Meet the Newark mom quietly connecting thousands of neighbors across Delaware

Also on today's calendar: Senior Buffet & Line Dancing and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What does a thesaurus eat for breakfast? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Sunny and a steady breeze, with a high of 83 and low of 61 degrees.
  • Sunday: Intervals of clouds and sun, temps: high: 85, low: 67.
  • Monday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 82 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Newark officials continue crafting Comprehensive Development Plan (delawarepublic.org) — Newark officials are refining a new Comprehensive Development Plan that could reshape housing, zoning, and walkability across the city by early 2027. Leaders are weighing how to preserve affordable communities like George Reed Village, expand “missing middle” housing, and potentially rezone Main Street, South Main, and New Center Village to add homes, green space, and more walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods.
   

2. Building Faith and Community: Great Exchange Church Takes Root in Newark (townsquaredelaware.com) — A new Christian congregation, Great Exchange Church, is actively growing in Newark and specifically aims to serve both University of Delaware students and longtime residents. Meeting Sundays at 10 a.m. with kids’ programs and small groups during the week, the church emphasizes community, accessible Bible teaching, and connection across generations. Newark-area readers can plug into services, service projects, and fellowship opportunities right away.
   

3. Kindness is contagious: Newark woman builds massive community network (delawareonline.com) — A Newark mom and former special education teacher, Robyn Sheehan, has grown the Hockessin Gossip Girls Facebook group into a nearly 23,000-member network that fuels local fundraisers, meetups, and support. She also volunteers with a Delaware nonprofit helping children, young adults, and first responders, including buying hundreds of shoes for kids in need. Her goal is to strengthen the community where she’s raising her family.
   

4. Lifelong Lerner: Joseph Mezzatesta (udel.edu) — A Newark native, Joseph Mezzatesta, reflects on how earning his MBA at UD’s Lerner College strengthened his leadership skills while juggling full-time work and a demanding dual-degree program. He shares how local community connections, filmmaking in the Delaware area, and international experiences shaped his path, which now leads to a Fulbright-funded documentary project on digital education in Cambodia.
   

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  • Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC posted a job opening for Janitor @ DuPont Newark E&I Plant in Newark. Apply here.
  • Signet Jewelers, Ltd. posted a job opening for Bench Jeweler - Signet Jewelers - Christiana Fashion Center - Newark, DE in Newark. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Newark here.

Ok Newark! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A synonym roll! (Thank you Sue P. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Newark

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.

Stay in the loop with what's happening in Newark

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.