Wendy Hatch is a highly decorated visual artist with a rich tapestry of experiences including undergraduate printmaking at Syracuse University, and MFA at Pratt and Brooklyn, professorial stints including our own Delaware Art Museum. “Close to Home,” a show of W.A.S. Hatch’s recent work, will be on exhibit at the Delaware Center of Contemporary Arts…

Rossana Arteaga-Lopenza is the President of Casa de Venezuela Delaware Valley, a bilingual nonprofit organization whose purpose is to advance the cultural heritage of Venezuela through a range of programs and services. What follows is a lightly-edited transcript of that conversation. Benjamin Wagner: Rosanna, we like to start with a sense of your Highlands ……

Highlands Live hit the dance floor on Wednesday as Ecotonic Movement Founder and Managing Director at the Alliance for Watershed Education, Dr. Jamē McCray, shared insight, wisdom and expertise gleaned from her experience combining ecology and dance on behalf of the environment. What follows is a lightly-edited transcript of that conversation. Benjamin Wagner: What are…

In this lightly-edited transcript of Highlands Live from Wednesday, November 3, REACH Riverside Development Corporation Board Chair, Charlie McDowell, and his colleague, WRK Group CEO, Logan Herring, discuss progress-to-date on their effort to revitalize Northeast Wilmington’s Riverside community. Lindsey DiSabatino: We like to start with your sense of the highlands. Charlie, what are your favorite…

Wilmington Mayor and Highlands’ neighbor, Mike Purzycki, shows no sign of slowing as he rounds the bases on his second term. In this lightly edited transcript of the Mayor’s discussion with Highlands Live co-hosts, Benjamin Wagner and Lindsey DiSabatino, on Wednesday, October 27, he discusses his legacy and hope for progress yet to be made. Lindsey DiSabatino: We…

Last week’s Highlands Community Association’s Fall Meeting featured wide ranging discussion on the state of our local community as it emerges from a pandemic and wrestles with challenges of crime, traffic and development. Please click here to read the Highlands Community Association Fall Meeting minutes prepared by HCA Secretary Margaret Sears Lindley. Mayor Mike Purzycki…

The Delaware Art Museum’s already impressive collection of characters was joined by an plethora of ghosts, ghouls, astronauts and aliens at the Highlands Community Association’s 3d Annual Halloween Parade Sunday afternoon. Some four hundred paraders filed past judges Senator Sarah McBride, Councilman James Spadola, Art Museum Executive Director Molly Giordano and Kenny Family Shoprite CEO…

Join Representative civic leaders and neighbors to discuss the statwe of our community on Wednesday, October 20 at 7pm via Zoom (link here). Our goal with this HCA Community Survey is to provide Highlands’ neighbors, its Community Association and civic leaders insights on the community’s evolving needs and interests. 11% of 980 recipients responded to nine questions, and shared…