La Esperanza, a multiservice nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting Latino and immigrant communities in Sussex County, held its third annual Citizenship Celebration on Friday evening at Delaware Technical Community College in Georgetown.
The Hispanic community in Bridgeville gathered Thursday night to honor and celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe or Virgin of Guadalupe.
La Red Health Center held a tree planting ceremony Friday morning at their Georgetown campus to honor U.S. Senator Tom Carper and La Esperanza.
Secretary of Education Mark Holodick has recognized 93 public school students from the Class of 2024 as Secretary of Education Scholars. Governor John Carney and other state leaders joined Holodick Tuesday evening to celebrate the students during a dinner in Dover.
Sussex Central is the only school in Sussex and Kent counties that has an IB program. Seniors from the program were honored in a signing ceremony Thursday to declare their chosen college, many of which were ivy league schools, in a manner similar to the way athletes often sign a letter of intent to play a college sport.
The Day of the Dead, an ancestral tradition celebrated to mourn and honor deceased loved ones, was marked with cultural festivities across Sussex County.
On the Delaware Law Enforcement Memorial where fallen officers are honored, the last name that went on the wall was Corporal Keith Heacook of the Delmar Police Department.
On this Memorial Day, the City of Seaford remembers the fallen especially those that were Seaford natives. The gold star families of those servicemen were in attendance during the ceremony.