An annual point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness in Delaware conducted earlier this year revealed an alarming statistic: twice as many people were unhoused in the state in early 2022 than were in early 2020, with the most substantial increase in Sussex County.

Delaware Public Media’s partnership with Delaware Independent gives us a chance to help highlight more stories in Southern Delaware.Delaware Independent is a website and email newsletter offering a combination of in-depth and hyper-local coverage of Southern Delaware.We feature some of their stories in our newscasts and this week on The Green we chat with Delaware Independent’s Andrew Sharp about some of their recent stories.

The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs recently received a donation of pottery fragments from a site known as the Green Pottery site in Smyrna.Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs curator of archaeology Paul Nasca visits to discuss the collection and Delaware’s roots in redware pottery.

Last summer, we took you to the Newark Union Church and Cemetery where Bob and Anne Daly – a retired couple – are working to preserve and restore this little-known piece of history nestled in Brandywine Hundred.This week, contributor Larry Nagengast takes us back there to check in on substantial progress they’ve made.

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Just over a month ago, the state released a long-awaited report from UD’s Special Initiative on Offshore Wind. The conclusions reached in that report beg the question - is Delaware on brink of finally deciding to buy electricity from the offshore wind industry?Contributor Jon Hurdle looks at where the First State is in the process of answering that question this week.

Five people from Connecticut recently completed a journey through part of DelMarVa to retrace - as accurately as possible - a once-enslaved man's escape to freedom and a better life.Delaware Public Media's Mark Fowser has more on their trip included a stretch through the First State.

The new exhibit at Winterthur chronicles the role Henry Frances du Pont played in Jackie Kennedy’s efforts restore White House interiors during the 1960sAnd in this week’s Arts Playlist, Elaine Bachmann, guest curator of the exhibit, joins Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele to discuss it.

Univ. of Delaware baseball coach Jim Sherman is in his final season as skipper for the Blue Hens.Sherman’s career highlights include more than 800 wins - over 600 of which came at UD – as well as multiple conference titles. But there is more to the longtime Blue Hen than what he accomplished on the diamond.And in this week’s Enlighten Me - UD senior and Delaware Public Media intern Patrick Laporte reports on the legacy of one of the state’s best known baseball coaches.

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