Pitch In! Community Spring CleanUps Need You

Nobody wants to do Spring Cleaning, but everything indoors could use a good dusting, mopping, and scrubbing after the long winter months.  Maybe once you're finished with your own house, you'd like to clean up your street. How about your neighborhood?  The local park?  Your town?  The rivers and streams that provide water to your area?  NorthDelaWHEREHappening [...]

UA Book Drive | Sharing the Gift of Literacy

Sharing the invaluable gift of literacy locally and beyond in honor of National Reading Month. Ursuline Academy Lower School first grade classes host book drive to benefit two amazing non-profit local organizations – St. Michael’s School and Success Won’t Wait. These 22 6-7 year old students began their book drive March 1st and together with the lower, middle, [...]

Snow Day Essentials to Do Your Body Good

Grab your big girl panties/boy shorts, thermal underwear and insulated snow boots - the snow is gonna get ya. Tackle the depths with aplomb. Step aside milk and bread, there are way more important things on our snow day essentials list to do a body good - inside and out. The must haves and must [...]

WHERE to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Bah humbug…’Tis over but please don’t just toss your tree – discover where to recycle your Christmas tree. Recycle and create valuable organic materials that can be recycled and chipped into mulch. Please remove all non-organic objects such as lights, wire, tinsel, ornaments and hooks.  Foreign objects contaminate the mulch and damage the chipper. Get the Recycle locations throughout [...]

Don’t Forget to Fall Back

Don't forget to Fall Back this weekend - the perfect compliment to Halloween trickery. Take advantage! One extra hour to —- sleep in, relax some, exercise more, play hard, entertain extra or whatever your fall heart desires.  Daylight Saving Time(DST) 2015 officially ends on Sunday, Nov 1st at 2 a.m EST. If you’re an early dozer, don’t forget to set your analog watches [...]

What’s Happening This Weekend – October!

Grab your best slicker, funky galoshes and perhaps an sturdy umbrella - Joaquin may be headed our way, or not. Our guess is as good as any, right? Not to fret. There's plenty to do for your first October weekend, rain or shine. Please check for weather related event delays and/or cancellations before you head out. Here's our hot picks [...]

Take the New Castle County “Great Schools, Clean Streams” Pledge

Do your part to stop water pollution and help a New Castle County school. Take the New Castle County "Great Schools, Clean Streams" can your grease pledge today!  The 10 New Castle County schools with the most pledges will win gift certificates worth up to $1,300 to pay for educational projects and classroom materials. This [...]

FREE & GREEN! Local Shredding & Recycling Events

Keep North Delaware Beautiful! The Delaware Solid Waste Authority(DSWA) hosts special recycling and collection events for Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) & Electronic Goods for Recycling (EGR) at different local locations this spring on Saturdays from Hockessin to Wilmington, Newark and Delaware City. Delaware residents can bring their HHW and EGR to the events FREE of Charge. All DSWA [...]

Pulse Check: Tell Us How We’re Doing

Feedback - we all need it.  At NorthDelaWHEREHappening.com, we thrive on your input as we strive to deliver uplifting and unique LOCAL lifestyle content about What's Happening and WHERE in New Castle County, North Delaware. Perhaps you have noticed our "on purpose" approach to not promote crime, negativity or politics. You can find that elsewhere. We are all [...]

Top 10 Most Viral Happening List Categories of 2014

Ready or not, 2015 is here! And with the new year comes the beginning of the 2nd Annual North DelaWHERE Happening List Competition. Exciting! BUT... before we look forward to the most happening people, places, businesses, and events of 2015, we want to take a <look back> and honor our 2014 winners, finalists, and nominees. The 2014 competition [...]