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Minor Repair Special Any Minor Roofing, Siding or Gutter Repair. WINDOWS CELEBRATING Years In Busines or Suzanne Thurman, dealing with death never gets easier no matter how many times she gets the call. As the head of only marine mammal stranding and rescue program, working with marine mammals both dead and alive is part of monitoring the vastness of ocean life. So, when Thurman learned that seven new North Atlantic right whale calves were born this breeding season, she was understandably thrilled. MARINE BIOLOGY ON THE EAST COAST Top: NOAA scientists took this shot of a mother and calf right whale during annual aerial surveys for right whales, under NMFS Permit 18786.

CHRISTIN PERMIT 18786 Calves give hope for largest rare whales amid deaths caused by humans Maddy Lauria Delaware News Journal USA TODAY NETWORK Suzanne Thurman, executive director of The Marine Education, Research Rehabilitation Institute, is shown with the skull of a northern bottlenosed whale. THE (SALISBURY, MD.) DAILY TIMES See WHALES, Page 4A A dash of hope The Newark City Council approved a controversial plan to turn a historic Main Street mansion into a seven-sto- ry Hyatt hotel and commercial devel- opment. Despite concerns about the size, parking and whether the new building would overshadow Main Street, a majority of the council was ei- ther in favor of the development or, at the very least, felt that it was in com- pliance with city code. Lang Development Group plans to add tiered landscaping to the front of the building to help the look of the hotel. LAND DEVELOPMENT GROUP Disputed hotel gets Newark council OK Mansion on Main Street to become 7-story Hyatt Jessica Bies Delaware News Journal USA TODAY NETWORK See HOTEL, Page 4A New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer on Tuesday presented a budget for the coming year with no new tax or sewer rate increases.

state of this county is Meyer said. However, county taxpayers will still see an increase in their property tax bills this year because Meyer and County Council implemented a two- year phase-in of last 15 percent increase. said the average county taxpayer who does not live in a mu- nicipality currently pays $501 in prop- erty taxes and will see their annual tax bill increase by a little less than $35 under the 7.5 percent increase to be phased in this year. At the time, Meyer argued it was NCCo executive presents budget with no new tax increases Xerxes Wilson Delaware News Journal USA TODAY NETWORK See BUDGET, Page 5A.