Airplane enthusiasts from all over the region turned out for the air show at the Dover Air Force Base Open House, held June 20 and June 21.

Helen M. Proudfoot, 86, of Millsboro passed away on Monday, June 22, 2009 at Beebe Medical Center after a long-fought battle with cancer.

Richard Downing, of Millsboro, was honored as the Kent-Sussex Industries 2008 Employee of the Year during their 47th annual Awards Dinner at the Sheraton Dover Hotel.

This fall, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will feature on one of her shows a wacky chair designed by a Boys & Girls Club from either Delaware or Maryland, as part of a contest held in conjunction with the upcoming Delaware State Fair.

“How to Win A Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and The End of the War on Terror,” by Reza Aslan. Random House. $26. Hardcover.

Reza Aslan is a Los Angeles-based writer, commentator and Islamic scholar. His new book is, “How to Win A Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and The End of Terror.”

Ronnie Brust’s vision for a self-sufficient desert camp includes a kitchen, a living room and a giant projector screen hanging between scaffolding towers. At the center of the camp will be a 32-foot geodesic dome, the frame of which Brust spent Wednesday building in his mother’s yard at Sixth and Miller streets. He will transport the structure to Burning Man, the annual arts festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, later this summer.

Weekly family rail, with a review of the new “Transformers” movie, tips on volunteering and more.

For two years, Larry Tye pored through thousands of research pages and wrote hundreds of pages about an often-overlooked American icon: baseball great Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Satchel’s story, said Tye, is about overcoming “every obstacle any human being could ever imagine.”

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gave the eulogy on Saturday for Senate President Pro Tempore Thurman Adams, who passed away on June 23.

When consumers toss unused household chemicals and other hazardous items into the garbage, they wind up in municipal landfills, which often are not equipped to handle this kind of waste. But keeping cleaning solutions, insecticides and other items around the house has its dangers. Many household cleaning products, pest-control chemicals and lawn-care chemicals can be replaced with more natural, less toxic methods.

Funeral services for former Delaware Senate President Pro Tempore Thurman Adams Jr. will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 27, in the Woodbridge High School auditorium, 37 Laws St., in Bridgeville.

An unusual chance to see a close pairing of Jupiter and Neptune awaits the next clear night. Due to its magnificence, brilliant Jupiter is easy to pick out and probably most people have seen it without even knowing it. Neptune, however, although it is a giant planet as well, is so far away very few people have ever seen it. This is a chance to find Neptune with a pair of binoculars or a small telescope with little trouble, since it is close by the King of Planets, Jupiter.

When I was a teenager, there was a summer when I survived on Oreo cookies, Carnation Instant Breakfast and the occasional Dairy Queen Blizzard. Today, I have a teen of my own who has to fend for himself most days during the summer. Like most parents, I'm not a nutritionist, but I know better than to let him con me into filling the house with junk food. What's harder is finding easy, healthy food that he'll take the time to fix and won't be bored of after a week or two.