As America turns 250, New Castle County communities prepare for patriotic celebrations, parades, music and fireworks
By George D. Rotsch, Delaware LIVE News
This year’s Fourth of July is not just another summer holiday.
It is America’s 250th birthday — a rare national milestone that asks families to look beyond the fireworks and remember why the celebration matters. Two and a half centuries after the Declaration of Independence, the country still gathers to honor the ideas that made the United States exceptional: liberty, self-government, individual rights, religious freedom, private enterprise and the belief that citizens — not kings or distant bureaucracies — should shape the future of their communities…