Who We Are
Craig Anderson
Craig Anderson primarily covers police, crime and court news. He has worked at newspapers in Delaware and Maryland since 1989, following graduation from the University of Kansas. He joined the Delaware State News staff in 2011. |
Logan B. Anderson
As Delaware managing editor for the State News at BaytoBayNews.com, Logan B. Anderson leads our team of reporters. Prior to his move to the managing editor role, he served as an editor and writer for business and enterprise content. He first joined INI in 2004 working to the weekly papers. He eventually worked his way up to the Delaware State News covering the General Assembly. Next, he went to Dorchester County, Md. to lead the Dorchester Banner. He was called back to the Delaware weeklies as their managing editor. In 2015, he took on a new reporting adventure on the West Coast. He recently returned home to Delaware and is excited to be a part of INI again. |
Greg Bassett
Greg Bassett is managing editor of our Maryland and publications -- Salisbury Independent, Crisfield-Somerset County Times and Dorchester Banner -- and BaytoBayNews.com. He was affiliated with The Daily Times in Salisbury for 34 years, beginning as a news intern and ending as General Manager and Executive Editor. He has also worked as a News Editor for Thomson Newspapers’ Washington Bureau and as City Editor of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis. He joined INI Delmarva in 2014 to help form Salisbury Independent. |
Richard Crumbacker
Richard Crumbacker has been covering news in Somerset County for nearly 30 years, first with the Somerset Herald in 1985 and after 12 years there and following other pursuits he has been with the Crisfield-Somerset County Times since 2006. Born and raised in Salisbury he has lived in Somerset County most of his adult life. |
Joe Edelen
Joe Edelen is a staff reporter for the Delaware State News covering state politics and education. Born and raised in New Castle County, he began his career with the Delaware State News in 2022 after graduating from the University of Delaware with a degree in communications and journalism in 2021. At the University of Delaware, he covered Blue Hens’ football, men’s and women’s basketball, and other sports for the student newspaper and radio station. |
Lena Ellwanger
Lena Ellwanger is a copy editor and page designer for the Dorchester Banner, Salisbury Independent and Delaware State News. She has held various editing, writing and design roles for daily, weekly, and monthly papers, as well as special sections, for more than 15 years. Lena began working for Independent News Media in 2021 and has also lived and worked in Maryland and Georgia. |
Mike Finney
Mike Finney is a news/features reporter for the Delaware State News, responsible for covering city of Dover news and writing insightful feature stories on interesting people in and around the state capital. His newspaper career began in 1985 and he spent 30 years as a sports reporter. He has worked for the Delaware State News, News Journal and the Dover Post. Finney and his wife, Marybeth, have two children, Sean and Erin.
Lee Hoover
From reading Sunday cartoons and her first job delivering papers on a bicycle in the snowy Midwest, newspapers have been a part of Lee Hoover’s life. She’s been newspapering since arriving in Delaware in the early 80s, with 22 of those years at the Delaware State News in positions from print production to copy editing and page design to advertising graphic design. Recruited back into the newsroom in February 2020 to take on the Opinion pages, events like COVID-19, protests, elections, and everyday life have made it an adventure to give people a forum for expressing themselves. She recently moved from the flat Atlantic Coastal Plains of Delaware to the upstate Piedmont region, where she is enjoying hiking amongst rolling hills, cliffs, burbling streams and all those rocks! |
Craig Horleman
Craig Horleman covers the local entertainment scene for the Delaware State News, from the celebrity acts at the local casinos to the local artists and artisans of Downstate to the vibrant scene at the Delaware beaches. A native of the First State, he graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in journalism and has lived in all three counties at one time or another. A New Castle Countian by birth, he has been a Kent Countian by choice for more than 20 years. He has assumed various roles over his 25-year-plus career with the Delaware State News and INI Delmarva and enjoys bringing all home to readers. |
Yvonne Kirksey
Yvonne Kirksey has been with Delaware State News since 2009 when she came on board as a Customer Service Specialist. She now shares her time with Customer Service and the newsroom. She collects calendar information for the Delaware State News and its sister monthly publications. Yvonne and her husband, Don, live in Smyrna where they have created a backyard habitat to support local wildlife. Backyard birdwatching is one of their daily activities. She and her husband are passionate about cooking, and they love to feed the people in their life. |
Tim Mastro
Tim Mastro primarily covers health news and issues for the Delaware State News. He joined the staff in December of 2012, covering high school and college sports in Kent and Sussex counties. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and has remained in Delaware since graduating from the University of Delaware. |
Matt McDonald
Matt McDonald is a reporter for the Delaware State News and BaytoBayNews.com, covering issues impacting the greater Milford area. He joined Delaware State News in 2022, after graduating from the University of Maryland’s journalism school the year before. His foremost passion outside of work is photography; he often shoots on his grandfather’s film camera. |
Kitt Parker
Kitt Parker is the web and social media editor for BaytoBayNews.com. Kitt returned to the company after more than 8 years. During her hiatus she completed her graduate degree and taught at Delaware Technical Community College in the Communications Department. Kitt was born and raised in Sussex County and currently resides in Milton. |
Glenn Rolfe
Glenn Rolfe is a reporter for Independent Newsmedia Inc. He covers news for the Delaware State News and Sussex Post. His newspaper career began in 1978, with The Evening Times in Sayre, PA. He has worked for INI since 2002. Rolfe is married, with two children and two grandchildren. His passions are ice hockey and man’s best friend — dogs. |
Dave Ryan
Dave Ryan is a graduate of Georgetown University. He traveled overseas for many years before settling in Dorchester County. Now the editor of the Banner, he has worked with the newspaper in a variety of capacities since 1999. |
Allan Ryder
Allan Ryder is a copy editor at the Delaware State News. Originally from Pennsylvania, he is an alumnus of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in journalism. He joined the organization in 2003, after moving to the First State. |
Beth Skinner
Beth Skinner is a part-time copy editor for the Delaware State News. She first began in 1998, after graduating from the University of Delaware that year. Beth also held the roles of features editor and news services editor before taking a 14-year hiatus to raise her children in 2006. Upon return in 2020, she was back in a copy editor role. Though Beth was born and raised in New Castle, she has lived in Dagsboro, Dover and Milford, where she has resided with her husband and two sons for 20 years. |
Sheri Sussman
Sheri Sussman is a paginator for Independent Newsmedia, Inc. She has worked for the company for 42 years. Sheri started out in the mailroom to pay for tuition to Delaware Technical where she studied computer programming. |
Andy Walter
Andy Walter is the sports editor of the Delaware State News. A lifelong resident of Delaware, he joined the State News in 1986 after graduating from the University of Delaware. He has written about everything from Little League to pro games in Philadelphia and Baltimore to high school school sports, which first got him interested in sports writing. He has covered every University of Delaware home football game since the final contest of the 1986 season. He and his wife, Sharon, enjoy fostering rescue dogs. |
Laura Walter
Laura Walter is the Special Projects Editor for our Delaware and Maryland newspapers. She’s been on the team since 2021, writing, photographing, liaising on and leading a variety of projects. This follows 10 years as a Coastal Point newspaper reporter (from town halls to football fields, courthouse to chicken house, education to environment). She studied English and art at Washington College and was raised in Sussex County. |
Andrew West
Andrew West is Editor-In-Chief of Delmarva publications, including the Delaware State News, and BaytoBayNews.com. Previously, he served as executive editor and managing editor of the Delaware State News. He has been with the company since 1990 when he joined the Delaware State News as sports editor. He has been with daily newspapers since graduating from the University of Delaware in 1985. Outside the newsroom, West enjoys coaching soccer and participating in sand-sculpting demonstrations and competitions. |
