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Mohegan

Here’s what you need to know about Connecticut casinos as the state rolls back restrictions

Foxwoods is maintaining its cautious approach, while Mohegan Sun is no longer requiring fully-vaccinated guests and team members to wear masks on the reservation.

MONTVILLE, Conn. —

Most of Connecticut’s COVID-19 mandates were lifted Wednesday, allowing the state to regain a sense of normalcy.

  • There will be no more capacity limits for businesses
  • People who are fully vaccinated will not be required to wear masks inside

However, things may look a little different for people exploring the state’s casinos.

Here’s what guests can expect:

The Mashantucket Pequot tribe, maintaining its cautious approach, says face masks will still be required throughout the property.

Social distancing on the property is being scaled down from six feet to three feet, while continuous cleaning of high-touch areas will remain.

Additionally, Foxwoods plans on cautiously easing some of its other COVID-19 protocols, including capacity restrictions.

“The strategic rollback plan for our COVID-19 measures is highly calculated and thoughtfully timed to ensure we do this right and keep our resort safe,” Foxwoods President and CEO, Jason Guyot said. “With the exception of face masks, all protocols will be lifted by or before May 19, aligning with Connecticut’s plans. We will closely monitor our approach but are ready to introduce a safe and more relaxed ‘next to normal’ environment for our guests and team members ahead of summer.”

Mohegan sun announced fully-vaccinated guests and team members are no longer required to wear a mask while on the reservation.

The resort and casino will continue temperature checks, but they will be monitored remotely at entrances to the property.

Mohegan Sun is also bringing back more live entertainment to the arena.

Officials say will return July 18, with many shows scheduled through the end of the year.

“We have been preparing for this day for a long time and we…

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Algonquian

Biden signs bill to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans

Washington — President Biden on Thursday signed legislation that aims to combat the spike in hate crimes against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris at his side, who is the first Asian American vice president, emphasized the bipartisan nature of the measure, and insisted that hate can have no more place in America. 

“I mean this from the bottom of my heart: hate can be given no safe harbor in America,” Mr. Biden said ahead of signing the legislation into law. “… Every time we’re silent, every time we let hate flourish, we make a lie of who we are as a nation. I mean it literally. We cannot let the very foundation of this country continue to be eaten away like it has been in other moments in our history and happening again.” 

The measure, spearheaded by Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Congresswoman Grace Meng of New York, was approved by the House on Tuesday by a vote of 364 to 62 after passing the Senate 94 to 1 last month. When Mr. Biden and Harris took the stage at the White House, the East Room erupted in applause.

“Let me start by saying to all of the leaders here, thank you. Thank you,” Harris told the room. “To the members of our United States Congress on both sides of the aisle who helped pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, thank you. … Because of you, history will remember this day and this moment, when our nation took action to combat hate.” 

Called the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, the bill aims to expand the federal government’s efforts to address the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans, including by directing the Justice Department to speed up the review of hate-crime incidents and…

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Munsee

White House releases $1B in grants to fund broadband in Tribal Nations

Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the White House is making available $1 billion in funding for Tribal Nations to fortify their broadband infrastructure. 

What You Need To Know

  • The White House on Thursday released $1 billion to fund broadband-fortifying projects for Tribal Nations

  • The funds were included in the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package enacted in late December of last year

  • Vice President Kamala Harris said the investment is only a “down payment” for rebuilding broadband services

  • Harris also called on Congress to pass the American Jobs Plan, which includes a planned $100 billion investment in broadband

The funds were included in the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package enacted in late December of last year, and indigenous communities can now apply for specific grants to cover various broadband-related projects. 

Harris was joined by Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in Wisconsin and treasurer for the National Congress of American Indians, for Thursday’s announcement. Commerce secretary Gina Raimondo and Interior secretary Deb Haaland, herself a member of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico, also joined the event. 

Holsey spoke first, touching on the “widespread patches of absolutely no connectivity” to broadband across many indigenous communities, saying the lack of access “creates even more vulnerability.” 

“Expanding broadband access would transform native communities, promote economic development, and empower Tribal Nation governments to provide critical services, including health care, education, public safety and emergency services,” Holsey said.  

Harris agreed, saying access to broadband is critical as it is “fundamentally how we create good jobs and economic opportunity.”

The grants can be used for projects ranging from laying down fiber optic cables, digital literacy programs, distance learning, broadband adoption activities and more. 

Still, Harris stressed that both the funds released Thursday —…

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Lenni Lenape

EHT shuts out Cherokee, advances to S.J. Group IV quarters: Roundup

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SCI-A woman who delivered a prescription drug to a Dallas police officer was charged

Nanticoke — Wilkes-Barre state police charged a Nanticoke woman last year for delivering controlled drugs to a fallen correctional officer while working at a state correctional facility in Dallas, Jackson Township.

On July 24, 2020, Nicole Megan Hagenbach, 33, on East Noble Street, delivered Percoset and Adderall tablets to Robert Bus at the front gate of SCI Dallas, according to court records.

According to court records, Bath collapsed while working in prison about an hour after meeting Hagenbach.

The bus was found dead in his home on July 27, 2020, and evidence of substance use was found near his body.

State police held talks between Hagenbach and Bath, including bank documents showing that Mr. Bath had sent more than $ 20,790 to Hagenbach between January 1 and July 26, 2020. It claims to have been recorded by a surveillance camera.

Investigators also found a text message between Hagenbach and Bath referring to the delivery of prescription drugs.

According to criminal charges

Hagenbach and her little daughter were witnessed meeting Bath at the front gate of the prison around 5:30 pm on July 24, 2020. Bath was employed as a prison sergeant.

Approximately 70 minutes after Hagenbach left, the bar collapsed at work and was taken to the Gaisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, where he was prescribed NARCAN. When Bath regained consciousness, he refused further treatment and had a colleague drive home.

From July 25th to 27th, Bath did not go to work. On July 27, a prison lieutenant and deputy guard went to Bath’s mansion and found Bath dead.

Investigators said that when the bath was found, a mirror of white powdery material, a red straw, a bag of white residue, a drug pipe, and two oxycontin pills were found in the same room. Two mobile…

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The Latest: Blues get players back after COVID test errors

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:

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Several St. Louis Blues players who returned positive COVID-19 tests have been cleared to play in Game 2 on Wednesday night against Colorado after the results from a lab were investigated with follow-up tests coming back negative.

The Blues players involved were put into isolation as a precaution before being cleared. There were also positive tests involving Vegas Golden Knights players, who also were cleared.

The league said the reported results emanated from the same laboratory, and an investigation was initiated into the possibility that the initial test results reported might have been in error. All affected players were immediately isolated and further testing was done. Those tests returned uniformly negative results, which confirmed that the initial reported test results were wrong.

Blues wingers Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz and goaltender Jordan Binnington were not on the ice with the rest of the team for the pregame skate early Wednesday. The Blues currently have leading scorer David Perron and two other players on the COVID protocol list.

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South Carolina is opening to full capacity at Williams-Brice Stadium next football season.

The school’s athletic department says it plans for 100% capacity in the fall, including traditional tailgating in areas around the 77,559-seat facility. Masks will not be required for entrance going forward.

The school limited attendance last season due to the COVID-19 pandemic to about 20,000 fans per game. Masks and social distancing were required for entrance. But athletic director Ray Tanner says those attending football games next season can “enjoy all of the game day traditions as in previous years.”

South Carolina opens the season Sept. 4 against Eastern Illinois.

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Algonquian

Joe Biden’s approval rating with the public is steady. If he can get some GOP buy-in, his numbers will go up.

By Bob Beatty  |  Special to Gannett Kansas

As President Joe Biden approaches enters his fourth month in office, his average job approval rating sits at 54%.

From 1945 to 1981, new presidents enjoyed much better approval ratings in their first few months. Here’s their approval at the same point in their presidencies as Biden is right now: Truman, 87%; Eisenhower, 74%; Kennedy, 79%; Johnson, 80%; Nixon, 62%; Ford, 45% (though he was at 71% before he pardoned Nixon); Carter, 66%; and Reagan, 66%.

Heady numbers indeed.

Compared to those presidents, Biden’s approval doesn’t look very good. However, in the modern American political era, they’re actually pretty decent. Coinciding with the advent of talk radio (Rush Limbaugh began his syndicated political talk radio program in 1988) and cable TV attack shows, such as CNN’s “Crossfire,” American politics became more and more tribal, more and more polarized, and yes, more and more rude and nasty.

George H.W. Bush’s approval ratings at this point in 1989 were 56% and Bill Clinton’s only 48%. George W. Bush sat exactly where Biden is, at 54%. Barack Obama broke the trend a wee bit, sitting at 61% approval.

Donald Trump? Terrible. His 41% average approval after four months in office is the lowest of the 14 presidents since 1945. Trump approval ratings were also the steadiest of all the previous presidents. He never got above 46% approval and on his last day in office his average was 39%.

What does the public like about Biden? On many issues, he is a little above 50% approval, such as the economy, racial injustice, foreign policy, taxes and the environment.

But on the pandemic, Biden averages 64% approval, hitting over 70% in some individual polls. His constant pandemic focus and vaccination benchmarking, along with the popularity of the American Recovery Act, seems to have hit the mark…

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Lenni Lenape

Lenape defeats Vineland, 4-1, in opening round of softball playoffs

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UN calls for ‘unidentified’ militias to be held accountable for killing, torture of Iraqi protesters

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has published a report on violations against Iraqi activists at the hands of “unidentified groups” over the past two years throughout the country that include assassinations, kidnappings, and torture.

The report, entitled “Accountability for Human Rights Violations and Abuses by Unidentified Armed Elements,” includes testimonies of victims’ families, a wide range of information surrounding large numbers of violent acts against those organizing and participating in a popular protest movement decrying institutional corruption, poor services, and a low standard of living.

Between Oct. 2019 and May 15, 2021, read the report, “UNAMI documented 48 incidents of attempted or completed targeted killings of protestors and critics” as part of incidents largely blamed on Iranian-backed militias of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) that wield considerable military and political power in Iraq. 

The report, in its own words, “focuses on the steps taken by the Iraqi authorities to ensure accountability for human rights violations and abuses linked to these demonstrations, in particular those attributed to ‘unidentified armed elements’ frequently referred to by victims and witnesses as ‘militia.'”

UNAMI “defines ‘unidentified armed elements’ as armed actors not clearly identifiable as regular state security forces,” though “may have various links to the state and/or political parties. The term ‘militia,’ it says, is “terminology commonly used in Iraq to describe armed groups operating outside state control.”

Taken together, these are clear and unambiguous references to PMF militias.

“Allow me to be frank with you,” said the father of one of the fallen victims to UN researchers. “We all know who the killers are, but do you think the authorities dare to mention their names? The Government knows exactly who the killers are, and they are affiliated to the political parties and the ‘militia.’…

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Nanticoke

Funeral notices

ABBOTT, Nicole V. — Taylor. Blessing services, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Thomas P. Kearney Funeral Home Inc., Old Forge. Friends, 5 p.m. to service time.

ADRYAN, Carol A. — Formerly of Wilkes-Barre. Service, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Semian Funeral Home, 704 Union St., Taylor. St. George’s Orthodox Cemetery. Friends, 10 a.m. to service time.

ANDROSKI, David J. — Mountain Top. Funeral, 7 p.m. Wednesday, McCune Funeral Home, Mountain Top. Friends, 5 p.m. to service time.

ARCHACAVAGE, Benjamin J. — Ceasetown. Mass, 8:30 a.m. Friday, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Lake Silkworth.

CAPOZUCCA, Albert — Mass, 10 a.m. Tuesday, St. Joseph Marello Parish, 237 William St., Pittston. Friends, 9 a.m. to service time.

CORBETT, Joanne M. — Wilkes-Barre. Mass, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Ss. Peter and Paul Church, 13 Hudson Road, Plains Twp. St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Twp. Friends, 9:30 a.m. to service time.

DOROSKEWICZ, Alexandra — Funeral, noon Wednesday, Metcalfe Shaver Kopcza Funeral Home Inc., 504 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming. Memorial Shrine Cemetery, Carverton. Friends, 11 a.m. to service time.

DRAKE, Anastasia E. — Mass, 11 a.m. Wednesday, St. Leo/Holy Rosary Parish, 33 Manhattan St., Ashley. Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Cemetery, Route 115, Bear Creek Twp. Friends, 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, John V. Morris Family Funeral Home Inc., 625 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre.

ELLIS, Helen — Kingston. Service, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dr. Edwards Memorial Congregational Church, 668 Main St., Edwardsville. Friends, 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. to service time Wednesday.

EVANS, Gordon J.— Service, 11 a.m. Saturday, Firwood United Methodist Church, 399 Old River Road, Wilkes-Barre. Friends, 10 a.m. to service time.

HILLARD, James Oliver — Graveside service, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Hanover Green Cemetery, 689 Main Road, Wilkes-Barre.

KUS, Frank J. — Dallas. Friends, 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Richard H. Disque Funeral Home Inc., 2940 Memorial Highway, Dallas.

LONG, Josephine — Mass, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and…

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