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Lenni Lenape

Colonial Conference girls lacrosse all-stars, 2021

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COLONIAL CONFERENCE ALL-STARS, 2021

NOTE: Teams are selected by the Colonial Conference, not NJ.com

NORTH DIVISION

First Team

  • Mikayla Cooke, Kittatinny, Sr.
  • Madisen Dippel, Kittatinny, Sr.
  • Madison Woollen, Kittatinny, Sr.
  • Sarah Douglas, Kittatinny, Sr.
  • Alexa Shotwell, Kittatinny, So.
  • Olivia Lamonica, Jefferson, Jr.
  • Avery Young, Jefferson, So.
  • Sarah Leppard, Jefferson, Jr.
  • Laney Oostdyk, Jefferson, So.
  • Nicole Delaportas, Jefferson, So.
  • Nicole Crowder, Hackettstown, Sr.
  • Chloe Neubauer, Hackettstown, Sr.
  • Luciana Ferrara, Hackettstown, Jr.
  • Chloe Naylor, Lenape Valley, Jr.
  • Madison Maguire, Pope John, Jr.
  • Alexis Ashton, North Warren, Sr.
  • Audrey Flannery, High Point, Jr.

Second Team

  • Maggie Haug, Kittatinny, So.
  • Alexandra Molfetto, Kittatinny, Sr.
  • Delaney Campanella, Kittatinny, Jr.
  • Clare Schwartz, Kittatinny, So.
  • Erin Smielus, Jefferson, Jr.
  • Deanna Torsiello, Jefferson, Sr.
  • Ella Dilizia, Jefferson, Jr.
  • Grace Eisele, Hackettstown, Sr.
  • Kim Curcio, Hackettstown, Fr.
  • Kayla Cuttito, Lenape Valley, Sr.
  • Emily Barling, Lenape Valley, Sr.
  • Megan Glancey, Lenape Valley, Jr.
  • Mallory Morelli, Pope John, Jr.
  • Emily Glory, Pope John, Sr.
  • Keirra Wingle, High Point, Sr.
  • McConnell Platek, North Warren, Sr.

Honorable Mention

  • Cassidy Mullroy, Kittatinny, Jr.
  • Alyssa Griswold, Jefferson, Sr.
  • Caitlyn Montgomery, Hackettstown, So.
  • Victoria Erlemann, Lenape Valley, So.
  • Mia Lauzon, Pope John, Jr.
  • Emmallee Besser, North Warren, So.
  • Olivia Dunn, High Point, Sr.

SOUTH DIVISION

First Team

  • Margaret Sullivan, St. Elizabeth
  • Quinn Galligan, St. Elizabeth
  • Annalisa Bio, St. Elizabeth
  • Avery Amato, St. Elizabeth
  • Abba Diglio, Whippany Park
  • Ava Gallo, Whippany Park
  • Samantha Cicerone, Whippany Park
  • Hannah Glaser, Boonton
  • Kayla Manna, Boonton
  • Kaylee Whritenour, Boonton
  • Sydney Mulroony, Morris Hills
  • Taylor Clawson, Morris Hills
  • Kyra Morena, Morris Hills
  • Alexandra Wright, Parsippany Hills
  • Alexandra Hockwitt, Parsippany Hills

Second Team

  • Catherine Holt, Union Catholic
  • Lucia Ferriso, St. Elizabeth
  • Lauren Kilgore, St. Elizabeth
  • Kate Condon, St. Elizabeth
  • Grace Gehm, St. Elizabeth
  • Abigail Bridge, Whippany Park
  • Jesse Simmons, Whippany Park
  • Madelyn Wright, Parsippany Hills
  • Rachael Beehler, Parsippany Hills
  • Lourdes Ignacio, Parsippany Hills
  • Hayley Roller, Boonton
  • Bethany Glaser, Boonton
  • Caroline Cote, Morris Hills
  • Bryanna McOmish, Morris Hills
  • Jasmine Bhavsar, Parsippany Hills

Honorable Mention

  • Kelsey Tallis, Boonton
  • Ashley Petrosine, Morris Hills
  • Priscilla Wang, Parsippany
  • Kimberly Jandora, Parsippany Hills
  • Jane Howard, St. Elizabeth
  • Nadine Rouba, Union Catholic
  • Jamie DeBellonia, Whippany Park

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Nanticoke

Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center celebrates 40th anniversary

What began as a standalone community hospital on East Mountain Drive in Plains Twp. has transformed into a regional medical center with a mission to make better health easier for residents of Luzerne County and beyond.

Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

Its history traces back to 1981 when three hospitals merged into the one that would modernize health care delivery in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Originally NPW Medical Center, a consolidation of Nanticoke, Pittston and Wyoming Valley hospitals, the health care facility was renamed Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center shortly after opening, as Geisinger joined the collaboration after Nanticoke’s withdrawal.

Geisinger recently received five-star status from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid as it celebrates its four decades of service to the community.

It is the highest quality and patient safety score bestowed by the organization, putting the medical center among the top 14% of hospitals in the country.

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the rating is based on five categories: mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience and timely and effective care.

Dr. Karlyn Paglia, chief medical officer at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, said Geisinger Wyoming Valley is the only CMS five-star hospital in Northeast Pennsylvania.

“We are proud to provide care of unsurpassed quality to residents of the region,” Paglia said. “With a full spectrum of services available to our patients and members, we look forward to caring for our community for many more years to come.”

Andy Carter, president and CEO of the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, said Geisinger is a “leading contributor to health care and insurance coverage” throughout much of the state.

“Geisinger has fostered innovation and played a central role in improving access to quality health care,” Carter said. “They are one of the nation’s few fully integrated health systems that brings insurance…

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Mohegan

Theater Review: “Where We Belong” at Woolly Mammoth

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Madeline Sayet opens Where We Belong () not with her own story, but one from the land she is performing on. In a voiceover, she tells of Nansonnan, one of the last traditional chiefs of the Piscataway, on whose territory Washingon, D.C. now sits. We hear that Nansonnan demanded justice from colonial authorities after the ransacking of her late daughter’s grave, one of the few times we can hear the Piscataway speak for themselves in records from that time. The story, she acknowledges, is not her own. It is of another woman, belonging to a different people, in another time.

When Sayet begins her own personal history, it is in a more surprising place. Recalling a flight from London to Stockholm, far from home, she opens her solo show with the tale of a brash Swedish border guard asking the passengers how they voted in the then-recent Brexit referendum. Not British herself, Sayet was, of course, unable to vote, but she satisfies the guard by telling him she would have voted to remain. It’s not lost on Sayet that she found safety on the “correct” side of a conflict, much the way the Mohegans did centuries ago, when, as she reflects, their leader Uncas allied with the British and thus spared his followers the genocidal fate of their Pequot kin.

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The affinity between Nansonnan’s 1707 demand for justice, Uncas’ sage diplomacy and Sayet’s present-day journey to the UK to study…

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Mohican-Memorial Shrine salutes fallen heroes

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is courtesy of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

LOUDONVILLE — Tucked away in a peaceful corner of Mohican-Memorial State Forest in Ashland County is a place where families, friends and ordinary citizens can pause to reflect on Ohioans killed in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Afghanistan and Iraq operations.

The Mohican-Memorial Shrine is the state’s official monument to her nearly 20,000 sons and daughters who died in those conflicts.

A joint initiative of ODNR and the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Mohican-Memorial Shrine was completed in 1947. It is maintained by the ODNR Division of Forestry, which also oversees the surrounding 270-acre Memorial Park and 4,525-acre state forest.

Mohican-Memorial Shrine 1947

More than 60,000 Women’s Club members from all over the state worked two years to raise the construction funds. Legislation required that all materials and companies involved in the construction be native to Ohio. Roof timbers were hewn from state forest trees.

The native Ohio sandstone blocks came from a nearby quarry. Roof tiles were manufactured in New Lexington and floor tiles in Zanesville.

A Columbus art glass studio created the shrine’s six stained-glass windows, which depict peace doves with olive branches, as well as red cardinals (the state bird) and buckeye trees (the state tree).

Two epic wood-bound books containing the hand-lettered names of 20,000 Ohio war dead are preserved in a glass case within the shrine’s grotto.

The “great books” are the centerpieces of the shrine, drawing an average of 3,000 to 5,000 people to the grounds each year. More people came in the years following World War II, before construction of Interstate 71 and the accelerated pace of modern life took a toll on the number of annual visitors.

A set of…

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Michael Arace: Once a state prison, Arena District is now a world-class sports experience

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Lower.com CEO Dan Snyder talks about the stadium naming rights

Video: Lower.com CEO Dan Snyder says the Crew stadium naming rights came about from a sales call.

Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

Saturday evening brings the grand opening of the Crew’s new stadium. A sellout crowd and a national television audience will get its first look as the third and final jewel of the Arena District, which rates as one of the most beautiful sports complexes of its kind in the United States. 

Is that an overstatement? No, it is not.  

About a quarter mile, or 440 yards, separates the east plaza of the soccer stadium. Lower.com Field, from the west plaza of Nationwide Arena. In between is Huntington Park, home of the Triple-A Clippers. 

Nothing quite like it

There are cities with notable clusters of at least three sports facilities. Detroit has done a wonderful job reinventing itself this way; Pittsburgh’s venues are lovely, especially the football and baseball stadiums that stand beside the confluence of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers; Cleveland deserves mention in this conversation, as do Denver and Minneapolis, among others. 

Unlike these cities, Columbus does not have three major-league teams.  

More: Columbus Crew’s new stadium cements Arena District’s evolution into sports destination

What Columbus does have, as of today, is a parcel of three pro-sports facilities of architectural beauty, tightly compacted in a downtown…

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Lenni Lenape

Man, 23, drowns in river at Weymouth Furnace in Atlantic County

Atlantic County authorities located the body of a 23-year-old man who drowned Sunday while swimming at Weymouth Furnace park, a popular gathering place and starting point for canoeing and kayaking on the Great Egg Harbor River.

The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. at a watering hole with posted signs warning that swimming and standing in the water are prohibited. The park is located on Route 559 in Mays Landing, just north of the Black Horse Pike, in Hamilton Township

The victim, who was not identified, was pronounced dead after he was pulled from the water around 4:30. 

Weymouth Furnace remains closed to visitors on Monday amid an ongoing investigation.

Swimming is not permitted in Atlantic County parks, with the exception of The Cove in Lake Lenape Park, which is patrolled by a lifeguard. 

“County officials remind the public of the importance of only swimming in guarded, designated areas whether in the ocean, a swimming pool, lake or river,” Atlantic County said in a statement on Sunday’s incident. 

A witness told the Press of Atlantic City that three young men were tubing on the river and were not acting in a reckless way at the time of the incident. The water appears to be shallow, but drops off steeply and suddenly. When one of the men went under, his friend reportedly ran to get help. 

Several people in the area attempted to locate and rescue the man before first responders arrived. 

Weymouth Furnace, located about 22 miles northwest of Atlantic City, is a former industrial site that was first an iron production facility in the 1800s and later the location of paper mills. The remnants of industrial buildings still stand on the property. Atlantic County acquired a portion of the area in 1966, maintaining it as a historic site within the county park system….

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Nanticoke

LSLL Senior League wins District 3 softball championship

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The Lower Sussex Little League District 3 Senior All-Stars won their games over Nanticoke and Laurel, 12-1 and 15-3, on Monday, June 2.

Coastal Point photos • Jason Feather

Every year around this time, the Little League All-Star circuit begins, and it’s generally a safe bet that the District 3 softball titles will come through Lower Sussex Little League.

Such was the case on Monday, June 28, when the LSLL Senior League girls swept their way to yet another district championship with wins over Nanticoke/Laurel by scores of 12-1 and 15-3.

Megan Daisey picked up the win in the circle for the first game, and Kinsley Hall was victorious in Game 2. Neither struggled to stay ahead of the N/L hitters from start to finish.

Offensively, LSLL banged out 14 hits in Game 1, with Laniya Lewis and Jaya Shaub the big blows as each slammed home runs over the outfield fence. Shaub’s solo blast was the lone run scored for the locals in the third inning. Lewis drove her shot high and deep into the trees in center field for a three-run bomb in the fourth.

Hall went 3-for-3 in the game, with three singles and three runs scored. Shaub finished up the game 3-for-4, with a pair of singles in addition to her home run and scored three runs. Logan Marvel was 3-for-4, with two singles and a double.

In the nightcap, Hall did it from the circle and at the dish, helping her own cause going 4-for-5 with an inside-the-park home run, in addition to her three singles and four runs scored. Izzy Wade also scored four runs for the winners and finished 3-for-4, with a double and two singles. Shaub once again swung a big bat, going 4-for-5…

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Mohegan

GNACC: Thames River Heritage Park Features Native American Boat Tour With Mohegan Tribe

June 25, 2021

Take a themed boat tour on Connecticut’s most unique attraction

NEW LONDON, Ct. – The Thames River Heritage Park, in collaboration with the Mohegan Tribe, this weekend presents a new historic boat tour “Water, Wampum, and Medicine Wheels. Mohegan Life on the Thames.” Led by Tribal members, this fascinating tour will include stories demonstrating how crucial the Thames River was for food, wildlife, transportation, and trade as well as their relationship with the colonists. The Mohegans were the first in habitants along the Thames settling here toward the end of the 16th century. The Tribal interpreter will also explain the wampum system and will have some on hand.

The tour will run this Saturday at 4:30 pm and 6:15 pm. Additional dates for this tour and others offered by the Park can be found at https://www.thamesriverheritagepark.org/boat-tours.The tour is 75 minutes long and will originate at City Pier behind Union Station in the heart of New London’s Historic Waterfront District Tickets: Adult: $25, Children ages 4-12: $18 and Children ages 0-3: Free.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $18 for children under 12 who are accompanied by an adult. Tickets are available at www.thamesriverheritagepark.org

Our 2021 sponsors include Groton Utilities, 98.7 WNLC, The Day, Crockers Boatyard, the Garde Arts Center, Engineering and Consulting Center for Excellence, and Foxwoods Resort

About: The Thames River Heritage Park is a new kind of state park, one without boundaries. The park is a collection of more than a dozen national and historic sites along the shores of the Thames River – linked by a water taxi – that tell the stories that shaped our nation. Visit www.thamesriverheritagepark.organd be sure to follow us on Facebook.

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At The Mission House, ‘Mohican Miles’ gives voice to Stockbridge’s first community

The Mission House exhibit shares the history and culture of the Stockbridge–Munsee Mohican Nation. Photo: Brian Cruey

STOCKBRIDGE — From the banks of the Konkapot River to the cascading waters of Umpachene Falls, the history of the Stockbridge–Munsee Mohican Nation runs deep in Berkshire County. Conversations surrounding the origins of the federally recognized Tribal Nation in Wisconsin — which began in the Hudson and Housatonic River Valleys of the Northeast — have not always been as audible as the rushing bodies of water named for the leaders of two Housatonic Mohican villages in 1734.

Today, 165 years after The Nation was forcibly relocated to what are now the towns of Red Springs and Bartelme in Shawano County, Wisconsin (a result of the Treaty of 1856), a new exhibit at The Mission House Museum gives voice not only to Mohican history and culture, but to land as a source of traditions and identity, and tackles the repercussions of an entire group being forcibly uprooted from their ancestral home.

“We are excited that we have a place to call ours to tell our history, our way. The history that Mohican Nation has in Stockbridge is significant and we are grateful to be able to tell it,” said Heather Bruegl, cultural affairs director for the Stockbridge–Munsee Community, about “Mohican Miles,” the exhibit opening July 2 at The Mission House. Created through collaboration with The Trustees of Reservations, the exhibit covers a wide range of topics, including an overview of Mohican history, the Tribe’s historic relationship with The Trustees, information about the community today, the work…

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Ashland area prepares for July 4 festivities

ASHLAND — Fireworks. Live music. Classic cars. 

The Ashland area will host a variety of festivities for the upcoming July 4 holiday weekend.

City of Ashland

The Rotary Club of Ashland will put on a fireworks show at Ashland Community Stadium on July 4. 

The rotary raised $17,500 for the fireworks show this year, which will start at approximately 9:15 p.m. As was the case last year, no one will be permitted to sit in the grandstands during the fireworks show, but the fireworks can be viewed from streets and backyards throughout the city. 

From 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on July 2, the rotary club will be gifting children fun packs (glow sticks, bendable neon toys, hacky sack balls, bubbles, candy and popcorn). The fun packs will be offered to the first 200 children who show up at the Rotary tent, located in the parking lot of Armstrong Cable.  

Loudonville 

In the Village of Loudonville, fireworks will be presented by Zambelli Fireworks on July 4 in Riverside Park at dusk, around 9:30 p.m. 

For its 21st year, Loudonville will host a car show. The show, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 3, will feature approximately 500 classic cars from various decades. The streets of downtown Loudonville will be closed for traffic during the show. Pre-registration and registration fees are required for vehicle owners participating in the car show. 

Loudonville car show

Loudonville Car Show. File Photo. 

Mohican State Park will also host activities in Loudonville July 2-4. Dinner will be offered in the Bromfield’s Dining Room, located in the Mohican Lodge and Conference Center, each of the three nights beginning at 5 p.m. Dinner will run until 9 p.m. on July 2 and 3, and 8 p.m. on July 4. 

On July 2, a scavenger hunt will be held…

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