Month: August 2021

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Munsee

Halo Infinite Xbox Series X console is a space-themed monolith – how to get it

The Gamescom 2021 showcase finally revealed the Halo Infinite release date, but that’s not all – there will be a limited edition Halo Infinite Xbox Series X console and controller coming out, too, and preorders are live. 

If you’ve already got a system, there’s also an Xbox Elite Wireless Controller patterned after the Master Chief that’s up for pre-order now, too. 

The console pre-order is live on Microsoft’s Xbox store for $549 / £479 (around AU$755), and pre-orders should go live soon on other retailers. 

The console itself dresses up the Xbox Series X with a Halo-themed skin – sorry, there’s not a speck of Master Chief green in sight, but series fans will appreciate the geometric gray and black with burnished gold detail as feeling a bit more USMC, making the ‘black fridge’ console look a bit more like the Pillar of Autumn. The top of the console has a cool starfield effect, so perhaps it’s more like peering out of a cockpit? Interesting choices here.

Xbox Senior Marketing Manager Josh Munsee first tweeted the news, which was followed up by an official tweet with pre-order link:

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The limited-edition Xbox Series X’s controller gets its own skin, too, with the same light gray and black-rimmed with gold look. Munsee confirmed in a follow-up tweet that fans won’t be able to buy this separately, so your way way to get a new one is ordering the limited edition console outright.

Halo Infinite Xbox controller

(Image credit: Microsoft)

The Master Chief gets his own controller

For fans who desperately need Halo flavor in their gamepads, the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series…

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Lenni Lenape

Community digest 08/26/2021

Wyoming Valley

Luzerne County Historical Society will host musician Melanie Zinkanis from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29, at the Nathan Denison House, 35 Denison St., Forty Fort. She will play period music on the harpsichord and violin on site. Tours of the 1790 home will also be given by docents in period attire. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children and free for LCHS members. Public is welcome. Reservations are not required. Nathan Denison was one of the first 40 shareholders in the Susquehanna Company to settle five new towns in the Wyoming Valley in February 1769. Denison became a popular leader of the pioneer settlers from Connecticut. He served as a justice of the peace and colonel of the local militia. He was the second in command at the Battle of Wyoming, and was present at the surrender of the Wyoming Valley in 1778. Founded in 1858, the Luzerne County Historical Society is Pennsylvania’s oldest county historical society. For information, visit the website, www.luzernehistory.org or follow the society on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/luzernehistory/.

The Music Box Players non-profit theatre company will hold auditions for “All Together Now,” a musical review opening the Music Box Dinner Playhouse 40th anniversary season at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12-13 at the Music Box Dinner Playhouse, 196 Hughes St., Swoyersville. Production dates are Nov. 12-14. Auditions are open for all ages 12 and older. Director Dana Feigenblatt asks all auditioning to prepare a song of their choice. Bring a recorded accompaniment. The revue celebrates the worldwide return to live theatre and also the Music Box 40th anniversary. Many of the songs are from shows presented by the Players since 1981 such as “Guys and Dolls,” “Les Miserables,” “My Fair Lady,” “Oliver,” “Into the Woods,” and others. Call 570 283-2195 for information or visit…

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Nanticoke

‘Food cougher’ at Gerrity’s sent to jail

Margaret Cirko of Hanover Township was given a jail sentence and must pay $30,000 in restitution.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The woman accused of purposely coughing on fresh food inside a grocery store was sentenced on Tuesday in Luzerne County.

We still didn’t know much about COVID-19 at the time when Margaret Cirko purposely coughed and spit all over the food displays inside a Gerrity’s supermarket in Hanover Township while saying, “I have the virus, now you’re all going to get sick.’

“People were really, really scared,” said Joe Fasula, a co-owner of Gerrity’s. “We had a lot of employees that really got freaked out by the whole thing. But people kept showing up to work, and I think the customers saw that we took it very seriously, and it actually gave them some confidence that we were going to be a safe place to shop.”

Fasula was in court when Cirko was sentenced. She pleaded guilty to a felony weapons of mass destruction charge in June.

“I was kind of relieved the whole thing is over. I do feel bad for her. It seems like she really has a lot of issues, and she needs a lot of help,” Fasula said. “I’m just glad that this sets a precedent to anybody else that might think of doing something like this, that there’s repercussions.”

Those repercussions include jail time. Cirko was sentenced to one to two years in jail plus eight years of probation. She has to pay back nearly $30,000 to Gerrity’s insurance company for all the food the store had to throw away.

“I think that’s appropriate. I think she needs to learn her lesson. And for the short period of time she’s going there, I think that’s a good rehab project for her,” said Dr. George Cheponis.

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Mohegan

Sun shut down Aces again to clinch playoff berth

Mohegan — It was news to Connecticut Sun head coach Curt Miller when he found out over an hour before Tuesday night’s game that his team would clinch a playoff berth with a win over the Las Vegas Aces.

Miller said he wasn’t going to tell his team.

He lied.

“Trust me, he made us aware,” the Sun’s DeWanna Bonner said with a grin. “We were like, ‘OK, we just want to win.’”

The Sun went out and once again got the league’s highest-scoring team stuck in mud. They won 76-62 in a battle between first-place teams to sweep the three-game regular-season series with the Aces before 4,012 at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Connecticut (18-6) its sixth straight game, a season high. It was also the third time this season it held Las Vegas under 70 points. The latter had averaged a league-high 90.5 points.

“So proud of our effort, our tenacity, our toughness tonight against an elite team,” Miller said. “They play at the fastest pace. They’re the league-leaders in points in the paint You name it, offensively, analytically, they’re the best in the league. And they have great depth.

“For us to hold them again in the 60s is just a credit to how hard we play (defensively).”

Connecticut also took sole control of first place after the Minnesota Lynx knocked off the defending WNBA champion Seattle Storm 76-70. The Sun has a one-game lead over both teams with eight games to go.

Seattle swept the Sun this season.

Bonner scored 14 of her 18 points in the second half along with nine rebounds, four assists and three steals for Connecticut.

Briann January had the hot hand in the first half for the Sun. She scored 12 of her season-high 19 in that half and added three steals.

Brionna Jones had 15 points, eight rebounds…

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Mohican

Growing concerns for missing East Ayrshire man

Police have launched an appeal to try and trace a missing man from Muirkirk.

Murray Tanner, 48, was last seen at his home address in the Lapraik Avenue area around 11pm on Monday night.

There is growing concern for his welfare.

He is described as being 6ft 1in tall, well built, with fair blonde hair in a Mohican style.

At the time he went missing it is thought he was wearing a teal-coloured North Face jacket.

Police say that when he left his home address, Murray was driving a Silver Vauxhall Crosslander VRM with registration plates SD70 PUO.

Sergeant Mark Wason, of Cumnock police station, said: “Murray has now been missing for a couple of days and we are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare and are keen to find him as soon as possible.

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“This is very out of character for him and I would urge anyone who may have seen either Murray or the silver Vauxhall Crosslander VRM, to contact us. Similarly, if Murray is reading this, let us know you are safe and well.”

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Lenni Lenape

Puppets Are Immigrants Too

The puppets that arrived in New York City in 1738 were certainly not the first here. Puppets had been created way before then by the Lenape people, who lived in the area for centuries; some of the tiny finger masks they made to represent the god of hunting, Misinghali’kun, in religious rituals still exist. And the Dutch had a tradition of puppetry dating back to the fourteenth century, so surely itinerant Dutch puppeteers existed in New Amsterdam, the colony that their countrymen established in 1624, four decades before the British took over the city and renamed it. But the first-known specific record of a puppet show in New York is an advertisement in the New-York Gazette newspaper, from February 1738, for The Adventures of Harlequin and Scaramouche, or The Spaniard Trick’d, to be performed at Mr. Holt’s Long Room for a ticket price of five shillings.

Both Harlequin and Scaramouche are characters in Punch and Judy, which is “probably one of the oldest continually performed puppetry traditions,” Monxo López explained to me, after he had shown me the exhibit of the Lenape finger mask and the reproduction of the Punch and Judy ad. Now he was pointing out different puppets, from Italy, Germany, Poland and France, each of which was a variation on the Punch character. They were among more than a hundred puppets on display in “Puppets of New York,” the exhibition López curated for the Museum of the City of New York, located in East Harlem.

“Almost every culture has developed their version of Punch”—a political puppet who “speaks truth to power,” López said. And nearly every culture’s puppetry, as his exhibition made clear, found its way to New York City.

“The Chinese were among the earliest here. There were the big dragons used in the…

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Nanticoke

Layman L. Jackson, Nanticoke elder

Layman L. Jackson, 95, of Millsboro went home to be with the Lord Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, at home. He was born Feb. 13, 1926, to the late William W. and Sarah Jannie Jackson in Millsboro. He was a member of Harmony United Methodist Church.

Layman also known as “Pop” to many, resided in Millsboro his entire life. He received his education at the Nanticoke Indian School and is a member of the tribal association. As one of the eldest members of the Nanticoke Tribe, his jovial demeanor, funny stories and jokes brought many smiles to people all over. Layman, “He Who Makes You Laugh,” could be found at almost any tribal event.

He was a U.S. WWII Naval Officer veteran and a member of the Oak Orchard/Riverdale American Legion Post 28. In 2017 NABVETS Delaware Chapter #94 recognized him as a Native American WWII Navy veteran who served our country with pride and dignity. During the ceremony he received a tribute from the Office of the Governor and Office of Representatives for his selfless acts of protecting life and defending our nation.

He was a truck driver for most of his life. After retiring, he and his wife started Irene’s Cleaning Services. He enjoyed camping, fishing, crabbing, bowling, going to the Powwow and never wanted to miss BJ’s Auction night, owned by Arnold Huffman who for 37 years thought of him as a father. He was an avid fan of boxing, NASCAR racing and those old-time western movies. He enjoyed sitting outside by his shed hoping someone would stop and visit, and if not, he’d grab his hat and we’d ask, “Dad where are you going?” He’d reply, “just taking a ride around the block.” He wanted to see if anyone else in the neighborhood would be outside, and…

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Munsee

DIRE Committee Approves Resolution Calling On Williamstown To Carry Out Equity Efforts

Committee member Andrew Art read the text of the resolution at Monday’s meeting. It demands Williamstown carry out a citizens’ petition passed unanimously at its 2020 town meeting.

“The DIRE Advisory Committee strongly recommends that Williamstown boards, committees and agencies, including the select board and interim town manager, begin to take actions to implement Article 37,” read Art. “And the third paragraph says, to assess progress towards the goals of Article 37, the DIRE Advisory Committee asked the interim town manager, the chair of the Select board, and the chairs of limbs, town boards, committees and commissions, commissions and bodies to respond promptly by email to direcom@williamstownma.gov to the following questions.”

The questions include asking official bodies to analyze their efforts towards making Williamstown more accessible, equitable, and better trained to address systemic racism and structures that leave marginalized groups excluded.

“And then the last question is whether they will commit to sharing quarterly reports to the DIRE committee going forward,” continued Art. “So this request for information is really to try to gain some more definitive information about what has been done to implement Article 37.”

In meetings past, the DIRE committee has noted that the town has not delivered the quarterly reports mandated by the article on equity efforts.

“I want to make sure that the other boards and committees in town know that this is a part of their work and it’s a part of our work, and that we hope to do this work together as a community, so that it isn’t about, it’s not about DIRE saying, you’re not doing a good job,” said Chair Kerri Nicoll. “But really trying to understand what’s happened in the past and how they’re thinking about Article 37. And then how we might work together to implement it more fully.”

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Mohegan

Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment Withdraw from Japan’s IR Pursuit Citing Unethical Conduct

Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment has revealed details of its sudden withdrawal from its pursuit for an integrated resort (IR) license in Japan.

Mohegan Gaming, which is a gaming unit of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, said that Oshidori International Development decided to abandon the Nagasaki consortium’s ambitions

Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment CEO Ray Pineault said Oshidori decided due to the significant financial impact of the pursuit.

“This decision was made solely by Oshidori and does not have any significant financial impact on us, as we were providing operational expertise and assistance for the request for proposal process and did not anticipate any meaningful cash flow or expenses related to this project.”

Mohegan is not the only global gaming casino firm that has abandoned ongoing Japan’s IR pursue. Las Vegas Sands shocked the industry in March when it withdrew from pursuing Japan’s IR permit.

Late Sands founder Sheldon Adelson cited development issues that made IR goal unreachable.

Wynn Resorts and Caesars Entertainment also withdrew from bidding for Japan’s casino license. MGM is the only major gaming entity that is actively pursuing the Osaka IR license. However, MGM has reduced its investment state that it previously planned.

Mohegan Gaming which has casino resorts in the US, Canada, and South Korea was not considered the highest bidder for the Nagasaki prefecture license. After the Oshidori revelation, Nagasaki also announced their pick for an IR partner-Casino Austria.

The Nagasaki government said that Casino Austria scored 697.0 points while Mohegan scored 682.8 points. Oshidori claimed that the rating was flawed, and added that they only sought to partake in an ethical IR process.

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Mohican

Mohican Fire Tower offers spectacular view of the region

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

PERRYSVILLE — The Mohican Fire Tower is 80-feet tall and was constructed in 1934.

At the time it was built, the Mohican Fire Tower had an average visibility of 10 miles in all directions. This allowed the towerman to keep an eye on approximately 200,000 acres of land.

Mohican Fire Tower vertical

Fire towers were once crucial to spotting forest fires.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, fire wardens and foresters used wildfire lookout towers to spot blazes on Ohio lands. Ohio’s fire towers were staffed by lookouts and equipped with binoculars, maps, a radio, telephone, and an alidade – a device used to pinpoint a wildfire location.

Aerial surveillance of wildfires by aircraft began in the 1940s, and Ohio’s fire towers were slowly phased out. The last tower was closed in 1978.

While monitoring from fire towers is a thing of the past, they remain a proud symbol of forest conservation and a monument to the people who worked to preserve our natural resources.

When weather conditions allow, visitors can climb the stairs of the tower at their own risk. From the top of the tower, the Mohican Fire Tower provides a magnificent 360-degree view of the surrounding forests and hills.

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