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Columbus police make flurry of homicide arrests, including one in Coshocton

Columbus police detectives have arrested suspects in four homicides in the city, as well as a suspect in a homicide in Westerville, in the last week. 

On Tuesday night, Coshocton County Sheriff’s Special Response Team deputies assisted Columbus police in arresting 19-year-old Talent Bradley, of Coshocton, at a home on the 700 block of Elm Street there. Bradley, who was taken into custody without incident, has been charged in connection to two separate homicides. 

More: Teen charged in May shooting death of another teen; man’s death on NE Side ruled a homicide

Detectives have accused Bradley of stabbing 63-year-old Randy Gwirtz to death inside Gwirtz’s home on the 1400 block of Fahlander Drive South, located in Columbus’ Woodward Park neighborhood off of Karl Road. Gwirtz was found on June 7 after relatives said they had not been able to get in touch with him for several days. 

Bradley is also accused of killing 62-year-old Robert Goodrich on May 27 inside Goodrich’s home on the 600 block of Mohican Way near Cherrington Elementary School in Westerville. 

Both men are believed to have been stabbed to death on May 26, according to Westerville police.

Court records show Bradley was identified by Columbus police homicide detectives who were able to trace a vehicle registered to Bradley that was seen on surveillance video near Goodrich’s home, as well as cellphone records that indicated Bradley had searched for Gwirtz’s address prior to his death.

Westerville police also said Bradley met both men through the dating app Grindr.

More: Westerville police seek vehicle owner in connection with Robert Goodrich’s death

Bradley is currently being held in the Coshocton County jail and will be extradited back to Franklin County.

Columbus homicide detectives have also arrested 27-year-old Brittany Weldon, of the Near East Side, in connection with the July 2 shooting death of 49-year-old Eric…

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Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment releases hopeful South Korea update

American tribal casino operator Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment has reportedly declared that it is now hopeful of being able to start welcoming guests to its Inspire Entertainment Resort development in South Korea during the second quarter of 2023.

According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, the enterprise of the United States’ federally-recognized Mohegan Tribe began work on the impressive three-tower casino resort in 2016 with plans to begin opening by the middle of next year. However, the source detailed that this schedule was later scuppered as a result of delays linked to the coronavirus pandemic and the complexities associated with securing adequate sources of funding.

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Facing the prospect of losing its gambling license for the coming venue altogether and Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment subsequently asked the government of South Korea for a six-month extension to its original deal. The Connecticut-based operator was later reportedly granted this extra time to take the envisioned opening date for the enterprise to no later than the end of June of 2023.

Enthusiastic expectation:

Bobby Soper, International President for Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment, reportedly used a recent interview to declare that his firm now intends to begin opening its five-star Inspire Entertainment Resort ‘hopefully in the second quarter of 2023’. But the man who served as the operator’s boss for two years until February of 2017 moreover purportedly pronounced that any delays could result in this ultimate being pushed to the ‘third quarter latest 2023.’

Soper reportedly proclaimed…

“It’s been a rollercoaster, we’ve had our ups and downs, and coronavirus certainly threw a curve ball. But, we’re in the ground and we have significant investment in the ground. We need to finalize some of the final financing and I just spent two and…

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Nanticoke

Life is a journey; each day is a path

When Natosha Norwood Carmine was growing up in Millsboro, she can’t remember ever having heard conversations about being Native American or a Nanticoke. Decades later, she’s the chief of the Nanticokes, having first been elected head of the tribal association in 2015.

We’re walking in the gentle surf along Lewes Beach early on a quiet morning. “We were a river people,” Carmine said, explaining how the tribe was centered along what was later named the Indian River near Millsboro. 

I ask her what she sees as she looks out over the bay beach.

“Peace. Calming. Refreshment. Clearing the mind. Water taking you up the state of Delaware.” She pauses. “To me, this is us.”

The beach in Rehoboth, in contrast, makes her think of ‘the elders’ and a time not to be proud of. That was when the state closed the three Native American one-room schools (her grandmother taught in one of them), and concerned parents sent their children to the Indian school in distant Lawrence, Kansas, carrying “a cardboard suitcase with everything they owned.” She remembers her father selling pecks of tomatoes to townsfolk, because “My mother couldn’t go in the restaurants.”

Carmine is the first woman to head the tribe. She hadn’t realized or even thought about that until reporters started calling and asking how it felt to be the first female chief. Her response: “Compared to what?”

The indigenous people ‘discovered’ by Capt. John Smith in his 1608 exploration called themselves Kuskarawaok; they would later be known to colonists by their Algonquin language word as Nantaquak, “people of the tidewaters.” They were one of the largest tribes on the Eastern Shore, 200 warriors and their families. 

The language became extinct in the mid-1800s with the death of the last fluent speaker, but per Thomas Jefferson’s order in…

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Weaving art into nature | Times News Online

Published August 12. 2021 02:45PM

Grasslands have been a key part of healing the once-barren slopes of the Lehigh Gap.

A new art project on the grounds of the Lehigh Gap Nature Center uses those same grasses to beautify the area and celebrate the natives who once called the area home.

“Savannah Echo,” by Seattle-based artist Sarah Kavage, is an outdoor art installation. With help from three local assistants, Kavage wove grasses into long braids at the crossing of the LNE trail and Bobolink trail. The project is located about a mile north of the nature center’s Osprey House.

“My hope is to open people’s eyes to something that is ordinary, and all around but they may not notice,” Kavage said.

Over the past three years, Kavage has completed over a dozen projects at nature centers which make up the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River. Her projects are part of an initiative known as Lenapehoking Watershed, which honors the Lenni Lenape people who lived along the Delaware.

Instead of paint or clay, Kavage does her art almost entirely with the grasses which grow at the project sites. Each project is different based on what grows at the site.

The grass at Lehigh Gap Nature Center helps tell the story of the reclamation of the mountain. Twenty years ago, no vegetation grew in that area of the Kittatinny Ridge, due to contamination from industrial operations in the area. In 2003, the nature center seeded grasses along the landscape. Those grasses have helped create new soil which helps prevent erosion and keeps heavy metals from entering the food chain.

Kavage has used braided grass in other projects, and she particularly likes the idea of working with vegetation which is playing a…

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Discovery’s ‘Expedition Unknown’ host Josh Gates travels to Mohegan Sun Pocono in Wilkes-Barre on Oct. 9

 Added on 08/13/2021  NEPA Scene Staff  Mohegan Sun Pocono , TV show , Wilkes-Barre Discovery’s ‘Expedition Unknown’ host Josh Gates travels to Mohegan Sun Pocono in Wilkes-Barre on Oct. 9

From a press release:

The latest global conquest of Josh Gates, host of the hit Discovery Channel series “Expedition Unknown,” finds him in Wilkes-Barre again this fall.

On Saturday, Oct. 9, Gates will bring “An Evening of Ghosts, Monsters, and Tales of Adventure” to the Keystone Grand Ballroom at Mohegan Sun Pocono. This exploration of cutting-edge science kicks off at 7:30 p.m. and is a show for all ages.

Tickets, which start at $30, go on sale this Monday, Aug. 16 at 10 a.m. via ticketmaster.com.

Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Pocono Box Office located at the Player’s Club. Guests who are 21 and older who purchase their tickets at the box office will receive one voucher per ticket for $10 in free slot play, valid on Saturday, Oct. 9. Limited premium seating with a VIP meet and greet experience will be available for $75.

Gates previously visited the nearby F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre for a talk in 2019.

Josh Gates is an avid explorer whose unique brand of humor and deep-rooted passion for adventure propels him to the farthest corners of the world. Discovery Channel’s hit series “Expedition Unknown” chronicles Gates as he sets out on a global quest to find the truth behind iconic legends and thrilling archaeological mysteries.

In the four-part global event “Expedition Unknown: Search for the Afterlife,” Gates tackles mankind’s ultimate mystery as he investigates ancient rituals, paranormal claims, and cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs on the…

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Initiative to support Indigenous artists announces inaugural residencies and grants

A part of the “Forge House” in Taghkanic, New York

The artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) and three other recipients have been awarded $25,000 fellowships from the Forge Project, an initiative launched this year that aims to address disparities around the representation of Indigenous artists. The residencies will take place for various durations in Taghkanic, New York, within a modular home the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei designed in 2006 for the art collector Christopher Tsai.

The initiative was founded by the American philanthropist Becky Gochman in collaboration with the directors Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation) and Heather Bruegl (Oneida/Stockbridge-Munsee). It was envisioned as “a point of influence for the broader art world” that will support the creation of a comprehensive collection of Indigenous artworks and educational programmes that aim to prompt dialogue around decolonisation, according to Hopkins.

The project has amassed a collection of more than 100 works by living Indigenous artists, including Nicholas Galanin’s (Tlingit/Unangax̂) Never Forget (2021)—an appropriation of the Hollywood sign with the words Indian Land—and Cannupa Hanska Luger’s mirrored shields (2016) from the Standing Rock protests.

“There are some significant examples of an artist’s practice and contemporary art as a whole in the collection, and from the beginning it’s been intended to be a working collection,” Hopkins says. “It will be loaned, open for research and digitised and available online.”

She adds, “There’s a great imbalance between how works by Native artists are valued versus works by non-Native artists, and many Native artists don’t even have gallery representation. Part of what Forge can do through the collection is try to address that gap in value, make their work more public and give Native artists their due.”

Other recipients of the grant include the architect Chris T. Cornelius (Oneida), the…

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School to start with full masking for K-8 at Greater Nanticoke Area

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<p>Trees outside of Greater Nanticoke Area High School were felled, leaving the stumps seen here, because they were deemed too large, too close to the building and too obstructive of security cameras.</p> <p>Mark Guydish | Times Leader</p> <p>” /></a> </p> <p>Trees outside of Greater Nanticoke Area High School were felled, leaving the stumps seen here, because they were deemed too large, too close to the building and too obstructive of security cameras.</p> <p>Mark Guydish | Times Leader</p> <p>NANTICOKE — Greater Nanticoke Area school district students and staff in grade K-8 will be required to wear face masks at the start of the school year, thanks to the escalating number of COVID-19 cases in Luzerne County, Superintendent Ron Grevera announced at the start of Thursday’s regular monthly School Board meeting.</p> <p>Higher grades will have the option to wear masks, but will be encouraged to do so. Masks will be required for all grades on a school bus.</p> <p>After the meeting, Grevera said the younger students had no problems wearing masks last year, and that the hope is vaccines for younger children will be approved soon, allowing them to get the protection that could allow masks to become optional.</p> <p>Grevera also said the district’s efforts to get students who had enrolled in outside cyber charter schools to return to the district is beginning to pay off, with at least 40 students coming back to the district so far, with an expectation that the final number could rise above 50 by the time school starts. Most years the district has had about 80 students in outside charters, but last year the number jumped to about 170.</p> <p>…<br /> <br /> <a href=Continue reading

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Your Views: Battle over Lee Street | Alexandria Times

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To the editor:

How fortunate we are to have vigilant citizens like Alex Sprague to awaken the oblivious among us to the historical implications of our city street names, like Lee Street. Sprague, who appears to have lived in Alexandria all of five years and does not live in Old Town, nevertheless professes to have “always loved this town.” He says his campaign to rename our streets is “only the beginning of a magnificent fight for equality and awareness.”

Sprague didn’t explain how renaming Lee Street would accomplish either of those things. His friend and fellow street name activist, Huayra Forster, proposes to rename Lee Street “Wanishi Street” in honor of the Piscataway and Lenape Tribes, the latter whose historical territory, according to Wikipedia, included Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York City, Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley – but not Virginia.

Today, the Lenape people live in Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada. It is unclear how renaming a street in Old Town Alexandria will help the Lenape people, who never lived here, achieve “equality.”

As for the fight for “awareness,” my wife and I lived on South Lee Street for 31 years. Of course we were aware of who the street was named after, but it was just our street and not a constant conscious reminder of our nation’s fraught racial history, the Civil War or Robert E. Lee’s role in it.

Erasing the name will do nothing to create the awareness Sprague presumably wishes to foster. Cancellation is not education. Decades from now, Wanishi Street would evoke no…

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South Dakotan Logan Storley gets homecoming fight vs. Dante Schiro at Bellator 265

With Bellator headed back to South Dakota, it’s bringing one of the state’s biggest MMA names with it.

Born in Roslyn, S.D., former Division-I All-American wrestler Logan Storley will return to the cage at Bellator 265 when he welcomes promotional newcomer Dante Schiro, a promotion official recently told MMA Junkie.

Storley (11-1 MMA, 6-1 BMMA) looks to bounce back from his first professional loss suffered to Yaroslav Amosov in November. The split decision nod earned Amosov a title shot, which he capitalized on in a dominant unanimous decision over Douglas Lima.

Schiro (8-2 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) signed with the promotion in July. He enters Bellator on a two-fight winning streak and has competed in promotions like ONE Championship and LFA.

Storley, 28, was scheduled to compete at Bellator 258 in May. However, hours before the fight was scheduled to take place, his opponent, Omar Hussein, was deemed ineligible to compete by Mohegan Tribe medical staff.

Bellator 265 takes place Aug. 20 at Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. The main card airs on Showtime after prelims on MMA Junkie.

With the addition, the Bellator 265 lineup includes:

  • Sergei Kharitonov vs. Cheick Kongo

  • Adam Borics vs. Jay Jay Wilson

  • Dante Schiro vs. Logan Storley

  • DeAnna Bennett vs. Alejandra Lara

  • Fabio Aguiar vs. Taylor Johnson

  • Kevin Childs vs. Bailey Schoenfelder

  • Mike Hamel vs. Bryce Logan

  • Archie Logan vs. Deven Fisher

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