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Nanticoke

Stelco Holdings pursing bid for U.S. Steel, sources say

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Stelco Holdings Inc., Canada’s biggest steelmaker, is pursuing a bid for United States Steel Corp., adding to a growing list of suitors for the iconic American company, according to people familiar with the matter.

Stelco is seeking to purchase the entire company as it looks to increase its portfolio of steelmaking assets and boost its share of the market for supplying metal to the automotive sector, the people said. Stelco is in talks with a potential partner on its bid, the people said, asking not to be identified because the details are private.

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No final decision has been made and Stelco could opt against making a bid, the people said.

Stelco’s interest comes amid Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel’s review of strategic alternatives, which has coincided with a rebuffed offer from rival Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. The battle for the company could spell the end of what was once the world’s biggest company.

U.S. Steel fell 0.6 per cent to close US$31.23 in New York trading Thursday, giving the company a market value of about US$7 billion. Stelco fell about one per cent to US$27.68, giving it a market value of about US$1.5 billion.

Representatives for Stelco and U.S. Steel declined to comment.

Stelco is the successor to U.S. Steel’s assets in Canada, which chief executive Alan Kestenbaum acquired out of bankruptcy in 2017.

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Mohican

1st OMBC Mohican Triathlon was no easy feat for these feet

LOUDONVILLE — I finished a race on Sept. 9, and, for a brief moment, experienced the elation of being in the lead. Happiness, however, is fleeting — especially when your legs and body cannot physically keep up. 

I can see how being in the lead of a race is motivating, though. The urge to maintain the lead is strong. But urgency cannot be the only force at work. Preparation through training is what sets apart the podium finishers with the mere finishers.

Anyway. 

It was the Mohican Triathlon, organized by Ryan O’Dell’s Ohio Mountain Bike Championship series. It’s a reintroduction of sorts to the early days when triathlons were popular around here. Back when Shannon Kurek put on races at Pleasant Hill Lake and people doing the swimming portion had to be rescued. Oh, the good ole days. Back when race directors didn’t have to worry about their snowflake participants filing lawsuits or — worse! — leaving a bad review. 

The Mohican Triathlon, with its kayaking, mountain biking and running, shouldn’t be called a triathlon. That’s at least coming from a friend, who, albeit, didn’t know the first-ever recorded triathlon in Paris involved canoes. (And, really, the name is adequate.)

It is, I concede, an odd event. At least around here. Elsewhere, a quick Google search revealed, these types of events are common. There’s the Lost Loon Triathlon in Tennessee, Morgan’s Little Miami Triathlon, the Chippewa Triathlon in Minnesota, the West Penn Trail Triathlon … the list goes on. 

But the event’s strangeness, and, thus, appeal, isn’t its novelty. It’s the distances. Six miles of kayaking; 5.6 miles of mountain biking; 6.6 miles of trail running. As a mountain biker, my initial thought was “hm. Interesting. The least amount of miles is during the cycling portion of the race.” 

Nearly all other triathlons feature…

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Bay Mills Breaks Ground on $85 Million Expansion Project

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Bay Mills Groundbreaking

BAY MILLS, MI – The Bay Mills Executive Council and Enterprise Team has celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony on an $85 million Bay Mills Resort & Casino expansion project.

“This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Bay Mills Resort & Casino and the Bay Mills Indian Community,” said Richard LeBlanc, General Manager. “We are excited to celebrate the hard work that has culminated in this investment,…

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Lenni Lenape

See Who’s Starring in New York Premiere of Manahatta at The Public

Off-Broadway News See Who’s Starring in New York Premiere of Manahatta at The Public

The new play from Mary Kathryn Nagle begins performances November 16, with Laurie Woolery at the helm.

Mary Kathryn Nagle

Full casting has been revealed for The Public Theater‘s upcoming New York premiere of Mary Kathryn Nagle‘s Manahatta, taking the Off-Broadway company’s Anspacher Theater November 16–December 17. Opening night is December 5 with Laurie Woolery at the helm.

The cast will include Rainbow Dickerson as Toosh-ki-pa-kwis-i and Debra, Elizabeth Frances as Le-le-wa’-you and Jane, David Kelly as Jonas Michaelius and Michael, Jeffrey King as Peter Minuit and Dick, Enrico Nassi as Se-ket-tu-may-qua and Luke, Joe Tapper as Jakob and Joe, and Sheila Tousey as Mother and Bobbie. Jessica Ranville and Rex Young will round out the company as understudies.

The work follows a young Native American woman with an MBA who reconnects with her ancestral Lenape homeland after moving from Oklahoma to New York for a banking job in 2008. The piece was written as part of The Public’s Emerging Writers Group, and returns to The Public for a full production following earlier runs at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre.

The production will feature scenic design by Marcelo Martínez García, costume design by Lux Haac, lighting design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, sound design and composition by Paul James Prendergast, fight and intimacy direction by Kelsey Rainwater, and movement direction by Ty Defoe. Amanda Nita Luke-Sayed will be the production stage manager and Janelle Caso will be the stage manager. Lenape Center Executive Director and Cofounder Joe Baker is serving as cultural consultant.

“It is nothing less than incredible to witness the first production of Manahatta on the island of Manahatta,” shares Nagle. “The Lenape may have been forcibly removed from their home hundreds of years ago, but they…

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Munsee

14th Annual Berkshire Biodiversity Day

EGREMONT, Mass.— Celebrating local biodiversity during a time of unprecedented global biodiversity loss, the 14th Annual Berkshire Biodiversity Day (also known as Berkshire BioBlitz) welcomes community members of all ages to join biologists, naturalists, and environmentalists to identify as many plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms as possible during a 24-hour period. 

 

The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from noon on Saturday, Sept. 23, to noon on Sunday, Sept. 24, at Greenagers’ April Hill Education and Conservation Center, 62 N Undermountain Rd, South Egremont. Participants may take part at any time during this period to record a survey of their findings and experience first-hand the importance of a healthy, active ecosystem in their community. 

 

This year’s program will have guided walks, presentations, and demonstrations led by experts. Presentation topics include: leaf-mining insects from Charley Eiseman, fungi and mushrooms from John Wheeler, and arachnids from Joseph Warfel. Aliza Fassler will present about native bees and lead a wild bee walk. Professor Tom Tyning will lead an amphibian and reptile walk that will involve checking under cover boards—a common surveying method used by herpetologists. Rene Wendell from Hoffmann Bird Club will lead an owl prowl and early morning bird walk, and Ben Nickley of Berkshire Bird Observatory will also conduct a bird banding demo. 

 

 

This year’s event is organized by Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) and Nature Academy of the Berkshires. It’s co-sponsored by Greenagers, Hoffmann Bird Club, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Panera, Nature Academy of the Berkshires, and BEAT. 

 

Biological surveys and expert-led walks will be conducted in Bow Wow Woods—a 50-acre parcel of land just off Rte 41 on Bow Wow Rd—which was recently acquired by…

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Nanticoke

Sussex author Slavens captures Nanticoke Indian history in new book ‘1742’

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A Colonial-era forest is depicted on the cover of ‘1742,’ a book by Christopher Slavens about the Nanticoke Indians’ struggle against the English.

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Christopher Slavens is a Laurel resident who serves on the board of directors of the Laurel Historical Society and has researched the history of the Nanticoke Indians, upon whose native grounds and ancestral home much of modern-day Laurel rests. Today’s Trap Pond and local Broad Creek figure prominently in the related story of indigenous unrest and planned resistance.

In Slavens’ new book, “1742: The True Story of the Nanticoke Indians’ Plot to Unite the Tribes, Massacre the English, and Take Back the Eastern Shore,” he takes a deep dive into what historian C.A. Weslager called: “the most important single event in Indian history on the Delmarva Peninsula.” It’s the secret and untold story of a planned Indian revolt to re-capture native lands with an ill-fated tribal council to bring Native Americans together to fight the English.

“I am a local history buff, so it all started here with the location of these tribes,” said Slavens. “Quite a bit of the book deals with the Nanticoke reservation, which was in the town of Laurel in those days, and that is where I live. I then spread out to research other areas and other tribes.”

“The tribes used water to organize themselves. Every Indian village I am aware of from the 18th century historical period was located along a river or creek,” said Slavens. “They had Trap Pond here and Indian River up north, where two major arteries supported their way of life.”

“Broad Creek is the main waterway that goes through Laurel and is a tributary of the Nanticoke River,” he said. “Broad Creek actually flows through Trap Pond,…

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Mohican

Frédéric Farrucci is shooting Un mohican

PRODUCTION / FUNDING France

by Fabien Lemercier

22/09/2023 – Alexis Manenti and Mara Taquin lead the cast of the filmmaker’s second feature, a Western drama set in Corsica, produced by Koro Films and sold by Be For Films

Frédéric Farrucci is shooting Un mohican

Alexis Manenti in the first image from Un mohican

Un mohican, Frédéric Farrucci’s second feature film after Night Ride [+see also:
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interview: Ladj Ly
film profile], well-received this year in Cannes thanks to The Rapture [+see also:
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interview: Iris Kaltenbäck
film profile] and in Toronto via Les Indésirables [+see also:
trailer
film profile], and hitting screens next year in Maldoror and Karmapolice) alongside Belgium’s Mara Taquin (nominated for 2022’s Best Newcomer Magritte thanks to The Hive [+see also:
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interview: Christophe Hermans
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film profile], and currently touring cinemas in The Baby).

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Written by the director, the story homes in on Joseph, one of the last remaining shepherds on the Corsican coastline, whose land the underworld have their eyes on for a real estate project. He decides not to yield to them, but when a man who’s…

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Delaware Tribe

Forest Fest to Celebrate 50 Years of West Chester University’s Gordon Natural Area

WCU Robery B. Gordon Natural Area

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Of West Chester University’s 406 acres, more than 126 acres is a preserved forest and open space on South Campus used for environmental studies, reflection, and recreation: the Robert B. Gordon Natural Area for Environmental Studies (GNA). On the heels of the first Earth Day in 1970, the GNA was protected from development in 1971 and officially dedicated in 1973. It has been since designated a Wild Plant Sanctuary by the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the GNA’s dedication, the university will host a free “Forest Fest” on Saturday, Sept. 23 with tours and activities suitable for all ages. It will take place rain or shine from 1 to 4 PM in R Lot below Farrell Stadium on South New Street. Parking will be in Q Lot, from which people can take a short path leading to R Lot.

WCU Biology Professor Jessica Schedlbauer, who chairs the committee organizing Forest Fest, said, “Those of us who work in and care for the Gordon Natural Area are very excited about bringing the campus and community together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its dedication.” Hikes, demonstrations, family-friendly activities, and takeaways are on the schedule.

Those planning to attend are asked to bring a reusable water bottle to help minimize waste.

Exhibits and music from campus radio station WCUR will open the event at 1 PM. At 1:45 PM, Chief Brad Kills Crow and Mr. Jeremy Johnson, members of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, will invite those present to join a traditional participatory dance. Now based in Oklahoma, the Delaware are among the…

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Mohegan

Salute to Service Suite at Mohegan Sun Arena

ASM GLOBAL ANNOUNCES RETURN OF SALUTE TO SERVICE SUITE HONORING LOCAL MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDERS AT WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS REGULAR SEASON HOME GAMES

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE 2023-24 HOCKEY SEASON

 

WILKES-BARRE, PA (September 18th, 2023) – The ASM Global-managed Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Twp., along with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, are once again proud to honor local military personnel and first responders throughout the upcoming season by donating the usage of an arena luxury suite for those that served their country and community.

Since the beginning of the 2015-16 event season, Mohegan Sun Arena and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have donated nearly 3,500 tickets as part of the “Salute to Service” Suite promotion. The venue’s “Salute to Service” Suite is decorated in Penguins military and first responder jerseys, and each recipient is recognized during the game.

Nominations are now open for this promotion from the general public online at Mohegan Sun Arena’s website at https://mohegansunarenapa.com/salutetoservice/.

Recipients of the award will be chosen at random and each recipient will receive 12 tickets to the “Salute to Service” Suite for a Penguins game along with three VIP Parking passes and a complimentary snack package.

In addition, all active and retired military and first responders including police, firefighters and EMT’s will continue to receive 25% off select concessions items at permanent ASM Global/SAVOR managed concessions stands by showing their ID at all Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins games, as well as for concerts and family shows.

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are offering special ticket pricing for active military by showing their Military ID card at the NBT Bank Box Office at Mohegan Sun Arena. Active military can get Red Zone tickets for $27, Gold Zone for $25 or Blue Zone seats for just $21.

Individual game tickets for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins regular season are on sale now.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton season ticket packages, including full…

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Lenni Lenape

Historic Happenings: A Tribute to Trenton’s First People

For years, American history has been taught through the lens of colonization. The erasure of America’s indigenous people has persisted for centuries, suppressing the rich and profound history of generations of native populations. Despite decades of displacement and disenfranchisement, however, America’s indigenous populations persist and advocate for a brighter future for their people. Today, let’s look inside Trenton’s native population and explore the vast world of the Lenni-Lenape people.

The Lenape, or the Lenni-Lenape, were the first settlers of Trenton and communities throughout the region. The tribe’s historical territory includes New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Lower New York Bay, and parts of Delaware. Lenni means genuine or original, while Lenape translates to “real/original person,” inferring that this was the region’s original people. The tribes were then broken into three subdivisions:

  • The Minsi, or “the people of the stony country,” lived in the North
  • The Unami, or “the people down the river,” lived in Central regions
  • The Unilachtigo, or “the people who lived near the ocean,” lived in the South

The Lenni-Lenape were great stewards of the land, working with the seasons to maximize food and crop production. A highly skilled community familiar with the ins and outs of New Jersey’s ecosystem, the Lenape population could rely on the land for food, clothing, shelter, and more. Known as skillful hunters, gatherers, and fishermen, the Lenape built a thriving civilization alongside the ebbs and flows of the natural world.

The Lenape and the Land - Schuylkill Center for Environmental EducationIllustration of a typical Lenape village

Regretfully, however, as is the case for many of America’s native populations, European colonization proved a vast detriment to the Lenape tribe. With European settlement came war, disease, and displacement, resulting in great turmoil for tribes throughout the United States. The…

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