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Mohegan

Boys basketball: Wheeler, Stonington will play for ECC D-II tourney crown at Mohegan Sun Arena

WATERFORD — Perhaps not since the British attacked Stonington in 1812 will there be a more significant “Battle of Stonington” than what will take place Tuesday.

Wheeler and Stonington will not only battle for area boys basketball bragging rights, the neighboring schools will vie for the Eastern Connecticut Conference Tournament Division II championship at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Wheeler, the ECC’s Division IV champ, and Stonington, the top seed and Division III runner-up, both advanced Saturday with strenuous semifinal victories at Waterford.

The Lions (16-6) topped ECC D-III champ Griswold, 58-53, and Stonington (16-6) outlasted No. 5 seed Tourtellotte, 76-64.

Wheeler will make its first ECC final appearance while Stonington makes its third and second in the last three season since winning in 2022.

From years playing summer pickup games at Ocean Community to North Stonington Recreation Courts to Stonington High and Como courts, this is the matchup both teams wanted.

“I love this,” said Stonington’s Robbie Scavello said. “We wouldn’t want to play anyone else. We know them. They beat us at Wheeler last year and we edged them in overtime at our place. Tuesday will be the big one.”

Many ECC pundits labeled Griswold the favorite to win Division II after the Wolverines, who won the tourney last year with a senior-stocked squad, swept Stonington in the regular season despite losing a close game to Wheeler.

Wheeler got the upper-hand early, taking a 16-4 lead after one quarter, rising to a 22-4 lead on a steal and layup by Lion guard Keith Zardies.

“Wheeler is a tough matchup for us,” Griswold coach Rob Mileski said. “All of their…

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Nanticoke

5 charged after drug raid in Nanticoke

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UW Tribal Tuition Promise divides Native communities over use of enrollment for eligibility

UW-Madison freshman Arianna Reiter is part Stockbridge-Munsee and part Menominee Native American. She grew up on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation and later attended the Indian Community School in Milwaukee. 

But despite her identity as a Native American, she’s 1/16th short of being eligible for enrollment in the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe, which means she is ineligible for UW-Madison’s tribal tuition promise program. The program, announced late last year, will cover all the costs of education for enrolled members of Wisconsin’s federally recognized tribes. 

UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said that creating the program “felt like the right thing to do” for the state’s Native American students to improve the school’s relationship with the state’s 11 tribes. UW-Madison sits on traditional Ho-Chunk Nation land while the Universities of Wisconsin system earns approximately $1 million per year from a land trust made up of largely former Ojibwe land, the Examiner reported earlier this month. 

While Reiter is missing out on thousands of dollars of savings, she says the announcement brought up feelings that have persisted since her childhood of “not being Native enough.” 

“Some [people] look at you differently,” she says. “I’m just that tiny fraction short.” 

The creation of the program has sparked a debate among Native communities in the state over the use of enrollment, the university’s effort to make up for the past with offers of money and how Native students are treated once they’re on campus. The program is also being launched as diversity, equity and inclusion programs have become a major issue for Wisconsin Republicans who see such efforts as malicious attempts to give certain groups more opportunity than white students. 

Native American tribes across the country use a system known as “blood quantum” to determine enrollment eligibility. First instituted by the federal government, blood quantum tracks…

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Mohican

Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians seek to protect tribal burial sites along the Housatonic

When General Electric Co. embarks on its yearslong cleanup plan to remove PCBs from the Housatonic River, it will potentially be working in the vicinity of numerous sites of “significance” to a tribe of Native Americans.

And as the plans for the Rest of River cleanup take shape, efforts are ongoing on numerous fronts to protect those sites.

The Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that burial and other cultural or historic sites are not destroyed or otherwise impacted.

The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans is reclaiming 351 acres of sacred homeland in Stockbridge

“Our office is aware of, and actively consulting government-to-government with EPA representatives on the ‘Rest of the River’ Housatonic cleanup project,” wrote Bonney Hartley, tribal historic preservation manager, via email. She noted the tribe’s Williamstown-based office represents the tribe’s cultural resource interests in its ancestral territories.

The plan calls for the removal of PCBs, beginning in 2025, from areas of the river from Southeast Pittsfield to Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge and Housatonic village in Great Barrington. GE released PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, into the Housatonic from its Pittsfield plant for decades until the 1970s.

Bonney Hartley

Bonney Hartley is the tribal historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians. Hartley said her office is aware that the Rest of River cleanup project and is actively working with EPA. 

BEN GARVER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

Last month, the EPA offered a conditional approval of the work plan covering the southeast Pittsfield portion of the river, starting at Fred Garner Park, including descriptions of potential historic and archaeological impacts. But GE is required to revise and resubmit the plan by March 22. 

Ashlin Brooks, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator…

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Mohegan

PENGUINS POST 4-1 WIN ON MILITARY APPRECIATION NIGHT

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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins ended their weekend by defeating the Bridgeport Islanders, 4-1, on Saturday night at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.

Taking to the ice on Military Appreciation Night presented by MetLife, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (27-18-7-1) raced out of the gates with two early goals from Jonathan Gruden and Jagger Joshua. Stellar goaltending from Magnus Hellberg paved the rest of the way to a Penguins win.

Gruden and Joshua scored 48 seconds apart in the opening three minutes of the game, setting up the Penguins up with a 2-0 lead. Gruden batted a puck out of mid-air at the side of Jakub Škarek’s net 2:03 into the game. Joshua’s work around the net-mouth allowed him to snag a greasy goal shortly after.

The Islanders appeared to earn a power-play goal right before the buzzer at the end of the first, but a video review proved otherwise. The clock had run down to 0.0 before the puck crossed the goal line, keeping the Penguins’ 2-0 lead intact.

Hellberg thwarted a second-period penalty shot attempt by Julien Gauthier, catching a piece of the puck off his blocker before Gauthier’s bid struck the post.

Karson Kuhlman cut the Penguins’ lead to one four minutes into the third, but Wilkes-Barre/Scranton reestablished its two-goal edge 27 seconds later. Dmitri Samorukov banked a shot off an Islanders’ defender and into the net, making it 2-1.

After two successful penalty kills by the Penguins, an empty netter from Matt Filipe sealed the victory.

Hellberg totaled 31 saves on 32 shots. Škarek stopped 26 of the 29 bids thrown his way.

The Penguins will be back in action on Friday, Mar. 1, when they host the Charlotte Checkers for the first of back-to-back games at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza. Friday’s game…

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Nanticoke

DISTRICT 2 BASKETBALL: Holy Redeemer girls, Dallas boys set for championship games today

The number of games that went down to the wire, or were close late in the fourth quarter should have been enough to keep fans entertained enough to want to head to Mohegan Sun Arena beginning today as teams compete for a district championship.

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Unami

Group assails track record of Comelec contractor

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Group assails track record of Comelec contractor

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is being hounded by questions over the track record of a South Korean company that won the service contract for the 2025 elections.

A group skeptical of the winning bidder cited reports of the company’s machines malfunctioning when used in the elections in two other countries.

Democracy Watch Philippines (DWP) on Friday expressed concern over the awarding of the P17.9 billion vote-counting contract to Miru Systems, given the issues that cropped up during the

2023 elections in Iraq and in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

DWP cited local and international news reports about Miru machines encountering glitches that “resulted in delayed voting, widespread chaos, and worst, massive erosion of public trust.”

Iraq election

Regarding the 2023 elections in Iraq, Miru has already denied the allegations and cited an earlier statement from the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (Unami) that described the elections as “fair and successful.”

But on Dec. 12, 2023, Claudio Cordone, deputy chief of Unami, clarified in a news statement that their mission does not have an electoral monitoring role.

“Unami will not observe or monitor the Dec. 18 elections, and is therefore not in a position to undertake an assessment of the manner in which the elections are conducted,” the news release read.

DWP also noted that Miru had yet to respond to questions from third-party election observers in Kinshasa, such as the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (Cenco) and the Church

of Christ in Congo (ECC).

Congo polls

According to the preliminary election report of Cenco and ECC gathered from the 60,000 nationwide volunteers, about 45.1 percent of the polling stations experienced problems with their

electronic…

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Lenni Lenape

Renaming Trotter Hall: A Swarthmore Building’s Namesake and its Implications

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Buter’s Smooth Moves Land Six In The Winner’s Circle

Driver Tyler Buter held the hot driving hands during another frosty card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with $59.20 bomber Smooth Landing taking the $22,973 featured trot as one of six winners on the Saturday afternoon, Feb. 24 program for the 38-year-old, who is fast approaching 4,500 career wins.

Buter had the victorious Tactical Landing gelding out behind grinding heavy favourite Buddy Earl in the feature, then moved on to challenge raw after that one got by at the three-quarter pole under some urging. Through the stretch, it was no contest as Smooth Landing (pictured above) went on to a 1:58 final time for trainer Jennifer Bongiorno and owners Glenn Goller and Stephen Demeter. Enola closed steadily to take second ahead of Buddy Earl.

A trio of $22,297 contests were co-featured on the card, with the fast-class trot also going to Buter and the 51-time career winner Rich And Miserable in 1:55. The Todd Buter-trained altered son of Explosive Matter was the easiest of winners while taking his career bankroll to $831,278 for Buter Farm Inc. and Lynette Buter.

Tyler Buter pulled another upset with 12-1 choice Panettone Hanover in the top-level starter allowance pace, tipping wide off the cover of Francis Underwood and prevailing in 1:53.2. The Captaintreacherous gelding is co-owned by trainer Cote Keim in partnership with El Dorado Stables and Buzzy Sholty.

In the fast-class pace, the Always B Miki gelding Maximus Miki won his second straight race at Pocono via a pocket journey, launching up the inside to gain into a :55.4 back half and win in 1:53.3. George Napolitano Jr. again guided the pacer to success for Team Cancelliere — trainer Tom and owner John.

Racing returns to Pocono on Monday for a 14-race card beginning at 1 p.m., with a pair of showcase…

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