Month: October 2025

Community Spotlight: Nanticoke area – Oct. 1, 2025

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Post date October 2, 2025
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LCCC “Art in the Garden”: Exhibit featuring artwork from artists of the 2025 Tour of the Back Mountain Gardens in association with the Back Mountain Bloomers Garden Club. Exhibit runs through Oct. 24. Schulman Gallery, Building 14, 521 Trailblazer Drive on the campus in Nanticoke. Gallery hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday when school is in session. Free admission. For information, visit www.luzerne.edu/schulmangallery or call 570-740-0727 or 1-800-377-5222, ext. 7727.

Fall festival at St. Andrews: 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3; noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 12 E. Kirmar Ave., Alden. Food (takeout available), Welsh cookies, mums, crafts, homemade beef vegetable soup, flea market, gift baskets and more.

Nanticoke Fall Festival: Noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. Patriot Park, Nanticoke. Live music, craft vendors, food trucks and refreshments. Music by Toasted, The Rip-Offs and Strawberry Jam and drinks by Susquehanna Brewing Co.

All Newport reunion: Noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. Transfiguration Hall, Hanover Section of Nanticoke. Anyone who attended Newport Twp. schools is invited, especially classes celebrating birthdays and anniversary reunions. Cost is $32 per person. For registration forms or information, contact Heidi and Paul Jarecki at hselecky@pa.metrocast.net or 570-733-2540.

Mid-week service and lunch: Noon, Wednesday, Oct. 15. Nanticoke First Church, 267 E. Main St., Nanticoke. All welcome. For information, call 570-258-2822.

LCCC alumni craft festival and car show: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke. The 36th annual festival features around 150 artisans and crafters offering hand-crafted items including jewelry, soaps, floral arrangements, specialty foods and more. HiLites Car Club car show, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a trunk-or-treat for children. Vendor applications available at www.luzerne.edu/alumni/craft or by contacting the LCCC Alumni Office at 570-740-0734.

Flea market at Nanticoke…

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Which races will your XC team run? 2025 Shore Coaches Invitational assignments

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Post date October 2, 2025
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The 50th edition of the Shore Coaches Invitational is set to kick off on Saturday, with varsity races beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Over 450 teams across both genders will toe the line at Holmdel Park, with most of them being from New Jersey.

NJ.com will have a complete preview of all 13 divisions that will come later this week. But for now, here is an easy-to-read list of teams in every division.

Dominic Burgio, of Williamstown, runs in the NJSIAA Boys Group 4 South Cross Country Sectionals at Gloucester County DREAM Park in Logan Township, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024Joe Warner | For NJ Advance Media

BOYS

Varsity A

Bishop Hendricken (Rhode Island), Bloomfield, Bridgewater-Raritan, Christian Brothers, Central Bucks East (PA), Cherokee, Cherry Hill East, Columbia, Downington West (PA), Eastern, Edison, Egg Harbor, Franklin Township, Gloucester Tech, Hunterdon Central, JP Stevens, LaSalle Academy (Rhode Island), LaSalle (PA), Lenape, Livingston, Memorial, Monroe, Morristown, North Brunswick, Old Bridge, Piscataway, Portsmouth (Rhode Island), South Brunswick, Southern, Washington Township, Watchung Hills, West Windsor Plainsboro South, Westfield, Williamstown

Varsity B

Atlantic City, Bergen Tech, Bridgeton, East Brunswick, Elizabeth, Freehold Boro, Freehold Township, Hackensack, Hightstown, Hillsborough, Howell, Kingsway, Middletown South, Montgomery, Morris Knolls, Mount Olive, New Brunswick, North Hunterdon, North Rockland (NY), Northern Burlington, Phillipsburg, Point Pleasant Boro, Princeton, Rahway, Rancocas Valley, Ridge, Ridgewood, Scotch Plains-Fanwood, Seton Hall Prep, Shawnee, Steinert, St.Peter’s Prep, Trenton Central, Winslow

Varsity C

Allentown, Chatham, Clearview, Cranford, Cumberland, Delsea, Deptford, Fair Lawn, Hammonton, Hopewell Valley, Jackson Township, Lawrence, Mainland, Metuchen, Middletown North, Moorestown, Morris Hills, Northern Highlands, Nutley, Ocean City, Pennsauken, Ramapo, Randolph, Red Bank, River Dell, Roxbury, Summit, Toms River East, Toms River South, Triton, Warren Hills, West Windsor Plainsboro North

Varsity D

Brick Township, Burlington, Camden Tech, Delran, Ewing, Gloucester City, Hackettstown, Hamilton North Nottingham, Immaculata, Indian Hills, Leonia, Manasquan, Matawan,…

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Mohegan

Does the Connecticut Sun help the local economy? It’s complicated

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Post date October 1, 2025
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For weeks, discussions of sports in Connecticut have largely revolved around one question: Will the Connecticut Sun, the state’s foremost major league team, stay in the state?

The news last month that the WNBA team, which has been owned by the Mohegan Tribe since 2003, might be sold to Boston Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca for $325 million sparked a flood of concern and an equally intense flurry of activity.

That concern turned into outrage as the proposed Boston sale and a separate counteroffer, which would keep the team in state but move it to Hartford, were both ignored by the WNBA as it considers sending the team elsewhere. U.S. Senator, and former state attorney general, Richard Blumenthal went so far as to raise antitrust concerns.

State officials swiftly launched a campaign calling for the Sun to stay in Connecticut and urging residents to sign a petition to help make the case to the league.

Connecticut officials are also considering a plan that would see the state use pension funds to purchase a minority stake in the Sun in order to keep the team. While the proposal has received support from Gov. Ned Lamont, the possible use of pension funds has drawn criticism from both legislative Republicans and unions; Both argue there are better uses for the money.

“There needs to be structure and fiscal responsibility and a level of respect for taxpayer money and for public employees’ money,” Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding, R-Brookfield, said at a press conference last week.

So far everything is still in the air. The WNBA has not made a decision, and much of the public debate is based on potential situations rather than any agreed upon plan. There is no clear timetable for when a decision on the Sun’s fate will…

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Unami

2 dead in crash involving e-bike on neighborhood street in N.J. town

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Post date October 1, 2025
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Two people died Monday evening after they were struck by a car in a Cranford neighborhood, authorities said.

The pair, who were not identified, were hit on Burnside Avenue shortly before 5:30 p.m. and were rushed to local area hospitals, according to a statement from the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. They were later pronounced dead.

Multiple reports identified the victims as teenagers and photos from the scene show an ebike and a black Jeep with severe damage to the front of the vehicle.

The alleged driver of the car that hit them was found shortly after the crash and taken into custody by officers from the Cranford and Garwood police departments.

Following the crash, a New Jersey State Police medevac helicopter landed in nearby Unami Park, which is on the border of Cranford and Garwood.

No further information was released late Monday night as the crash remained under investigation

Cranford Crash Medevac

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Nanticoke

Football Recap: Tunkhannock Takes a Loss

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Post date October 1, 2025
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Boys soccer: Results, recaps and links for Tuesday, Sept. 30

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Post date October 1, 2025
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Tuesday, Sep. 30

GMC Tournament, Group A pool play

Piscataway 1, South Plainfield 0 – Box Score

North Plainfield 2, J.P. Stevens 1 – Box Score

GMC Tournament, Group B pool play

South River 4, South Brunswick 3 – Box Score

Edison 5, New Brunswick 4 – Box Score

GMC Tournament, Group C pool play

Perth Amboy 1, Colonia 0 – Box Score

St. Thomas Aquinas 2, Wardlaw-Hartridge 1 – Box Score

GMC Tournament, Group D pool play

Sayreville 2, Woodbridge 0 – Box Score

East Brunswick 3, Metuchen 1 – Box Score

NJTAC Groups 3&4, Semifinal Round

5-Bergen Tech 4, 1-Passaic Tech 3 – Box Score

Regular Season

BCSL

Pennsauken 2, Medford Tech 1 – Box Score

Northern Burlington 7, Florence 1 – Box Score

Pemberton 3, Thrive Charter 2 – Box Score

Westampton Tech 6, Burlington City 0 – Box Score

Riverside 5, Pennsauken Tech 0 – Box Score

Doane Academy 4, Willingboro 0 – Box Score

BIG NORTH

Ramsey 5, River Dell 0 – Box Score

Mahwah 4, Westwood 0 – Box Score

Tenafly 3, Bergenfield 1 – Box Score

Pascack Valley 3, Teaneck 0 – Box Score

Cliffside Park 2, Dwight-Morrow 1 – Box Score

Fort Lee 2, Fair Lawn 1 – Box Score

Passaic 2, Paterson Kennedy 1 – Box Score

West Milford 2, Paramus 0 – Box Score

DePaul 3, Bergen Catholic 1 – Box Score

Indian Hills 3, Pascack Hills 2 – Box Score

Northern Highlands 0, Hackensack 0 – Box Score

Wayne Valley 3, Wayne Hills 1 – Box Score

Ramapo 3, Ridgewood 0 – Box Score

St. Joseph (Mont.) 1, Don Bosco Prep…

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Mohican

How daggy dad of six teacher turned into a vile punk paedophile

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Post date October 1, 2025
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A Queensland school teacher who had a stash of more than 340 child abuse files had transformed into a ‘hyper-sexual’ gay paedophile after his 27-year marriage ended.

Father-of-six Paul Andrew Olney, 63, last week pleaded guilty to a string of child abuse material charges at Bundaberg District Court in Queensland.

Police retrieved files from four devices at his property, finding video footage of sexual acts committed on babies as young as two months old, bestiality, and written stories depicting child sex abuse.

One script involved a high school student engaging in sex acts with her male teacher in exchange for higher grades.

Olney is a former teacher and a navy veteran.

His lawyer Callan Cassidy told the court his client had a ‘relatively normal life’ before ending his marriage in 2017 and coming out as gay.

The court heard he then became involved in drugs and a number of hyper-sexual relationships.

Olney’s social media showed a rapid transformation from loving husband and father, who travelled with his wife and danced with his daughter at her wedding, to an out gay man with a taste for bizarre haircuts and piercings.

Father-of-six Paul Andrew Olney, 63, last week pleaded guilty to a string of child abuse material charges at Bundaberg District Court in Queensland

Olney’s social media showed a rapid transformation from loving husband and father, who travelled with his wife and danced with his daughter at her wedding (pictured)

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