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Anderson school board moves to permanently discontinue pregame ritual at basketball games

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Post date June 18, 2022
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The decision comes after video of a ceremony before a game went viral and the Delaware Tribe called on the school to stop.

ANDERSON, Ind. — Anderson Community Schools has permanently discontinued a pregame routine that has been held at high school basketball games.

It comes after video of the ceremony went viral and the Delaware Tribe called on the school to stop.

(Note: The video attached is an earlier 13News story on the mascot controversy.)

According to our partners at the Herald Bulletin, the school board voted unanimously Tuesday to eliminate the ritual and to move toward a formal partnership with the tribe.

Under an agreement, the school would keep the Indians mascot name and logo.

“We will continue our commitment to show our students that when the time comes, we do make right decisions, not necessarily the easy ones,” ACS Superintendent Dr. Joe Cronk said during his presentation to the board.

Chief KillsCrow had been in talks with Cronk after a viral TikTok surfaced that appears to show students performing in Native American garb before a basketball game. The school district said the 70-plus year tradition is meant to honor Chief William Anderson, for whom the city of Anderson is named. But the Delaware Tribe said the school’s tradition falls short.

KillsCrow argued the performance didn’t show the identity of their Lenape Tribe. For example, Chief Anderson wouldn’t wear the garb of the school mascot.

Amid the controversy, Anderson High School then suspended the use of its mascot pending an internal review.

KillsCrow said previously he would work to educate others about his tribe.

“The Delaware Tribe is committed to the education of communities in support of our culture,” KillsCrow said….

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Nanticoke

Shipbuilding in Sussex was really big business

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Post date June 18, 2022
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What do the Mispillion, Broadkill and Nanticoke rivers and Broad Creek have in common, except being waterways in Sussex County?

They were all sites of shipbuilding enterprises in the 19th century and early 20th century.

Shipyards in Milton, Milford, Seaford, Laurel and Bethel were mainstays of the small towns’ economies, and by best estimates, about 1,000 wooden ships were built during a 50-year period.

After several months of building, a ship launching was a major event in small towns. Schools and businesses were closed as nearly everyone gathered on launch day.

So why Sussex County? An abundance of white oak forests and easy access to major waterways, including the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, were the major factors.

You would be hard-pressed to find any remnants of this industry that once thrived, except in one location. Thanks to the Lofland family, the site of the Vinyard Shipyard along the Mispillion River in downtown Milford has been preserved. The rest are marked with historic signs and markers.

The industry flourished until transportation modes began to change throughout the country in the late 19th century, including steam-powered ships, trains and automobiles. Some shipyards were able to adapt to the changes, but most did not.

In Bethel, along Broad Creek, which is a tributary of the Nanticoke River that empties into Chesapeake Bay, many different types of ships were built, but sailing rams were unique to the small town. They were highly sought after by Chesapeake Bay watermen because of their flat hulls.

About 40 vessels were constructed in Bethel up until 1918, according to author James Marvil in his book, “Sailing Rams: A History of Sailing Ships Built in and near Sussex County, Delaware.”

Only one sailing ram, Victory Chimes, is still afloat. Built in 1900 by the George K. Phillips Co., the ram was…

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Mohegan

Mohegan Sun shows love for UConn great Sue Bird one day after her WNBA retirement announcement

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Post date June 18, 2022
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UNCASVILLE — While the Seattle Storm headed down the tunnel from the court to their locker room an hour before tipoff Friday night, Cali Durham charged up the Mohegan Sun Arena stairs, waving precious cargo.

“I asked her to sign this,” Durham, 10, said, holding a small Pride Month poster she’d made, “and my friend, too, and she did.”

Durham was wearing one of several green-and-yellow Seattle No. 10 jerseys dotting the stands Friday night as Sue Bird, UConn legend turned WNBA legend, came to town for the second-to-last time as a pro to play the Connecticut Sun. Bird announced Thursday that this season would be her last.

The Storm, also featuring UConn alumnae Breanna Stewart and Gabby Williams, drew a solid hand as they came out for the pregame shootaround from a crowd that stretched into the upper tier of the arena.

Huskies for life @UConnWBB x #TakeCover pic.twitter.com/ZSCaTiTqWI

— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) June 18, 2022

All three Huskies products were starters. All three got applause when they were announced. Bird, called out last, drew a roar as most o f the crowd of 7,088 jumped to their feet.

“Of course it means a lot,” Bird said after the game. “Especially being in Connecticut, it was kind of funny to walk out there and see so much green and yellow in the stands.”

Some of the fans wore Bird’s jersey. One, behind the scorer’s table, waved Bird’s UConn jersey. Others…

“There was a bunch of people courtside: Two guys had” — Bird chuckled — “my Sports Illustrated Swimsuit picture, like, on a T-shirt. That was hilarious.”

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NJ Sues Ford For Pollution at Ringwood Mines

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Post date June 17, 2022
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Three New Jersey governmental agencies/officials filed suit against the Ford Motor Company (Ford) in the Superior Court of New Jersey-Bergen County on Thursday claiming that Ford is liable under New Jersey environmental statues and common law for pollution at its 500-acre site known as Ringwood Mines that Ford used to dump waste from its Mahwah, New Jersey, assembly plant from 1967 to 1974.

The three plaintiffs are: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); The Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection; and The Administrator of the New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund (Administrator). As noted in the complaint, Ford Motor Company is sued “individually and as successor” to other Ford-related entities, all defined as “Ford.”

According to the complaint, the Ringwood Mines site is “encompassed by the historic homeland of the Ramapough Lenape Nation (the ‘Tribe’) Turtle Clan, a Native American tribe recognized by the State of New Jersey.” The plaintiffs state that many of the approximately 200 residents living within the Ringwood Mines are members of the Tribe. The plaintiffs note that the “cultural and spiritual traditions of the Ramampough Lenape Nation are inextricably interconnected with the land” and members of the Tribe rely on the land for food and medicine.

As a result of the purported pollution, harmful substances like arsenic and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were found at the site affecting the environment including the “groundwater and surface water, sediments, wetlands, soils, air, and biota.”

The plaintiffs allege a long history of state and federal regulatory action and remediation efforts relating to the site. In particular, the plaintiffs note that the site was placed on the CERCLA “National Priorities List” in 1983, but removed in 1994 “based on Ford’s representation that Ringwood Mines had been adequately remediated.” Notwithstanding that, the plaintiffs further allege…

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Mohican

EF1 tornado went nearly six miles from Butler to Perrysville

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Post date June 17, 2022
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An EF1 tornado has been confirmed to have touched down in Richland and Ashland counties during Monday night’s storm.

The twister struck at 11:33 p.m. Monday, according to Raelene Campbell, a meteorologist with the Cleveland office of the National Weather Service.

“It was just north of Butler in Richland County,” Campbell said. “It went just south of Perrysville in Ashland County.”

Tornado’s path nearly six miles long

The official report states the tornado touched down three miles north of Butler, then dissipated four miles south of Perrysville.

The storm produced winds of up to 105 miles per hour.

The tornado was never wider that 100 yards, and was on the ground for 5.8 miles.

Meteorologists from the National Weather Service evaluated all of the damage in Richland and Ashland counties to determine the severity of the storms that struck Monday night and early Tuesday morning.

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“There were no injuries or fatalities,” Campbell said. “That was the only tornado we had in Richland County. All of the other damage was driven by straight line winds.”

“The tornado touched down and destroyed an outbuilding near Possum Run Road and Snyder Road,” the weather service report reads. “The tornado tracked eastward south of Possum Run Road and produced extensive tree damage as it moved east and remained south of Pleasant Hill Lake. The tornado then turned southeast and became more intermittent and entered Mohican State Park and produced additional tree damage.”

Tornado part of derecho

The entire storm that traveled through the heart of Ohio has been labeled a derecho, Campbell explained.

“It impacted all of central Ohio,” she said.

Criteria for calling a storm a derecho include the population affected, overall wind speeds and the amount of damage it left behind.

The tornado was just one isolated byproduct of the larger derecho.

The storm knocked out power to…

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Delaware Tribe

“(re)Frame: Community Perspectives” at Michener

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Post date June 17, 2022
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“TURNED AWAY”: This oil on canvas painting by Alan Goldstein is part of “(re)Frame: Community Perspectives on the Michener Art Collection,” on view June 18 through March 5, 2023, at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa.

The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., presents “(re)Frame: Community Perspectives on the Michener Art Collection,” on view June 18 through March 5, 2023.

The exhibition is a museum-wide initiative inviting multiple viewpoints based on culturally specific interpretations. Applying new lenses to Michener’s collection, guest curators and visitors will explore artworks’ social and environmental contexts beyond academic Euro-American art history.

“Each person’s personal experience, cultural background, and professional and scholarly interests influence how they understand a work of art and we want to embrace these varied interpretations,” said Laura Turner Igoe, Michener’s chief curator. “There are many ways to look at an artwork.”

Eight guest curators — Joe Baker, Reg Hoyt, TK Smith, and youth members of Doylestown’s Rainbow Room — have selected works from the Michener’s permanent collection to reveal new stories about identity and the environment in the Delaware Valley region. Historical and contemporary art selected by the curators include works by Diane Burko, Daniel Garber, Elaine Galen, Alan Goldstein, Richard Kemble, Harry Leith-Ross, Joan W. Lindley, Jan Lipes, Tim Portlock, Herbert Pullinger, Edward W. Redfield, William A. Smith, Robert Spencer, Dox Thrash, and William Earle Williams, some of which have never been on view.

Several stations throughout the Museum’s galleries invite visitors to share their own interpretations and what they would like to see at the museum in the future.

Baker is an artist, educator, curator, and activist who has been working in the field of Native Arts for the past 30 years. He is an enrolled member of…

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Mohegan

Sun must continue to be on the defensive vs. Sky

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Post date June 17, 2022
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Mohegan — The Connecticut Sun continue to be defensive.

Defense was a foundation of Connecticut’s success during its franchise-record 2021 season with four of its starters earning WNBA All-Defensive Team honors — Briann January, Jasmine Thomas and Brionna and Jonquel Jones.

Only the Joneses remain from that group, but the Sun have continued to play well defensively this season. They’ll need to continue that Friday night when they host the defending champion Chicago Sky (7, Mohegan Sun Arena, NESN).

“Philosophically, we are who we are,” Connecticut head coach and general manager Curt Miller said. “We just have a little bit different personnel.”

The Sun (10-3) used the combination of defense, grit and deliberate pace to tie the single season franchise record for most wins in a season (26). Their 26-6 record set a single-season franchise record for winning percentage (.813). They were also first in defensive field goal percentage (40.9).

Connecticut was going to take a step back in defensive efficiency this season when it opted to sign guard Courtney Williams in free agency, meaning that it wouldn’t have the cap space to keep January, who later signed with the Seattle Storm.

Thomas, the team’s longtime starting point guard, suffered a season-ending ACL injury in her right knee in the first quarter of the Sun’s fourth game of the season (May 22 at the Indiana Fever).

Connecticut ranks fifth out of 12 teams in defensive field goal percentage (42.8) this season while holding opponents to a league-low 64.5 field goal attempts per game.

The Indiana Fever shot 37.5-percent against the Sun on Wednesday night (Connecticut won, 88-69).

Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell was shooting 44.7-percent prior to Wednesday and was the league’s third-leading scorer (19.5 ppg).

Mitchell shot 3 of 13 for nine points in 32 minutes on Wednesday. She missed 10 of 12 shots and…

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Unami

CULT Food Science’s Umami Meats Reports Research and Development and Low-Cost Production Advancements to Address Seafood Insecurity

Unami Deploys Funding to Advance Cultivated Seafood by Developing Growth Serum and Establishing Spent Media Analysis, 3D Structuring for Prototyping, and Fish Fat Development Collaborations

VANCOUVER, BC, June 16, 2022 /CNW/ – CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CULTF) (FRA: LN0), an innovative investment platform with an exclusive focus on cellular agriculture that is advancing the development of novel technologies to provide a sustainable, environmental and ethical solution to the global factory farming and aquaculture crises, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Umami Meats (“Umami“), has recently made significant progress in research and development, recognition and human resources. Based in a Singapore, Umami is a food-tech start-up developing sustainable seafood that is cultivated and not caught.

CULT Food Science Corp. (CSE: CULT, OTC: CULTF, FRA: LN0) (CNW Group/CULT Food Science Corp.)

It has become crucial that companies like CULT and Umami strive to integrate sustainably sourced fish and seafood into the global food security conversation. Historically, the seafood industry has significantly impacted the environment with an estimate that 85% of marine fish stocks are either fully exploited or overfished.1 Also, many fisheries throughout the world throw away more fish than they keep, which is counterproductive to food security.1 To meet overall nutrition requirements and growing food demands, it is predicted that food production must increase by 70% by 2050.2 Therefore, cultivated seafood from Umami, as well as meat products, have the potential to provide protein without further exhausting the world’s natural resources, based on having a higher feed conversion ratio and similar nutritional value to traditional meat.2

Umami’s recent achievements include but are not limited…

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Lenni Lenape

Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference boys lacrosse honors

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Post date June 16, 2022
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NJAC-National

First team: Dante Marinello, Morristown Beard sr.; Jacob Michalski, Morristown sr.; Ian Plott, Morristown sr.; Adam Wood, Sparta sr.; Ryan Rossi, Sparta sr.; David Votapek, Morristown sr.; Tim Larosa, Mendham jr.; Jack Lavere, Lenape Valley sr.; Tristan Aitkenhead, Mendham sr.; Jack Wadley, Mendham sr.; Joe Buono, Sparta jr

Second team: Will McDonald, Morristown Beard jr.; Charlie Guida, Morristown Beard jr.; Gavin Timoney, Mendham jr.; Greg Peters, Sparta so.; Jack Suchanek, Mendham jr.; Eric Perez, Lenape Valley jr.; Troy Brennan, Lenape Valley jr.; John Holtz, Mendham jr.; Sean Duthaler, Sparta sr.; Paul Gennat, Sparta sr.; Liam Kelly, Lenape Valley jr.

Honorable mention: Luke Fehnel, Mendham sr.; Chase Geer, Sparta sr.; Andrew Down, Morristown sr.; Charlie Gibbs, Morristown Beard jr.; Braden Coles, Lenape Valley jr.

Division champion: Mendham

Sportsmanship award: Lenape Valley

NJAC-United

First team: Ryan Beller, Morris Knolls jr.; Anthony Skawinski, Roxbury so.; Caedon Jones, Kittatinny jr.; Adam DeCristofaro, Mount Olive so.; Max Morosoff, Vernon sr.; Jayson Horowitz, Montville sr.; Luke Denison, Madison sr.; Anthony Moscatello, Mount Olive jr.; Thomas Gioioso, Morris Knolls sr.; Jeremiah Carfello, Vernon sr.; Chris Kolaritsch, Montville jr.

Second team: Gianni Graziano, Montville jr.; Nick Reda, Mount Olive sr.; Andrew Knutelsky, Kittatinny jr.; Will Clifford, Madison jr.; Nick Forgione, Morris Knolls jr.; Sean Biakowski, Morris Knolls sr.; Tyler Hoste, Kittatinny sr.; Cooper Anderson, Mount Olive sr.; Owen Lally, Vernon so.; Michael Murphy, Roxbury sr.; Nick Gomez, Montville sr.

Honorable mention: Joseph Bubay, Morris Knolls sr.; Aiden Toupet, Roxbury sr.; Max Machado, Mount Olive sr.; Mike Colaiacovo, Montville fr.; Aiden Van Wingerden, Kittatinny sr.; Joseph Carfano, Madison sr.; Jacob Mann, Vernon sr.

Division champion: Mount Olive

Sportsmanship award: Morris Knolls

NJAC-American

First team: Joe Leone, Delbarton sr.; Nick Faccone, Delbarton jr.; Stefan Swedlund, Randolph jr.; Ryan Boyd, Chatham sr.; Connor Herraiz, Pope John sr.; Jack Sakowski, Pope John jr.; Caz Kotsen, Mountain Lakes sr.; Gavin Ananian, Mountain Lakes jr.; Matt Sentowski, Mountain Lakes jr.; Ryan McLaughlin, Mountain Lakes sr.; David Link,…

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