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AREA HAPPENINGS

Food Truck Fundraiser, 4-7 p.m. Saturday, Wooster Elks #1346, 335 N. Market St., Wooster. Proceeds go to the Junior Women’s Service Club of Wayne County.

Ohio’s Hospice LifeCare Golf Classic, 9 a.m. Friday, The Pines Golf Club, Orrville. To register, visit www.OhiosHospiceLifeCare.org/Golf2022. For questions or sponsorship information, contact Katherine Ritchie at kritchie@lifecarehospice.org or 330-264-4899.

Break the Cycle, 7 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27. Break the Cycle celebrates recovery and promotes wellness with three bike routes, Holmes County Trail bike ride and two 5k walks. The bike ride consists of either a 24-, 50- or 70-miles ride through the countryside of Wayne and Holmes counties. Each route varies in elevation and level of fitness. The Holmes County Trail ride starts at Hipp Station (Millersburg), turns around at Fredericksburg aid station and ends at Hipp Station. The 5k walks include a walk from the fairgrounds through downtown and visiting OneEighty’s Main Office and Recovery Club or on the Holmes County Trail starting at Hipp Station. Entry is $40 ride or walk on the day of the event. Children ages 12 and under accompanied by an adult can walk for free; 35 ride or walk virtually. Day of registration will be $45.

Downtown Wooster Farmers’ Market, 8 a.m.-noon Saturday in Historic Downtown Wooster. Free live music from band Honeytown from 9-11 a.m. under the Pavilion. For more information, email: Guinevere@mainstreetwooster.org.  

Photographing fall colors, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, The Wilderness Center, 9877 Alabama Ave. SW, Wilmot. The Wilderness Center Nature Photo Club will present a free program presented by Jerry Jelinek. For more information visit www.twcnpc.com.

The Great Mohican Crawdad Hunt, 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, Mohican State Park, Loudonville. Children can learn how to net crawdads and other critters at this free event sponsored by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Scenic Rivers Program. The program features the life history of this Ohio animal…

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Lenni Lenape

At Pennsbury Manor, few of William Penn’s belongings remain. Here’s a look

Carl LaVO  |  Special to the Bucks County Courier Times

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How these history buffs found a cave believed to be a Doan Gang hideout

Hear how these Doylestown history buffs found a cave they believe was a Doan Gang hideout and how they will turn their journey into a documentary.

Nur B. Adam, Bucks County Courier Times

There’s this side chair in an upstairs bedroom in William Penn’s reconstructed estate in Falls. It’s about as close as you’re likely get to Pennsylvania’s founder at old Pennsbury Manor. He owned the chair. I like to imagine him tuckered out, plopping down on the seat next to a window at the end of a long and weary day managing his 13-square-mile estate and meeting with Lenape Indian chiefs he befriended and from whom he bought the land 341 years ago.

Downstairs in the Great Hall, you get another taste of the real deal. Freshly cooked game and vegetables once were heaped on a large pewter charger engraved with the initials of William and first wife Gulielma. Dinner guests would pass around the platter at the hall’s elongated dinner table. Thieves in 1996 obviously knew the charger’s historic value. They broke in one night and made off with it and 50 other…

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Munsee

Indians 101: Little Turtle, Miami war leader

The Miami language belongs to the Central Algonquian group of the large Algonquian language family. It is most closely related to Illinois, Shawnee, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, Menominee, Potawatomi, Ojibwa, Cree, Montegnais, and Naskapi.

The Miami war chief Little Turtle (1742-1812) was born along the Eel River northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana. His father was Acquenacke, a Miami chief, and his mother was Mahican.

There is little specific information about Little Turtle’s early years, and he emerges in the English language histories as one of the figures in the Revolutionary War. While Little Turtle was often an advocate for peace with the invading Europeans, during the Revolutionary War he fought on the side of the British. In his book Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890, Jerry Keenan writes:

“Like many Indian leaders, Little Turtle believed there was more to be feared from the American colonists than the British and, accordingly threw his support behind the latter during the Revolution.”

In his biographical sketch of Little Turtle in the Encyclopedia of North American Indians, Stewart Rafert writes:

“Regarded as perhaps the greatest Algonquian war leader of his time, Little Turtle grew to adulthood during the American Revolution and led Native American armed resistance to the American invasion of the Old Northwest in the late eighteenth century.”

In his book Who Was Who in Native American History: Indians and Non-Indians From Early Contacts Through 1900, Carl Waldman writes:

“Little Turtle was one of the great military geniuses of all time.”

He developed many methods of guerilla warfare, most notable the use of decoys. Carl Waldman writes:

“Little Turtle instructed his warriors from the allied tribes to pick off the invading army wherever possible. The warriors hid and used swift, small strikes to confuse the enemy.”

From 1790 to…

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Nanticoke

Luzerne County committee discusses Nanticoke/West Nanticoke bridge plans

Replacement of the Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge over the Susquehanna River came up during Luzerne County Council’s Strategic Initiatives Committee meeting this week.

Council has identified the county-owned bridge as the highest-priority project to be completed with infrastructure funding the county is slated to receive from casino gambling revenue, although the final decision is subject to change and up to council.

Up to $55 million will be available for county-owned projects, although the net proceeds will depend on interest rates and other costs associated with the borrowing required to yield the up-front cash. A possible receipt around $51 million has been cited at prior council meetings due to rising interest rates.

The strategic committee received a list of prioritized projects totaling $54.9 million that has been compiled by the county engineer’s office.

Construction of a new Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge linking Nanticoke and Plymouth Township topped the list, at an estimated $51 million.

The other proposed allocations, in order of priority, would address the most deteriorated sections of the following roadways, the administration said:

• Main Road in Hunlock and Ross townships, $1 million

• Lower Demunds Road and Upper Demunds Road in Dallas and Franklin townships, $650,000

• Ransom Road in Dallas and Franklin townships, $500,000

• Church Road in Wright Township, $500,000

• Oak Hill Road in Wright Township, $500,000

• Crestwood Drive in Wright Township, $250,000

• Old Airport Road in Butler Township, $250,000

• Hanover Street in Hanover Township, $250,000

Strategic committee Chairman Gregory Wolovich Jr. asked if the Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge must be included.

Andrew Reilly, executive director of the county community development office and redevelopment authority, said the decision is still up to council.

Councilman Kevin Lescavage said he fully supports constructing a new Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge if…

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Mohegan

What legal woes does Trump face?

Former US President Donald Trump said on Monday that FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Law enforcement officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Trump’s claims.

The focus of the investigation was not immediately clear. Here is a look at some of the probes and lawsuits that Trump faces.

MISSING NATIONAL RECORDS

The US National Archives and Records Administration in February notified Congress that it had recovered about 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump’s Florida home, some of which contained classified materials.

The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee at that time said it was expanding an investigation into Trump’s actions and asked the Archives to turn over additional information. Trump previously confirmed that he had agreed to return certain records to the Archives, calling it “an ordinary and routine process.”

JAN 6 ATTACK ON THE US CAPITOL

A congressional panel probing January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol is working to build a case that he broke the law in trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Vice chair Liz Cheney has said the committee could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against Trump, who accuses the panel of conducting a sham investigation. 

In a March 2 court filing, the committee detailed Trump’s efforts to persuade then-Vice President Mike Pence to either reject slates of electors for Democrat Joe Biden, who won the election, or delay a congressional count of those votes.

Trump’s efforts likely violated a federal law making it illegal to “corruptly” obstruct any official proceeding, or attempt to do so, said David Carter, the California federal judge overseeing the casE

In the March 2 filing, the committee said it was likely that Trump and others conspired to defraud the United…

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OLLI’s ‘University Days’ offer a reset on public understanding of Indigenous cultures in New England

PITTSFIELD — The generation that grew up playing “cowboys and Indians” has a chance this month to see miles beyond the brutal simplicity of that old childhood game.

Though September, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College will provide classes about Indigenous people through its University Days program. OLLI’s classes are usually targeted toward adults 50 and older, but all are welcome to attend.

The five-week series, “We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast,” includes 19 events, among them art shows, lectures, reading groups and walking tours. All events are free, except for a flute performance by Hawk Henries that has a $5 entrance fee.

The scale of the program is a big jump from previous years, according to Katherine Kidd, a retired professor and chair of OLLI’s University Days Committee. In the past, one-day events have been offered twice a year. Before this year, the largest program was a seven-day class about women’s suffrage in 2020.

If You Go

What: “We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast”

Who: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College

When: Aug. 26 – Sept. 29

Where: Lectures are online. Events are in person. 

Registration and more information: berkshireolli.org/UniversityDays2022

OLLI University Days Highlights

Find a full list of events at berkshireolli.org/UniversityDays2022

“Awikhigan: Evoking Indigenous Stories and Landscapes”

What: Works by artists Cheryl Savageau, Judy Dow and Rhonda Besaw.

Where: Gallery at Elayne P. Bernstein Theater, 70 Kemble St., Shakespeare & Company, Lenox

When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Aug. 27-Sept. 20

Reading Group: “The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast”

What: Reading group discussion led by Kate Kidd. Reading group size is limited to 20 people per session. Registration required. Both in-person and online groups are available.

When: Monday, Aug….

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Lenni Lenape

Mëshatàm Lënapehòkink: I remember the land of the Lenape

In 2019, my adult child, River, and I visited our Lenape tribal homeland together for the first time. We are enrolled citizens of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and descendants of the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma, one of three Lenape bands in the United States. Our Lenape ancestors and people were forced from our Eastern Woodlands homelands over two centuries ago and pushed halfway across the continent to Oklahoma, where my father was born. Like many Lenape’ok (Lenape people), we’d never had the opportunity to lay eyes on the homeland that holds the spirits of our ancestors, and the plant and animal nations that nourished our Lenape family for countless millennia.

Our Indigenous homelands are a central part of our identities and cultures. Epigenetic research shows that our relationships with our homeland ecologies are literally part of our DNA, as is the trauma of our separation from them. Living disconnected from our homelands feels like someone carved an empty space where an integral part of my existence used to be. This has affected every aspect of my life, including my artistic and storytelling practice.

The following words and images are memories from four trips to visit Lënapehòkink, our homeland. Having finally reconnected that dangling thread to its source, I feel as if I can start weaving back together some of what has unraveled within my family. I was finally able to begin to understand what it means to be remembered by the land as a Lenape person. My memories of the land are now part of the land, like the memories of my ancestors before me.

A photograph of a person standing in the water at a beach. Their back is to the camera and they hold a bag in their hand.

Nem kitahikàn ènta ika a…

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Nanticoke

Hamilton steelworkers reach contract agreement with Stelco, avert strike threat

Stelco workers in Hamilton have ended a strike threat by voting in favour of a new five-year contract.

More than 82 per cent of the United Steel Workers Local 1005 members who voted approved the contract Wednesday — the same day Stelco’s last Hamilton steelmaking blast furnace was demolished.

The company has not made steel in Hamilton for more than a decade.

But around 600 local Stelco workers continue to operate steel-finishing operations on the bayfront, including a zinc-coating line, as well as an 83-oven battery that makes coke for the company’s integrated steelmaking mill on Lake Erie.

A union memo to members earlier this month said the agreement will include wage increases of $1.05 per year as well as cost-of-living adjustments, pension and benefits improvements.

The Hamilton-based steel company reached a tentative agreement with the union last week, a few days before a legal strike or lockout would have become possible.

The USW local representing 1,000 unionized workers at Stelco’s Nanticoke plant has also reached a tentative agreement with the company, with a vote on that prospective contract scheduled for Friday.

Locally, the union argued during bargaining that Stelco has been “extremely successful and profitable” in recent times, pointing to its recent sale of its Hamilton lands to a developer, investment in the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and announced plans to buy back $1 billion in shares from investors.

Negotiations over the latest local contract came amid a historic ownership change in Stelco’s 324 hectares of bayfront land. Earlier this summer, Stelco sold its Hamilton land to would-be developer Slate Asset Management, which agreed to lease back to the steelmaker the property required to continue local operations.

But The Spectator discovered the company’s lease agreement for coke-making operations appears set to end by 2029 at the latest — leaving the future of that…

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Mohegan

Rob Gronkowski to host official retirement party at Mohegan Sun

Photo of Andrew DaRosa

Aug. 10, 2022Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 3:51 p.m.

Rob Gronkowski #87 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrates after winning Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. 

Rob Gronkowski #87 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrates after winning Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. 

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Four-time Super Bowl champion and NFL legend Rob Gronkowski will be celebrating his retirement in style at Mohegan Sun next month.

“Rob Gronkowski’s Official Retirement Party” will take place at FanDuel Sportsbook in the casino on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 9-11 p.m. The party will feature complimentary appetizers, a champagne toast and the opportunity to run into the former Tight End, according to a press release.

DJ Whoo Kid, the host of The Whoolywood Shuffle on Sirius/XM, will be present all night spinning tracks while the “Gronk Smash Burger” will make its debut at the event. Guests might even be able to see Gronkowski do the “Gronk Smash” on the dance floor. 

An after party will take place at the Avalon Nightclub in Mohegan Sun starting at 11:30 p.m.

Gronkowski’s long-term girlfriend, Camille Kostek, is a Killingworth native and has been spotted on various occassions visiting her home state with the ex-NFL star.  

The former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers player announced his initial retirement in 2019 before coming back in 2020 to join former teammate Tom Brady on the Buccaneers. Gronkowski…

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Mohican Quilters work depicting rural Loudonville will be auctioned at Oct. 5 Street Fair

The Mohican Quilters of Loudonville have produced a quilt to be auctioned at the upcoming Loudonville Free Street Fair, with proceeds going to the fair board.

“For years, the fair has allowed our organization to show our quilt projects to be judged and shared with fairgoers,” Richelle Nicholas of the Quilters explained. “We decided to jointly make and donate a quilt to the fair to be auctioned, with proceeds going to the fair.”

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The quilt auction will be conducted during the auction of prize-winning cakes and pies on the fair midway at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Nicholas said 16 of the 30 Mohican Quilters helped make the item.

“The quilt was designed with life in our rural area in mind,” Nicholas said. “Members chose patterns and made them with fabric the club purchased from the Alabaster Mouse in Loudonville, at times adding material from their own ‘stash’ to their block. Members met in March and added sashing and completed the quilt top. One of the members then quilted the layers together.”

The Mohican Quilters have been in the Loudonville community for 39 years, and meet on the second Monday of each month at the Christian Community Center (Three Cs) at 807 Valley View Drive.

Meetings start at 7 p.m. Programming at meetings includes presentations by club members, show and shares, guest speakers, or hands-on projects. New participants are always welcome.

For more information on the Quilters, contact Nicholas at mrsdnichola@aol.com.

Members are planning their first quilt show, scheduled to be held in the Loudonvilel Fair’s Hans Building during the 2023 Loudonville car Show.

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