Those of a certain age remember the upbeat ad campaign to “see the USA in your Chevrolet,” encouraging families to use the car to explore this beautiful country.
That temptation to discover faraway wonders is challenged these days by the reality of gas prices that drain the household budget.
Staycations – enjoying attractions within easy drives from home – are back in vogue, offering a chance to enjoy the treasures in our own backyards.
Long ago, a close friend shared his thought that Ohioans should get to know their own state before setting off to more distant horizons. Personally, I enjoy a mixture of near, not so near, and far, but I thought his point was well taken. What we have right here really is very special and it’s hardly a second-best to stay close.
Some of the great choices, including nearby spots in Michigan and Indiana, are obvious – Metroparks Toledo, Maumee Bay State Park, Put-in-Bay, Cedar Point, the Irish Hills, Imagination Station, the Toledo Zoo, and Toledo Museum of Art.
Expand the circle a bit more and you can add Indiana’s Pokagon State Park, Mohican State Park and Resort, Henry Ford Museum, and much more.
It’s likely one of Ohio’s biggest landholders won’t come to mind, even though it should be high on the list.
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District is the largest conservancy in Ohio, owners of 54,000 acres scattered along the Muskingum River and some tributaries in a watershed that encompasses 20 percent of the state. The District’s mission is straightforward – reducing the impact of floodwaters and conserving water. But in performing its mission, the Conservancy is able to provide services that are wide and varied, venturing heavily into premium recreation experiences.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, the nation’s first Native American U.S. treasurer, comes from a line of chiefs who instilled in her the need to keep her tribe healthy and to survive.
“It’s our job to leave footprints on the path for those who come behind us — so they may find their way easily,” she said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press.
Now Malerba, 68, will bring…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, the nation’s first Native American U.S. treasurer, comes from a line of chiefs who instilled in her the need to keep her tribe healthy and to survive.
“It’s our job to leave footprints on the path for those who come behind us — so they may find their way easily,” she said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press.
Now Malerba, 68, will bring that mindset to two new jobs in Washington: Last week President Joe Biden appointed her U.S. treasurer and overseer of a new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs at the Treasury Department.
As part of the first role, her name will appear on all new U.S. currency. “I hope to sign the currency either Chief Lynn Malerba or Chief Many Hearts Lynn Malerba,” she said, referencing the meaning of her name within her tribe, “Mutáwi Mutáhash.”
In the latter role, she will be thinking of new ways to help tribes develop their economies to overcome challenges that are unique to tribal lands.
“Tribes cannot offer tax incentives on their reservations” in the same way that states and local municipalities would tax economic development, she said. She added that tribes haven’t been able to offer tax-exempt bonds for things like concert halls and golf courses like municipalities can.
Helping tribes…
Kendall Mendrzycki tossed four innings of one-hit ball, and finished with six strikeouts to lead Mountain Top over Pittston, 10-0, on Sunday in the semifinals of the District 16 Major Softball tournament.
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JUNE 14, 2022, 5:30 A.M. — Night clung stubbornly to the splintered tree trunks and tangled limbs. Daylight crept slowly across the fallen wires and rain-drenched debris on the ground as if reluctant to reveal the details of what had happened the night before.
I needed a headlamp to penetrate shadows cast by broken pine boughs so I could find the best places along the trunk — mindful that I had just one chainsaw battery. I had to make each cut count if I was to clear the massive pine off the driveway.
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That done, my sense of accomplishment was short-lived. Fallen trees, limbs and wires blocked Bromfield and Hastings East roads for a mile or more. It would be nearly 12 hours before road crews and neighbors cleared enough of a path to reach the main road and civilization. An eerily subdued civilization.
More than a week later, that feeling of numbness remained. The roads were open, power and internet connections restored. Yet stark reminders persisted — tree trunk forests devoid of canopies, gnarled limbs dangling or heaped on the ground, earth scarred by heavy equipment.
When time allowed, I chain sawed my way from mess to mess, surveying the damage, trying to decide what to clear next. And what could wait.
After lines of communications reopened, I was able to compare notes with others, including Larry Smith. He and his wife Elaine own prairies and woodlands in one of the hardest-hit areas — a six-mile corridor between Butler and Perrysville where the worst of the tornadoes ran roughshod across the landscape.
For more than a decade, Larry and Elaine have labored to restore these areas to their natural splendor. They’ve established awe-inspiring showcases…
DETROIT- The New Kids on the Block were still new kids on the block, relatively speaking, when the teenage heartthrobs hit the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan on Dec. 2, 1989, for not one but two sold-out concerts.
New Kids On The Block members, from left, Danny Wood, Jordan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre and Jonathan Knight pose with fans at an 80’s style roller rink party to celebrate their new single, at South Amboy Arena Rollermagic, on Thursday, March 3, 2022, in New Jersey. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
“Yeah we used to do matinees back then, too,” says New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, who fondly recalls that chilly December day and meeting members of the Bad Boys, including Detroit Pistons coach Chuck Daly, and being pleasantly surprised that they weren’t such bad guys after all (even though they’d disposed of Wahlberg’s Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals the year prior).
It’s now more than 30 years later and the Bad Boys are long gone and so is the Palace, but the New Kids are still hangin’ tough. The Boston boy band has embarked on the latest iteration of their Mixtape Tour, this time featuring fellow ’80s and ’90s hit-makers Salt-N-Pepa, En Vogue and Rickroll king Rick Astley.
The tour stops at the Mohegan Sun Arena for shows on Friday and Saturday nights.
Playing arenas, then as in now, is a surreal feeling, Wahlberg says.
“It’s a little bit overwhelming if we really stop and think about it,” says Wahlberg, on the phone earlier this year, along with fellow New Kid Jonathan Knight. “And I think as we get older, we definitely take the time to stop and think about it a lot more.”
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2022 Fireworks Schedule
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Fireworks will soon be lighting up the night sky around northeastern and central Pennsylvania.
Don’t miss a display near you with our annual Fireworks Schedule!
Check back for the latest information as updates are made available.
Bradford County:
7/3, Herrickville, Lent Farm, 9:00 PM
Carbon County:
7/4, Lehighton, 10:00 PM
Centre County:
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Clinton County:
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Columbia County:
7/2, Berwick, Crispin Field, 9:00 PM
7/4, Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg Fair Grounds, 9:00 PM
7/4, Millville, Millville Little League, 10:00 PM
7/9, Millville, Millville Community Park, 10:00 PM
Dauphin County:
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Lackawanna County:
7/1, Newton Township, Abington Heights Middle School, 9:30 PM RAIN DATE: 7/2, 9:30 PM
7/1, Carbondale, City Hall, 9:30 PM
7/1, Moosic, PNC Field, Following RailRiders Game
7/2, Moosic, PNC Field, Following RailRiders Game
7/2, Moscow, North Pocono Football Stadium, 9:00 PM RAIN DATE: 7/9, 9:00 PM
7/3, Scranton, Lackawanna County Courthouse, 9:00 PM
Lehigh County:
7/4, Allentown, Dorney Park, 9:00 PM
Luzerne County:
7/2, Nanticoke, Nanticoke HS, 9:00 PM RAIN DATE: 7/3, 9:00 PM
7/2, Wright Township, Municipal Park, 9:00 PM RAIN DATE: 7/5, 9:00 PM
7/2, Hazleton, City View Park, 9:45 PM
7/4, Wilkes-Barre, Kirby Park, 9:00 PM
Lycoming County:
7/3, Montgomery, Montgomery Park, 9:00 PM
7/4, Williamsport, Market Street Bridge, 9:35 PM
7/9, Jersey Shore, Jersey Shore Recreation Area, 9:45 PM
Monroe County:
7/1, East Stroudsburg, S. Kistler St, 9:00 PM
7/3, Skytop, Skytop Lodge, 9:00 PM
7/4, Tannersville, Camelbeach, 9:00…
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In a cavernous Smithsonian Institution workshop, a team of imaging experts laser scans a small, hand-carved cedar hat. It was crafted more than 140 years ago from a solid piece of wood and depicts a bear with large copper eyes. In a few hours, the experts will have a videoconference with members of the Haida Nation in British Columbia to go over the progress they’ve made on their collaborative goal: creating a digital three-dimensional model of this clan crest hat, an object of significant cultural importance for the Haida.
The project is the latest in a series of similar partnerships between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and Indigenous North American groups. Eric Hollinger, tribal liaison at NMNH’s repatriation office, says such groups are increasingly turning to 3-D technology to document and even replicate their cultural objects. “We want to be clear this is not in lieu of repatriation,” the legally mandated return of eligible original objects and Indigenous human remains from museums, Hollinger says. Instead the goal of this work is to help safeguard the legacy of fragile items by creating digital models for preservation and education, as well as physical replicas that can be displayed or even used in ceremonies when originals cannot.
These collaborations started in 2007, when the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, the Delaware Nation and the Delaware Tribe of Indians asked NMNH to 3-D print copies of a 17th-century pewter tobacco pipe that the museum was preparing to repatriate. Because cultural strictures required the reburial of the original pipe—a funerary object—tribal officials requested three replicas that could be used to educate people about the pipe’s history and the repatriation. Hollinger worked with the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office (DPO) to 3-D print the pipe replicas with silica. Although NMNH had been using 3-D…
Peter’s Mine Road is plastered with signs. On one side, they say “congratulations class of 2022.” On the other, they say “Superfund site.”
Pollution in this area of Ringwood, New Jersey dates back to 1967, when the Ford Motor Company began dumping paint sludge and other hazardous byproducts from their Mahwah car factory on land surrounding a defunct mine. But for a while nobody knew – especially not the indigenous people who lived there. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency didn’t designate the site for federally-managed Superfund cleanup until the 1980s.
Those toxic chemicals remain at the center of a decades-long fight, waged largely with the Ramapough Lenape Nation’s Turtle Clan.
Two weeks ago, New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the state Attorney General’s office filed a new lawsuit against Ford, saying the automaker was “fully aware” of the harm it was causing to Ringwood and the ancestral lands of the Ramapough.
Most of the area’s residents were and continue to be members of the Turtle Clan. Chief Vincent Mann said the community’s way of living off the land unknowingly sealed their fate.
“They were harvesting wild medicinals. They were drinking the water,” Mann said. “In all of those things was all the toxic chemicals that was disposed of there by Ford Motor Corporation, allowed by the town of Ringwood.”
According to the new civil complaint, Ford later sold or donated the land to municipal governments and residential developers without fully disclosing the contamination they’d left behind. By 1973, the company no longer owned any land at the site.
DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourrette said the lawsuit seeks restitution for the damage done to natural resources, rather than human health. Over 600 people from Upper Ringwood, alleging personal injuries and cancer due to the dumping site, filed a class-action…