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Mohegan Sun New Year’s Eve celebration

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Corry to crack down on vaping in new year

Corry Area Middle-High School is looking to eliminate the use of e-cigarettes by students on campus, especially in bathrooms.

E-cigarettes are electronic devices that heat a liquid typically containing nicotine and produce an aerosol or a mix of small particles in the air, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The use of e-cigarettes is commonly referred to as “vaping.”

Corry Area School Board member Amy Allen brought up students vaping in bathrooms during a Nov. 22 school board meeting.

Allen was in attendance at the high school’s Pennsylvania Business Week and said she enjoyed the opportunity to speak with students and staff about concerns they had. 

“I heard there’s some issues of kids vaping in bathrooms. I had a couple teachers come up to me. Apparently they have done research about devices that can get put into restrooms that will alert us if kids are vaping in bathrooms and we can respond to it,” Allen said during the meeting. 

Corry Area School District Director of Buildings and Grounds Mike Munsee said they are aware of the problem and have also researched the so-called “vape detectors,” which operate similarly to a smoke detector but do not emit an audible sound. 

“Instead of it going off like a smoke detector, it alerts through the school network to a work station with somebody,” Munsee told The Corry Journal. 

If the device detects the use of e-cigarettes, then it will transmit a notification to school officials, such as a principal, who will investigate the situation. 

The school district has ordered vape detectors and plans to install them in every student-accessible bathroom in the middle-high school, according to Munsee.

“They are on order. I’m just waiting for them to come in,” Munsee said. “They work pretty well from what I understand.”

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Loudonville’s upcoming Mohican Winterfest to feature new activities

LOUDONVILLE – With a couple of new activities on the agenda, the 2022 Mohican Winterfest, the village’s mid-winter extravaganza, will run Friday through Sunday, Jan. 7-9, downtown.

New to the Winterfest, according to a schedule provided by Valerie Spreng, executive director of the sponsoring Loudonville-Mohican Chamber of Commerce, will be a show of vintage and newer snowmobiles in Central Park from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, along with a Poker Walk, sponsored by American Legion Post 257, running from 1-4 p.m. Saturday and starting at the Legion on South Water Street.

Vehicle strikes school building: School to resume Monday for McMullen students after truck strikes building

A tradition at the Winterfest for the past seven or eight years is the Model Train Expo, again to be set up in the Loudonville Fair Building on North Street downtown. Model train enthusiasts will set up their train displays in the fair building, which will be open for public viewing Friday from 4-8 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Learn how to make a hiking stick

Activities will begin Friday at 1 p.m. at the Mohican State Park Class A campground, on state Route 3 a mile south of Loudonville, when a demonstration on how to make a hiking stick will be conducted.

Also, on tap Friday will be entertainment at the Ugly Bunny Winery, located a mile east of the village on state Route 39, by Tyler Chaffee.

Friday at 7 p.m., and again at 7 on Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday, the Ohio Theatre on North Water Street will show the movie “Spider Man No Way Home.”

Ice sculptors and specialists from Elegant Ice Creations, located in Broadview Heights, will set up the Winterfest’s iconic ice sculptures starting late Friday afternoon.

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Sylvia M. Schimmel Svetz

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Loudonville’s upcoming Mohican Winterfest to feature new activities

A colorful ice sculpture of Minnie Mouse from the Indigo Owl Boutique overlooks downtown Loudonville during the 13th annual Mohican Winterfest in January 2020.

A colorful ice sculpture of Minnie Mouse from the Indigo Owl Boutique overlooks downtown Loudonville during the 13th annual Mohican Winterfest in January 2020.

LOUDONVILLE – With a couple of new activities on the agenda, the 2022 Mohican Winterfest, the village’s mid-winter extravaganza, will run Friday through Sunday, Jan. 7-9, downtown.

New to the Winterfest, according to a schedule provided by Valerie Spreng, executive director of the sponsoring Loudonville-Mohican Chamber of Commerce, will be a show of vintage and newer snowmobiles in Central Park from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, along with a Poker Walk, sponsored by American Legion Post 257, running from 1-4 p.m. Saturday and starting at the Legion on South Water Street.

Vehicle strikes school building: School to resume Monday for McMullen students after truck strikes building

A tradition at the Winterfest for the past seven or eight years is the Model Train Expo, again to be set up in the Loudonville Fair Building on North Street downtown. Model train enthusiasts will set up their train displays in the fair building, which will be open for public viewing Friday from 4-8 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Learn how to make a hiking stick

Activities will begin Friday at 1 p.m. at the Mohican State Park Class A campground, on state Route 3 a mile south of Loudonville, when a demonstration on how to make a hiking stick will be conducted.

Also, on tap Friday will be entertainment at the Ugly Bunny Winery, located a mile east of the village on state Route 39, by Tyler Chaffee.

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Johanna Mary (Kuruc) Augustine

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Remember When: Mohegan Park the result of Yankee ingenuity

More than a half a century ago I would walk up to Spaulding Pond for either fishing or swimming with my good friend Jimmy. I lived on Spaulding Street, at that time, in a two-family Victorian home with my parents and two sisters.

Well, Jimmy and I would walk up to Warren Street and finally reach the entrance to Mohegan Park very near to the Rose Garden. We’d then begin our fun exploration of the old path through the forest following the blue painted slashed trail markers to Mohegan Park Road and cross over to the Ice Pond where in my father’s youth he broke his right leg skating too close and fell in where the ice men were cutting ice for the “ice house.”

Our trip to “the park,” as we called it, took us along a stream with its towering trees, rock outcropping, green understory, and aquatic life. We’d enter the park center from the trail just below the rose arbored dam where there were ducks swimming in a small pond carousing, to our delight, and then travel along the park roads to Bullhead Rock to fish or swim depending on the weather.

Now, well over 60 years later, the memories are getting a bit cloudy or maybe enhanced by my hyped imagination of good times past. Now, as a senior citizen, I see a beautiful park where you can enjoy swimming in season, fishing, baseball and tennis or a healthy walk or jog.

It’s also enjoyable to just observe the flora and fauna from the trails or the seven miles of paved roads.

Through private donations, the land of Mohegan Park has grown to over 380 acres between 1907 and the present time. The park center was established in 1907….

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Shawnee Public Schools students enjoy Spirit Wolf Dance Troupe performances

For about 14 years now, several Shawnee Public Schools students representing various Native American tribes have competed and performed in the Spirit Wolf Dance Troupe, expressing their love of dance and their culture.

According to SPS Indian Education Coordinator Graham Primeaux, the dance troupe is composed of a group of students who perform at SPS school sites and in the Shawnee community.

“When schools need some cultural education, we use our own Native American students who dance to go out into the district to share their cultural, heritage and traditions,” Primeaux said.

He explained students of multiple ages in the district participate in the dance troupe and each presentation is different.

“We have anywhere from six to 18 students that we have in our district that do dance,” he said. “There are no auditions; we just know a lot of the students’ families.”

He explained about 30 percent of SPS students are Native American students and 41 different tribes are represented by those students.

About 13 different tribes are represented by the students on the dance troupe.

Those tribes include the Kickapoo Tribe, Absentee Shawnee Tribe, Sac and Fox Nation, Delaware Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ponca Nation, Osage Nation, Otoe-Missouria Tribe, Pawnee Nation, Choctaw Nation, Comanche Nation, Caddo Nation, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

Primeaux explained the troupe is beneficial to students because it gives them the opportunity to share their heritage and be confident in who they are.

“Our dancers are building on their own identity and are able to participate in their own cultural teachings and traditions through dance,” he said. “So when we go out into the schools we’re able to use our own students to teach and educate non Natives about the culture, heritage and traditions of our Indian people.”

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‘Manteo’su00a0World’ is a treasure trove of information on how the first Americans lived in N.C.

Ben Steelman  |  StarNews Correspondent

We know pathetically little about the Cape Fear Indians, who inhabited the Wilmington area until the early 1700s. We’re not sure what they called themselves (possibly “Daw-Hee”) or what they spoke (probably a Siouan language, similar to the Plains Indians). 

A fair idea of how they lived, however, can be gleaned from “Manteo’s World: Native American Life in Carolina’s Sound Country Before and After the Lost Colony” by retired Old Dominion University anthropologist Helen C. Rountree.

Rountree writes about the Croatoans, the Roanokes and the other Algonquian-speaking peoples whom Sir Walter Raleigh’s expeditions encountered in and around Roanoke Island beginning in 1584.

We know rather more about them thanks to the accounts of explorers such as Thomas Hariot, John Lawson (who came along later, in the early 1700s) and particularly the many drawings by John White, the governor of what would come to be known as “the Lost Colony.”

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Manteo, for those who forgot, was the young Croatoan man who traveled back to England with the first explorers and later became an interpreter and diplomat for the English settlers.

These first Americans lived a Stone Age existence. They had only small amounts of copper, acquired by trade, which they used mainly for jewelry. Nevertheless, they had a self-sufficient, mostly comfortable existence.

It wasn’t Eden. Women — who were expected to farm corn, beans and squash; root for tubers in the marshes; cook; tan hides; make baskets and perform other chores — often developed arthritis as early as their 30s.

Men hunted and fished. It was exhausting work, chasing wounded deer for miles, then lugging the carcasses for miles back to the village or camp. English visitors often saw men lying around between hunts — which, Rountree thinks, led…

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