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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins ended their weekend by defeating the Bridgeport Islanders, 4-1, on Saturday night at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.
Taking to the ice on Military Appreciation Night presented by MetLife, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (27-18-7-1) raced out of the gates with two early goals from Jonathan Gruden and Jagger Joshua. Stellar goaltending from Magnus Hellberg paved the rest of the way to a Penguins win.
Gruden and Joshua scored 48 seconds apart in the opening three minutes of the game, setting up the Penguins up with a 2-0 lead. Gruden batted a puck out of mid-air at the side of Jakub Škarek’s net 2:03 into the game. Joshua’s work around the net-mouth allowed him to snag a greasy goal shortly after.
The Islanders appeared to earn a power-play goal right before the buzzer at the end of the first, but a video review proved otherwise. The clock had run down to 0.0 before the puck crossed the goal line, keeping the Penguins’ 2-0 lead intact.
Hellberg thwarted a second-period penalty shot attempt by Julien Gauthier, catching a piece of the puck off his blocker before Gauthier’s bid struck the post.
Karson Kuhlman cut the Penguins’ lead to one four minutes into the third, but Wilkes-Barre/Scranton reestablished its two-goal edge 27 seconds later. Dmitri Samorukov banked a shot off an Islanders’ defender and into the net, making it 2-1.
After two successful penalty kills by the Penguins, an empty netter from Matt Filipe sealed the victory.
Hellberg totaled 31 saves on 32 shots. Škarek stopped 26 of the 29 bids thrown his way.
The Penguins will be back in action on Friday, Mar. 1, when they host the Charlotte Checkers for the first of back-to-back games at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza. Friday’s game…
The number of games that went down to the wire, or were close late in the fourth quarter should have been enough to keep fans entertained enough to want to head to Mohegan Sun Arena beginning today as teams compete for a district championship.
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Group assails track record of Comelec contractor
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is being hounded by questions over the track record of a South Korean company that won the service contract for the 2025 elections.
A group skeptical of the winning bidder cited reports of the company’s machines malfunctioning when used in the elections in two other countries.
Democracy Watch Philippines (DWP) on Friday expressed concern over the awarding of the P17.9 billion vote-counting contract to Miru Systems, given the issues that cropped up during the
2023 elections in Iraq and in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
DWP cited local and international news reports about Miru machines encountering glitches that “resulted in delayed voting, widespread chaos, and worst, massive erosion of public trust.”
Iraq election
Regarding the 2023 elections in Iraq, Miru has already denied the allegations and cited an earlier statement from the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (Unami) that described the elections as “fair and successful.”
But on Dec. 12, 2023, Claudio Cordone, deputy chief of Unami, clarified in a news statement that their mission does not have an electoral monitoring role.
“Unami will not observe or monitor the Dec. 18 elections, and is therefore not in a position to undertake an assessment of the manner in which the elections are conducted,” the news release read.
DWP also noted that Miru had yet to respond to questions from third-party election observers in Kinshasa, such as the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (Cenco) and the Church
of Christ in Congo (ECC).
Congo polls
According to the preliminary election report of Cenco and ECC gathered from the 60,000 nationwide volunteers, about 45.1 percent of the polling stations experienced problems with their
electronic…
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Driver Tyler Buter held the hot driving hands during another frosty card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with $59.20 bomber Smooth Landing taking the $22,973 featured trot as one of six winners on the Saturday afternoon, Feb. 24 program for the 38-year-old, who is fast approaching 4,500 career wins.
Buter had the victorious Tactical Landing gelding out behind grinding heavy favourite Buddy Earl in the feature, then moved on to challenge raw after that one got by at the three-quarter pole under some urging. Through the stretch, it was no contest as Smooth Landing (pictured above) went on to a 1:58 final time for trainer Jennifer Bongiorno and owners Glenn Goller and Stephen Demeter. Enola closed steadily to take second ahead of Buddy Earl.
A trio of $22,297 contests were co-featured on the card, with the fast-class trot also going to Buter and the 51-time career winner Rich And Miserable in 1:55. The Todd Buter-trained altered son of Explosive Matter was the easiest of winners while taking his career bankroll to $831,278 for Buter Farm Inc. and Lynette Buter.
Tyler Buter pulled another upset with 12-1 choice Panettone Hanover in the top-level starter allowance pace, tipping wide off the cover of Francis Underwood and prevailing in 1:53.2. The Captaintreacherous gelding is co-owned by trainer Cote Keim in partnership with El Dorado Stables and Buzzy Sholty.
In the fast-class pace, the Always B Miki gelding Maximus Miki won his second straight race at Pocono via a pocket journey, launching up the inside to gain into a :55.4 back half and win in 1:53.3. George Napolitano Jr. again guided the pacer to success for Team Cancelliere — trainer Tom and owner John.
Racing returns to Pocono on Monday for a 14-race card beginning at 1 p.m., with a pair of showcase…
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The keynote speaker at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ 125th commencement exercises will be Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.
This year’s commencement will be held Saturday, May 11, at 11 a.m., in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts sits on the ancestral land of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.
In addition, MCLA will confer honorary doctorates to four individuals: President Holsey, state Sen. Paul Mark, Mass Humanities Executive Director Brian Boyles and former president and CEO of Child Care of the Berkshires Anne Nemetz-Carlson.
“I am excited to have Shannon Holsey as the keynote speaker for this year’s Commencement,” said MCLA President James F. Birge. “Her dedication to community service, leadership, and advocacy for Native American rights aligns with our commitment to producing well-rounded, socially conscious graduates. I look forward to the inspiration and wisdom she will undoubtedly share with our graduating class.”
Shannon Holsey
Holsey will be awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters recognizing her leadership and commitment to the well-being of her community that has earned her three terms as president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band, following her eight years as a member of the Tribal Council. Raised on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Bowler, Wis., Holsey has dedicated herself to ensuring the tribe serves as responsible stewards of economic, environmental, cultural, and intellectual resources.
She also serves as the president of the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, which represents 12 member tribes across 45 counties with a land base of about 1 million acres. She is an appointee to the Wisconsin State Legislature’s Special Committee on State-Tribal Relations and…
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Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I’m glad to be part of this dialogue which explores opportunities to strengthen regional connectivity and integration. A timely gathering, I would say. As always, it is a great honour to be here. In Baghdad. A city steeped in history and tradition. A city I have called my home for over five years now.
Ladies and gentlemen, Iraq’s centrality to regional stability cannot be overstated. For numerous reasons. This is a point I have made many times.
Now, I assume there is no need to spell out the many highs and lows which faced Iraq over the past decades. All of you will already be aware, our Iraqi friends and colleagues most of all.
Instead, I wish to use this opportunity to emphasize that, today, Iraq is increasingly well positioned as an arena for dialogue and investment.
Within this context, domestic stability is (of course) key. Key for the Iraqi people, first and foremost. But also key for people of the region and beyond, as well as key for (for instance) foreign and private investors.
For any country to advance on the global or regional stage, it must be trusted. And, equally important, it must be able to trust others. And yes, that can be easier said than done. As we all know: trust is hard to gain but easy to lose. And nobody denies that legacies from the past can still impact the present. In other words: building trust requires constant and hard work. And that includes the ability to self-reflect.
One thing is for sure: each and every country benefits from being a reliable partner. Why? Because, at the end of the day, everything is connected.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Iraq of today is very different from that of two decades prior. It…
In recent years many theater companies have made a point of introducing performances with land acknowledgements, thanking the Native peoples whose ancestral lands the theater occupies — lands that were generally taken from them by force.
In the case of “Manahatta” at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company, the whole play serves as a land acknowledgement of sorts.
Mary Kathryn Nagle’s drama jumps back and forth between Wall Street in the early 2000s and the same land in the 1600s when it was known as Manahatta, the home of the Lenape people.
“Manahatta” premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2018 and played New York’s Public Theater (in Manahatta itself) last November. Also a lawyer and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Nagle had the West Coast premiere of her play “Sovereignty” at Marin Theatre Company in 2019.
The play follows Jane Snake, a young Lenape woman who grew up in Oklahoma after many generations of displacement, as she rises through the ranks at a major Wall Street investment bank in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
As played by Livia Gomes Demarchi, Jane radiates confident professionalism mixed with workaholic deference to the unreasonable expectations heaped on her by her bosses, Max Forman-Mullin as brusque, demanding young department head Joe and Anthony Fusco as smoothly callous CEO Dick. They appreciate Jane in direct proportion to how much money she makes them, and if she falls short they have no use for her.
Back in Oklahoma, Jane’s mother is struggling financially and falling prey to the same kind of predatory lending that Jane’s company is profiting from. Portrayed with placid stoicism by Linda Amayo-Hassan, mother Bobbie is too proud to ask for advice or even let her family know what’s going on. As older sister Debra, Oogie Push is resentful of…