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Operation Clean House (OCH) has served as an environmentally-friendly beacon in Washington County for 32 years, and 2021 was no different.

Operation Clean House was held on Saturday, Sept. 18 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Liz Campbell, the Lead Director of OCH, says they collected a ton of hazardous waste and electronic waste at their Bartlesville and Dewey locations this year. Campbell says they took in 14,600 pounds of hazardous waste such as household chemicals and pesticides. She says they collected 38,000 lbs. of electronic waste (i.e. computers, televisions, VCRs, etc.) and over 650 gallons of oil as well.

The oil was re-used at the Washington County District Two barn two miles to the east of Dewey on West 1500 Road.

Almost 100 gallons of anti-freeze was collected during OCH. Campbell says there were even three dump trucks full of appliances that were properly disposed of as well. She says it was amazing to see how much material they prevented from being taken to the landfill this year.

Since 1989, Operation Clean House has collected 367,000 lbs. of hazardous waste. A total of 765,000 lbs. worth of electronics and 11,069 gallons of oil have been taken in over the years as well. These numbers include this year’s totals.

A total of 927 vehicles made their way to the two OCH locations this year. Campbell says there were just over 680 cars that came to drop off waste at the Phillips 66 parking lot in Bartlesville. She says they saw 245 vehicles come through the Dewey location.

A significant number of Washington County citizens participated in the event. Campbell applauds the volunteers that came out to help make our neck of the woods cleaner and safer for all to enjoy….

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BUCKHANNON — West Virginia Senator Bill Hamilton, a Buckhannon native and Buckhannon-Upshur High School graduate, presented the Local Economic Development Act (LEDA) Grant Award of $5,000 to the Upshur County Commission Thursday morning, for the Warren District Community Building.

“It’s a privilege to be here with you all today,” Senator Hamilton began. He noted that it has been a rough year on everyone, but especially community centers. When Senator Hamilton spoke with individuals from the Warren District Community Building, he was reportedly informed they recently had to replace part of their HVAC and septic systems.

According to Senator Hamilton, this check was presented on behalf of Governor Jim Justice, Senate President Craig Blaire, Finance Chair/Senator Eric Tarr, Senator Robert Karnes and himself.

He noted that he will be bringing another check soon to help support the Upshur County Youth Camp. “Of course, that’s pretty close to my heart because I am an old 4-Her from Upshur County—Delaware Tribe, I might add,” he laughed.

Cary Smith and Norman Rohr, board members of the Warren District Community Building, were present to receive the check on behalf of the community building Thursday morning.

Commission President Kristie Tenney expressed gratitude and appreciation for the check presented. “We truly appreciate it,” she commented to Senator Bill Hamilton.

County Commissioners also discussed a plan of action for the Hampton Community Building. County Administrator Carrie Wallace explained to Commissioners that in May of 2001, this property was deeded to the Hampton Community Church trustees for use as a community building. Wallace referenced Senator Hamilton’s statements regarding the financial load some of these community buildings are carrying, and said the Hampton Community Building is no exception. Earlier this year, one of the United Methodist trustees corresponded with County Commissioners, letting them know they would like to turn the property back over to the Commission.

According…

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The upcoming long holiday weekend marks a first for the city.

What’s happening: Philadelphia will officially recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day, rather than Columbus Day, on Monday.

The big picture: Philly is joining a growing number of cities — and states — that have ditched Columbus Day for some form of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

• Native American groups have long pushed for the change due to concerns the Italian explorer helped bring about the genocide of Indigenous people in the Americas.
• The transition has been met by backlash from some Italian Americans who celebrate Christopher Columbus as the nation’s first Italian immigrant.

Of note: The U.S. government and Pennsylvania still recognize Columbus Day.

What they’re saying: Mayor Jim Kenney said in an emailed statement that the official designation was an “opportunity to recognize and teach about the atrocities that have occurred to Indigenous people through colonialism.”

• Ben Miller, a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma and part of Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly Inc., told Mike it makes a big difference to have official political understanding and recognition from the city.
• “The day that we’re putting in place is to recognize those who have been forgotten about,” said Miller.

Catch up fast: Kenney penned an executive order this year to change the holiday observed on the second Monday of October to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and to officially recognize Juneteenth. The actions were part of his administration’s response to the 2020 protests against police brutality following the killing of George Floyd.

• The mayor’s order triggered a federal lawsuit seeking to reverse it and maintain Columbus Day as an officially recognized holiday.
• The city’s request to dismiss the federal lawsuit is pending.

The other side: Jody Della Barba, a member of the Italian American group 1492 Society and an organizer for this weekend’s Columbus Day parade, called it “ethnic discrimination”…

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Next week, for the first time, Philadelphia will officially celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, thanks to an executive order by Mayor Kenney last February that replaced Columbus Day with a celebration of Native Americans on the second Monday in October.

In some ways, it marked the end of a long fight, with Philly following the lead of cities across the country that have stopped celebrating the man who “discovered” America and started honoring the Indigenous Peoples who are still thriving right here in our city and across the country.

But to Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly co-founder and executive director Mabel Negrete, it’s only the beginning of the work needed to properly acknowledge the first people to occupy this region—starting with recognizing the Lenape tribes in the diaspora as sovereign nations with rights to land in our state. Pennsylvania is one of about a dozen states that doesn’t recognize a single tribe.

“It’s bittersweet, that 339 years later, the local governments are actually now talking to us,” says Ben Miller, member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians.

Those conversations are starting, though. Last month, chiefs from the five federally recognized Delaware tribes (none of which live on their original homelands, or even in the state) met virtually with Governor Wolf and his cabinet for the first time.

“It’s bittersweet, that 339 years later the local governments are actually now talking to us,” says artist Ben Miller, who helped organize the virtual meeting (and is also organizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly’s event this year). He’s a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, which has about 12,000 members and is based in Oklahoma—where many Lenape resettled after being displaced—on Cherokee lands. “We are discussing an opportunity to come back home,” Miller says. “We want to get to…

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The Pike County Historical Society is opening a new permanent exhibit, “The Lenape, Original People, Reconciling the Past, Embracing the Future,” at the Columns Museum in Milford. The exhibit will open on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 1 pm.

The exhibit is the result of a five-year collaboration between the Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Delaware Nation and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community (the three federally recognized Lenape tribes) in partnership with Milford Borough, descendants of the family of Tom Quick and the Pike County Historical Society.

The exhibit tells the story of the Lenape Indians, the indigenous people of the region, from the pre-Colonial era through today. The exhibit addresses, among others topics, the forced relocation of the tribes, the legend of Tom Quick (the so-called “Indian Slayer of the Delaware”) and the Walking Purchase Treaty, a land swindle perpetrated on the Lenape that includes part of Pike County.

“We are proud to be able to tell this important part of Pike County’s history,” said Lori Strelecki, the Columns Museum curator. “The fact that the exhibit was created in partnership with the Lenape tribes, the Quick family and the Borough makes it especially meaningful.”

Brad Kill’s Crow, Chief of the Anadarko, Oklahoma-based Delaware Tribe of Indians, said “We have not vanished or even diminished as a People. We are, however, far from the hearts and minds of the people of Pike County and the Borough of Milford. Over 1,300 miles, in fact, due to the United States Indian removal policies. The removal from our Homelands still hurts our hearts today. We hope this exhibit will remind people that we are still here today — the Original People of Pike County.”

For 100 years, a zinc obelisk honoring Tom Quick was displayed as a point of pride in Milford Borough. In 1999, the…

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The Delaware Tribe 16U team celebrates earning their ticket to national competition with an undefeated performance in New Jersey on Sept. 25-26.

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It was a proverbial flex of the softball muscles for a pair of local Delaware Tribe softball teams this past weekend, as both the 16U and 14U teams won their respective Alliance Softball National Qualifier brackets to earn a spot in the national championship tournaments next year.

The 16U Tribe squad — coached by Sarah Hoban — went undefeated in their games held in Pennsville, N.J., last weekend. Shaniya Lewis and Lily Hoban each hit home runs in the team’s quarterfinal win, with Lewis adding a second to her stat line with a walk-off, game-winning blast in the semifinals.

“Alliance Fastpitch is who puts on the championship series, and it was hosted by East Coast Softball,” Hoban noted. “It’s done like the college World Series. We competed against teams that featured kids from multiple states on them, while we are basically an all-local team. So it makes it pretty special to know that.

“The girls really played well all weekend long,” she added. “Lily Hoban batted over .500 for the tournament. Sisters Laniya and Shaniya Lewis really swung the bats well. Ava Calciano, Jaya Shaub and Kinsley Hall also had some big hits for us.”

For the weekend, Hoban batted .556, with a pair of doubles, a triple and the home run previously mentioned. Laniya Lewis had a pair of doubles, while sister Shaniya had the two home runs and a double amongst her offensive output.

Other extra base hits for the Tribe included a triple from Calciano, two doubles and a triple from Hall, three doubles from Shaub and a double by Aniya Blake.

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CHANGING FORMS: METAMORPHOSIS IN MYTH, ART, AND NATURE OPENS AT THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

POUGHKEEPSIE – Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will present the exhibition Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature, 1650–1700, on view September 28 through December 19, 2021 in the Loeb’s Focus Gallery.

The exhibition, curated by Dr. Elizabeth Nogrady, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs at the Loeb, and Dr. Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Curator of The Leiden Collection, brings together approximately twenty paintings, drawings, prints, specimens, and illustrated books to explore the rich and varied concept of “metamorphosis” in the late seventeenth-century Netherlands. With links to art, myth, science, and the exchange of knowledge, metamorphosis provides a vital lens through which to explore and understand an evolving early modern world.

Changing Forms focuses on the idea of metamorphosis at a dynamic moment in the late 1600s, when the notions of myth, art, and science converged in new, urgent ways. Painters such as Godefridus Schalcken, Willem van Mieris, and Samuel van Hoogstraten created their own mythological imagery with the more refined and elegant language of classicism. This tradition will be demonstrated in the exhibition by works such as Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (ca. 1671–76), which has never before been shown in a museum exhibition, as well as paintings of the goddess Diana by Godefridus Schalcken and Willem van Mieris, all on loan from The Leiden Collection, the preeminent private collection of Dutch art in the United States.

At the same time, the exhibition demonstrates how contemporaries explored biological metamorphosis in lavishly illustrated insect studies. Key books to emerge in this context were Johannes Goedaert’s Metamorphosis naturalisand Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, which amassed new knowledge from Indigenous and enslaved people in South America. These stunning books come from Vassar collections and include significant…

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Chris Flook  |  Special to The Star Press

The United States will celebrate the semiquincentennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. As with the centennial and bicentennial anniversaries, the semiquincentennial offers a moment for shared patriotic celebration; an acknowledgement of where we began as Americans.

Such anniversaries also offer occasions in which to recognize and contemplate our civic identities, especially when they are local commemorations. For instance, we celebrated Muncie’s sesquicentennial in 2015, followed by Indiana’s bicentennial in 2016. We may not have all asked deep existential questions during those years, but hopefully some of us at least pondered what it means to be a Munsonian and a Hoosier. In 2027, Delaware County will commemorate its own bicentennial; yet another chance to consider how local history has shaped our identity.

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But 2021 is also a bicentennial anniversary in local history, although not one we choose to remember. Two centuries ago, our forebears forced the White River Lenape from Indiana and 1821 was their deadline to leave.

The land we now call Delaware County was inhabited by Native peoples for thousands of years before settlers arrived. As Caesar was invading Gaul, Indigenous peoples were building earthworks in the White River watershed. We don’t know what these groups called themselves, but some of their mounds remain. They left, along with their many successors, cultural materials that lie buried still beneath our feet.

When the French came down into what is now Indiana in the 1670s, the colonists found a sparsely populated land. Scholars debate the reasons for this, but it’s likely that disease and warfare had driven many Native peoples out. Spanish conquistadors led by Hernando de Soto had traveled through the American southeast in 1539-1543. The Spanish never made it up this far, but…

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