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Mohican Wildlife Weekend immerses community in outdoor education

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Post date May 9, 2023
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Bike trails and parks topics at Knox County Board of Commissioners

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Post date May 6, 2023
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Housatonic River

Housatonic River is a 149-mile-long river that flows from the southern to southeastern direction through the western parts of the US States of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Originating from the Berkshire Mountains close to the city of Pittsfield in Massachusetts, the Housatonic River finally drains into the Long Island Sound between the cities of Stratford and Milford in Connecticut. The name “Housatonic” has been derived from the native Mohican phrase “usi-a-di-en-uk,” which means “beyond the mountain place.” Besides being used for whitewater paddling and fly fishing, the waters of the Housatonic River have been harnessed over the years to generate hydroelectric power for the textiles, paper, and iron industries.

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Housatonic River at Gaylordsville, Connecticut.

The Housatonic River begins its journey in far southwestern Massachusetts, where the mainstream is formed by the confluence of the East and West Branches of the Housatonic River close to the city of Pittsfield. The 17-mile-long East Branch of the Housatonic River, which rises at Muddy Pond, drops about 480 ft before meeting with the West Branch of the Housatonic River. The 5-mile-long West Branch also drops about 140 ft before it meets the East Branch. The joining of the East and West Branches forms the headwaters of the Housatonic River. The river then flows in a southerly direction through the Berkshire Mountains into western Connecticut.

In Connecticut, five dams, including the Derby Dam, Bulls Bridge, Falls Village, Shepaug Dam, and Stevenson Dam Hydroelectric Plant, impound the Housatonic River. Of these dams, the Derby, Shepaug, and Stevenson Dams form many lakes, such as Lake Housatonic, Lake Lillinonah, and Lake Zoar. Immediately south of the Bulls Bridge power station, waters of the Housatonic River…

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Suspect slips note to teller attempting to rob bank

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Post date May 1, 2023
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BATON ROUGE — Officials say one person is in custody after attempting to rob a credit union Monday morning in Baton Rouge.

It happened around 11am in the 3800 block of Scenic Highway near Mohican St.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies say Willie Landry went into the Federal Credit Union on Scenic Highway and passed a note to a teller attempting to get money. The teller gave him an undisclosed amount of money and Landry left. No weapons were involved according to officials.

Willie Landry, 58

A deputy who happened to be working a nearby detail happened to see Landry. After a short pursuit, he was arrested and charged with first degree robbery.

Officials say the money that was taken during the robbery was recovered.

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Local man completes 52 Hike Challenge Winter Series

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Post date April 30, 2023
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Bridge of Dreams in Brinkhaven, Ohio, upon completion of my 52 Hike Challenge 2022. | Courtesy of Clark Schwenke

Welcome back, everyone; I hope our mild winter allowed you to get out and enjoy the outdoors. For those who were keeping track, I did finish my 52 Hike Challenge for 2022 in October of last year, with a 10K hike that took me from Glenmont to Brinkhaven on the Holmes County Trail and Mohican Valley Trail.

Since then, I have completed the 52 Hike Challenge Winter Series with 30 Hours of hiking from December to February and am well into my 52 Hike Challenge 2023. So far this year, I have visited seven national parks or national historic sites, hiked in five states, doing a portion of the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, and set a personal record for my greatest elevation gain in a single hike, with 1,200 feet up in 2 miles on Bob’s Hill in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. In addition, I have hiked various terrain and weather conditions, using many of the tips, tricks and much of the gear I recommended last year.

During my 52 Hike Challenge Winter Series, I managed to get a day off shortly after one of our biggest snows this winter and spent the day at Mohican State Park. I hiked a little over 10 miles that day, and the scenery was worth the temperatures. I started out from the Covered Bridge, hiked the Lyons Falls Trail to Big Lyon Falls, on to Little Lyon Falls and out to Pleasant Hill Dam. From there, I hiked the Pleasant Hill Trail and Hemlock Gorge Trail back to the Class A Campground off of State Route 3. I returned to the Covered Bridge on the Hemlock Gorge Trail,…

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VFW Post 9943 honors past commanders and presidents

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Post date April 26, 2023
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States at Mohican Post 9943 held a banquet to honor past presidents and commanders who have served throughout the long history of the organization on Sunday afternoon.

The vision of the VFW Post 9943 is to bring needed services, information and assistance to veterans and service members, their families, and communities.

There have been 38 past commanders and 42 past presidents throughout the history of Post 9943. .

The five past commanders who were present Sunday afternoon were Bill Myers, the current Post 9943 commander, Daniel Reed (1967-68), John Kemplin (1998-99), Billy Walker (2003-04) and Murray Konves (2018-22).

Seven of the past presidents were in attendance, that included current president Susan Hale, along with Ginny Fisher (1998-99), Laura Walker (2002-04), Joyce Sparks (2006-07, 2008-11, 2015-20), Rita Scheurer (2007-08, 2013-15), Margaret Strong (2011-13), Kim Reed (2020-21) and Dawn Tackett (2020-21).

Two Men’s Auxiliary members were present in Gearold Smith (2006-07) and Brad Strong (2010-13).

The keynote speaker was Myers himself, who spoke on learning from the past and applying it to today.

“Never forget the past,” Myers said in the beginning of his talk.

Past commander Billy Walker and past president Joyce Sparks spoke on what this occasion means to them to be able to gather with former presidents and commanders.

“I was district commander for two years. I served in Vietnam in 1970-71 and I was in the military eight years before I got out,” said Walker. “This place has a lot of history and good people. It’s an honor to be here with these people. It made me a better man than I used to be.”

“This is something we used to do every year. It kind of got pushed to the side and because of Covid we were unable to pick up a lot of stuff,” said Sparks. “Bill suggested…

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Birders take a stroll through solar panel free Byers Woods on rainy Earth Day

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Post date April 23, 2023
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Copperheads, blister fungus and more tales of Camp Mohican history

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Post date April 21, 2023
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Jim Brewer | Special to Ashland Times-Gazette

LOUDONVILLE − Camp Mohican, the local installment of more than 1,500 setups of what became known as “Roosevelt’s Tree Army,” the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), left a lasting legacy to the area during the Great Depression, and was instrumental in making the nascent Mohican State Park into one of the most visited in Ohio.

Kenny Libben, curator of the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum, spoke Monday on that legacy in the closing 2022-23 entry in the Mohican Historical Society’s speaker series.

In an hour-long talk before about 80 jammed into the museum meeting room, Libben traced the operations of Camp Mohican from its opening in June 1933 to its eventual closing in April 1942, when the U.S. government decided to disband the remnants of the CCC and concentrate on the effort to fight World War II.

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The CCC was a child of the Depression, one of the promises Franklin D. Roosevelt made in his successful 1932 election campaign.

As part of the New Deal, Roosevelt took the CCC he had formed while governor in New York and applied it nationally. In New York, the CCC worked on outdoor projects involving reforestation and infrastructure in state parks and wilderness areas.

His CCC idea involved more than 1,500 camps set up nationwide, with approximately 200 workers in each.

“In an era of mass unemployment where Americans commonly went two or three days without a meal, thousands of workers were attracted,” Libben said, “to the promise of $30 a month wage, shelter, clothing, and three square meals a day.”

Camp Mohican was selected as a CCC camp location as part of a newly designated Ohio State Park. The state, Libben said, bought up about 500 acres near Clear Fork Gorge in 1928 as a future…

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Mohican Wildlife Weekend to dive into H2O education April 28-30th

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Post date April 20, 2023
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Police Activity Closes Major Road in Fountain Hill – Saucon Source

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Post date April 16, 2023
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Heavy police activity Thursday evening shut down a major road near St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill borough.

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Police activity Thursday evening shut down a major road near St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill borough.

Shortly before 9 p.m., police had Delaware Avenue closed in both directions between Mohican and Uncas streets, which is just west of the large bend in the road near the Bethlehem city line.

A police vehicle could also be seen blocking nearby Seneca Street at its intersection with Mohican Street, adjacent to the Cedarbrook-Fountain Hill Annex complex.

A car that was stopped in the middle of the northbound lane with it’s driver’s door open appeared to be the focus of the intense activity, which also appeared to be increasing around 9 p.m., as several emergency vehicles raced up Delaware Avenue toward the closed section of road.

Among the vehicles were a personal vehicle with emergency lights activated, a tow truck with lights and siren activated and a Fountain Hill fire truck with lights and sirens activated.

Northbound traffic on Delaware Avenue was being turned around and detoured due to the road closure.

Note: This is a developing story. Information may change and the story may be updated as more facts become known.

Police vehicles blocked Delaware Avenue to through traffic in response to an unspecified emergency Thursday evening in Fountain Hill borough. The road was closed shortly before 9 p.m. between Mohican and Uncas streets near the Bethlehem city line.

Above, a Fountain Hill police SUV sits along the side of Delaware Avenue as a line of northbound drivers wait to turn around due to the police activity ahead.

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