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Nanticoke man arraigned on threatening judges, prosecutors

WILKES-BARRE — When Jacob R. Cartwright was jailed due to a protection-from-abuse violation and faced forthcoming charges he yelled multiple threats directed at three Luzerne County judges and two assistant district attorneys, he cut himself and wrote in his own blood the name of a deceased corrections officer on a cell wall, according to court records.

Cartwright further yelled threats directed at corrections officers at the county correctional facility, pledging to kill them and take pictures of their bodies, court records say.

Cartwright will remain jailed without bail, which was denied by District Judge James Dixon of Hazle Township on Thursday when he was arraigned on six counts each of terroristic threats and harassment, five counts of retaliation against prosecutor or judicial officer, three counts of disorderly conduct and a single count of obstruction of justice.

According to the criminal complaint filed by county detectives and the sheriff’s office:

Cartwright appeared before Judge Richard Hughes on an allegation of indirect contempt of court due to a protection-from abuse order against him on Oct. 25. The hearing was held in Courtroom Two on the third floor of the courthouse.

Nearing the end of the proceeding, Hughes found Cartwright guilty of indirect contempt of court.

Cartwright began playing with a cellular phone as Hughes was continuing with the proceeding.

Cartwright’s behavior changed and became aggressive as he yelled multiple threats using obscene language directed at Hughes and two assistant district attorneys.

Hughes revoked Cartwright’s bail resulting in being taken into custody.

Cartwright continued his verbal assault by yelling threats toward Hughes and Judges Stefanie Salavantis and Tarah Toohil, including saying he knows where the judges live.

Sheriff deputies took custody of Cartwright and escorted him out of the courtroom without resistance.

After Cartwright was…

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H.S. Football: Nanticoke Area, Crestwood have date with destiny

Extrapolation. The process when applied to the District 2 football power rankings during the season seemed impractical.

Too many games, too many variables to figure out how the seedings would eventually shake out. Perhaps that’s why Dallas coach Rich Mannello said a few weeks back he’d wait until the completion of Week 10 to see who his Mountaineers would play in the District 2 Class 4A quarterfinals.

However, there is one game that seemed destine since about midseason and it will come to fruition Friday night — Nanticoke Area (6-4) at Crestwood (5-5). The only suspense was whether Nanticoke Area would unseat Crestwood for the Class 4A fourth seed and a home game.

Alas, that didn’t happen. Nor was it expected. Things played out as anticipated except for Crestwood’s loss last Friday at North Pocono.

Crestwood lost its first three games, all by seven points, to the three teams which occupy the top-three seeds — Dallas, Valley View and Wyoming Area. So by Week 4 (extrapolating here), it seemed unlikely the Comets weren’t going to pass any of those teams.

Nanticoke Area went on a run after a 1-3 start to climb to the fifth spot in the D2-4A standings. All the teams below the Trojans were either struggling or knocking each other off. Hence, the fifth spot seemed their landing spot.

“We played the in the district last year in the first round,” Nanticoke Area coach Run Bruza said. “They’re a good team. They are a running team. Coach Arc (Ryan Arcangeli) and his staff do a nice job. I wish we had them at home.”

Crestwood won last year 61-7 on its way to the district championship and an eventual season-ending loss in the PIAA Class 4A state semifinals. The…

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Gameface: Nanticoke Area’s Jaidyn Johnson living up to expectations

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GAMEFACE COVER STORY: Comets open defense of District 2 Class 4A title against Nanticoke

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H.S. Football: Nanticoke Area, Crestwood have date with destiny

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Students Learn First-Hand About Emergency Preparedness

Four University of Scranton students participated in an emergency management drill in Luzerne County for the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station. The students are all members of W3USR: The University of Scranton Amateur Radio Club, pursuing majors offered through the Department of Physics and Engineering and the Computing Sciences Department.

“The students were participating in the drill as members Luzerne County Amateur Radio Emergency Services at the City of Nanticoke Emergency Operations Center (EOC). … An important part of the EOC is communications between the Municipal and County EOC,” said Dave Skoniecki, an emergency preparedness coordinator for Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, explaining that each municipal EOC provides a back-up means of communication in case the primary communication channel becomes unavailable. “The Luzerne County Amateur Radio Emergency Services plays an important role in these drills and exercises and we greatly appreciate the participation of The University of Scranton students in the community.”

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) consists of trained radio amateurs who provide public service communications support. Trained amateur radio operators serve communities when storms or other disasters damage critical communication infrastructure, including cell towers, and wired and wireless networks. Amateur radio can function completely independently of the internet and phone systems. An amateur radio station can be set up almost anywhere in minutes.

University students who participated were: James P. (JP) Fox, Hillsborough, New Jersey, a computer science major in his senior year at Scranton; Gerard N. Piccini, Monroe Township, New Jersey, an electrical engineering major in his junior year; Thomas J. Pisano, Staten Island, New York, an electrical engineering major in his junior year; and Stephen Salamon, Wayne, New Jersey, a mechanical engineering major in his freshman year at Scranton.

Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D., assistant professor physics and electrical engineering, serves as moderator for W3USR: The University of Scranton Amateur Radio Club.

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TidalHealth Wound & Hyperbaric in Seaford is nationally recognized for clinical excellence

SEAFORD — TidalHealth Wound & Hyperbaric providers, leaders and clinicians at TidalHealth Nanticoke were honored with the 2022 Center of Distinction Award, which was recently presented to the Seaford hospital team by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services.

The Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92%, and a minimum comprehensive healing rate of 75%, all within 28 median days to heal.

There were more than 600 Centers eligible for the Center of Distinction award and 306 achieved the honor.

“TidalHealth is pleased to offer exceptional wound care services to the community we serve. It is an honor to accept this national Center of Distinction Award on behalf of the dedicated wound care professionals in Seaford at TidalHealth Wound & Hyperbaric,” said Cindy Lunsford, executive vice president and COO, TidalHealth.

TidalHealth Wound & Hyperbaric, with care centers at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional in Salisbury, Maryland and TidalHealth Nanticoke, is a member of the Healogics network of over 600 Wound Care Centers and offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds that have not healed in a reasonable amount of time.

Advanced wound care modalities provided by our wound care experts include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. TidalHealth Wound & Hyperbaric also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100% oxygen to help progress the healing of the wound.

Though only in its second full year of operation, the TidalHealth Wound & Hyperbaric Nanticoke team achieved this Center of Distinction recognition, which is tied directly to their outstanding care, safety, and customer service.

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Ontario’s last coal-fired plant reduced to rubble in carefully planned effort

After a year of planning and two years of carefully staged remediation and demolition, which included three separate implosions, Ontario’s last coal-fired generating plant is gone.

Mississauga, Ont.-based York1 is in the very final stages of the site cleanup of the former 326-MW three-boiler Ontario Power Generating Station in Thunder Bay.

Located on Mission Island on the shores of Lake Superior, it was the last of four plants that were closed and demolished as part of Ontario’s phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation. The others were Lakeview, Nanticoke and Lambton.

Unlike those other demolitions, which was overseen by OPG, this project was entirely managed by York1, says the company’s director of business development, Christina Murray.

After purchasing the site, York1 began initial planning in April 2020 and then began developing more detailed plans when its crews moved onsite exactly a year later, in April 2021.

In September, the first step in the demolition was completed with the blasting of the plant’s 198-metre-high concrete stack by Rakowski Energetics and Engineering. In the lead-up to that implosion, an extensive planning process was conducted with the input and participation of three separate engineering firms.

They included Englobe, the project engineer of record, blast engineer DSI, and ASI which conducted computer simulated tests to determine how the stack would react to the blast and wouldn’t prematurely fail, says Murray.

Some of the precautions included ensuring the stack would fall to the left and not to the right, which could have impacted an Ontario Hydro live switch substation. Any openings on the west side of the stack’s base had to be filled in with concrete and an opening had to be sawcut on the east side to allow it to collapse in that direction. 

Favourable wind movements also had to be factored in, she says.

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Cohanzick Nature Reserve aims to preserve and teach Lenape culture

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Tyrese Gould Jacinto credits her father’s generation for firmly establishing roots so that her children and grandchildren do not have to face the same perils of identity erasure that her father did growing up.

“We went all up and down the whole East Coast to all the pow-wow who you know to be with other communities,” she said, describing how her dad helped regroup the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians starting in the late 1970s. Tyrese Gould Jacinto poses for a photo in the forest.Tyrese Gould Jacinto founded the non-profit Native American Advancement Corp, which provides job training and promotes home ownership. ”We needed to forge something here so we don’t lose our children,” she said. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Jacinto is now following her father Mark “Quiet Hawk” Gould’s footsteps. Gould served as the chief of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation for 45 years. Jacinto founded the Native American Advancement Corporation in 2009 with the goal to retain the future generations of her tribe in the South Jersey region.

“My generation got their education and they went someplace else because they had to make a living someplace else,” she said. “It’s our idea that we need to forge something here so that we can stay and make this place a better place so that we don’t continue to lose the generations with education and a better life and the so-called American dream.”

The organization, which trains in the fields of building sciences and energy conservation, started at Jacinto’s dining…

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