Category: Nanticoke

Featured Speaker Bonnie G. Hall, tribal leadership officer and historian for the Nanticoke Indian Tribe, is also known in the Nanticokes’ native Algonquian language as Keenaahkiheet, meaning “She Who Cares.”

Hall presented “Nanticoke’s Lasting Legacy” at the Millsboro Town Council meeting on Monday, July 7. Her talk highlighted the tribe’s rich history, cultural resilience and ongoing efforts to preserve their identity in Delaware.

Recognized by the Delaware legislature since 1881, the tribe has maintained a strong presence despite the historical challenges that they have faced.

Hall described the Nanticoke flag — featuring green, symbolizing 800 acres of tribal land along the Indian River; blue for sustaining waters; and 32 wampum shells, 31 for the tribe’s founders and one for future generations; all centered around the historic Indian Mission School.

She highlighted the tribe’s deep-rooted commitment to education in its early years, showcasing the first-ever one-room schoolhouse that served Nanticoke children for grades 1-8 with a single teacher during Segregation. The school, which now houses the Nanticoke Indian Museum, stands as a testament to their resilience and cultural preservation, with the words “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” on the flag, embodying their legacy.

Hall described the Nanticokes’ strong ties to the area, noting that their original name, Nantaquak, directly translates to “The Tidewater People,” demonstrating their ancestry in the Indian River region.

The tribe’s mission is to preserve their “aboriginal/indigenous heritage while embracing core values: respecting Mother Earth, honoring Nanticoke identity, promoting peace and unity, and demonstrating reverence for elders, families and youth.”

Hall highlighted that the historic Indian Mission School is set for renovations starting this fall. The project aims to transform it into a cultural community center, with a commercial kitchen to serve tribal events and support the Delaware Food Bank.

She also celebrated the Nanticoke Indian Museum, opened in 1984, as Delaware’s only…

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Vice President JD Vance said something during a Luzerne County rally Wednesday that needed a good amount of context.

“The mainstream media, the corporate press, doesn’t like what we accomplished,” he bellowed toward the crowd in West Pittston, as he touted the One Big, Beautiful Bill that made President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spend policies law. “It doesn’t like what we did.”

There’s something Vance, Trump, every one of their devout supporters and hardline members of their administration should understand: We would like it if they’re right; we would also like the bill’s critics to be proven wrong.

We would like the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that the bill will increase the federal deficit by $3.3 trillion between now and 2034 to turn out to be a wildly inaccurate product of bad math from what the administration has labeled a “partisan and political” government entity.

We would like to believe — as our own U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-8, Dallas Twp., maintains — the CBO’s estimates of $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade somehow aren’t cuts at all.

We want to look back in a decade at the early consternation surrounding the bill’s passage and be able to say it all turned out to be unfounded, that the bill’s benefits were met and exceeded, and that fears of those who are hungry, sick and feeling unheard and uncared about by those who championed it were unfounded.

It’s just a whole lot easier to believe math than it is politicians.

We remain concerned that parts of the bill Vance raved about Wednesday are much more effective as a rallying cry on the campaign trail for Republicans than they are actual, difference-making policies for average Americans.

Specifically, that centers on the two tenets of the law Republicans tend…

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Obituaries

Jul 15, 2025

Dolores Ann Edwards

Dolores Ann Edwards, formerly of Aaronsburg, passed away on July 10, 2025, at Mount Nittany Medical Center. She was 93.

Dolores was born June 11, 1932, in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Paul and Dorothy Pluckard. She graduated from Nanticoke High School in 1950.

In 1955, Dolores married David Edwards and moved to Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania where she and her family lived for nearly 70 years.

Dolores is remembered as a kind person and gracious friend with great love and dedication to her family ­ her life partner, children, grandchildren and great-grandson.

She is preceded in death by her late husband, David C. Edwards. Dolores is survived by two daughters, Sheree Hosterman (Rich), of Centre Hall, Pa., and Dianne McManigal (Keith), of Seattle; and her son David, who resides in Middlebury, Vt. Also surviving are grandchildren, Tyler McManigal (Ashley), of Seattle, Brooke Hanson (Taylor), of Minneapolis, Minn.; and great-grandson Casey Hanson, of Minneapolis, Minn. Her grandchildren and her great-grandson were her heart and soul.

In accordance with Dolores’ wishes, she will be laid to rest in Salem Lutheran Cemetery in Aaronsburg during a private service. Donations in her memory can be made to Pets Come First at 2451 General Potter Highway, Centre Hall, Pennsylvania. The Steven R. Neff Funeral home assisted the family with the arrangements.

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The Nanticoke Minor League all-star baseball team led Lower Sussex 9-4 into the fourth inning of the District III tournament but fell by a score of 16-10 in the game played in Seaford. Lower Sussex utilized 15 total walks in the game to overtake Nanticoke for the win.

Nanticoke’s James Brown, Jr. opened the game when he was hit on the leg by Lower Sussex pitcher Brian Seymour. Brown’s base stealing skills moved him up to third base and he later came home on a passed ball. Nanticoke scored a second run on a Ryan Downs’ RBI infield ground out. Nanticoke scored the third run on an error and then an

Shown (l to r) is the Nanticoke Minor League all-star baseball Team: first row- Ian Castro Mender, Max Lathbury, Lincoln Condos, Carter Lankford, Cade McAvoy; second row: Ryan Downs, James Brown, Jr, Ace Maxwell, Asher Maxwell, Deklan Lankford, Brady Hamilton; coach Jonah Lathbury, manager Tyler Massey, and coach Chris McAvoy.

other passed ball scored the fourth run when Deklan Lankford was safe at home.

Starting pitcher for Nanticoke, Max Lathbury walked a batter, struck out two, and a ground ball to second baseman Ian Castro Mendura accounted for the three outs in the inning.

Nanticoke added runs in the top of the third inning beginning with a Lincoln Condos single who moved up to third base on a steal and fielder’s choice. Catcher Ryan Downs hit into a ground ball out but collected an RBI for a 5-0 score.

Lower Sussex scored in the bottom of third inning with a walk, single to right field, and a single that loaded the bases. An error and a passed ball scored a total of three runs before Lathbury ended the inning on a ground ball out back to the mound.

Nanticoke came back…

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LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A 17-year-old has been missing from Wilkes-Barre since July 3.

And his mother is desperate to find out what happened to him.

“That’s my first born, he’s the reason I learned to be a mom,” said Jazzmen Owens, mother, Nanticoke.

Owens, a mother of four doing her best to provide for her children.

Search for missing 37-year-old man

Last week, her oldest son, Mark Ward, didn’t answer his phone after she dropped him off at Kirby Park in Wilkes-Barre.

Owens then went searching for Mark, following the phone’s location.

“I then got in the car and I went to the location that the phone was sending me. As I was crossing the bridge, it told me I arrived to the location, and then I drove back and put on walking distance and his phone was on the bridge cracked into pieces,” recalled Owens.

Owens contacted the police, and they are actively searching for him, but a close family friend says she still can’t believe what happened.

“Honestly, I cried because it’s just very sad to know that like you know, you see stuff like this on the news and in other places, but for it to happen to someone who’s close to you and who you’re close with, it’s like I couldn’t even imagine what his mother’s going through,” expressed Giavanna Twyman, family friend, Wilkes-Barre.

As more time passes without updates, Owens is holding on to her motherhood to keep her steady.

“I haven’t always been the best in life, I’ve been through so much, but one thing I stand on is being a mom. I feel like I was put here to be a mom,” said Owens.

Owens says she will be putting up posters around the community and urges people to help if they can.

“Please…

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NANTICOKE – One inning. That’s all it took to send Carbino Club/Archbald into the elimination round of the Pennsylvania State Major Softball Tournament.

St. Mary’s scored six runs in the fifth inning, and pitcher Gia Straub held the Section 5 champs to just three hits en route to a 7-3 win Thursday night at the Nanticoke Little League field.

It was Carbino Club/Archbald’s first loss in the tournament, and also, the first setback of the 2025 all-star season.

“It was just one bad inning,” Carbino Club/Archbald coach Sumer Ploskonka said. “We made some mistakes, and we just didn’t play up to our standards today. We are still in it, and we just have to make some little adjustments here and there.”

St. Mary’s advances to the winner’s bracket final Saturday to face off with Caln Township, while Carbino Club/Archbald starts the climb back Friday with a 4 p.m. matchup with District 9 champ Bullskin Township.

“That was the goal for us. We wanted to play in the 7 p.m. game today, and play in the 7 p.m. game on Saturday,” St. Mary’s coach Doug Straub said. I really like our ballclub. We are working really hard, and I think it’s going to be a really good one with Caln on Saturday. Valley View is a really solid team. We struggled with their first pitcher (Alana Lophovsky). She threw well for them.”

Straub stood in right field as his St. Mary’s squad danced and celebrated the win.

He took a quick glance at the scoreboard, and saw the red six glaring under the fifth inning. It was one day ago where St. Mary’s put a six-spot on the scoreboard in the fourth inning to push past Stroudsburg to open up the state tournament.

Thursday, they did it once again.

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