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BUCHKOWSKI, Bernice Norczyk — Nanticoke. Mass of Christian Burial, 10 a.m. Monday, St. Faustina Kowalska Parish, 520 S. Hanover St., Nanticoke. Those attending the funeral Mass are asked to go directly to the church Monday morning.

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The longtime curator of the Nanticoke Indian Museum in Millsboro, Delaware’s only museum of its kind, retired last week in his humble way, without fanfare, leaving the position he assumed in 2011 in the hands of June “Morningstar” Robbins.

“I’m 80 now and my blood pressure is high. I don’t need any more stress. It will be better for my health. It will seem funny not coming back here but I have gotten to the point where I can’t talk as long as I used to when I give tours. I get hoarse. I do a lot of presentations,” Street told Coastal Point the afternoon of Friday, March 31, as he sat at the front desk, welcoming visitors and waiting for a visit from Nanticoke Chief Avery Johnson.

“Today I have been gathering files that I made over the years. I have been gathering them and I am taking them home. I still work on the family farm in Harbeson, the farm we have had over 100 years. That’s my second passion,” said Street, a Millsboro resident whose Indian name is Earth Keeper because of his love for gardening.

Nanticoke elders bestow Indian names during special ceremonies, he explained.

He will miss talking to visitors who have arrived at the museum from all over the world, as far away as India, Greece and Turkey.

“They read about the museum in tourism magazines and they come to Delaware and they want to see it,” Street said.

“What was interesting to me was finding out indigenous people from other countries have the same items we have here, indigenous people from Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, the same beadwork and woodwork. The same utensils. They had to survive by using natural things just like we did, to drink from, to sail in, so the items are the same,” he…

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Mar. 26—Wonder if any other Greater Nanticoke Area graduates met English royalty?

Among the 13 graduates of Nanticoke High School in 1906, one would be awarded the British Military Cross for bravery during World War I.

U.S. Army Lt. Dr. James Elmer Croop received the honor for “gallantly on the field when the Germans attacked the British lines at the commencement of the Second Battle of the Marne,” according to the Evening News on March 27, 1919.

Croop received the decorated citation from King George V on Feb. 22, 1919.

“I want to thank and heartily congratulate you for the valuable service rendered to my troops for one and one-half years,” the King of England said to Croop, as the Evening News story reported.

Croop was a 1906 graduate of Nanticoke High School having resided with his parents Mr. and Mrs. James Croop on South Hanover Street, Nanticoke. During the commencement ceremony, the graduates were required to perform a musical number, dance or give a speech.

Croop gave a speech about the preservation and protection of Niagara Falls from commercial and industrial development. As he had a fascination of the Great Lakes, it was no surprise Croop established a medical office in Erie, Pa., in 1912.

After graduating from Nanticoke, Croop elected not to work in the coal mines or railroads but attended and successfully graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

With World War I underway in Europe and the United States entry into the Great War in April 1917, Croop enlisted his services on June 26, 1917, and was immediately commissioned as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Medical Corps.

Croop was called to active service Aug. 7, 1917, and after three weeks of military combat training, he sailed to England in September 1917, and was stationed for several months at a military hospital in Canterbury until…

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Dr. James Elmer Croop, picture from his 1924 passport. ancestry.com

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Wonder if any other Greater Nanticoke Area graduates met English royalty?

Among the 13 graduates of Nanticoke High School in 1906, one would be awarded the British Military Cross for bravery during World War I.

U.S. Army Lt. Dr. James Elmer Croop received the honor for “gallantly on the field when the Germans attacked the British lines at the commencement of the Second Battle of the Marne,” according to the Evening News on March 27, 1919.

Croop received the decorated citation from King George V on Feb. 22, 1919.

“I want to thank and heartily congratulate you for the valuable service rendered to my troops for one and one-half years,” the King of England said to Croop, as the Evening News story reported.

Croop was a 1906 graduate of Nanticoke High School having resided with his parents Mr. and Mrs. James Croop on South Hanover Street, Nanticoke. During the commencement ceremony, the graduates were required to perform a musical number, dance or give a speech.

Croop gave a speech about the preservation and protection of Niagara Falls from commercial and industrial development. As he had a fascination of the Great Lakes, it was no surprise Croop established a medical office in Erie,…

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NEWPORT TWP. — State police on Monday charged a couple whose toddler daughter died in December in Newport Twp. after being left alone in a high heat room with no food or water for 26 hours, according to charges filed.

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James Kasisky, 26, and Valentina Varela-Luis, 25, were arraigned in Nanticoke Monday afternoon.

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — A mother and father are locked up in Luzerne County after their 19-month-old daughter died after being left alone for more than a day.

According to court papers, the mother and father of this toddler both told police they thought the other was taking care of the child, but no one checked in on her for more than 24 hours.

James Kasisky, 26, and Valentina Varela-Luis, 25, were arraigned in Nanticoke Monday afternoon.

Troopers say that in December, the pair never checked on their 19-month-old daughter in Newport Township for more than 24 hours.

Court papers show she had been left in a warm room and had no food or water.

Varela-Luis blamed her daughter’s father for their child’s death, and Kasisky had no words for reporters as both were arraigned on manslaughter and endangerment charges after their 19-month-old daughter was found dead in her room on December 23, 2022.

“On the eve of Christmas Eve, very bitter cold night, the investigation revealed that this baby was left unattended for a period greater than 24 hours,” said Luzerne County Assistant District Attorney Shana Messinger.

Court papers say police responded to a home in Glen Lyon near Nanticoke after Varela-Luis called 911 when she found her daughter not breathing in her bedroom.

First responders found that the child showed signs that she had been dead for an extended period of time.

“Through our extensive investigation, which involves both forensic and medical teams, we proceeded with charges, and with that, we’re ready to proceed with the prosecution,” Messinger said.

After interviewing Varela-Luis and Kasisky, state police determined both parents claimed they thought the other would check on the child after she was put to bed…

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