Category: Nanticoke

A paddler enjoys a quiet morning on the Nanticoke River in Delaware. 

Jeffrey Irtenkauf

The ospreys were the first to welcome us to the Nanticoke River.

As we piloted our kayaks out of the still water of the Seaford, DE, marina, their tea-kettle whistles filled the air, bouncing off the fiberglass and gleaming aluminum of the sailboats stationed nearby. Above, four brown and white birds rode thermals in ascending circles, their wings stretched taut as clothesline. Before that morning’s adventure, I had read that the Nanticoke watershed is home to the largest population of bald eagles in the northeastern United States but, that morning, the ospreys seemed to be in charge.

I had read lots of enticing things about the Nanticoke. That it was the most pristine tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, a title it owes to a lack of development along its shores. In fact, 93% of the 530,000-acre watershed has been spared from the region’s relentless chug of growth. Accordingly, the watershed also has some of the largest contiguous tracts of forest left standing on the Delmarva Peninsula, much of them owned and protected by local governments, nonprofits and other conservation outlets. According to the Chesapeake Conservancy, these forests and the adjacent wetlands harbor the highest rate of biodiversity in the Bay watershed. And because tourists — on their way to the peninsula’s popular beach towns and wildlife refuges — have largely overlooked the Nanticoke as a place for recreation, it remains one of the least explored treasures in the area.

Jonathan Offen, owner of the Laurel-based Delmarva Adventure Sports, can attest to this. As he helped my boyfriend, Jeff, and I get our gear situated in the teal and camouflage kayaks he’d delivered for us, Offen said customers looking for…

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NANTICOKE — The air was filled with the unmistakable sound of ball hitting paddle as the Keystone States Games Table Tennis tournament provided fast action and high drama at the Nanticoke Table Tennis Club on Saturday.

Jack Livingston, the club’s director, said that the club had been open since the early 2000’s, and that the action is always intense when games get going.

“We’ve been in a few different places, we used to be at Odyssey Fitness,” Livingston said. “We have some incredible players here today.”

In all, 23 table tennis competitors signed up for the Games, with a large contingent of them hailing from the Lehigh Valley, all with matching brown Lehigh Valley Table Tennis shirts.

Competitors were separated into age brackets, and the tournament also included doubles and mixed doubles competition in addition to the singles portion of the event.

The Table Tennis Club’s Line Street location isn’t overly large, but the small confines made for a remarkable atmosphere as the tournament got underway Saturday morning.

Four tables were set up in the middle of the room, with room for a few spectators along the back wall and to the side of the room. That way, the players had plenty of room to maneuver and get deep off the table in order to provide themselves an extra split-second to react to an opposing shot.

The action was mesmerizing, to put it one way — rallies that extended on and on, impossible-looking shots from crazy angles and some serves that didn’t seem to be in line with the laws of physics.

Havertown native Frank Roth competed on the first table, losing his first match of the day in a hard-fought contest.

“I’ve been playing for something like 46 years,” Roth said….

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For more than 50 years, I’ve collected Native American artifacts from powwows, craft fairs and the annual holiday market at the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

My enthusiasm stems from the fact that my great-grandmother was the first white woman to settle in Steele County, Minn., and in my teen years, I spent summers at Red Pine Camp for Girls in Minnocqua, Wisc.

One of my favorite childhood trips was attending the outdoor performance of the “Song of Hiawatha” based on Longfellow’s poem and held in Pipestone, Minn. It closed after 60 years, but half a million people saw the pageant, which began in 1948. Thus, it is no wonder that I was fascinated by the lore, history, stories, crafts, art, sculpture, music, dances, fashion and culture of the Ojibwa, Chippewa, Salteaux and others of the Anishinaabe people in the northern Midwest.

And you can imagine how thrilled I was after moving to South Bethany in 1973, that the nearby Nanticokes — one of the two tribes in Delaware (the other being the Lenni-Lenape) — had their own annual powpows and eventually a museum in nearby Millsboro.

But now that I face the challenge of downsizing, I am coping with what actor Harrison Ford listed as one of his goals for 2020 when he recently admitted to Parade magazine that “I want to finally get rid of half the things I’ve accumulated in my life and organize everything. I’m trying to get rid of stuff. It might be useful to somebody else.”

And I’ve discovered that the real secret to parting with things one dearly loves is to find a home where others will take great joy from my collection as well.

The Nanticoke tribe has 550 members in Delaware but 1,500 in the U.S. The Delaware…

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NANTICOKE — It started with four but had been whittled down to two. The onlookers egged on the competitors.

“Push him out of the ring!”

One person couldn’t take the excitement and sprawled out on the floor.

“Owen had a heart attack!” another yelled.

Well, not really. These were healthy grade-school children, and the event stirring up so much heated excitement was actually free of heavy exertion: Teams were using computer pads to control battling robots they had designed and built from the classic snap-together Lego construction toy, animated by the company’s EV3 Mindstorm “intelligent brick.”

“It took us about two days to build ours, and another day to learn to program it,” Samuel Field explained after the robot he had helped create, “Destroyer,” managed to be the last bot standing in this particular bout. “I really think ours will win Friday.”

That would be the last day of the five-day camp (three hours a day) at Luzerne County Community College, and parents are invited to come see what their children learned and built.

But Samuel’s confidence got a little shaken when he noticed Adam and Nick Pokrifka adding sturdy outriggers to their creation, designed to make it harder to roll over and thus become immobile. “Maybe they’ll win!”

Along with building the robots and operating them remotely, the youngsters learned to use special Lego software to program precise movements, so the automaton could follow patterns formed by tape on the floor. Lydia Cain sat in the center of a five-sided figure as her program executed almost to perfection, navigating the three turns with precision and stopping just a bit off the line at the end.

The adult in the room, Leighann Feola-Hartz, explained that each team started with the same…

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Wyoming — A man arrested for stealing more than 100 feet of copper tubing in a greenhouse in Casalda on Saturday also stole a PT Cruiser from a Wilkes-Barre dealer and a bank card from a woman who was staying there. Has been charged as.

Patrick Lee Staley, 53, whose last address is known in Wilkes-Barre but is described as “homeless” in criminal accusations, is clearly identified by surveillance footage as the man who robbed Casalda two days ago. After being identified, he was arrested in Nanticoke on Monday night. ..

Staley is currently being charged with various charges related to robbery and other related crimes by police stations in Wyoming, Nanticoke and Wilkes-Barre.

According to the complaint:

Starry was initially identified by the victim on July 6 as a suspected bank card theft. The victim is a woman Starley stayed in Wilkes-Barre for several months.

The victim last saw his card with the police on July 5, and the day he called the police, a deal was made at Pantry Quick in Hanover Township with $ 201.75 deducted from his account. He said he noticed that.

According to the complaint, the victim’s granddaughter told police that she suspected Starry, who was staying with the victim as a benefit to her downstairs neighbor who was once dating Starry.

Staley appeared at the Wilkes-Barre police headquarters on July 7, accepting the card without permission and allowing him to withdraw $ 200 from the ATM.

The Casalda robbery occurred on Saturday, ten days later, and Wyoming Autonomous Region police chief Chris Mercavich was called into the greenhouse on Monday to investigate the robbery.

Examination of the surveillance tape revealed that a dark-colored PT Cruiser was retreating on the access road leading to the greenhouse.

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WYOMING — A man arrested for breaking into Kasarda’s Greenhouse on Saturday and taking over 100 feet of copper piping is also facing charges alleging that he stole a PT Cruiser from a Wilkes-Barre repair shop and a bank card from the woman he had been staying with.

Patrick Lee Staley, 53, with a last known address in Wilkes-Barre but listed as “homeless” in the criminal complaint, was arrested on Monday night in Nanticoke after he was positively identified from surveillance footage as the man who burglarized Kasarda’s two days prior.

Staley is now facing charges from police departments in Wyoming, Nanticoke City and Wilkes-Barre City on various charges relating to the burglary and other related crimes.

According to the complaint:

Staley was initially identified as a suspect in the theft of a bank card on July 6 by the victim, a woman with whom Staley had been staying with in Wilkes-Barre for a few months.

The victim told police that she had last seen her card on July 5, and that on the day she called police, she noticed that a transaction had occured at the Pantry Quik in Hanover Township in which $201.75 had been withdrawn from her account.

The granddaughter of the victim told police that she suspected Staley, who had been staying with the victim as a favor to a downstairs neighbor who used to date Staley, according to the complaint.

Staley showed up at Wilkes-Barre City police headquarters on July 7 to turn himself in, admitting to taking the card without permission and to withdrawing $200 from an ATM.

The Kasarda’s burglary occurred 10 days later, on Saturday, and Wyoming Borough Police Chief Chris Mercavitch was called to the greenhouse on Monday to investigate the burglary.

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Quest Adventures, in collaboration with Delmarva Birding Weekends, is now offering guided paddling tours on historic Broad Creek in Laurel.

Waters once sailed by three-masted Chesapeake Bay schooners known as “sailing rams” are now navigated by a different type of vessel.

The Broad Creek flows into the Nanticoke River, one of the most wild and scenic rivers on Delmarva. The waterways are teeming with birds and other wildlife, and they have a rich history dating back to the First People of the Chesapeake region, the Nanticokes.

Quest Adventures has been a tourism staple in Delaware’s coastal resort area for more than 20 years, creating memories for individuals and families by delivering quality outdoor recreational experiences. The Quest team hopes to continue this success in western Sussex County with six new guided kayak tours that will appeal to nature lovers, history buffs and explorers of wild Delmarva.

Two trips will focus on the birds, flora and fauna of the waterway. A Wednesday, Aug. 25 tour will feature birds, basking turtles and other late-summer wildlife along Broad Creek. As summer transitions to fall, paddlers may discover warblers, vireos and flycatchers migrating south after nesting season. Year-round residents such as bald eagles, great blue herons and wood ducks are often encountered on Broad Creek, as are eastern painted turtles and northern red-bellied cooters.

As the sun sets, a host of animals begin to awaken in the woods and marshes beside the waterway. A twilight tour of Broad Creek Thursday, Sept. 9, will give paddlers an opportunity to look and listen for barred owls and eastern screech owls among the trees.

Tommy Thompson, a local historian and associate member of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe, will lead Saturday paddles set for Aug. 28 and Oct. 2, talking about the history of Broad Creek as it has been…

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