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170 students graduated from Greater Nanticoke Area High School during commencement ceremonies June 11 on the GNA school campus. Valedictorian is Kayla Eckrote. Salutatorian is Daniel Shevchenko. Class officers are Michael Marcella, president; Taylor Bartle, vice president; Genevieve Nalepa, secretary, and Calvin Brzozowski, treasurer.

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Broome County Highway Work Planned for Week of 6/21

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Police recover body of Seaford man who drowned in Nanticoke River

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Police said the search for John Davis of Seaford, Delaware, had been underway since Sunday. His body was recovered from the Nanticoke River on Tuesday.

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First responders have recovered the body of a Seaford man who drowned in the Nanticoke River, Maryland State Police said.

A Maryland Natural Resources Police helicopter patrolling the area of Cherry Beach Park in Sharptown located 53-year-old John Davis around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday. Police said his body was found in the Nanticoke River about a quarter of a mile from where he was last seen over the weekend.

Troopers from the Salisbury Barrack were called to Cherry Beach Park shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for a report of a possible drowning.

They arrived to find Maryland Natural Resources Police and the Sharptown Volunteer Fire Department conducting dive operations and searching via boat for Davis.

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Police said Davis had been at the park for a family gathering when he jumped from a boat dock into the Nanticoke River to go swimming. Nearby boaters saw him struggling to keep his head above water, but by the time they…

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Hanover Township police charge Nanticoke man for Lee Park stabbing

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HANOVER TWP. — Township police say they charged a Nanticoke man with stabbing another person on Lee Park Avenue last week.

Nicholas Suprum, 20, last known address as West Green Street, is facing charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, harassment, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and underage consumption of alcohol, police said.

Suprum has not been arraigned on the charges as of Tuesday morning.

Last week, township police Chief Al Walker said the incident was a domestic dispute at a residence in Lee Park resulting in the assault outside a store on June 15. The victim, whose name was not released, was treated for several lacerations.

Police said Suprum was recently jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $150,000 bail on a separate incident.

The separate incident involves allegations from Suprum’s ex-girlfriend on May 29 claiming he sent her several text messages threatening to kill her and repeatedly contacted her in violation of a protection-from abuse order. Suprum’s ex-girlfriend resides in the Lee Park area.

Court records say Suprum was arrested by police in February 2019 after he assaulted his ex-girlfriend in an incident captured by a surveillance camera on Woodbury Street in Lee Park.

Footage showed Suprum grabbing he girl, throwing her to the ground and dragging her away only to show the girl running and being chased by Suprum, court records say.

Suprum pleaded guilty to simple assault and was sentenced Oct. 25, 2019, by President Judge Michael T. Vough to one-month to 23 months served at the county correctional facility. Prosecutors withdrew several charges against Suprum in a plea deal.

Suprum was also sentenced to six months in…

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Healthwatch 16: Geisinger Wyoming Valley celebrates anniversary, expansion

Back in 1981, three hospitals in Luzerne County merged to create one hospital. It would eventually become Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center.

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Years ago, it was NPW Medical Center, a consolidation of Nanticoke, Pittston, and Wyoming Valley hospitals.

It’s now Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township, near Wilkes-Barre.

Noreen Diaco has been around for all of those years. Her first day on the job was in July of 1981.

“I’ve grown up here. And it’s amazing. It’s amazing I’m here 40 years,” Diaco said.

Diaco has seen a lot of changes on the hospital’s campus.

“We’ve grown from a very small community hospital to a large system hospital. it has expanded building after building!”

And she’s marking 40 years while watching another expansion: a massive project adding onto the already existing Henry Cancer Center.

“We know that there are a lot of people in the valley with cancer. And they often feel they need to go outside of the area to get world-class care. And that’s not true,” said Dr. Karlyn Paglia, chief medical officer at GWV and Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre.

Dr. Paglia tells us the new project will add 18 beds for the most critical patients and double the size of the infusion center, where services like chemotherapy are administered, among other improvements.

It’s all about stopping for a moment to recognize how far they’ve come but look ahead to the future.

“I think that’s one of the missions of Geisinger, to go out there and seek the best talent, whether that’s nursing students or medical students, and basically train them, grow them into medical providers we want to care for us when we’re in need,” Dr. Paglia added.

That expansion project at the Henry Cancer Center is slated to be complete next…

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Doctors: COVID-19 Delta variant now the greatest threat

Healthcare professionals said the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are protecting against the Delta variant. Those who are unvaccinated are at the greatest risk.

HONESDALE, Pa. — Doctors at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale said the newly detected Delta variant of COVID-19 is cause for concern.

“It’s the fastest known variant right now in the U.S. making up somewhere between six and 14 percent of cases depending on where you look and what data you look at,” Dr. James Cruse, Medical Director of Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers, said.

Doctors said there are two major worries with this Delta variant. 

It spreads quickly and it’s infecting younger people.

“There’s about 2.5 times the number of teens and adults under the age of 50 that have been affected by this variant compared to prior variants,” Dr. Cruse said.

However, says the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are working against the Delta variant.

“Pfizer is estimated to be about 88% effective against it. We’re mostly seeing cases of the Delta variant in the unvaccinated,” Dr. Cruse said. 

Dr. Cruse said the best way to protect against the Delta variant is to get the shot.

People in Nanticoke say they feel protected after getting the vaccine.

“I got the shot so, I’m hopeful. I got both shots actually, I’m a card-carrying member,” Elsa, who did not want to give her last name, said.

Dr. Cruse warned that going into the summer of last year, Wayne County was seeing about 12 new cases of coronavirus each week.

This summer, we are seeing double that amount.

He hopes more people choose to get the shot before we could see a spike in cases this Fall.

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PROUD PARENTS: Family celebrates as Nanticoke woman graduates from U.S. Military Academy at West Point

NANTICOKE — It’s hard for Luis and Susan Ramos to describe the pride they feel after their daughter, Leandra, recently graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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Nanticoke Police try to get lizard back home

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1 dead in 2-vehicle crash on Highway 6 in Haldimand County

One person is dead after a two-vehicle crash in Haldimand County early on Thursday morning, according to OPP.

Investigators say emergency crews responded to a report of a collision at the intersection of Nanticoke Creek Parkway and Highway 6 in Jarvis just before 6 a.m.

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An individual was pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver of another vehicle sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

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The intersection was closed just after 6 a.m. and remains closed as of Thursday afternoon.

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Greater Nanticoke School Board asks Landmesser to resign

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NANTICOKE — Without comment both before the vote and after Thursday’s monthly meeting, the Greater Nanticoke Area School Board voted 8-0 to ask member Matthew Landmesser to resign his seat. The board also approved a final 2021-2 budget that raises taxes the state maximum of 4.5%, but that also keeps most of a $2.2 million fund balance intact.

Landmesser has missed multiple consecutive meetings, and has been dealing with police charges of invasion of privacy. The state School Code allows a school board to remove a member who misses two consecutive meetings, but there are exceptions that make the matter murky, District Solicitor Vito DeLuca said after the meeting. While the code seems clear, there have been state Supreme Court rulings that create gray areas regarding the reasons the person misses meetings.

If Landmesser agrees to resign, the board would have the option of appointing a replacement to fill his term. But DeLuca declined to say what the board options might be if he doesn’t resign.

The final budget keeps a 4.5% property tax increase that was in the proposed final budget approved last month, raising the tax rate to 12.4473 mills. A mill is a $1 tax on every $1,000 or assessed property value.

The final budget differs from the proposed budget in one significant way: The amount of reserves spent to balance income and spending. Business Consultant Tom Melone said the district had found various savings in supply purchases, health care costs and other places, coupled with some additional income through federal grant money to close a roughly $1.2 million gap in the preliminary budget that was to be…

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