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New gambling-funded program created to pay for major Luzerne County infrastructure needs

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Post date December 5, 2021
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Luzerne County’s five-citizen Redevelopment Authority board will be at the center of earmarking a major pot of funding for large-scale public infrastructure projects.

This windfall — a total $75 million over 25 years — is coming from the gambling-funded Local Share Account.

It will create a new Luzerne County Public Infrastructure Program that may end up providing some of the funds needed to address two deteriorated county-owned bridges over the Susquehanna River: the Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge connecting Nanticoke and Plymouth Township and the Firefighters’ Memorial Bridge on Water Street linking Pittston and West Pittston, officials say.

The fund’s creation is occurring because the entire county legislative delegation supported new state legislation (Act 24 of 2021) that carves out $3 million from the average $11 million to $12 million Local Share Account earmarked in the county annually, said state Sen. John Yudichak, I-Swoyersville, who pushed for the change.

Remains of Luzerne County man killed in Korean conflict are identified nearly 70 years later

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U.S. Army Sgt. James Stryker, 20, was killed near Han’gye, South Korea, in 1951. His remains were accounted for on Aug. 5, 2020. His family was recently informed.

WEST NANTICOKE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man who was killed during the Korean War in 1951 was positively accounted for last year, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced this month.

While the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. James N. Stryker, of West Nanticoke, Luzerne County, were accounted for on Aug. 5, 2020, his family recently received a full briefing on the identification process, the DPAA said.

In May 1951, Stryker was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported missing in action on May 18, when the enemy attacked his unit near Han’gye, South Korea.

Stryker’s remains could not be immediately recovered, but he was not officially declared dead until after the Armistice was signed July 27, 1953.

During a search of Korean War battlefields later in May 1951, an unknown set of remains was recovered from the area where Stryker went missing, according to the DPAA. After a preliminary examination at Tanggok United Nations Military Cemetery, an identification could not be made and the remains were buried as Unknown X-1373 Tanggok.

Further attempts were made to identify X-1373, but were unsuccessful, the DPAA said.

The remains were later transported with all of the unidentified Korean War remains and buried as Unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In May 2017, the family of an unresolved soldier associated with the same area where Stryker went missing requested X-1373 be disinterred for comparison with their Soldier, the DPAA said.

Further research by a DPAA historian and forensic anthropologist determined X-1373 and the soldier were…

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Pennsylvania soldier accounted for from Korean War

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Post date December 3, 2021
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William Harrison Daisey Sr., former Nanticoke chief

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Post date November 30, 2021
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William “Bill” Harrison Daisey Sr., 90, of Dover, passed away Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Bill was best known as a three-term Dover city council member, vice principal at W.T. Chipman Middle School in Harrington, and former chief of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe.

Born Oct. 20, 1931, in Lewes, during the Great Depression, he grew up in the Lewes/Millsboro areas near Indian Mission Church. Bill was the son of the late Pearl “Florine” Daisey, who married Elmer R. Street, formerly of Harbeson, on July 18, 1939.

On July 26, 2014, Bill was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Shirley Corinne (Street), daughter of the late Clarence Albert Street and the late Martha Ann Street, formerly of Millsboro. Bill and Shirley were married March 25, 1951.

Bill began his formal education at Lewes Elementary School, the Hollyville School (Millsboro), and the Richard Allen School (Georgetown), but due to segregation laws, he could only obtain his high school degree by moving 90 miles away (staying with his grandmother) and attending Howard High School in Wilmington to complete his senior year. Appreciating the value of education and a trade, he would become a qualified journeyman in over eight different trades and would later earn, while working full time, his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Delaware State College and his master’s degree in administration from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in New Jersey.

He held several jobs as he worked to obtain his degrees, including auto engine mechanic, auto body/fender repairman, body shop foreman, aircraft painter, industrial painter, aircraft jet engine mechanic and engineering technician. His career in education began in adult education/training in New Jersey. In 1978, he accepted the position of vice principal at W.T. Chipman Middle School, later becoming transportation supervisor for the Lake Forest school district. Bill…

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Two Native American tribes are buying back parcels of their ancestral homeland

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40th annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow aims to spread togetherness and friendship

The 40th annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow went on this weekend in Millsboro.

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DOVER, Del. (AP) – Two Native American tribes in Delaware are buying back land that had been part of their ancestral homelands.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that the Nanticoke Indian tribe acquired 30 acres in Millsboro this fall. The Lenape Indian tribe is expected to close a deal in early 2022 for 11 acres near Fork Branch Nature Preserve in Dover.

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Behind the land deals are partnerships between the individual tribes and several other entities. They include the environmental nonprofit Conservation Fund, the state of Delaware and a private conservation group located near Wilmington that is called Mt. Cuba Center.

Blaine Phillips, a senior vice president for the Conservation Fund, said the land deals are “about restoring culture. It’s about honoring their ancestral rights.”

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Leaders of both tribes said they tried for years to buy the parcels of the land. But they said that they either couldn’t make the…

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A bigger home for the Nanticoke on ancestral land in Sussex County

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Post date November 25, 2021
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A 31-acre cornfield on the edge of Millsboro doesn’t look very different from any other piece of Delaware farmland but its transfer to the Nanticoke tribe is a historic step that for the first time gives the community ownership of an ancestral parcel that was privately owned for generations.

The tribe took ownership of the land in October after it was purchased by The Conservation Fund, a land-preservation nonprofit, and then donated to the community. The land was seen as part of the tribe’s heritage because its previous owners have Nanticoke ancestors but it has never before been owned by the community.

Now that the Delaware-based tribe is the official owner, it has high hopes of turning the parcel into a place where native American culture can thrive, and where members of the community can strengthen ties with each other.

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Nanticoke Chief Natosha Norwood Carmine

“This is a huge event for the tribe,” said Chief Natosha Norwood Carmine, the first female chief of the tribe, that has about 700 members in Delaware, and around 2,000 nationwide. “It will help us have a bigger, stronger community because we will have a place to gather. Our stories are oral stories, passed down from generation to generation. So our elders will be able to answer questions about what this property was when they were growing up.”

In an interview with Delaware Public Media at the edge of the land, Carmine said she hopes to use part of it to build a pavilion where cultural events such as dancing and perhaps powwows can be held. She’s also looking to build a right of way on the property so that community members can park their cars away from the busy traffic of Route 24….

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Small Business Saturday showcases importance of buying local

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Post date November 23, 2021
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When customers support small businesses, NEPA’rogi co-owner Lauren Gorney said they help people like her earn a living.

Gorney and Frank Marcinkowski started the NEPA’rogi food truck around Easter this year and they opened a pierogi business at 579 E. Main St., Nanticoke, next to Tarnowski’s Kielbasa in September.

They started the business after Gorney was laid off from her fundraising job during the COVID-19 pandemic and Marcinkowski, a local musician, also was hit hard by the shutdowns last year.

Since they started NEPA’rogi, Gorney said they have been successful and they are working seven days a week during the holiday season.

“Business is so good that we haven’t been able to keep up,” she said. “We are very aware how hard the food industry was hit by COVID and we are grateful for the support the community is showing us.”

NEPA’rogi is one of the food trucks at “Wonderland,” an outdoor holiday craft market and tree lighting event that will be held on Small Business Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 27 at Forty Fort Cemetery.

Wyoming Valley Ghost Tours is hosting the event that includes more than 40 vendors who are mostly from Northeast Pennsylvania.

John Balucha, who owns Wyoming Valley Ghost Tours in Kingston with his wife, Keriann, said they like to bring people to historic locations in the region and they teach people how to conduct paranormal investigations.

“We always like to get the community involved in everything we do,” Balucha said. “We love supporting local businesses all year long and we wanted to bring attention to Small Business Saturday.”

Small Business Saturday is a day to support local businesses that create jobs, boost the economy and preserve neighborhoods across the country. American Express created the national movement in 2010 to increase sales for small businesses across the country.

At the Small Business Saturday event…

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