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The state of the art of state names

Here’s an oddity: No doubt you’ve noticed that some of our states bear Native American names. But have you ever counted how many? Illinoisans, of course, know we’re surrounded by such states: Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and, of course, our own Illinois (a Frenchification of a Native American tribe, the Illini). 

We’re so used to it, we take it for granted. But keep going: Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Alaska, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Twenty-eight out of 50. More than half! Add the six states with Spanish names, California, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon (a little less definitively), and the tally is 34. For good measure, throw in the French-derived states, Louisiana, Maine (also less definitive), and Vermont, plus one from the Dutch, Rhode Island (anglicized from Roode Eylandt, referring to the red clay near the shore, which resolves the mystery of why a state that isn’t an island should be named “Island”). 

That brings the total to 38 out of 50 states bearing non-Anglo names (the remaining 12 are Washington, Virginia, West Virginia (Kanawha, the lovely name of a principal river, regrettably, didn’t make the cut), North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Georgia, New York (changed from New Netherland when the English took over), Pennsylvania (William Penn wanted it named just “Sylvania” for the forests), and Delaware (which sounds Native American, and there is a Delaware tribe, but the state was named after Lord De La Warr, the first governor of Virginia, go figure).

One would expect, in a country culturally “descended” from the British, that the majority of states would bear Anglo names. No, they are but a small minority. And one would definitely not expect —…

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Below freezing? Perfect for fishing! Nanticoke Conservation Club hosts 28th annual derby

The Nanticoke Conservation Club hosted their 28th annual ice fishing derby Saturday morning.

The return of the event after two years of cancellations, cold weather allowed for the ice to freeze eight to nine inches thick, creating perfect fishing conditions.

“Ice fishing is not for everybody but when you fall in love with ice fishing, it may become your favorite place to be,” said Philip Dale, a member of the Nanticoke Conservation Club.

The derby at Francis Slocum State Park invited fishermen of all skill levels to brave the cold and reel in the biggest catch.

“We sometimes used smaller poles as you can see, so you can sit alongside holes drilled through the ice. You have a short pole so you can get up close to it. This is jigging, using a small jigging pole and you can bob that up and down a bit and hopefully it will attract a fish to come over and grab your bait,” explained Dale.

Using sleds to bring equipment on the lake, holes are dug throughout the ice with special tools to find the perfect spot.

“Drilling holes all over the ice and going from spot to spot until you find where those fish are. Typically, they’ll be around different structures like a stump or a rock,” said Dale.

Different species of fish can be found in different lakes, but for the derby, six were being targeted.

“Bass, pickerel, perch, crappie, trout, bluegill and we have a youth prize for the biggest fish overall that they catch,” said Gary Gronkowski, president of the Nanticoke Conservation Club.

Metal crampon spikes attached to shoes allowed those on the ice to enjoy a safe day on the lake.

“It does not affect how structurally sound it is for people to be out there. It can be frightening. You can be…

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Girls Basketball: Results recaps and photos for Tuesday, Feb. 4

Tuesday, Feb. 4

Colonial Valley Conference Tournament, First Round

13-West Windsor-Plainsboro North (6-12) at 4-Ewing (9-10), 4pm

11-Trenton (9-12) at 6-Allentown (11-9), 4pm

Nottingham (3-17) at Princeton (13-6), 4:30pm

12-West Windsor-Plainsboro South (8-10) at 5-Robbinsville (9-9), 5pm

14-Lawrence (4-13) at 3-Notre Dame (11-6), 5pm

10-Hamilton West (9-12) at 7-Steinert (8-10), 5pm

9-Hopewell Valley (9-11) at 8-Princeton Day (10-6), 6pm

Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex Tournament, Second Round

13-Lenape Valley (7-9) at 4-Hunterdon Central (7-11), 4pm

10-High Point (12-8) at 7-Belvidere (12-5), 5pm

14-Phillipsburg (3-15) at 3-Sparta (12-6), 6pm

12-Vernon (8-8) at 5-Delaware Valley (12-6), 7pm

Regular Season

BIG NORTH

Passaic Valley (8-10) at DePaul (10-5), 4pm

Paramus (5-10) at West Milford (12-3), 4:15pm

Northern Highlands (7-10) vs. Wayne Valley (4-12) at Wayne Valley High School, 4:15pm

Mahwah (11-7) at Pascack Hills (6-10), 4:15pm

Tenafly (5-9) at Old Tappan (11-5), 4:15pm

Teaneck (12-5) at Pascack Valley (11-7), 4:15pm

Dwight-Morrow (2-15) at St. Mary (Ruth.) (5-12), 4:15pm

Fort Lee (3-13) at Dumont (8-11), 4:15pm

Passaic (4-11) at Passaic Tech (9-7), 4:30pm

Paterson Eastside (8-7) at Clifton (3-16), 4:30pm

Bergen Tech (7-8) at Paterson Kennedy (13-5), 6pm

Indian Hills (5-13) at Westwood (9-7), 7pm

River Dell (11-4) at Ramsey (10-6), 7pm

Wayne Hills (3-13) at Ramapo (15-4), 7pm

Paramus Catholic (8-10) at Ridgewood (10-5), 7pm

Cliffside Park (6-10) at Ridgefield Park (12-6), 7pm

Bergenfield (4-11) at Demarest (15-2), 7pm

Holy Angels (4-12) at Immaculate Heart (12-6), 7pm

Fair Lawn (7-11) at Hackensack (8-11), 7pm

COLONIAL

Gateway (7-11) at Sterling (10-9), 5:30pm

Audubon (15-2) at Haddon Heights (14-6), 5:30pm

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Kinnelon (9-9) at New Brunswick (10-9), 5pm

North Plainfield (5-13) at St. Thomas Aquinas (16-5), 5:30pm

Dayton (7-9) at J.P. Stevens (8-11), 5:30pm

Montgomery (6-12) at Woodbridge (3-15), 5:30pm

Old Bridge (9-9) at South Brunswick (9-9), 5:30pm

Monroe (12-7) at Piscataway (8-8), 5:30pm

Sayreville (8-13) at Perth Amboy…

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Newly crowned Ben Rothwell is leaving his mark with BKFC

Ben Rothwell proudly wore the BKFC World Heavyweight Championship belt over his shoulder at the KnuckleMania V post-fight press conference.

The belt is heavy, but Rothwell felt a massive burden lifted off his shoulders.

Less than an hour earlier, the combat sports legend accomplished his lifelong dream of winning a world championship. Defying the oddsmakers and many of his peers on the BKFC roster, Rothwell dethroned Mick Terrill with a 36-second KO in front of more than 17,000 screaming fans at the sold-out Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

“It’s kind of tough to put it all into words; it still feels very surreal,” says Rothwell, who’s rarely been short on words during his storied combat sports run.

Rothwell enjoyed a long, successful career in MMA. He’s defeated his share of world champions, but a UFC belt eluded him during his 17 fights with the promotion.

“So many people have believed in me for so long and have wanted to see me get a world title, and I finally did it. At 43 years old, man, I thought I let the opportunity slip by me,” Rothwell says.

“I had kind of accepted the fact that I wouldn’t be a world champion,” he adds. “I went through the depression, through all the stages of grief, but here it is. It’s happened. It’s real, but it’s pretty surreal.” 

Rothwell is happier now than he was before Saturday’s Co-Main Event showdown with Terrill, but he’s definitely not satisfied. He hopes for a quick turnaround — ideally in his home state of Wisconsin, where bare knuckle fighting is in the process of being legalized.

“I’m ready for anything,” he says. “I want to be a busy champion and leave my mark as a champion in the sport of bare knuckle fighting.”

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Nanticoke

Luzerne County bridge assessment underway

Luzerne County’s outside engineer recently briefed the council on bridges as part of a broader plan to catalog and prioritize work on all 300-plus county-owned spans.

Tom Reilly, president of Reilly Associates in Pittston — the county’s outside engineer — told council during last week’s work session the first phase now completed was categorizing them by length.

Only four crossings exceed 100 feet. These bridges and status updates he provided:

• Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge over the Susquehanna River (2,072 feet)

The county is in the process of selecting an engineer who must come up with three options to address the bridge, which was reduced to a 5-ton weight limit prohibiting access by fire trucks and emergency rescue vehicles.

In addition to $10 million in federal funding allocated through the state for this project, the county has access to a $55 million casino gambling fund established for county infrastructure.

Until a solution is selected and designed, the span must be inspected every six months, Reilly said.

• Water Street (Firefighters’ Memorial Bridge) linking Pittston and West Pittston (1,500 feet)

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation had agreed to assume responsibility for replacing the closed Water Street Bridge because it is part of a bridge bundling that also will replace the nearby state-owned Spc. Dale J. Kridlo Bridge (Fort Jenkins) Bridge.

Reilly said the Water Street project is expected to be bid out in late 2026, so work can commence at the end of that year. This is a hard deadline due to $18 million in federal grant funding earmarked for the project, he said.

• Stephenson Street Bridge, Duryea (268 feet)

This bridge is gated to block public usage because it had been primarily intended to access a private quarry and swampland on the north side of the Lackawanna…

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“Sándor Csoóri was the last Mohican of folk writers”

On his birthday, we celebrate the inner freedom, the non -bargaining clarity without which there is no real art without which there is no real life.

Sándor Csoóri was the last Mohican of folk writers, a writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter, said Balázs Hankó, Minister for Culture and Innovation, on Sunday, a 95 -year -old artist at the Petőfi Literary Museum.

The minister recalled that the government launched the Sándor Csoóri program in 2017 in honor It helps folk dancing, folk music and folk song organizations and communities. Last year, nearly 1800 people received support.

At the commemoration, the minister promised that the artist’s birthplace and memorial plaque would be renewed next year.

“When we talk about Alexander Csoóri, we do not simply evoke a poet, but a memory in which he has a revolutionary belief in 1956, the fate of the Hungarian peasantry, there is the sorrow over the beauty and destruction of folk culture, The drama of certainty and disillusionment, the drama of togetherness and disintegration, and the belief that writing and thinking in Hungarian is not a private matter, but a community experience, ”said Szilárd Demeter, president of the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center (MNMKK).

He emphasized that Sándor Csoóri was not only an artist in the 1970s and 1980s, but also the conscience of the nation, “not because he chose this role, but because he could not do otherwise.”

When power tried to forget about society, he confronted the power of remembrance when they spoke about the broken Hungarians, he was looking for unity, he stressed. Seeing the disillusionment after the change of regime, the writer did not break because he knew that real changes were not on the surface of politics, but in the deeper layers of culture, he said.

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Last Call: Brewery In Century-Old Church Announces Closure In Mohegan Lake

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A Northern Westchester brewery known for its unique setting inside a century-old church has set its closing date.

Argonne Rose Brewing Company , located at 1715 East Main St. (Route 6) in Mohegan Lake, announced that its last day of service will be Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, citing “unforeseen circumstances” as the reason for the closure.

In a heartfelt statement, owners Sarah, Marc, and Dave thanked their patrons and the local brewing community for making their journey special.

“The warmth, laughter, and unforgettable memories shared with all of you have been what truly made this place unique,” they wrote. “Connecting with our regulars and meeting new friends has been a highlight of our time here.”

The brewery, which held its grand opening on New Year’s Eve 2022 , was known for its craft beer, gastropub menu, and historic atmosphere inside the former St. George’s Church, built in 1911. The owners, who share a passion for history, chose the name “Argonne Rose” as a tribute to the Argonne Forest in France, the site of a pivotal World War I battle, and the U.S. national flower, the rose.

Since its opening, Argonne Rose became a local gathering spot, offering live music, community events, and a unique blend of brewing traditions and modern techniques.

The owners also expressed gratitude to their dedicated team, emphasizing that their success was made possible through the support of family, friends, and the greater Westchester brewing community.

As the brewery prepares for its final weeks, patrons are encouraged to stop by and celebrate before the doors close for good.

“Let’s make these last moments together unforgettable,” the owners said.

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Dean’s lists 2/2/25

Misericordia University

Misericordia University announced the following local students were named to the fall dean’s list with averages of 3.55 or higher:

A: Siwar Abdo, Dallas; Matthew Albrect, Wyoming; Lauren Amend, Mountain Top; Megan Armitage, Avoca; Matthew Ash, Sweet Valley; Aleia Atherton, Wilkes-Barre; Bradley Augenstein, Duryea; Bianka Avila, Plains Twp.

B: Lexi Baggett, Shavertown; Erynn Barancho, Plains Twp.; Mason Baranski, Wyoming; Michael Battin, Shavertown; Samuel Bellanca, Forty Fort; Lynn Benkowski, Kingston; Owen Blake, Shavertown; William Brady, Mountain Top; Madison Brdaric, Shavertown; Allyson Brodie, Hanover Twp.; Michael Brown, West Wyoming; Arianna Bugno, Pittston; Elizabeth Burney, Pittston; Ella Burns, Dallas; Ashleigh Button, Mountain Top.

C: Ava Carey, Courtdale; Isabella Cassano, Shavertown; Litzy Castro, Wilkes-Barre; Noah Ceklosky, Wapwallopen; Arianna Champi, Dupont; Alexi Chervenitski, Shavertown; MarinaCiavarella, Hanover Twp.; Quinn Crispell, Swoyersville; Claire Cunningham, Wilkes-Barre.

D: Charlene Daisey, Wapwallopen; Madelyn Dalley, Kingston; Isabella Dalmas, Nanticoke; Taylor Dalmas, Nanticoke; Parker DalSanto, Dallas;  Ainsley Daubert; Noxen; Ashlyn Davis, Shickshinny; Kara Domzalski, Shavertown; Janelle Dudek, Pittston Twp.; David Durko, Ashley.

E: Alyssa Evans, Nanticoke.

F: Rebecca Fick, Dallas; Molly Fielding, Dallas; Lindsey Franchella, Shickshinny; Paige Frank, Shavertown; Grayson Frasier, Swoyersville.

G: Caelan Gallagher, Dallas; Jerzey Gallagher, Ashley; Carmen Garcia, Wilkes-Barre; Melissa Giomboni, Plains Twp.; Anthony Giovinazzo, Edwardsville; Brooklyn Giovinazzo, Edwardsville; Andrew Gorto, Pittston; Alex Goy, Shavertown; Jacob Greenfield, Harding; Tessily Gregory, Dallas; Diane Grohowski, Nanticoke.

H: Hailey Halagarda, Avoca; Reagan Halbach, Shavertown; Brian Hannah, Tunkhannock; Catherine Havrilla, Mountain Top; Deven Hazlak, White Haven; Lauren Hearst, West Pittston; Kaci Hockenberry, Dallas; Lyndsey Hornlein, Dallas; Hannah Hosey, Noxen; Emily Howells, Pittston; Mercedes Hughes, Shavertown; Chad Hutchins, Dallas.

J: Morgan Janeski, Exeter; Maura Jenceleski, Nanticoke; Allison Jones, Harveys Lake; Halle Jones, Dallas.

K: Joshua Kane, Dallas; Carmella Karcutskie, Harding; Misha Kazmierski, Dallas; Gia Keefe, Dallas; Cassie Kern, Dallas; Olivia Kiwak, Harding; Hayden Klopp, Shavertown; Layla Kolodzieski, Avoca; Dylan Kostik, Wyoming; Kurtis Kowalski,…

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