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ACME Screening Room presents Earth Day film

Join the Acme Screening Room, 25 S. Union St., Lambertville, N.J., for an Earth Day presentation at 6:30 p.m. Friday, of the documentary “The Meaning of the Seed.”

The Ramapough today are instituting their own programs geared at restoring Indigenous environmental knowledge through activities such as waterway community paddles, Munsee language classes, and other elements of a cultural restoration program. An important site for this undertaking is the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Sussex County, N.J., founded in May 2020.

In September 2020 a documentary crew filmed a talking circle of Ramapough elders, relations, and partners at the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm. The resulting documentary, “The Meaning of the Seed,” is structured along the layers of the landscape.

The first section, “Soil,” describes the history of contamination in Ringwood and the contaminated ground that many Native Americans live on or nearby. “Seed” recounts the struggles of the Ramapough and their cultural connections to the land.

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“Growth” chronicles the cultural restoration program and efforts to work toward food sovereignty through their recently inaugurated Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Newton, N.J. Finally, “Sunlight” is a call to action, as the talking circle participants urge a younger generation to become involved.

A post screening discussion will follow the film with Vincent Mann, Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, Michaeline Picaro, a member of the Turtle Clan and professor Anita Bakshi,…

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Felony assault charges withdrawn against Nanticoke man

Apr. 10—WILKES-BARRE — A Nanticoke man accused of aiming a handgun at a Nanticoke police officer and a child caseworker with Luzerne County Children and Youth Services and placing a handgun in the mouth of a woman pled guilty to misdemeanor charges Monday.

Cory Ma Gonzalez Crudop, 40, of State Street, stood accused of hiding in the basement of a residence at 64 Hill St., as three Nanticoke police officers assisted two caseworkers from Children & Youth Services inspecting the home on July 14, according to court records.

When an officer opened a door, Crudop was accused of aiming a firearm at the officer before fleeing the house where he aimed the firearm at a caseworker, according to court records.

The incident prompted a massive police search of the Lower Broadway area of Nanticoke that ended in Crudop’s apprehension at his residence.

Child caseworkers were at the house two days after Crudop on July 12 placed the barrel of a handgun in the mouth of a woman during a domestic dispute and threw a car battery through the windshield of a vehicle that a child occupied, court records say.

Crudop was scheduled for trial this week.

Instead, prosecutors amended the felony grading of two counts of aggravated assault to misdemeanor simple assault in a negotiated plea agreement with Crudop and his attorney, Frank McCabe, involving the police officer and child caseworker.

Crudop pled guilty to four total counts of simple assault and a single count of terroristic threats, all misdemeanors, before President Judge Michael T. Vough.

A felony count of aggravated assault involving the placing of a gun in the woman’s mouth was withdrawn.

Crudop is scheduled to be sentenced June 8. He remains free on $10,000 unsecured bail.

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Travel Advisory: RIDOT Temporarily Closing Route 102 from April 24-28 for Paving at the Mohegan Bridge in Burrillville

Starting Monday, April 24 and lasting through Friday, April 28, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will close Route 102 (Bronco Highway) in both directions at the Mohegan Bridge in Burrillville. This closure is necessary to allow the Department to safely waterproof and pave the bridge deck, its approaches, and the intersection with Route 7.

During the closure, motorists on Route 102 North and South will follow Victory Highway to Route 7 (Douglas Pike) to get back onto Route 102. Temporary traffic signals will be in use along the detour route to aid all motorists, but travel-time delays are likely, averaging about 10 minutes during the busiest morning commuting hours. A detour map is available at www.ridot.net/DetourMaps.

RIDOT reopened the Mohegan Bridge in January to restore two-way traffic ahead of the project completion date this spring. Now that construction season has begun, RIDOT will complete the paving and finalize construction. In addition to replacing the bridge, the $10.6 million project includes new guardrail and drainage improvements.

The Mohegan Bridge carries about 15,200 vehicles per day over the Branch River in Burrillville.

All construction projects are subject to changes in schedule and scope depending on needs, circumstances, findings, and weather.

The replacement of the Mohegan Bridge is made possible by RhodeWorks, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure and Improvement Act. RIDOT is committed to bringing Rhode Island’s infrastructure into a state of good repair while respecting the environment and striving to improve it. Learn more at www.ridot.net/RhodeWorks.

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Photos: Clearwater on the Hudson River in Kingston

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The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman)The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman) The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023, passing the Rondout Lighthouse. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman)The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023, passing the Rondout Lighthouse. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman) Author
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RELIGION: Our nightly visitors

Our nightly visitors for the past year have been possums. Excuse me — opossums.

Possums without the “o” are phalangeriformes. (I know, it’s hard to pronounce.) They are arboreal marsupials and are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Tasmania and the Solomon Islands. They might be related to kangaroos.

It’s opossums (with the “o”) who live in North and South America. They’re part of the Didelphimorphia (another funny word) order of marsupials. The Virginia Opossum is the only opossum group found in the United States and Canada, although they also extend south to Central America.

The name “opossum” seems to have originated from the Proto-Algonquian native American tribe. The original word (something like “wa-pa-themwa”) could mean “white dog” or “dog-like beast.” Early American colonists described them as “head like a swine, tail like a rat, and the bigness of a cat.”

Somehow wa-pa-themwa morphed into opossum but many folks simply call them “possum.”

There are approximately 103 kinds of opossums in the world, ranging from the pygmy opossum to the domestic cat-sized Virginia Opossum.

As the old Santa Fe Trail ran from Missouri through Kansas to New Mexico, our property seems to be in the path of the Old Opossum Trail. Where it starts and ends, I don’t know, but those critters like our cat food!

The “dog-like-beast” I trapped early this morning was the 13th opossum we caught, and today is Friday. Therefore, I’ve named it “Friday, the 13th.”

Opossums prefer wooded areas and many live in hollow trees or stumps. But they’ll accept abandoned dens of other animals, rock crevices and wood piles. And since humans have invaded the forests, opossums have adapted to living under houses and sheds. Homeowners consider them pests as they often cause damage to property, lawns and gardens.

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U.S Marshals arrest two in Nanticoke investigation

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Mohegan Bridge to close April 24 for paving

[]BURRILLVILLE – Starting Monday, April 24 and lasting through Friday, April 28, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation will once again close Route 102 in both directions at the Mohegan Bridge in Burrillville.

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[]According to RIDOT, the closure is necessary to allow the department to safely waterproof and pave the bridge deck, its approaches, and the intersection with Route 7.

[]During the closure, motorists on Route 102 north and south will again follow Victory Highway to Route 7 to get back onto Route 102. Temporary traffic signals will be in use along the detour route to aid all motorists, but RIDOT notes that travel-time delays are likely, averaging about 10 minutes during the busiest morning commuting hours. A detour map is available at ridot.net/detourmaps.

[]RIDOT reopened the Mohegan Bridge in January to restore two-way traffic ahead of the project completion date this spring. Now that construction season has begun, RIDOT reportedly plans to complete the paving and finalize construction. In addition to replacing the bridge, the $10.6 million project includes new guardrail and drainage improvements.

[]The Mohegan Bridge carries about 15,200 vehicles per day over the Branch River in Burrillville.

[]All construction projects are subject to changes in schedule and scope depending on needs, circumstances, findings, and weather.

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GALLERY: Lake Lenape Dam in Mays Landing

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Teacher Sues CBSD For Retaliating Against Him For Trans Advocacy

DOYLESTOWN, PA — In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the Central Bucks School District, a middle school teacher is claiming that district administrators began retaliating against him last year for advocating for a transgender student who was being harassed and bullied.

In March 2022, the teacher, Andrew Burgess, filed a complaint at the behest of a transgender student and his family with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after he said administrators failed to address repeated harassment by classmates.

In his suit, Burgess said the district responded by suspending him in May and informing him that his employment status was under review. He was then reassigned from Lenape Middle School, where he had taught since 2006, to Unami Middle School just days before the start of the 2022-23 school year.

Burgess said new assignment included switching him from teaching eighth grade to seventh, new course material, and an increase in the number of students in his classes.

Burgess said in the suit that he also opposed apparent efforts to censor teachers’ classroom library materials that dealt with LGBTQ+ themes. He expressed his concerns to district leaders multiple times, and, when his building principal sought to meet individually with teachers who maintained a classroom library in March 2022, Burgess, who is a union leader, suggested that the principal instead held a group meeting with teachers on the issue.

“When a struggling student came to me, I did what we should want any teacher to do. I advocated for that student, as I had for numerous students in the past,” Burgess said. “That’s why teachers get into this work, to support, guide, and nurture our students.

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Survey looks deeper for signs of Algonquian ‘First Contact’

Robert Chartrand of Chartrand Geoarchaeological Solutions of Williamsburg, Virginia., uses GPS technology to survey an area of the Elizabethan Gardens that archaeologists believe could potentially contain artifacts from the Algonquian village of Roanoac, whose members interacted with English explorers in 1584. Photo: Catherine KozakRobert Chartrand of Chartrand Geoarchaeological Solutions of Williamsburg, Virginia, uses GPS technology to survey an area of the Elizabethan Gardens that archaeologists believe could potentially contain artifacts from the Algonquian village of Roanoac, whose members interacted with English explorers in 1584. Photo: Catherine Kozak

ROANOKE ISLAND — At first take, it was as dull as watching someone mow a lawn. But the man pushing an odd, three-wheeled cart back and forth over an open, grassy area at the Elizabethan Gardens on Wednesday could help archaeologists find one of the most significant locations in Colonial American history: the place where Native Americans had their first contact with the English.

“He’s looking for anomalies below 9 feet,” explained Eric Klingelhofer, a veteran archaeologist and founding member of the nonprofit First Colony Foundation, who was observing nearby.

Robert Chartrand, owner of Chartrand Geoarchaeological Solutions of Williamsburg, Virginia, was using GPS technology to survey about a fifth of an acre within the gardens that archaeologists believe could potentially contain artifacts from the Algonquian village of Roanoac, whose members interacted with English explorers in 1584.

Klingelhofer, one of the foundation’s vice presidents for research, said that reexamination of a previous 1953 exploration done by National Park Service archaeologist Jean C. Harrington indicated that there may be more to find.

During a dig that year at the Elizabethan Gardens, which is owned by the Roanoke Island Historical Association and is supported as a subsidiary of the Garden Club of North Carolina Inc., Harrington had…

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