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H.S. Football: Wyoming Area strikes quickly, rolls past Nanticoke Area

WEST PITTSTON — The good vibrations on the Nanticoke Area sideline lasted all of one play.

The Trojans’ Jaylin Collins returned the opening kick half the length of the field into Wyoming Area territory. From that point, the glimmer of hope turned into an onslaught of despair.

Wyoming Area pounded Nanticoke Area for a 47-13 victory on Friday night. The Warriors remain undefeated through three games on the season.

“We did a great job, spreading the ball around and getting all of our playmakers involved,” Wyoming Area coach Randy Spencer said. “Our skill guys, led by Rocco Pizano, were making big plays in the passing game. It was important for us to build our confidence.”

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The Warriors forced a fumble on the first Nanticoke Area offensive play. On the Wyoming Area’s second play, Pizano caught a 42-yard catch down the field into the red zone. Quarterback Blaise Sokach-Minnick avoided a fleet of Nanticoke Area defenders and flicked a pass in traffic to Aaron Crossley for a 4-yard touchdown.

Sokach-Minnick’s quick thinking and accurate passing kept the Nanticoke Area secondary on its heels. In just one half’s worth of work, the Wyoming Area senior quarterback completed 11 of 14 passes for 208 yards and four touchdowns.

“He was throwing amazing,” Crossley said. “He should have had five honestly! I kind of messed up the last play. But he still got it done.”

All four of his touchdowns were thrown to different Wyoming Area receivers. Pizano found the end zone on a 22-yard pass on the team’s second drive. Usamah Alansari had one of his two touchdowns on the night via a 17-yard connection in the second quarter. Sokach-Minnick closed out his lucrative first half by finding John Morgan in the…

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UN recruits a sign language interpreter for Iraq’s electoral commission

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections in Iraq, the United Nations has hired a sign language interpreter to help the country’s electoral authorities reach out to deaf voters, the international organization announced on Tuesday.

At the request of the Iraqi government and under UN Security Council Resolution 2576, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) is supporting and advising the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC).

“Iraq’s election will be more credible if it involves as many Iraqi voters as possible,” the organization tweeted on Tuesday. “And that includes the deaf community.”

The sign language interpreter will, therefore, help the IHEC “broaden its reach”.

The parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place on October 10, where more than 3,000 candidates are vying for the 329 seats in Iraq’s legislative house.

UNAMI will also send 130 international experts to observe the electoral process “in advance” and “on election day,” Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the United Nations Special Representative for Iraq, recently said.

Read More: UNAMI monitors hate speech against female candidates in Iraq’s elections

The team will advise the local electoral authorities on all the operational aspects and phases of the process, including voter registration, candidate nomination, procurement and logistics.

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Mohegan Sun announces lineup commemorating 25th Anniversary

UNCASVILLE, CT (September 9, 2021) – To properly celebrate 25 years as the Northeast’s premiere integrated entertainment resort,

 Mohegan Sun announces an impressive lineup of entertainment, deals, giveaways, and celebrity appearances throughout the month of October. From larger-than-life gaming promotions to headlining concerts in the award-winning Mohegan Sun Arena, the brand’s 25th anniversary is stacking up to be a can’t-miss celebration.

As part of the milestone anniversary, Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment’s (MGE) flagship property will offer Momentum loyalty members a special “Collect and Win” promo throughout the month of October, where cardholders can earn a swipe at the special 25th anniversary kiosks for a chance to win Free Slot Play prizes and up to $50,000 cash! In addition, the brand is offering a $250,000 Anniversary Slot Sweepstakes for loyalists to try their luck at winning their share of $250,000 in cash by playing their favorite slots! High-rolling private blackjack, slot and Baccarat tournaments will also be hosted for VIP gamers.

Beyond the casino floor, Mohegan Sun is planning an epic culmination weekend on October 22-24, with appearances and performance from superstars like Harry Styles and Blake Shelton, each headlining the Mohegan Sun Arena with very limited tickets still available. Further, Hip-Hop legends Run DMC will be performing in the Wolf Den for the first time ever, and celebrities of all status will be on-hand for a VIP party at Mohegan’s newest hot-spot, TAO Asian Bistro & Lounge.

From dining to retail, Mohegan Sun will be offering an abundance of promotions throughout October. Guests can enjoy delicious deals at on-property favorites such as 25 percent off indulgent appetizers at Comix Roadhouse,  out-of-this-world promos at Johnny Rockets, and decadent discounts that will make you want to wine and dine at Jasper White’s Summer Shack and Sushi Koya….

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Local FYI & area schedule: September 13

FYI 

  • The Orrville High School Sports Hall of Fame will hold its 31st annual four-person golf scramble on Saturday, Sept. 18, at Riceland Golf Course with play beginning at 8 a.m.  The cost is $45 per person or $180 for a four-person team and includes 18 holes of golf, cart fee, food and prizes.  The fee for Riceland members is $30.  There will be a 50/50 raffle and a skins game ($10 per team, 100% payout) as well.   Proceeds from the outing go toward the continuation of the OHS Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship, awarded annually to graduating OHS seniors.  Contact Kent Smith by phone at 330-347-3163 or by email (orvl_ksmith@tccsa.net) to sign up your team.
  • The Dalton High School baseball team will host its sixth annual four-man golf scramble at The Pines in Orrville on Sunday, Oct. 3. Registration begins at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start at 9. Prizes and dinner are included in the cost of $260 per team. We are also in need of hole sponsors. If you have questions or wish to pre-register, please call or text Scott at 330-466-9219.     
  • Henry Beun is offering basketball officiating classes for new perspective referees at www.officials.myohsaa.org. For basketball officiating classes, please contact Henry at 330-466-3103 or check out the website www.officials.http://myohsaa.org. 

Area Schedule 

Monday, September 13

BOYS GOLF

Triway at Generals Cup (Wooster C.C.)

Crestline at Loudonville, 11 a.m.

Ashland at Hillsdale (Mohican Hills G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

GIRLS TENNIS

Alliance at Orrville, 3:15 p.m.

Central Christian at Triway, 4:15 p.m.

Chippewa at Marlington, 4:15 p.m.

Massillon Jackson at Wooster, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER

Orrville at Triway, 7 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER

Canton South at Tuslaw, 5 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL

Hiland at John Gleen, 6:30 p.m.

Hillsdale at Mapleton, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 14

BOYS GOLF

Waynedale at Chippewa (Chippewa G.C.), 3:15 p.m.

Tuslaw at Massillon (Legends of Massillon G.C.), 3:15 p.m.

Norwayne at Dalton (The Pines G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

Northwestern at Hillsdale (Mohican Hills G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

Triway at Orrville (The Pines G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

Mansfield at Wooster (Wooster C.C.),…

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Field Hockey: Results, links and featured coverage for Monday, Sept. 13

No. 6 Shore at Red Bank Catholic, 4

Monday, Sep. 13

BCSL

Burlington City (0-0) at Pennsauken (0-1), 3:45pm

Medford Tech (0-0) at Pemberton (0-2), 3:45pm

Bordentown (1-1) at Northern Burlington (1-1), 3:45pm

Delran (0-0) at Rancocas Valley (3-0), 3:45pm

Riverside (1-1) at Florence (2-0), 3:45pm

Cinnaminson (0-2) at Burlington Township (1-0), 3:45pm

New Egypt (1-1) at Maple Shade (0-0), 3:45pm

CAPE-ATLANTIC

Buena (0-2) at Our Lady of Mercy (0-1), 3:45pm

Hammonton (2-0) at Middle Township (1-1), 3:45pm

St. Joseph (Hamm.) (1-0) at Holy Spirit (1-0), 4pm

COLONIAL

Gateway (1-1) at Moorestown Friends (1-0), 4pm

CVC

Nottingham (0-0) at West Windsor-Plainsboro South (0-1), 4pm

Robbinsville (0-0) at Steinert (0-1), 4pm

Notre Dame (2-0) at Allentown (0-1), 4pm

Hopewell Valley (2-0) at Hamilton West (0-1), 4pm

Princeton (1-0) at West Windsor-Plainsboro North (1-0), 6pm

ESSEX/UNION

Koinonia (0-1) at Gov. Livingston (2-1), 3:45pm

FSL

Gateway (1-1) at Moorestown Friends (1-0), 4pm

GMC

Mount St. Mary (2-0) at South Plainfield (1-0), 4pm

NEFHL

Butler (2-0) at Northern Highlands (2-0), 4:15pm

Wayne Valley (1-1) at River Dell (1-1), 6:30pm

Ramsey (1-0) at Westwood (1-1), 7pm

West Milford (1-1) at Old Tappan (0-2), 7pm

Lakeland (2-0) at Hackensack (0-2), 7pm

NJAC

Whippany Park (2-0) at St. Elizabeth (0-0-1), 4pm

OLYMPIC

Cherry Hill West (1-1) vs. Camden Catholic (2-0) at Camden Catholic, Cherry Hil, TBA

Winslow (0-0) at Seneca (2-0), 3:45pm

Cherokee (0-1) at Lenape (1-1), 3:45pm

Eastern (2-0) at Washington Township (0-1), 4pm

SHORE

Lacey (1-1-1) at Toms River East (2-1-1), TBA

Lakewood (0-1) at Keyport (0-1), 3:45pm

Neptune (0-3) at Wall (1-0), 3:45pm

Howell (0-1) at Middletown North (1-2), 3:45pm

Shore (1-1) at Red Bank Catholic (0-2), 4pm

Matawan (2-1) at St. John Vianney (3-0), 6pm

Rumson-Fair Haven (2-0) at Ocean Township (2-0), 6:30pm

Manalapan (1-1) at Long Branch (0-2), 6:30pm

SKYLAND

Mount St. Mary…

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H.S. Football: Wyoming Area strikes quickly, rolls past Nanticoke Area

WEST PITTSTON — The good vibrations on the Nanticoke Area sideline lasted all of one play.

The Trojans’ Jaylin Collins returned the opening kick half the length of the field into Wyoming Area territory. From that point, the glimmer of hope turned into an onslaught of despair.

Wyoming Area pounded Nanticoke Area for a 47-13 victory on Friday night. The Warriors remain undefeated through three games on the season.

“We did a great job, spreading the ball around and getting all of our playmakers involved,” Wyoming Area coach Randy Spencer said. “Our skill guys, led by Rocco Pizano, were making big plays in the passing game. It was important for us to build our confidence.”

The Warriors forced a fumble on the first Nanticoke Area offensive play. On the Wyoming Area’s second play, Pizano caught a 42-yard catch down the field into the red zone. Quarterback Blaise Sokach-Minnick avoided a fleet of Nanticoke Area defenders and flicked a pass in traffic to Aaron Crossley for a 4-yard touchdown.

Sokach-Minnick’s quick thinking and accurate passing kept the Nanticoke Area secondary on its heels. In just one half’s worth of work, the Wyoming Area senior quarterback completed 11 of 14 passes for 208 yards and four touchdowns.

“He was throwing amazing,” Crossley said. “He should have had five honestly! I kind of messed up the last play. But he still got it done.”

All four of his touchdowns were thrown to different Wyoming Area receivers. Pizano found the end zone on a 22-yard pass on the team’s second drive. Usamah Alansari had one of his two touchdowns on the night via a 17-yard connection in the second quarter. Sokach-Minnick closed out his lucrative first half by finding John Morgan in the corner of the…

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Connecticut Tribal Gaming Compacts Receive Federal Approval

  • Last Week, the US Dept. of the Interior Approved Revised CT Tribal Gaming Compacts
  • Connecticut Sports Bettors Will Have Three Sportsbook Options
  • Legal Sports Betting in Connecticut on Track for October Launch Date

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Last Week, the US Dept. of the Interior Approved Revised CT Tribal Gaming Compacts

Late last week, Governor Ned Lamont, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman Rodney Butler, and Mohegan Tribal Council Chairman James Gessner Jr. announced that the US Department of the Interior had approved the proposed revisions to the state’s tribal gaming compacts.

This marks the final step towards launching legal sports betting in Connecticut, a tedious process that started back in May 2021 once Gov. Lamont signed HB6451 into law after the state Legislature approved it in a late-night session.

The compacts describe in detail a sports gambling operation that includes a 13.75% tax rate on retail sports betting and an 18% tax rate on all online gambling for the first five years (increased to 20% after that), revenue that will go a long way to improving the lives of Nutmeg State residents.

Gov. Lamont thanked the Bureau of Indian Affairs for approving these revisions and made it clear that he is counting on his state’s sports betting operation to compete nationwide.

This critical step in the process of modernizing our gaming landscape here in Connecticut ensures that our state will have a competitive, nation-leading marketplace for wagering both in-person and online.

Connecticut Sports Bettors Will Have Three Sportsbook Options

Once operations are set up, there will be three sportsbook options for Connecticut bettors to choose from:

According to Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman Rodney Butler, the benefits of this new partnership are threefold:

This expansion will allow us to enhance investments in support…

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Warren Co. has the rural atmosphere. Now it needs a meat processing plant, commissioners say.

Mohican Farms LLC in Blairstown is getting ready to open a farm-to-table restaurant and market in November, offering a healthy alternative to processed food produced who-knows-where.

Today, owners Ryan Herold and Sean Lavery sell what they produce at a farm store on-site, and when it comes to meat, that means a lot of planning and driving to a processor in Pennsylvania.

“Ours are usually about two hours away,” Herold said Friday of places to process their chickens, lamb, pigs and cattle. “There’s not many in New Jersey, and the few there are, it’s impossible to get in. It’s a real problem, since COVID especially.

“You almost have to book like a good year in advance, so I have to really book all my slaughter dates for the next year, which makes it very difficult.”

Warren County’s board of commissioners last week backed a solution, with passage of a resolution in support of someone somewhere within the county opening a meat processing facility.

“I think in Warren County, there are USDA facilities that can do the individual one or two steers or deer, things like that,” said Commissioner Director James Kern III. “What we’re talking about is a much larger scale, because there’s such a backup.”

The board’s resolution also approved by Commissioners Jason Sarnoski and Lori Ciesla does not endorse a specific site, and Kern said he hasn’t heard of any interest in the idea yet.

“What we really want to do is kind of by passing this resolution show that we support the farming community in Warren County,” Kern said. “And should something like this materialize, we want to be a partner in however we can facilitate that wherever the location would be that would want to welcome that in the community.”

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Walk of Honor at LCCC honors lives lost on 9/11

NANTICOKE — The wind flapping the flags above, behind and around state Sen. John Yudichak stirred a childhood memory.

The flags flew high at the start of the ceremony Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 at the Walk of Honor Memorial on the campus of Luzerne County Community College. Even when the Nanticoke Fire Department lowered one to half staff to honor those killed in the terrorist attacks two decades ago, it fluttered in the wind.

“I can remember as a boy, my mother telling me when we had a warm gusty wind, just like we knew on this September day, that wind was produced by the wings of angels,” Yudichak told the hundred or so firefighters, students, guests and school personnel gathered for the event. “I’d like to think that on today, that the wings of the angels of nearly 3,000 Americans are pushing that wind to remind us never forget.”

For nearly all of the past 10 years, with last year the exception because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the school has kept the lives of those lost alive in memory, honoring the wish of the mother whose son was among the 343 New York City firefighters who responded to the World Trade Center and perished when the twin towers collapsed.

Yudichak recalled how he and LCCC President Thomas Leary met the late Phyllis Carlo of Wanamie and worked with her to create the Walk of Honor at the school’s Public Safety Training Institute as a legacy to her son, firefighter Michael Scott Carlo, and first responders.

“Phyllis Carlo, God Bless you for teaching us that although tragedy may cast a long shadow, hope will always draw us to brighter days and hope will always cast a…

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Connecticut Internet Gaming Rules Approved and Effective

By Jennifer Newell

September 8th, 2021 | Last updated on September 8th, 2021

Home » Poker News » Connecticut Internet Gaming Rules Approved and Effective Connecticut Internet Gaming Rules Approved and Effective

Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill’s website indicates that igaming regulations are in full effect. The “regulation making record” pertains to online casino gaming, retail and online sports wagering, fantasy contests, keno, and the online sale of lottery tickets. And included in the online casino gaming is peer-to-peer gaming, which is online poker.

What this means is that the regulatory structure for everything from licensing to responsible gambling protocols is done. The governor and state legislature approved them.

The next step is for the action to begin. Some of the work for sports betting operators has already been done, and land-based operators appear ready to launch.

It seems that only one approval is still pending. The United States Government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is a part of the US Department of the Interior, must approve the updated compacts with the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut and Mashantucket Pequot Tribe.

It’s almost there…

Regulations Done

Thus far, the process has been fairly quick, especially by the standards set by other states and their igaming processes to date. Connecticut had been discussing online gaming and sports betting legalization for years, but the legislature finally approved a bill this year. And when Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed it into law on May 27, 2021, the biggest hurdles were in the past.

The next move was up to Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill’s office. Under her oversight, the state’s Department of Consumer Protections and Commissioner Michelle Seagull set about drafting emergency regulations for the new industry. State-regulated online gaming, sports betting, fantasy sports, keno, and online lottery ticket sales…

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