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Online sports betting and internet gambling in the Nutmeg State will still have to wait until early October, pending certain regulatory approvals.
Posted: Sep 29, 2021 6:36 PM ET Updated: Sep 29, 2021 6:36 PM ET Read Time: 2 min
Retail sports betting will begin in Connecticut on Thursday — as long as gamblers drive out to a casino to make their wagers.
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and partner DraftKings Inc. announced on Wednesday that starting on September 30, players will be able to place bets at a temporary sportsbook and kiosks at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT.
A permanent sportsbook is “currently in the final stages of construction,” a press release said.
Likewise, the Mohegan Tribe and partner FanDuel Group are launching retail sports betting on Thursday at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT. Wagers will be able to be placed at four live betting windows or via 50 self-service terminals at the casino.
Online sports betting and internet gambling in the Nutmeg State will still have to wait until early October, pending regulatory approval, the DraftKings-related release noted.
The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection has been tasked with overseeing that licensing and review process for sports betting, and approved the licenses needed for on-reservation wagering to begin at both casinos on Thursday.
“We are still working to finalize the details for the soft launch of statewide retail and online sports betting, and have not yet set a date for that,” DCP spokesperson Kaitlyn Krasselt said in an email.
However, the Mashantucket Pequot and Boston-based DraftKings aren’t wasting any time with their retail launch in Connecticut. Notice of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s approval of an agreement between the tribe and the state to amend gambling-related…
Dear Helaine and Joe: Can you tell me what I own and if it’s worth anything? There are glass prisms and brass figures, like American Indians and pilgrims. My mother insisted that I take it when she gave me a piano.
— SB
Dear SB:
I would like to thank your mother for giving you Girandole, which was probably made about 10 years before the Civil War.
The word Girandole means fireworks and candlesticks in Italian. The term sometimes refers to a convex mirror with two to four candle arms (sometimes a frame with an eagle on top), but rarely refers to a basket with flowers or a dragon / dolphin. There is also.
The overall idea was that the mirror would reflect the candlelight into a dark room, making things a little brighter.
Another type of Girandole included a central sconces with two sconces on the sides. All three were usually adorned with flower ropes with prisms hanging from the ends of the candle cups. The central parts of both the sconces and the two sconces were cast in brass or bronze (often gold-plated or sometimes silver-plated) and were figurative in shape.
There were flowers and jumping stag beetles, but there were also literary themes such as Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Tom and Eva, Lip Van Winkle, and most commonly Paul and Virginie. name.
The Girandole candlestick in today’s question is based on James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Last of the Mohicans: The Story of 1757.
Novels and candlesticks take us to western New York during the French and Indian War. The candlestick shows the character of the Mohican chief Chingachgook sitting on a log with Natti Bumpo, also known as Hawkeye. Behind it stands Ankasu, the son of Chingachgook and the last Mohican.
The two…
WILKES-BARRE — Eric Joseph Esoda, president and CEO at the Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center (NEPIRC), has announced that its Manufacturing Day 2021 Best Practices Summit & Expo, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 1, at the Mohegan Sun Pocono Convention Center, has been rescheduled to May 6, 2022.
Esoda noted that the decision to reschedule was made out of concern over rising coronavirus case numbers in the region and the need to keep the region’s manufacturing workforce, which constitutes the majority of attendees, healthy and safe.
“The decision to postpone was not made lightly,” noted Esoda. “While individual employer locations provide levels of protection, sanitation, traceability and overall safety relative to COVID-19, large-scale public gatherings lose some of those safeguards. Given the large turnout expected at our event, our Board of Directors and leadership team believed the best course of action was to hold Manufacturing Day in the spring rather than next month, with hopes that COVID-19 will be less concerning then.”
Billed as the largest manufacturing expo, best practice conference and networking event in northeastern and the northern tier of Pennsylvania, NEPIRC, according to Esoda, was expecting more than 60 exhibitors, some 400 attendees and numerous industry experts to participate in the day-long event in addition to dozens of high school students who were to participate in a career awareness tract.
“Our advanced bookings and sponsorships were well ahead of expectations for this year’s event,” Esoda added. “However, our concern for the health and safety of staff, exhibitors, speakers and attendees were too important for us to overlook. Our decision to reschedule was a prudent one from a human relations perspective.”
The May 2022 event will also take place at Mohegan…
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Categories: Connecticut, News | Published by: Alex W
30/09/2021
Connecticut Sports Betting edges closer to launch as gaming compacts are published
The final steps towards legal sports betting in Connecticut are underway. The next major obstacle was completed recently when the amended gaming compact between Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Indians was officially published in the Federal Register. The publishing of the Mashantucket Pequot Indians arrives around two weeks after the Mohegan Indians had their compact published in the Federal Register on September 15.
With both compacts now done and dusted and officially published, online sports betting in the Constitution State will be able to launch on October 7. Consequently, residents in Connecticut can start betting on the Week 5 NFL schedule.
Getting Started with Betting in Connecticut
Anybody looking to get involved in the action and place wagers before the official online launch will likely be allowed to do so at one of the state’s retail locations.
Retail sports betting has been given the go-ahead to get underway at a tribal facility a week following the publishing of the compact. Bearing in mind, the Mohegan Indians had their compact published on September 15; they will likely go live with retail sports betting first.
Mohegan Tribal Chairman James Gessner has been seen in a CT Mirror story, revealing FanDuel Sportsbook-branded sports betting kiosks.
The Mashantucket Pequot Indian tribe runs the Foxwoods Casino, which will house a retail DraftKings Sportsbook. However, currently, no official launch date for retail sports wagering has been set by either tribe.
Connecticut Responsible Gambling
Sports wagering in Connecticut will give its residents the chance to ban themselves before the state goes live with sports betting.
The Department of Consumer…
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Stella Dorothy Wall
Stella Dorothy Wall, 98, a resident of Nanticoke, passed into eternal life Thursday evening, Oct, 7, 2021, at her home.
Born on Oct. 18, 1922, in Nanticoke, Stella was one of five children born to the late Walter and Helen Rakoscy Stobodzian. Preceding her in death was her husband, Stanley P. Wall, who passed away in 1999; and her son, Stanley T. Wall, who passed away in 2011.
A lifelong resident of Nanticoke, Stella was a graduate of Nanticoke High School, Class of 1940.
A woman of great faith, Stella was a lifelong member of the former Holy Trinity Church, Nanticoke. Following the consolidation of her church, she became a member of St. Faustina Parish, Nanticoke.
Stella was a very kind and gentle woman who enjoyed the simple pleasures in life, such as cooking and baking for her family, tending to her garden and making every holiday special. Above all, her greatest joy was spending time with her beloved family. A loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt, Stella leaves behind a beautiful legacy that will live on forever in the hearts of her loved ones.
In addition to her parents, husband and son, Stella was preceded in death by her sister, Blanche Stobodzian; and her brothers, Joseph Stobodzian (Veronica); Bernard Stubb (Dorothy); and Henry Stobodzian (Jean).
Stella is survived by her son Thomas S. Wall (Donna), Nanticoke; daughter-in-law, Marilyn Wall, Nanticoke; four grandchildren, Jeremy Wall and fiancée Jessica Butry, Nanticoke; Heather Regan (Kevin), Slatington; Jamie Kerestes (Timothy), Dallas; Tyler Wall (Kaci), Mountain Top; six great-grandchildren, Stella, Rhys, Maddox and Cruise Regan and Charleigh and Sullivan Kerestes; as well as nieces and nephews.
The family extends their sincere thanks and gratitude to her private caregivers, Terri, Rochelle, Stella, Romaine and Brenda, who had provided her with exemplary care for the last three years of…
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Capt. Joe Berry, right, and longtime mate William K. “Billy” Brown, show off a wahoo in this 1955 photo from the Aycock Brown Papers. Photo: Courtesy of the Outer Banks History Center, State Archives of North Carolina
Editor’s note: Some outdated racial terms that today are considered insensitive or offensive are used in this story, not out of disrespect but solely because of their appearance on official records.
Growing up, she was urged to not speak of her Indigenous roots.
“In our family, we were told not to talk about it,” recalled Marilyn Berry Morrison, chief of the Roanoke-Hatteras Tribe of the Algonquian Indians of North Carolina.
This fear, which “has been embedded” from generation to generation, is often still found among local Roanoke-Hatteras descendants today.
“We have active tribal members who don’t want to put in their paperwork to make them an official tribal member,” Morrison said.
Centuries of fear of forcible removals, government-sanctioned land-stealing and even government-sanctioned murder took its toll.
“Many years ago, if you claimed to be Indian or Native American, you were killed, OK? So that fear has trickled on down through generations,” Morrison explained. “Even having President Theodore Roosevelt say that ‘a good Indian is a dead Indian’… it really had a tremendous impact on being called Native American. And that is who we are.”
She has become an outspoken advocate of the tribe and believes others will follow suit.
“I believe in time we’ll get rid of that (fear) once they accept who they are…
15.00 / Movistar Drama
‘The last Mohican’
The last of the mohicans. United States, 1992 (108 minutes). Director: Michael Mann. Performers: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe.
Fenimore’s classic – with the Mohicans’ struggle to conquer the wild American lands – has been brought to the screen by the most diverse directors. On this occasion, and with a large budget, this interesting version is presented, directed by Michael Mann and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Some concessions to the gallery, but really entertaining.
15.25 / Paramount Channel
‘Waterworld’
United States, 1995 (130 minutes). Director: Kevin Reynolds. Performers: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn.
In a post-atomic future, this film is developed, which was sold commercially as the most expensive in history. Kevin Costner will have to do with Dennis Hopper in this futuristic installment, which on many occasions recalls the series Mad Max. Cinephile winks and spectacular scenes for a film as wet (because of the water) as it is conventional in its result.
15.35 / The Sixth
‘Ocean’s eleven’
United States, 2001 (114 minutes). Director: Steven Soderbergh. Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Cassey Affleck.
New version of The gang of eleven, a film directed in 1960 by Lewis Milestone and played by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. The result, as could be guessed by looking at the trajectory of its director, is shown as a remarkable and shocking movie of millionaire robberies that knew how to take advantage of the quality of a cast full of stars. A highly entertaining choral film, full of action, suspense and luxurious settings.
16.29 / AXN
‘Mission Impossible. Phantom Protocol ‘
Mission: Impossible. Ghost Protocol. United States, 2011…