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Greater Nanticoke Area

Graduates First row: Ryeya McGee, Lexy Felici, McKenna Purkey, Kayleigh Saraka, Kamea Paresa, Alison Keener, Mallory Mayo, Kayla Krushinski, Myla Vnuk, Kaleah Moran, Samantha Mazonis, Nico Czeck, Talli Ormes, Cassidy McDonald, Riley Baird, Chloe Peters, Brianna Mitchell. Second row: Carisa Pierontoni, Sierra Williams, Lauren Rudawski, Lacey Mikolon, Kaylee Fenner, Ellie Lastovets, Christine Mozeko, Ashlyn Przekop, Olivia Lore, Magalie Huertero, Maya Davison, Rachel Polifka, Nicholas Thayer, Nicholas Matson, Jonathan Kochanski, Philip Kile, Sarah Vick. Third row: Angel Noss, Tatiana McCoy, Madison Makavensky, William Emmert, Lexi Brink, Addison Bugdonovitch, Gabrielle Eldridge, Alexis Atkins, Josette Park, Jake Middleton, Ryan Fisher, Ethan Egenski, Owen Brown, Ava Adamzcyk, Jillian Dane, Rain Doroteo-Foringer. Fourth row: Kaitlyn Pegarella, JoAnna Myers, Noah Boneforte, Anthony Colon, Zachary Simon, Owen Pugh, Jaydon Jakes, Loni Rasmus, Lindsey Stavetski, Lyzette Rodriguez, Allison Zurek, Ma’kayla Banks, Genesis Ventura, McKenzie Ball, Yarielys Puntiel, Connor Wilcox, Allison Guydosh. Fifth row: Rebekah Rowles, Ashley Deyo, Bianca Burke, Grace Dalmas, Olivia Dougherty, Anna Kowalchin, Meadow Stavetski, Jayna Gregory, Kylie Albert, Rachel Yarosh, Savannah Ortiz, Marcy Nethercott, Haley Fenner, Abigail Gadomski, Caitlyn Hamacher, Kayla Subarton. Sixth row: Ava Catrone, Tiffany Brogan, Tiara Thomas, Maggie Yakimowicz, Stephanie Rossi, Mike Carchi, Ivan Torres, Nuha Kawash, Gelene Gober, Becca White, Kyler Bednar, Tiffany Lloyd, Johnathan Bren, Brandon Smith-Nickel, Josue Castro, Nicholas Hamm, Braden Zaremba. Seventh row: Brandon Brojakowski, Ashton Mazzitelli, Aiden Ball, Jeremy Alvarez, Aneurys DeJesus Coplin, Aidan Jaskulski, Emma Thomas, Ariana Piestrak, Brooklyn Biehl, Kahlil Walker, Justin Vetiaque, David McNunis, Richard Matthews III, Jason Lauver, Michael Yakabovicz, Jeremy Zapata, Joseph Reyes. Eighth row: Joseph Krieger, Richard Evans, Shane Turner, Jacob Letavish, James Urban, Chase Pierontoni, Gabriel Josefowicz, Charles Casey, Bryant Keegan, Hayden Reakes, Ayden Everett, Evan Kairo, Matthew Rodriguez, Matthew Gomelko, Austin Blank, Cameron Fox. Graduates Ava Adamczyk, Kylie Albert, Jeremy Alvarez, Alexis Atkins, Riley Baird, McKenzie Ball, Aiden Ball,…

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Native News Roundup, June 19-25

Here is a summary of Native American-related news around the U.S. this week:

Mohegan chief announced as new US treasurer

For the first time in U.S. history, a Native American’s signature will appear on all U.S. currency: U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the new U.S. treasurer: Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, the lifetime chief of the Mohegan Tribe in Connecticut.

As treasurer, Malerba will oversee the U.S. Mint, the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and the storage of about $270 billion worth of gold at Fort Knox.

“With this announcement, we are making an even deeper commitment to Indian Country,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said during a visit to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Sicangu Lakota.

Bears Ears National Monument Inter-Governmental Cooperative Agreement signatories stand in front of a newly-unveiled sign, June 18, 2022. Bears Ears National Monument Inter-Governmental Cooperative Agreement signatories stand in front of a newly-unveiled sign, June 18, 2022.

Utah tribes to co-manage Bears Ears National Monument

Federal officials and leaders of five tribal nations — Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service and the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni — on June 21 signed a joint government agreement, formally reestablishing the Bears Ears Commission, which will oversee land management of the 5,500-square-kilometer (2,125-square-mile) Bears Ears National Monument.

“Today, instead of being removed from a landscape to make way for a public park, we are being invited back to our ancestral homelands to help repair them and plan for a resilient future,” said Carleton Bowekaty, Bears Ears Commission co-chair and lieutenant governor of Zuni Pueblo. “What can be a better avenue of restorative justice than giving Tribes the opportunity to participate in…

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ThisWeekInTheWarForWomen: Native American WomanChief Next US Treas’r, Fighting Dobbs, more.

Dr. Marilynn Malerba is an American tribal leader and former nurse who is first female lifetime chief of the Mohegan Tribe in modern history. In June 2022 she became the designate treasurer of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilynn_Malerba 18th lifetime tribal Chief Dr. Marilynn Malerba, first female in that office in the modern history of the Mohegan Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut.

From Sicangu REDCO Community Development email,

…Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen became the first person in her role to visit a Native Nation … accompanied by [Mohegan lifetime] Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, who had been named as the next US Treasurer just hours earlier by President Biden. The visit also coincided with the Treasury’s announcement of the establishment of a new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs, which will report to the Treasurer and coordinate Tribal relations throughout the Department.

“With this announcement, we are making an even deeper commitment to Indian Country,” said Secretary Yellen, in remarks delivered at Sinte Gleska University [a public, tribal, land-grant university in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Brulé Lakota  Indian Reservation home to the Sicangu.

Yellen] went on to acknowledge the “centuries-long injustices” that Native Nations are working to overcome, and committed to expanding the “unique relationship with Tribal nations, continuing our joint efforts to support the development of Tribal economies and economic opportunities for Tribal citizens….

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Lebanese women strive to close parliamentary gender gap

that’s among the widest in the world, ranking 145 out of 153 countries, with all the resultant impacts upon women, children, civil society, and human…

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2022 All-South Jersey High School Girls Lacrosse Team

FIRST TEAM 

Emma Bunting, Lenape junior attack 

Emma Bunting is a goal waiting to happen. Lenape’s primary distributor, Bunting can also score with the best players in South Jersey. Bunting led South Jersey with 82 assists, while adding an astonishing 77 goals. A US Lacrosse All-American selection, the junior is committed to play at the University of Southern California with her twin, Lily. 

Emma Dengler, Moorestown senior attack  

Dengler became the Quakers on-field leader by necessity. When season-ending knee injuries took three of her teammates the offensive lineup, it was Dengler who took on the primary scoring duties while guiding inexperienced backups to a state final appearance. The University of Massachusetts recruit scored 49 goals with 16 assists for the South Group 3 champions. 

Aly Mascolo, Cherokee senior attack  

Mascolo was the lightning to Delaney Jackson’s thunder in Cherokee’s dual-threat attack. A skilled and slippery attacker, Mascolo scored matched Jackson with 77 goals and added eight assists to the Cherokee cause. A US Lacrosse All-American, she will move on to Coastal Carolina University upon graduation. 

Gianna Monaco, Lenape senior attack 

The state’s premier goal scorer, Monaco had an astounding 130 goals this spring and finished her three-year, COVID-limited career with 312 goals. The best offensive show in all of New Jersey, Monaco will enroll at the University of Florida after graduation. 

Lily Bunting, Lenape junior midfield  

Don’t make the mistake of thinking of Lily Bunting as the other twin. True, she scored ‘only’ 60 goals for the South Group 4 champions, but her role included so much more than just scoring or dishing out 16 assists. A true two-way midfielder, this US Lacrosse All-American will enroll at the University of Southern California with twin sister Emma. 

Emily Hazel, Cherry Hill West senior midfield  

No players in South Jersey blossomed more this spring than Hazel. A draw control specialist and occasional offensive support…

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Nanticoke

Steelworkers deserve better at Stelco as contract talks stall

Jun 23, 2022   ·  Media release   ·  

NANTICOKE, Ont. – Negotiations for a new collective agreement at Stelco in Nanticoke, Ont., have stalled, says Randy Graham, President of the United Steelworkers union, Local 8782.

The union filed with the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB), on June 22, 2022, requesting a conciliator. Members of the union will take part in a strike authorization vote on June 27, 2022. The current five-year collective agreement expires on June 30, 2022.

Over 1,000 USW members work at Stelco’s Nanticoke operations in production and skilled trades, producing hot-rolled coil steel.

Key issues at the bargaining table are wages, benefits and pensions.

“Other large Canadian industrial companies like Bombardier and ArcelorMittal Long Products are paying their workers 18-26% increases over five or six years. Our members see that and they know they deserve to keep pace. Instead, the company is offering to shuffle around our pay and bonuses to disguise the fact that there’s only a small overall increase,” said Graham.

Workers at ArcelorMittal Long Products are represented by the United Steelworkers union in Quebec and ratified a new collective agreement in February.

Cost of living data released just yesterday, show annual inflation has rocketed to 7.7%, higher than at any time since 1983.

“Stelco has the wallet to handsomely reward its shareholders and to buy in to the Hamilton Tiger Cats football club. You can see Stelco signage all over the stadium at games. Well, it’s time to recognize the workers that are doing the hard work that contributes to the company’s success,” said Graham.

“These steelworkers have worked hard as essential workers, throughout the pandemic, and delivered the product that brought over $2 billion in sales for Stelco in the last year,” said Myles Sullivan, USW Ontario Director.

“Now…

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WNBA star and ex-UConn great Sue Bird says 2022 will be her final season

Jun. 16—MOHEGAN — Sue Bird had said, “you know when you know” while discussing Thursday’s decision to announce her plans to retire at the conclusion of the Seattle Storm’s 2022 WNBA season.

The question was still posed to Bird during a surprise press conference at Mohegan Sun Arena: How did the “you know” manifest itself given she’s still playing at a high level?

“It’s funny,” Bird explained. “Sometimes someone will be like, ‘oh, man, I can’t even tell you’re 41.’ And I’m like, ‘What? Did you watch me play when I was 31? So I can tell the difference. … I’m still able to perform but I don’t feel like I’m fully myself anymore. And so there’s parts of that where it’s sad to let that go or sad to know that that’s gone, but there’s also the realization that I’m 41. That’s okay, too.

“I feel like I’ve played as long as I can at a very high level.”

Bird excused herself to take a moment to compose herself as tears began to well in her eyes.

“Stop crying,” Bird told herself.

Bird doesn’t want a retirement tour but will surely get her laurels along the way, starting Friday when she and the Storm play the Connecticut Sun at Mohegan Sun Arena (7 p.m., NESN+, CBSSN).

“That retirement ceremony, I think that’ll be next year,” Bird said.

She then turned to Jeff Hoffman, the Storm’s senior manager of public relations, and added, “Jeff, I don’t plan on doing a retirement ceremony.”

Bird had an inkling that this season would be the end of one of the most successful careers in sports. The 18-year WNBA veteran became one of the faces of women’s basketball at a time where the sport wasn’t in the national spotlight as much as it is now.

She won two national championships at UConn before being…

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ODNR announces its 2022 Ohio State Parks Photo Contest winners

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is proud to announce the winners of its 2022 Ohio State Parks Photo Contest.

All winning entries, except the People’s Choice award, were chosen over three rounds of judging by a panel of ODNR employees. The People’s Choice Award was voted on by the public.

ODNR’s photo contest offered five categories for images taken in an Ohio state park after Jan. 1, 2022: wildlife in action, recreation in the parks, wondrous water, novice naturalist, and explore trails. Participants were able to submit up to five entries per category.

“We love to see the parks from visitors’ perspectives,” said Chief Glen Cobb, ODNR Division of Parks and Watercraft. “These photographs celebrate Ohio’s outdoors and the memories created when family and friends gather in our state parks.”

The first-place winner, Ashley Hendershot of Ashland, submitted “Mohican Sunshine.” Her image depicts a biker on the 25-mile mountain bike loop at Mohican State Park with their hands up in the air while sun bursts through the surrounding trees.

“This picture captures the hidden beauty at Mohican if you are just willing to seek the adventure,” said Hendershot. “This scenery can only be seen if you follow the mountain bike trail and get out and ride.”

Second place went to Michael Cordell of Johnstown, for his photo titled “Kayaking.” It depicts a kayaker in the bay at East Harbor State Park and is taken at the level of the water to include the lily-pads.

Kimberly Jackson of Athens took third place with her image “Home Away from Home,” which shows a camping set-up on a sunny day at Strouds Run State Park.

The contest was co-sponsored by US eDirect, ODNR’s reservation management provider. The grand prize was a collapsible Oru kayak and a $120 Ohio State Parks gift certificate. Prizes were also awarded to the…

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Indigenous artist Rose B. Simpson’s sculptures stand watch at Field Farm

WILLIAMSTOWN — They stand, 12 silent sentinels, watching over the land. 

In this field, they bear witness to the wind as it blows, to the rain as it falls, to the stars in the night sky. They watch the fireflies flit in the dark of night and stand watch over the bobolinks that nest in the tall grasses of Field Farm Reservation, 316 preserved acres overseen by The Trustees of Reservations. 

If You Go

What: Counterculture

On view: Through April 30, 2024. Free 30-minute walk-and-talk tours will take place at noon on Saturdays from July 9 through Sept. 3.

Where: The Guest House at Field Farm, 554 Sloan Road, Williamstown

Admission: Free

More information: thetrustees.org/exhibit/counterculture/

It is here that sculptor and mixed media artist Rose B. Simpson‘s slender, androgynous cast-concrete 9-foot-tall sculptures will stand, along the horizon line of the meadow, visible from Sloan Road, though April 30, 2023. Her most ambitious work to date, “Counterculture,” honors generations of marginalized people and cultures, whose voices have been too often silenced by colonization and in many cases, forcibly removed from their homelands. 

“I’ve been playing around with this idea being a witness, of witnessing; in that we look deeply at so many subjects, everything that we experience,” Simpson said, during a recent interview in the meadow, at the foot of her sculptures. “How do we look deeper and ever deeper into those subjects?

“This piece, initially, was about looking at a sort of the post-apocalyptic landscape for indigenous people. So, they are witnesses of that really difficult history [of colonization] … these could be put anywhere on this planet and they’d still be, in a sense, surveying that difficult history.”

And this piece, she said, is about personal growth, for her, and her audience. 

“So much of my work is about teaching myself how to slow…

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Obituaries in Cherry Hill, NJ

Kimberly Anne (Harms) Spruill of Moorestown, NJ, formerly of Mt. Laurel, Medford, Southampton and Marlton, NJ, passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, June 18, 2022. Born in Newport, RI, on January 15, 1970, she was the first, and much anticipated child of a young Naval officer and his wife, Stephen and Patricia (Kerlin) Harms. Kim was the first child in the next generation of both families. Throughout her life she was a beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, cousin, wife, Mother and friend. Kim was a graduate of Lenape High School, Class of 1988, in Medford, NJ, and Kutztown University, Class of 1992, in Kutztown, PA. Seeking adventure, her first job after college was a flight attendant for a charter airline, World Airways, based in Philadelphia. During her employment she traveled the world. Her favorite destination was Paris, France. Her employment there ended after she met a handsome young man who would later become her husband, and she could not bear to leave him for Paris or any other destination. She was predeceased in death by her precious son, Scott D. Spruill, Jr., and grandparents, Frank and Clare Harms and Raymond and Constance Kerlin. She is survived by her two beautiful daughters whom she dearly loved, Brooke E. Spruill and Ava R. Spruill, her ex-husband, Scott D. Spruill, her parents, her beloved brother, Stephen, her loving sister, Melissa Harms Liggett and husband Andrew, many special aunts, uncles, cousins, and a few very close friends, namely Theresa, Melina, and Stephanie. When her children were young Kim loved being involved in their activities. She was frequently room Mother as well as cheerleading coach for several years. Her kids were her world. Her contagious laugh is legendary among family and friends. As a young athlete, she was an excellent gymnast and was…

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Little League: Plains outslugs Township in D16 major baseball tournament

Nolan Franchella went 3-for-3 with a double and and three RBIs as Plains outslugged Township 10-7 on Thursday in the District 16 Little League major baseball tournament.

Ben Thomas was the winning pitcher and Jaden Maurer picked up the save in the sixth inning. Teague Stahovic had two hits with a double and two runs scored for Plains.

Michael Shovlin hit a three-run homer to lead the effort for Township.

Greater Pittston Area 12,

Nanticoke 0

Alex Rosencrance came through with three hits, including a double and a home run, to go with four RBIs in a four-inning win for Greater Pittston Area.

Rosencrance teamed with Gavin Gisolfi and Josh Chaump on the mound for a two-hit shutout.

Jack Bernardi and Robbie Zaleski each doubled in the win, while Chris Shovlin and Emery Dommes added singles. Christian Cerasaro finished with a single, a run and an RBI.

Owen Komorowski and JP Kopa each had the hits for Nanticoke.

Mountain Top 8, Hanover 0

Zach Zeneski and Caiden Wright pitched a combined one-hitter to power Mountain Top to the win.

Erik Smith (3-4, run), Luke Zeneski (2-4, 2 RBIs, run), Zeneski (2-2, walk, RBI, run) and Bodhi Malay (triple, two RBIs) led the offense.

DISTRICT 16

MAJOR SOFTBALL

Mountain Top 11, Pittston 1

Alexa Toniatti finished 3-for-3 and Mountain Top delivered a five-inning victory over Pittston. Kendall Mendrzycki got the win in the circle, striking out seven while allowing one run on four hits.

Mountain Top took control of the game with five runs in the fourth inning, with Toniatti, Mendrzycki and Ashlyn Klahold all picking up RBIs in the frame. In five innings, Mountain Top stole 10 bases, with Mendrzycki swiping four.

Leading Pittston was Kelcey Podwika, who had two hits. Nadia…

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