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How to Spend a Day in Newburgh, New York

Just over an hour’s drive from Montclair, Newburgh, New York offers beautiful Hudson River waterfront views and experiences, delicious cuisine, and fun and funky shops. The land was originally inhabited by the Waoranek people, part of the Lenape tribe of the Algonquin Nation. Newburgh also served as George Washington’s final headquarters during the Revolutionary War. This historic, creative community has much to offer. Read on to plan your fun day in Newburgh. 

HG Pro Tip: A quick, stunning drive over the Newburgh Beacon Bridge leads to the charming, artistic hub of Beacon, New York allowing for maximum exploration! 

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Motorcyclepedia Museum | 250 Lake Street

Vroom, vroom! Drive on by to the Motorcyclepedia Museum whose mission is “to create the best motorcycle museum in the world”. The collections include motorcycle parts, artifacts, and memorabilia all meant to educate the public about the past, present, and future of motorcycles.

Pride of the Hudson River Cruise | Pride’s Landing: 4 Washington Street

Pride of the Hudson River Cruise

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All aboard! Hop on a day or evening cruise to take in the Hudson Highlands’ breathtaking views, including Bannerman Island, majestic mountains, Washington’s Headquarters, West Point, and more. The price point is $18-28 for a two-hour, narrated sightseeing experience with the option of bringing or purchasing food.

Read More: A Day Trip Guide to Westfield, NJ

Safe Harbors of The Hudson | 104 Ann Street

With the mission of “Transforming Lives and Building Community through Housing and the Arts,” Safe Harbors of The Hudson is the place to go to experience art, a…

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Delaware Tribe

Calendar of Events for Sept. 29

Monday, Oct. 4

AdLib Singers rehearsal at 7 p.m. Love to sing? Men and women over 18 are welcome. Contact Janice at 918-805-9079 for more information.

Tuesday, Oct. 5

The Salvation Army Auxiliary will meet at the citadel, 101 N. Bucy. A brief social time will precede the 10:30 a.m. meeting. Masks are required and social distancing will be observed. Plans are being made for the big Garage Sale scheduled for Oct. 29-30. This is a major fundraiser for the auxiliary, which raises funds and provides volunteer for the various Salvation Army social programs.

Wednesday, Oct. 6

The Folk Legacy Trio: Celebrate the folk era with this trio that helped create the genre! George Grove, formerly with the Kingston Trio for 41 years, Rick Dougherty, former member of the Limeliters and Kingston Trio for 25 years, and Jerry Siggins, former lead singer of the legendary doo-wop group The Diamonds for 27 years. Brought to Bartlesville by Bartlesville Community Concerts. bartlesvillecommunitycenter.com.

The Bartlesville Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will meet Wed. October 6, 2021 at 1:00 pm at the Bartlesville WomenKim’s Club building, 601 S. Shawnee.  The guest speaker will be Vanessa Drummond whose topic will be “Bartlesville Education Promise.”  This is a nonprofit community group with goals of assisting BPS in helping students graduate and ready them for life afterwards.  Anyone interested in DAR is welcome to attend.  This meeting will also be on Zoom.  For more info, call 918 914-9808.

Saturday, Oct. 9

The Mark Wood Experience: Groundbreaking electric violinist and original member of the Trans Siberian Orchestra, Mark Wood, joins the Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra for an unforgettable night of music as he and his wife, Laura Kaye, bring to Bartlesville the same power, flash, and excitement that has thrilled audiences around the world. bartlesvillesymphony.org

Monday, Oct. 11

AdLib Singers rehearsal at 7 p.m. Love to sing? Men and women over 18 are welcome. Contact Janice at…

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Mohican

Living ‘Bee Fences’ Protect Farmers from Elephants, and Vice Versa

In the African bush in southern Kenya, Lucy King watched an elephant nicknamed Mohican rest under an acacia tree, seemingly nonplussed by an overhead beehive. It was 2007, and King had just published a behavioral study confirming a belief, widely held by Indigenous communities for thousands of years, that elephants are terrified of bees. “I was completely thrown by this,” King says, recalling the day she sat watching the untroubled matriarch. “I was like ‘No!’”

Bees tend to sting elephants around the eyes, behind the ears, in the mouth and even inside the trunk. For her research, King, a zoologist and head of the Human-Elephant Co-Existence Program at the nonprofit organization Save the Elephants (STE), had documented families of elephants running from bees, kicking up dust and shaking their head as if trying to knock bees out of the air. Even recordings of buzzing bees that King played in the bush led to elephants running and“warning” others as they fled.

Fortunately, observing Mohican on that hot day, King eventually realized what now seems obvious: for the bees to scare elephants, the insects must be swarming. King asked her research assistant to chuck a stone at the hive, “and then suddenly, the bees just erupted,” King says. “And the elephants just fled.”

That aha! moment led King to sketch a novel design for using live beehives as “fences” to protect farm crops from foraging elephants. The goal was to reduce human-elephant conflicts, which increased significantly in parts of Africa in the 2000s. Kenya has seen some recovery of its population of the pachyderms in recent decades, thanks to conservation efforts there—although the total population of African elephants has declined dramatically in the same time period, King says. Meanwhile sub-Saharan Africa’s human population rose from about 870 million to…

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Mohegan

Gaming Control Board reports casino monthly revenue for August

The Mohegan Sun Pocono casino is seen in a file photo.

The Mohegan Sun Pocono casino is seen in a file photo.

PLAINS TWP. — The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board Monday posted reports on its website that show that the combined total revenue in August 2021 generated from all forms of gaming regulated by the board, along with fantasy contests, was $408,092,073 — that represents a increase of over 31% over total revenue in August 2020 of $310,717,728.

Sources of gaming revenue regulated by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board include slot machines, table games, internet casino-type gaming (iGaming), sports wagering, fantasy contests and video gaming terminals (VGTs). The Board has posted separate reports for these types of gaming on its website, https://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov/.

Cody Chapman, spokesman for Mohegan Sun Pocono, provided a statement from Anthony Carlucci, President & GM of Mohegan Sun Pocono:

“Mohegan Sun Pocono is pleased with our summer gaming revenue performance at the Wilkes-Barre, PA property. We continue to experience a monthly increase in guest reactivation and we attribute much of the recent strong performance to our Hot Summer Fun programming, including the return of entertainment at MSP. Guests can expect more exciting entertainment at MSP to be announced in the coming weeks as well.”

The following chart shows revenue generated in August 2021 by casinos along with fantasy contests and video gaming terminals operated by other vendors and includes a comparison to total revenue generated last August.

August 2021 – Total Revenue

• Mount Airy Casino Resort

2021: $24,006,829

2020: $27,060,563

Difference: minus-11.28%

• Mohegan Sun Pocono

2021: $21,818,531

2020: $19,500,220

Difference: plus-11.89%

Retail Slots Revenue

Mohegan Sun Pocono

2021: $16,307,850

2020: $13,164,879

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Nanticoke

Full week of DSBF stakes at Harrington

HARRINGTON, DE – A total of 12 divisions, each with a purse of $20,000, headline the upcoming week (September 27-29) of racing at Harrington Raceway as the 2nd leg of Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes will be contested.

Four divisions of male pacers highlight the Monday (September 27) program with Kdk Standardbreds’ Heinikin Bythebay (7/5, Jason Thompson) and Nanticoke Racing and Donna Messick’s Ds Heartland (7/5, Art Stafford Jr.) perhaps emerging as the most impressive winners from the 1st leg of elimination events.

Heinikin Bythebay, a son of Southwind Lynx, has won 3 straight races for trainer Kevin Switzer and is the favorite in the second division, the 4th race on the 15-race program.

The Les Givens-trained Ds Heartland was the fastest elimination winner last week (1:55.3) and heads the 4th division, 8th race as a son of Badlands Hanover.

Three divisions of pacing fillies will battle Tuesday (September 28) with 2 clear standouts thus far. Let It Ride Stables’ Shabby Chic (7/5, Tim Tetrick) is unbeaten in 3 career starts for trainer Mike Hall. The Badlands Hanover filly is in the 2nd division and 4th race on the card.

Meanwhile, Gty Stable’s Gaitway Gal (7/5, Pat Berry) is 3-for-4 lifetime and was a 3-length winner last week for trainer Jeff Smith. The Delmarvalous-sired filly heads the 3rd division, race 6 on the card.

Meanwhile, trotters will take center stage Wednesday with 3 divisions for males and 2 for females. Owned by Stuart Chambers, Divine Horse Racing, Bcjm Inc., and Cinebrew Enterprises, Wolfpack Russ (Corey Callahan) and Nanticoke Racing’s LG’s Reed O Wen (Jim Morand) have emerged as early favorites from the colt and gelding side.

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Obituaries in Levittown, PA | The Intelligencer

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Darla N. “Dolly” Hendricks

Perkasie – Darla N. “Dolly” Hendricks, of Perkasie, PA, passed away Monday, September 20, 2021, at Jefferson Health – Abington Hospital, Abington Twp., PA. She was 58.

Born on January 4, 1963, in Sellersville, PA, she was the daughter of the late Alton Bauer and Norma Arlene (Covey) Halteman. She was a 1981 graduate of Souderton Area High School, Souderton, PA.

Dolly was employed in a civil position with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for over 20 years until her retirement.

She was a member of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Telford, PA.

Dolly was a member and Past Matron of Lenape Chapter No. 339, Order of the Eastern Star, Quakertown, PA. In her younger years, she served as a coach for Pennridge Little League Baseball. She was an avid cook, and she was especially fond of her Beagles. Her greatest joy was her granddaughters who she loved to spend time with and spoil.

She is survived by a daughter, Keryn Rich, of Perkasie, PA; her granddaughters, M’Liss and Mia; a brother, William L. Litosky and his wife Nancy, of Souderton, PA; and two sisters, Ruth Ann Halteman, of Tallahassee, FL, and Linda L. (Litosky) Burke and her husband Michael, of Bloomington, IN.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Alton Lee, Larry C. and Arlan Dean Halteman, and two sisters, Norma Jean Kerschner and Barbara Keller.

Her Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 2, 2021, at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 107 W. Lincoln Avenue, Telford, PA, where family and friends may call from 10:00 to 11:00 AM. An Eastern Star Service will be held at 10:30 AM on Saturday at the Church. The family respectfully requests that everyone attending the viewing and/or funeral wear a mask. Interment will…

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Mohican

Where Was The Last Of The Mohicans Actually Filmed?

For point of reference, the Blue Ridge Mountains largely run through Western North Carolina, though they stretch into parts of several other states. And yes, they’re a long way from the Adirondacks. 

But per MovieLocations.com, most of “The Last of the Mohicans” production indeed went down in The Old North State. Specifically, the film was largely shot just outside of Asheville, NC and the nearby DuPont State Recreational Forest. In terms of jaw-dropping mountain views, “The Last of the Mohicans” could not have been better served by the region’s lush forests, lakes, and riverside settings. Some of the key shooting locations, as Greensboro News and Record boasted in 1992, were at Lake James in Morganton, the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, and Asheville’s Biltmore Estate.

Mann made particularly good use of the area’s abundant water falls, with the Hickory Nut Falls proving a truly stunning backdrop for the film’s final showdown between Means’ Chingachgook, and Wes Studi’s Huron warrior Magua. Ditto for the aptly-named Bridal Veil Falls, behind which Day-Lewis’ Hawkeye utters the famous line, “Stay alive no matter what occurs. I will find you.” — though the scene itself was apparently shot on a soundstage. And as for the picaresque Triple Falls Hawkeye and the gang traverse en route to safety, they’re every bit as lovely in “The Last of the Mohicans” as they were in 2012’s “The Hunger Games.”

As it is, if you’re ever in the Asheville area, you can actually visit most of the film’s more prominent locations. And if you’re a fan of the film, that trip would be well worth your time.

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Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza to Host an ‘Excess Inventory’ Sale

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Our farm won’t just feed us, tribe says. It’ll reclaim the lifestyle pollution stole.

Editor’s note: This piece is part of Communities of New Jersey, a new series meant to highlight, showcase and cover communities underserved by large media organizations like NJ.com.

For the owners of the 14-acre Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Newton, farming is more than just a means of generating profit — it’s a means of survival.

“This is what we have to do to save our people’s lives,” said Vincent Mann, Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation and co-founder of the farm.

Mann and Michaeline Picaro, an elder member of the Turtle Clan, co-created the for-profit farm in 2019 to address food insecurity in their community, they said. But, they have much bigger plans in the works.

Through the cultivation of cash crops, the pair hopes Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm will serve as a sustainable source of revenue for their nonprofit, the Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation. Working in partnership, these two ventures hope to provide the Turtle Clan community with opportunities for nourishment, healing and justice.

Turtle Clan Chief Vincent Mann holds a hemp plant at the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm. Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Chickens of different varieties are raised at the farm. Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

The Ramapough Lenape Nation is one of New Jersey’s state-recognized Native American tribes whose members live in northern New Jersey counties, as well as in surrounding areas in New York. It suffers from high rates of poverty, not unlike other indigenous communities across the country. But the Turtle Clan also has a unique threat all its own, having lived for the past 57 years on a Superfund site, a federal designation for areas that have suffered severe…

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Nanticoke

DSBF Stakes Headline Harrington Week

Published: September 24, 2021 3:34 pm ET

A total of 12 divisions, each with a purse of $20,000, headline the upcoming week of racing at Harrington Raceway as the second leg of Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes will be contested.

Four divisions of male pacers highlight the Monday (September 27) program with Kdk Standardbreds’ Heinikin Bythebay (7/5, Jason Thompson) and Nanticoke Racing and Donna Messick’s Ds Heartland (7/5, Art Stafford Jr.) perhaps emerging as the most impressive winners from the 1st leg of elimination events. Heinikin Bythebay, a son of Southwind Lynx, has won three straight races for trainer Kevin Switzer and is the favourite in the second division, the fourth race on the 15-race program. Les Givens-trained Ds Heartland, a son of Badlands Hanover, was the fastest elimination winner last week (1:55.3) and heads the fourth division, eighth race.

Three divisions of pacing fillies will battle Tuesday (September 28) with two clear standouts thus far. Let It Ride Stables’ Shabby Chic (7/5, Tim Tetrick) is unbeaten in three career starts for trainer Mike Hall.

The Badlands Hanover filly is in the 2nd division and fourth race on the card. Meanwhile, Gty Stable’s Gaitway Gal (7/5, Pat Berry) is 3-for-4 lifetime and was a three-length winner last week for trainer Jeff Smith. The Delmarvalous-sired filly heads the third division, the sixth race on the card.

Meanwhile, trotters will take centre stage Wednesday with three divisions for males and two for females. Owned by Stuart Chambers, Divine Horse Racing, Bcjm Inc., and Cinebrew Enterprises, Wolfpack Russ (Corey Callahan) and Nanticoke Racing’s LG’s Reed O Wen (Jim Morand) have emerged as early favourites from the colt and gelding side. Wolfpack Russ, a son of Glidemaster, was a 2:02.1 winner last week for Nick Callahan and leads…

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