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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.”

In supporting the concept of developing a processing plant in the…

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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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No. 4 Camden Catholic over Lenape

Bishop Eustace field hockey hosts Camden Catholic on Oct. 10, 2020

Camden Catholic player Ava Moore (18) controls the ball during a game against Bishop Eustace on Oct. 10, 2020, at Queen of Apostles Field on the campus of Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey.Matt Smith | For NJ Advance Media

Libby Bell scored a hat trick to pace Camden Catholic, No. 4 in the NJ.com Top 20, in its 7-2 win against Lenape in Medford.

Ava Moore and Madeline Armstrong scored two goals apiece for Camden Catholic (2-0) as Leah DiRenzo and Valerie Concepcion split time in net. Olivia Stazi led the team with four assists while Moore and Gianna Miller each recorded one.

Brooke Halfpenny and Sierra Volpe scored for Lenape while Sydney Depativo and Ryann Weber picked up one assist apiece. Erika Roura collected 12 saves in the loss.

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The Wyoming Area girls tennis team is building momentum.

The Lady Warriors used a pair of three-set decisions Friday to defeat host Hazleton Area, 4-1, for their second straight victory and third in their last four Wyoming Valley Conference matches.

Wyoming Area, which lost its first two, used the win to reach the .500 mark for the first time this season at 3-3.

The Lady Warriors won all but first singles, with second singles player Jocelyn Williams rolling to a 6-2, 6-0 victory.

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Ava Vacula, at third singles, and Jillian Graham-Erica Gilligan, at second doubles, each recovered from losing the second set to win tight third sets.

Morgan Slusser-Milanna Bocchiaro won in straight sets at first doubles.

Pittston Area 4, MMI Prep 1

Bethany Yashkus won 6-0, 6-0 at third singles Friday as Pittston Area also reached 3-3 in the WVC.

Quinn Carden won 6-2, 6-0 at second singles while Katie Koss-Laura Farber won 6-0, 6-2 at first doubles. Pittston Area added a forfeit at second doubles.

Wyoming Area 4, Wilkes-Barre Area 1

Wyoming Area’s doubles teams did not lose a game during Wednesday’s victory.

Morgan Slusser-Ella Rau and Jillian Graham-Milanna Bocchiaro each won, 6-0, 6-0.

Jocelyn Williams won, 6-1, 6-0, at second singles.

Wyoming Area’s other point came by forfeit at third singles.

Dallas 5, Pittston Area 0

Second-place Dallas won every match in straight sets, not allowing more than two games in any set while winning Wednesday’s WVC match.

Pittston Area 5, Wilkes-Barre Area 0

Laura Farber and Ayla Krieger won, 6-0, 6-0, at second doubles during Tuesday’s WVC victory.

Second singles player Quinn Carden and first doubles team Katie Koss-Jacy VanOsdel won in straight sets.

Megan Kapacs battled through a 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 6-0 victory at…

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The preseason boys soccer Mean 15

Basically, you’ve got to start somewhere. Most teams had their season shortened by the coronavirus pandemic last year, some have lost their top players to MLS Next, and there’s only so much you can glean from gossip and Summer League results. Chances are, there will be all kinds of turnover in the Mean 15, especially early in the season.

But it’s a jumping off point. And you’ve got to start somewhere.

1. Shawnee (10-1 last season and the South Jersey Group 4 champion)

NEXT: at Eastern, 9/9, at Cherry Hill East, 9/13

2. St. Augustine (15-1-1 last season and the South non-public champion)

NEXT: ABSEGAMI, 9/7; at Ocean City, 9/9

3. Egg Harbor Township (12-2 last season and a South Jersey Group 4 semifinalist)

NEXT: at Vineland, 9/8; ATLANTIC TECH, 9/10

4. Moorestown (11-1-3 last season and the South Jersey Group  3 champion)

NEXT: at Delran, 9/9, at Rancocas Valley, 9/13

5. Triton (13-0 last season — missed the playoffs because of a COVID shutdown)

NEXT: DELSEA, 9/8, at Kingsway, 9/10

6. Delran (4-0 last season — missed the playoffs because of a COVID shutdown)

NEXT: at Holy Cross, 9/7, MOORESTOWN, 9/9

7. Paul VI (9-4 last season and the South non-public runner-up)

NEXT: WINSLOW, 9/9, BISHOP EUSTACE, 9/13

8. West Deptford (12-5 last season and the South Jersey Group 2 champion)

NEXT: at Audubon, 9/9, at Haddonfield, 9/13

9. Cherry Hill East (8-5-4 last season and the South Jersey Group 4 runner-up)

NEXT: at Washington Township, 9/9, SHAWNEE, 9/13

10. Mainland (12-4 last season and the South Jersey Group 3 runner-up)

NEXT: OAKCREST, 9/9, PLEASANTVILLE, 9/15

11. Washington Township (7-3-1 last season and a South Jersey Group 4 semifinalist)

NEXT: CHERRY HILL EAST, 9/9, LENAPE, 9/13

12. Cherokee (9-4-1 last season and a South Jersey Group 4 quarterfinalist)

NEXT: at Lenape, 9/9, EASTERN, 9/13

13. Ocean City (9-2-1 last season and a South Jersey Group 3 quarterfinalist)

NEXT: ST. AUGUSTINE PREP, 9/9; CEDAR CREEK, 9/15

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The Nanticoke Indian Powwow is this weekend. Here are 9 things to know about the Delaware tribe

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40th annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow aims to spread togetherness and friendship

The 40th annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow went on this weekend in Millsboro.

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Last year’s Nanticoke Indian Powwow was canceled due to COVID-19, but the 42nd annual event is back this weekend. 

For the first time, the powwow will be held at Hudson Fields in Milton, relocating from a remote site near Oak Orchard.

Chief Natosha Norwood Carmine said moving the powwow to Hudson Fields will make it more accessible to the thousands of attendees it attracts every year.

The event features food, vendors, drumming and dance sessions. Participants don traditional regalia and Native American arts and crafts are available for purchase.

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“It’s a time the Nanticoke Tribe, or any tribal community celebrates heritage, comes together as a renewing and refreshing of our spirits, remembers our ancestors,” said Carmine. “We’re also teaching our children our culture and our traditions and sharing them with the public at large.”

When is it?

This year’s event is set for 4-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11; and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12. 

Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for those ages 11-17 and free for kids 10 and under.

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