NANTICOKE — Police in Nanticoke City and the Luzerne County Drug Task Force seized illicit drugs and arrested five people when a search warrant was served at a residence at 244 E. Main St. Saturday.
John Matthew Fox, 26, was charged with three counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number. He was jailed at the county correctional facility for lack of $200,000 bail.
Beth Ann Lewis, 30, was charged with a single count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. She was jailed for lack of $100,000 bail.
Matthew King, 33, of Wilkes-Barre, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was jailed for lack of $2,500 bail.
Jeremy Michael Shea, 32, of Plymouth, was apprehended on an arrest warrant from Nanticoke police related to a burglary offense. He was jailed for lack of $35,000 bail.
Joelene Marie Moon, 36, of Philadelphia, was apprehended on an arrest warrant from Newport Township police. She was jailed for lack of $30,000 bail.
District Judge Joseph Spagnuolo of Plains Township arraigned the five people.
Police and drug agents said the search warrant at the East Main Street residence was based on numerous complaints of suspected drug activity.
Suspected methamphetamine, suspected marijuana, digital scales, packaging materials and a 9mm Ruger handgun with an altered serial number, and two boxes of ammunition were seized during the search of the residence, police said.
Anishinabek Nation Council members joined Day 1 of the Anishinabek Nation Lands and Resources Forum in North Bay, Ont.
By Kelly Anne Smith
NORTH BAY— During the Anishinabek Nation Councils Panel at the Anishinabek Nation’s 8th Land and Resources Forum, Kina-Gego-Naabadosin – Everything is Connected, in North Bay from February 13-15., Eshki-niigijig Advisory Council member Lance Copegog of Beausoleil First Nation talked of important work being done to protect the Great Lakes.
The panel had members from the Anishinabek Nation Getzidjig Advisory Council including Nmishomis Leroy Dolson of Munsee Delaware Nation and Nmishomis Mike Esquega of Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinabek. The panel also featured Eshki-niigijig Advisory Council members Brittnee Waindubence of Shequiandah First Nation, Terra Roy of Beausoleil First Nation, Pierre Debassige of M’Chigeeng First Nation, and Katelyn Peters of Munsee Delaware Nation.
Peters shared her perspective as urban Indigenous youth, introducing spirituality on how we view the water.
“When it comes to the people who are watching this, it doesn’t only have to be [Indigenous people], it could also be white people. Because when I was in university in my Indigenous Studies courses, there are a lot of great, amazing white people who really want to help our people and who are going to be running this country in twenty years. They need to understand why do Anishinabe people respect the water? How do they see the water because they might not be exposed to that in any other capacity.”
Copegog spoke of being gathered at the 2024 Anishinabek Nation Lands and Resources Forum because of the commitment to the lands and resources of the Anishinabek Nation’s communities. He spoke of innovative solutions that can be worked on together when facing challenges.
“We’re very committed to carrying forward some of the work we’ve…
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WATERFORD — Perhaps not since the British attacked Stonington in 1812 will there be a more significant “Battle of Stonington” than what will take place Tuesday.
Wheeler and Stonington will not only battle for area boys basketball bragging rights, the neighboring schools will vie for the Eastern Connecticut Conference Tournament Division II championship at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Wheeler, the ECC’s Division IV champ, and Stonington, the top seed and Division III runner-up, both advanced Saturday with strenuous semifinal victories at Waterford.
The Lions (16-6) topped ECC D-III champ Griswold, 58-53, and Stonington (16-6) outlasted No. 5 seed Tourtellotte, 76-64.
Wheeler will make its first ECC final appearance while Stonington makes its third and second in the last three season since winning in 2022.
From years playing summer pickup games at Ocean Community to North Stonington Recreation Courts to Stonington High and Como courts, this is the matchup both teams wanted.
“I love this,” said Stonington’s Robbie Scavello said. “We wouldn’t want to play anyone else. We know them. They beat us at Wheeler last year and we edged them in overtime at our place. Tuesday will be the big one.”
Many ECC pundits labeled Griswold the favorite to win Division II after the Wolverines, who won the tourney last year with a senior-stocked squad, swept Stonington in the regular season despite losing a close game to Wheeler.
Wheeler got the upper-hand early, taking a 16-4 lead after one quarter, rising to a 22-4 lead on a steal and layup by Lion guard Keith Zardies.
“Wheeler is a tough matchup for us,” Griswold coach Rob Mileski said. “All of their…
UW-Madison freshman Arianna Reiter is part Stockbridge-Munsee and part Menominee Native American. She grew up on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation and later attended the Indian Community School in Milwaukee.
But despite her identity as a Native American, she’s 1/16th short of being eligible for enrollment in the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe, which means she is ineligible for UW-Madison’s tribal tuition promise program. The program, announced late last year, will cover all the costs of education for enrolled members of Wisconsin’s federally recognized tribes.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said that creating the program “felt like the right thing to do” for the state’s Native American students to improve the school’s relationship with the state’s 11 tribes. UW-Madison sits on traditional Ho-Chunk Nation land while the Universities of Wisconsin system earns approximately $1 million per year from a land trust made up of largely former Ojibwe land, the Examiner reported earlier this month.
While Reiter is missing out on thousands of dollars of savings, she says the announcement brought up feelings that have persisted since her childhood of “not being Native enough.”
“Some [people] look at you differently,” she says. “I’m just that tiny fraction short.”
The creation of the program has sparked a debate among Native communities in the state over the use of enrollment, the university’s effort to make up for the past with offers of money and how Native students are treated once they’re on campus. The program is also being launched as diversity, equity and inclusion programs have become a major issue for Wisconsin Republicans who see such efforts as malicious attempts to give certain groups more opportunity than white students.
Native American tribes across the country use a system known as “blood quantum” to determine enrollment eligibility. First instituted by the federal government, blood quantum tracks…
When General Electric Co. embarks on its yearslong cleanup plan to remove PCBs from the Housatonic River, it will potentially be working in the vicinity of numerous sites of “significance” to a tribe of Native Americans.
And as the plans for the Rest of River cleanup take shape, efforts are ongoing on numerous fronts to protect those sites.
“Our office is aware of, and actively consulting government-to-government with EPA representatives on the ‘Rest of the River’ Housatonic cleanup project,” wrote Bonney Hartley, tribal historic preservation manager, via email. She noted the tribe’s Williamstown-based office represents the tribe’s cultural resource interests in its ancestral territories.
The plan calls for the removal of PCBs, beginning in 2025, from areas of the river from Southeast Pittsfield to Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge and Housatonic village in Great Barrington. GE released PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, into the Housatonic from its Pittsfield plant for decades until the 1970s.
Bonney Hartley is the tribal historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians. Hartley said her office is aware that the Rest of River cleanup project and is actively working with EPA.
BEN GARVER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Last month, the EPA offered a conditional approval of the work plan covering the southeast Pittsfield portion of the river, starting at Fred Garner Park, including descriptions of potential historic and archaeological impacts. But GE is required to revise and resubmit the plan by March 22.
Ashlin Brooks, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator…
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