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Fire damages home, ignites brush fire in Nanticoke

Crews also had to deal with brush fires sparked after the house caught fire Tuesday afternoon.

NANTICOKE, Pa. — Heavy smoke was seen for miles as flames tore through a duplex on Keech Street in Nanticoke. 

The fire chief says they responded around 1:40 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, and when they arrived, the fire already started to spread to another home next door.

“We were able to stop the fire at the adjoining house. We kept it just to the exterior of the building, but the fire building itself is a total loss,” said Chief Mark Boncal, Nanticoke City Fire Department.

Jana Capps lives on the other side of the house on fire. She says she smelled smoke, then saw the flames coming out of her neighbor’s house and was worried that the fire would spread.

“I just threw my dog in the car and what I needed to take and went up and parked in the parking lot,” said Jana Capps, Nanticoke.

Her concerns became reality because the fire spread from the house, igniting a brush fire in a nearby wooded area.

“The wind conditions and everything else, a lot of the embers that were coming off the burning building, the wind just took it,” explained Chief Boncal.

A man and his dog live on the right side of the home and were able to get out safely while the other side of the home was vacant. 

Capps says she spoke with her neighbor about what he heard just before the fire started, “He said that he heard somebody next door, and nobody lives next door.”

The fire chief says a state police fire marshal will investigate the cause of the fire, and the home will most likely be torn down soon.

Detectives with the Nanticoke Police Department say they,…

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Two suspects arrested following standoff in Nanticoke

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Standoff ends in Nanticoke with suspects in custody

Apr. 11—NANTICOKE — A man wanted on drug possession and traffic offenses and another wanted by the Luzerne County Sheriff’s Department were apprehended following a standoff with local police and U.S. Marshals Service earlier Tuesday.

Brandon Brian Mayewski, 24, of West South Street, Nanticoke, and Joseph Bobbin, 32, were taken into custody at about 12 p.m. when they attempted to escape a residence on East Green Street.

Mayewski and Bobbin initially refused to exit the residence but were caught when they ran out a rear door.

Court records say Mayewski was wanted on an arrest warrant stemming from a traffic stop on Sans Souci Parkway, Hanover Township, on Jan. 6.

When a township officer was behind Mayewski’s Hyundai at a red traffic signal, Mayewski reversed his vehicle nearly colliding with the police cruiser, court records say.

Mayewski then shifted into drive and pulled off the right shoulder of Sans Souci, jumping out claiming their was something wrong with the vehicle, according to court records.

The officer noticed expired inspection and emission stickers on the vehicle’s windshield and a syringe in plain view in the middle cup holder, court records say.

Mayewski was detained after he told an officer he was not diabetic.

During a search of his body, police found four glassine packets in his jeans pocket, court records say.

Mayewski allegedly admitted there were drugs inside the vehicle.

Police in court records say a search of the vehicle resulted in a bag filled with heroin/fentanyl and four syringes.

Mayewski was arraigned by District Judge Joseph Halesey in Hanover Township on two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a suspended license, two vehicle code violations and a traffic citation. He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $25,000 bail.

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Flames tear through home in Honey Pot section of Nanticoke

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Varsity athletic schedules, 4/9-4/15 | The Sunday Dispatch

MONDAY, April 10

Boys tennis: Pittston Area at Wyoming Area, 4 p.m.

Baseball: Crestwood at Pittston Area, Primary Center Field, 4:15 p.m.

Boys lacrosse: Wyoming Area at Tunkhannock, Roslund Field, 4:30 p.m.

Girls lacrosse: Hazleton Area at Wyoming Area, Tenth Street Field, 4:30 p.m.

Softball: Nanticoke at Wyoming Area, Atlas Field, 4:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, April 11

Boys and girls track and field: Hanover Area at Wyoming Area, 4:15 p.m.

Girls lacrosse: Crestwood at Pittston Area, Primary Center Field, 4:15 p.m.

Girls lacrosse: Wyoming Area at Dallas, 4:30 p.m.

Softball: Dallas at Pittston Area, Primary Center Field, 4:30 p.m.

Baseball: Nanticoke at Wyoming Area, Atlas Field, 4:45 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, April 12

Boys tennis: Wyoming Valley West at Pittston Area, Mattei Middle School, 4 p.m.

Boys tennis: Dallas at Wyoming Area, 4:15 p.m.

Boys and girls track and field: Pittston Area at Wilkes-Barre Area, 4:15 p.m.

Boys and girls track and field: Wyoming Area at Lake-Lehman, Eddie Edwards Stadium, 4:15 p.m.

Baseball: Pittston Area at Hazleton Area, Antinozzi Field, 4:15 p.m.

Boys lacrosse: Dallas at Wyoming Area, Tenth Street Field, 4:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, April 13

Baseball: Wyoming Area at Wyoming Seminary, 4:15 p.m.

Boys and girls track and field: Wyoming Area at Northwest, 4:15 p.m.

Softball: Berwick at Wyoming Area, Atlas Field, 4:15 p.m.

Softball: Pittston Area at Tunkhannock, 4:15 p.m.

Girls lacrosse: Abington Heights at Pittston Area, Primary Center Field, 5 p.m.

Girls lacrosse: Wyoming Area at Scranton Prep, Loyola Field, 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, April 14

Boys tennis: Pittston Area at Hazleton Area, 4 p.m.

Baseball: Pittston Area at Wilkes-Barre Area, Hilldale Field, 4:15 p.m.

SATURDAY, April 15

Boys and girls track and field: Pittston Area at Ice Breaker Relays, Wallenpaupack, 9 a.m.

Boys tennis: Wyoming Area at Quad County Tournament, Honesdale, 10 a.m.

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Local roundup: Nanticoke Area baseball wins pitching duel against Hanover Area

Justin Spencer twirled a gem and the Nanticoke Area bats came alive late to break open a scoreless game en route to a 3-1 win over Hanover Area at PNC Field on Saturday.

Spencer earned the win with a complete game two-hitter. He allowed just one unearned run, walked one and struck out 12 batters.

After Hanover Area’s Collin Klein was able to match Spencer through five scoreless innings, the Trojans broke the game open with a three-run rally in the bottom of the sixth.

Jay Shemanski and Trentyn Harter each drove in a run from the heart of the Nanticoke order.

Nick Shiel drove in Hanover’s lone run in the top of the seventh inning, knocking home teammate Jake Vigorito.

Tunkhannock 8, Mountain View 6

A five-run fourth inning powered Tunkhannock to a non-conference victory.

Trailing by a run heading into the home half of the fourth, the Tigers pushed five runs across to take the lead and held on over the last three innings to pick up the win.

The Tigers’ offense was led by Charlie Welles, who drove in four of Tunkhannock’s eight runs. Collin Gregory had two hits and a pair of RBI.

Mountain View’s Bronson Kilmer and Carter Bain drove in five combined runs for the Eagles.

MMI Prep 18, CMVT 3

The Preppers scored nine runs in each of the first two frames for a three-inning non-conference victory.

MMI’s top-of-the-order punch of Andrew Burns and Heath Williams drove in six runs total and scored four themselves. Williams and Burns also combined to throw three innings with no earned runs.

Josh Witner drove in four runs, and he along with Michael Kranyak and Ty McDermott each had multi-hit days for MMI.

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BUCHKOWSKI, Bernice Norczyk — Nanticoke. Mass of Christian Burial, 10 a.m. Monday, St. Faustina Kowalska Parish, 520 S. Hanover St., Nanticoke. Those attending the funeral Mass are asked to go directly to the church Monday morning.

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Street retires from Nanticoke museum

The longtime curator of the Nanticoke Indian Museum in Millsboro, Delaware’s only museum of its kind, retired last week in his humble way, without fanfare, leaving the position he assumed in 2011 in the hands of June “Morningstar” Robbins.

“I’m 80 now and my blood pressure is high. I don’t need any more stress. It will be better for my health. It will seem funny not coming back here but I have gotten to the point where I can’t talk as long as I used to when I give tours. I get hoarse. I do a lot of presentations,” Street told Coastal Point the afternoon of Friday, March 31, as he sat at the front desk, welcoming visitors and waiting for a visit from Nanticoke Chief Avery Johnson.

“Today I have been gathering files that I made over the years. I have been gathering them and I am taking them home. I still work on the family farm in Harbeson, the farm we have had over 100 years. That’s my second passion,” said Street, a Millsboro resident whose Indian name is Earth Keeper because of his love for gardening.

Nanticoke elders bestow Indian names during special ceremonies, he explained.

He will miss talking to visitors who have arrived at the museum from all over the world, as far away as India, Greece and Turkey.

“They read about the museum in tourism magazines and they come to Delaware and they want to see it,” Street said.

“What was interesting to me was finding out indigenous people from other countries have the same items we have here, indigenous people from Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, the same beadwork and woodwork. The same utensils. They had to survive by using natural things just like we did, to drink from, to sail in, so the items are the same,” he…

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Look Back: Nanticoke graduate pinned by King of England in 1919

Mar. 26—Wonder if any other Greater Nanticoke Area graduates met English royalty?

Among the 13 graduates of Nanticoke High School in 1906, one would be awarded the British Military Cross for bravery during World War I.

U.S. Army Lt. Dr. James Elmer Croop received the honor for “gallantly on the field when the Germans attacked the British lines at the commencement of the Second Battle of the Marne,” according to the Evening News on March 27, 1919.

Croop received the decorated citation from King George V on Feb. 22, 1919.

“I want to thank and heartily congratulate you for the valuable service rendered to my troops for one and one-half years,” the King of England said to Croop, as the Evening News story reported.

Croop was a 1906 graduate of Nanticoke High School having resided with his parents Mr. and Mrs. James Croop on South Hanover Street, Nanticoke. During the commencement ceremony, the graduates were required to perform a musical number, dance or give a speech.

Croop gave a speech about the preservation and protection of Niagara Falls from commercial and industrial development. As he had a fascination of the Great Lakes, it was no surprise Croop established a medical office in Erie, Pa., in 1912.

After graduating from Nanticoke, Croop elected not to work in the coal mines or railroads but attended and successfully graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

With World War I underway in Europe and the United States entry into the Great War in April 1917, Croop enlisted his services on June 26, 1917, and was immediately commissioned as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Medical Corps.

Croop was called to active service Aug. 7, 1917, and after three weeks of military combat training, he sailed to England in September 1917, and was stationed for several months at a military hospital in Canterbury until…

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