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Mountaineer Market, a store for students, is the newest addition to Stroudsburg High School opened on September 18, 2023. 

Located by the cafeteria, students can visit it during their lunch period. They accept all forms of payment, including Apple Pay. 

The Mountaineer Market was formed by special education teachers, Ms. Heather Nowosad and Ms. Sherri MacIntyre, after they saw how successful Common Threads and Commons Grounds, and Common Delivery were– other student-run services by Nowosad and MacIntyre. 

Alex Bonnar, 10, stated, “It’s a great addition to the school and I love going there during lunch to grab a snack.”

Nowosad and MacIntyre wanted a place where athletic teams, including those from visiting schools, could grab merchandise and snacks. 

Not only do they sell snacks, but school supplies, and school-approved polo shirts are stocked throughout the store.

East Stroudsburg University welcomes Nere Kapiteni, instructor of art + media + design, to campus as the university’s new Frederick Douglass Scholar this academic year.

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Eastern Monroe Public Library’s popular BookHouse continues with:

Samuel Saint Thomas & Friends

playing Americana, Folk and Traditional Music
Friday, October 20th at 7:00 PM

Samuel Saint Thomas is a musician, writer, and accidental philosopher. He makes his home in a sylvan Chinese tea house in the mountains near N.Y.C. He inherited the DNA of a jazz pianist and an Irish pub singer from a dusty coal town, who by miraculous events, both became Pentecostal preachers. Growing up in a Pennsylvania steel town that hugged the Mason Dixon line, Samuel traveled with the family Gospel band.

Have you ever been told to “man up”?

Typical comments like this and the stigma surrounding men’s mental health struggles have caused suicide rates to skyrocket in recent years.

According to the Pan American Health Organization, one in five men living in the U.S. won’t make it to fifty years old. “Suicide rates for men are much higher than those for women, almost 3.9 times as much,”  according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.