City Forces "Bicycle Willie" To Move; Has 30 Years Of Stuff

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NANTICOKE - Most people just know him as Bicycle Willy.
There's little mystery in the nickname; for as long as many can remember, William Vincent has pedaled his bike through the city's streets.

"I always ride the bike. I never drive a car," he said, sitting in a rocking chair outside his apartment on Apollo Circle, a Nanticoke Housing Authority complex he's lived in for more than 30 years.

Getting up, he carried a pair of small statuary angels from his apartment and put them in the basket on his red, single-speed cruiser.

Vincent, 83, is in the midst of paring down three decades worth of stuff, preparing for a mandatory move to a smaller apartment in Oplinger Towers, a high rise owned by the housing authority.

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