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https://www.europesays.com/news/18074/ How police just confirmed Michigan man was responsible for rape, murder of teen 43 years ago #BlumfieldTownship #Flint #GeneseeCounty #Headlines #MichiganColdCases #MissingInMichigan #News #SaginawCounty #TopStories

Genesee County restaurant rivalry: Red Osier sues Sunny’s over alleged recipe theft

The News10NBC Team details breaking News, Traffic and Weather. GENESEE COUNTY, N.Y. — A legal battle is unfolding between two restaurants in Genesee County. The Red Osier Landmark Restaurant is …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #GeneseeCounty #Recipes #RedOsier #Sunny'sRestaurant
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2560970/genesee-county-restaurant-rivalry-red-osier-sues-sunnys-over-alleged-recipe-theft/

Genesee County restaurant rivalry: Red Osier sues Sunny’s over alleged recipe theft https://www.diningandcooking.com/2560970/genesee-county-restaurant-rivalry-red-osier-sues-sunnys-over-alleged-recipe-theft/ #GeneseeCounty #RecipeTopics #Recipes #RedOsier #Sunny'sRestaurant

It’s hot: Check list of Oakland County cooling centers

It’s dangerously hot outside and it’s probably going to stay that way through Friday, June 21.

The National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning on Monday for Oakland, Macomb, Wayne and Genesee counties until 8 p.m. Friday.

NWS says the daytime heat index, the way it feels outside based on humidity’s effect on the temperature, will range between 95 and 100 degrees this week. There will be little cooling off at night.

Extreme heat can be dangerous for those who must spend a significant amount of time outdoors or who don’t have air conditioning.

For an interactive map that shows the locations of cooling centers in Oakland County, visit https://www.oakgov.com/community/emergency-management/need-to-know/safety/cooling-centers.

Most centers are not open 24 hours; those who plan to use them should call to find out availability.

Pregnant people, infants, children, the elderly and those with chronic illness are at greater risk, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

MDHHS recommends the following:

– Reduce outdoor activity.

– Drink plenty of water; avoid liquids with large amounts of sugar or alcohol.

– Wear lightweight clothing in light colors.

– Wear sunscreen, as sunburn affects a body’s ability to cool down.

– Check on neighbors and relatives.

– Never leave children or pets unattended in cars, even with the windows cracked.

#Michigan #News #HeatWave #OaklandCounty #MacombCounty #WayneCounty #GeneseeCounty #Weather #Heat #Detroit

https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2024/06/17/its-hot-check-list-of-oakland-county-cooling-centers/

The #Tonawanda #Seneca Nation’s Fight to Protect the #BigWoods and stop STAMP

By Margaret Wooster (WNY Environmental Alliance) with Sarah Howard (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation + Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation) June 16, 2023

"One of Western #NewYork’s greatest treasures is a 20,000-acre #wetland-#grassland complex located mainly in the Town of Alabama, and locally known as 'Alabama Swamp.' It is also known as the Sixth Great Lake, a glacial lake now largely underground but surfacing in the plentiful streams and pools that make this watery landscape essential to the many reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds who live or pass through, especially during spring migration.

"This area is also home to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, a federally recognized Nation and part of the #HaudenosauneeConfederacy. The extraordinary #biodiversity of this area is in large part a testament to their ongoing #stewardship and reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human beings who also call this place home.

"But now, this place, and the Tonawanda Seneca Nation itself, faces an existential threat to their well-being. The #GeneseeCounty Economic Development Center (#GCEDC) has purchased 1,260 acres of habitat and farmland to build a Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (#STAMP) adjacent to the Nation’s territory. The site is also located within a few miles of multiple state and federally protected areas, including the #Iroquois National #Wildlife Refuge and the John White Wildlife Management Area.

"The STAMP plan capitalizes on federal and state subsidies for #microchip fabrication. To date, however, its only tenant is Plug Power, a #HydrogenFuelCell manufacturer whose product will have to be trucked many miles to market, undermining its justification as 'green power.'

"Two other possible developers – semiconductor producer #EdwardsVacuum and the warehouse developer #ScannellProject – would pave or build over the site’s northern 600-plus acres and bring an extra 140 #cars and #diesel trucks per hour up the narrow country road that leads to the refuge and through the Nation.

"However, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and their allies, including other local residents and numerous environmental organizations, are fighting back against this industrial development. In February [2023], the GCEDC applied for a 'Full Campus Incidental Take Permit' that would allow them to remove habitat for #endangered and threatened #wildlife species known to occupy the site, including the #ShortEaredOwl and the #NorthernHarrierHawk. In response to the hundreds of letters it received from the public about this permit, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) required the GCEDC to hold a public hearing, which took place on May 11 in the town of Basom.

"More than 185 people attended the hearing. All 49 who spoke were opposed to the permit and the majority expressed opposition to the entire STAMP project. Speaking in opposition were numerous members of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, including titleholders, as well as allies from groups including the Buffalo Niagara #Waterkeeper, #SierraClub, #SaveOntarioShores, SUNY ESF, University of Rochester, Western New York Environmental Alliance and the #CleanAirCoalition of Western New York. In the words of Tonawanda Seneca Nation Sub-Chief Scott Logan (Bear Clan), 'If this permit were to be granted, it would be an immense injustice to #MotherEarth. And as a #Haudenosaunee person, and all the Haudenosaunee People in here, that is our birthright. It is our, what we are here for, is to protect the earth. And the STAMP Project goes a hundred percent against what we are — what we’re all about.'

"The STAMP site is located immediately adjacent to the Nation’s present-day reservation boundaries. Indeed, the most intensive manufacturing will be located along the project’s border with the Nation. However, as their Council of Chiefs has repeatedly stated in public comment letters and letters to agencies responsible for granting permits sought by the developers, the project’s approval process has continuously and egregiously undermined the Nation’s #sovereignty. In violation of their status as a federally recognized #TribalNation, the Tonawanda Band of Seneca’s Council of Chiefs – their traditional governance structure – has not been afforded a robust consultation process in decision-making about the project. Instead, opportunities for consultation have been perfunctory at best, and have focused almost exclusively on mitigation.

"In their official letter to the NYDEC regarding the proposed Part 182 Take Permit (mentioned above), the Nation’s Council of Chiefs wrote that, 'The Tonawanda Seneca Nation opposes this habitat destruction and would directly be impacted by it. The permit would allow for unmitigated incidental take on Nation lands when, inevitably, increased human presence, noise, excavation, light and traffic would disturb these species and turn them away… We do not want our Territory, people or future generations to be burdened by the negative impacts of these projects. This is a human rights issue for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Haudenosaunee, who would bear a disproportionate burden from the industrialization of the land at STAMP.'

"The Council of Chiefs has demanded that a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) be carried out to assess the possible impacts on the Nation, its culture and its environment; to date there has been no such study and the 2012 STAMP EIS (which did not analyze impacts on the nation) is badly outdated."

https://globaljusticeecology.org/tonawanda-seneca-nation/

#ForestDefenders #SenecaNation #FirstNations #NativeAmericanRights #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #Greenwashing #HydrogenPower

The Metro #Police Authority of #GeneseeCounty is looking for the driver of a dark-colored Chevrolet HHR that hit 5 people Tues on the #UAW #PicketLine outside of #GM's #Flint Processing Center in Swartz Creek, Police Chief Matthew Bade said Tues.

Officers were called to the plant on Bristol Rd ~4PM after a driver who was leaving the facility struck the 5 individuals when trying to leave & then drove off. Only minor injuries were reported at the scene.