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Choctaw Nation Awards $108,900 to Le Flore County for Infrastructure, Development

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Post date June 16, 2023
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L-R: Jess Henry, Choctaw Nation Tribal Council Member District 4; Valard Campbell, County Commissioner District 1; and Jamie Oliver, County Commissioner, District 3.

DURANT, OK – The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma awarded a total of $108,900 to Le Flore County communities including $41,000 to Le Flore County itself; $17,800 to the City of Heavener; $34,700 to the City of Poteau; and $15,400 to the City of Pocola from the Choctaw Community Partnership Fund to continue strengthening and developing the local area.

L-R: Jess Henry, Choctaw Nation Tribal Council Member District 4; Tommy Robertson, City Council; and James Sprayberry, Representative.

The Choctaw Community Partnership Fund voluntarily contributes quarterly to towns, cities, and counties where the Choctaw Nation operates non-gaming businesses. The fund aims to foster collaboration and growth within these communities by providing financial support for various projects. The communities have the flexibility to utilize the funds immediately for maintenance, road improvements, beautification, recreation, public safety, equipment needs or save the funds for more extensive future projects.

L-R: Cody Smith and Mayor of Heavener.

“These volunteer contributions exemplify the Choctaw Nation’s commitment to creating sustainable and thriving communities that fosters a better quality of life for tribal and non-tribal citizens,” said Angel Rowland, Choctaw Nation Development Fund Manager. “We see communities investing these funds for projects that positively impact the area.”

L-R: Jess Henry, Choctaw Nation Tribal Council Member District 4; and Kreg Harvey.

Since 2019, when the Community Partnership Fund started, LeFlore County has received $528,900 and used funds for street repairs. The City of Heavener has received $252,250…

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Six Nations’ huge battery project is the future of energy supply in Ontario — and maybe all of Canada

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Post date June 15, 2023
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The future of Ontario’s energy supply — perhaps even Canada’s — depends on 10 acres of rugged land wedged between an oil refinery and a steel plant some two hours south of Toronto.

This is not land humans can live on. But it is land that powers their lives — literally, in the past, present and future. It’s surrounded by an endless grid, a maze of grey steel frames and white wind turbines casting enormous shadows on the ground, as thick black and grey plumes float through the air from the Imperial Oil and surrounding aggregate and steel facilities framing the horizon.

This energy corridor was created just a few kilometres away from Six Nations of the Grand River, the only reserve in North America where all six Haudenosaunee Nations live together. It was built around them in the early 20th century, without their input or consent.

But the currents are shifting. Decades of energy policy is being transformed on these 10 acres of land where, in two years, 278 batteries will be able to power a city the size of Oshawa, Ont. (population 410,000). If the energy stored in the batteries comes from renewable sources, carbon pollution equivalent to that generated by 40,000 cars will be kept out of the atmosphere every year.

This energy corridor is soon to be the site of Canada’s largest battery storage farm and the third largest in the world: the Oneida Energy Storage Project. Now under construction, the project will be part-owned by Six Nations, which also owns many of the wind turbines spinning around it.

Energy storage is as it sounds: technology that allows for energy created by any source, from solar power to natural gas, to be stored for later use. For over a century, energy has largely been sent down…

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Ray Pineault On Expanding The Brand

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Post date June 15, 2023
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From a property in Connecticut that quickly became one of the world’s largest casinos, Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment has grown exponentially through a combination of organic and inorganic development.

Speaking at the Boston Smart Business Dealmakers Conference, CEO Ray Pineault says the organization has since expanded into Pennsylvania in the Pocono Mountains, manages properties in New Jersey, manages a property for another tribe — the first Native American tribe to manage another tribe’s casino — in Washington State, operates two casinos in Niagara on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, and is now in the process of building a $2 billion resort in South Korea.

Maintaining the culture across all those different properties, Pineault says, is essential, especially as the organization grows across borders. When bidding on the Niagara property, he says one of the things that was very important to them was going in and seeing the culture and meeting with the leadership team. That emphasis will continue as their footprint grows.

“We’re going into Korea,” he says. “Korea is different than the United States and we want to bring our culture there. And I can tell you, one of my conversations with the leadership team over there, and they’re probably sick of hearing me say it, is, You need to be leading the culture. You need to talk about it every day. You have to believe it. You have to live it. You have to talk about it. You have to have communications about it. So, I think it’s up to the leadership to believe it, to talk about it and continue to instill it.”

Part of ensuring that culture continues as new properties are acquired is through the hiring process.

“We do team interviews,” Pineault says. “We don’t just do one on one interviews,” he says. “And we…

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Why Townsend cannot house Empire’s Nanticoke development

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Post date June 14, 2023
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Art of Gardening Club hosts memorial ceremony for founding member Diana Kowalka

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The state of Iraq’s international standing

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Post date June 13, 2023
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On May 30, in a two-minute session, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq for another year until May 31, 2024.

The head of UNAMI, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, was empowered to continue her efforts to provide advice, support and assistance to the government and people of Iraq by promoting national and community-level reconciliation; aiding the electoral process; facilitating regional dialogue between Iraq and its neighbors; protecting human rights; and promoting judicial and legal reforms.

UNAMI’s mandate refers only obliquely to the one overriding factor in Iraq’s situation – the influence of Iran. Iran dominates almost every aspect of the country’s governance, and Hennis-Plasschaert has told the Security Council that “pervasive corruption is a major root cause of Iraqi dysfunctionality.”

Although Iraq’s last election in October 2021 gave a majority of seats to the main anti-Iranian political bloc, that of Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, it did not give him victory. A long period of political stalemate followed the poll. No president or prime minister was appointed, and no government formed.

Through poor judgment or bad advice, Sadr threw away his winning hand. A series of impulsive political decisions, some of which he probably regrets, finally handed power to the main pro-Iranian bloc, the Coordination Framework. Once the political logjam was broken, a Kurdish politician, Abdul Latif Rashid, was approved as president, and a pro-Iranian, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, was appointed prime minister.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani holds a joint news conference with his Kurdish counterpart Masrour Barzani in Baghdad, Iraq April 4, 2023. (credit: IRAQI PRIME MINISTER MEDIA OFFICE/HANDOUT…

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Artifacts appear to confirm ‘first contact’ at Roanoke Island

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Why Townsend cannot house Empire’s Nanticoke development

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Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference boys track and field postseason honors

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NJAC-Freedom

First team: Kwandjo Mensah, Jefferson; Adrian Valencia, Hackettstown; Cade Martress, High Point; Mason Rabtzow, Jefferson; Sebastian Igielski, Jefferson; Lesley Grigak, Hackettstown; DeAndre Reaves, Hackettstown; Dan Kim, Vernon; Isaac Smith-Lewis, Lenape Valley; Redjee Nonez, Hackettstown; Ryan Pietz, Lenape Valley; Andrew Noonan, High Point; Dominic DeAngelis, Lenape Valley; Jordan Perez, High Point; Ethan Almeida, Hackettstown; Zack Mountain, Vernon; Dylan Barca, Vernon; Michael Evanick, Vernon; Tyler Jones, Vernon

Second team: Diogo Torres, Vernon; Ryan Lachman, Lenape Valley, Matthew Tunnell, High Point; Owen Cooper, Hackettstown; Chris Wynne, Vernon; Matthew Ellis, Jefferson; Lukas Polizos, Vernon; Kyle Willis, High Point; Thomas Young, Jefferson; Maxwell Yanagi, Lenape Valley; Michael Hamm, Jefferson; Cole Herman, Vernon; Massimo Magarino, High Point; Dan Musilli, High Point; Max Seward, High Point; Christian Bujno, Hackettstown; Mathias Alvez, Lenape Valley; Joe Pappa, Vernon; Logan Howell, Vernon

Honorable mention: Denzell Welling, Vernon; Samson Burke, Hackettstown; Jonah Ripley, High Point; Mike Nwankwo, Jefferson; Timothy Van Klingeren, Lenape Valley

Division champion: Vernon

Sportsmanship award: Jefferson and Lenape Valley

NJAC-Independence

First team: James Jeffers, Whippany Park; Jason Griffin, Whippany Park; Matthew Yee, Whippany Park; Ryan Trocolar, Pequannock; Jack Ahart, Kinnelon; Matt Kispert, Kinnelon; Matt Mazurkiewicz, Kinnelon; Andrew Garcia, Kinnelon; Kyle Bjornson, Kinnelon; Derek Luttenberger, Pequannock; Andrew Farrell, Whippany Park; Ethan Volante, Boonton; Joseph Ciottone, Whippany Park; Jovan Avena, Pequannock; Luke Laterza, Whippany Park; Henry Struble, Pequannock; Ryan Winters, Kinnelon; Michael Cowhig, Whippany Park

Second team: Jai Kang, Kinnelon; Liam McDermott, Pequannock; Milan Lopez-Tassan, Whippany Park; Xavier Trinidad, Pequannock; Brody Yoo, Whippany Park; Michael Hoppes, Whippany Park; Kyle James, Whippany Park; Jonathan Gomez, Whippany Park; Joseph Mendy, Kinnelon; Smith DenBleyker, Kinnelon; Charlie Hurd, Boonton; Ryan Geng, Kinnelon; Nathaniel Rosa, Kinnelon; Jovan Vinas, Pequannock; Nano Crefeld, Pequannock; Mohammad Almosbeh, Kinnelon; Nikolai Samuylov, Dover; Emanuele Caltibiano, Boonton; Salvatore D’Alessio, Pequannock

Honorable mention: Will Portman, Kinnelon; Metin Ahmedi, Boonton; Wyatt Lieto, Whippany Park; Konnan Perez, Pequannock; Angel Santos Utrera, Dover

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