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What legal woes does Trump face?

Former US President Donald Trump said on Monday that FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Law enforcement officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Trump’s claims.

The focus of the investigation was not immediately clear. Here is a look at some of the probes and lawsuits that Trump faces.

MISSING NATIONAL RECORDS

The US National Archives and Records Administration in February notified Congress that it had recovered about 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump’s Florida home, some of which contained classified materials.

The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee at that time said it was expanding an investigation into Trump’s actions and asked the Archives to turn over additional information. Trump previously confirmed that he had agreed to return certain records to the Archives, calling it “an ordinary and routine process.”

JAN 6 ATTACK ON THE US CAPITOL

A congressional panel probing January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol is working to build a case that he broke the law in trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Vice chair Liz Cheney has said the committee could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against Trump, who accuses the panel of conducting a sham investigation. 

In a March 2 court filing, the committee detailed Trump’s efforts to persuade then-Vice President Mike Pence to either reject slates of electors for Democrat Joe Biden, who won the election, or delay a congressional count of those votes.

Trump’s efforts likely violated a federal law making it illegal to “corruptly” obstruct any official proceeding, or attempt to do so, said David Carter, the California federal judge overseeing the casE

In the March 2 filing, the committee said it was likely that Trump and others conspired to defraud the United…

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OLLI’s ‘University Days’ offer a reset on public understanding of Indigenous cultures in New England

PITTSFIELD — The generation that grew up playing “cowboys and Indians” has a chance this month to see miles beyond the brutal simplicity of that old childhood game.

Though September, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College will provide classes about Indigenous people through its University Days program. OLLI’s classes are usually targeted toward adults 50 and older, but all are welcome to attend.

The five-week series, “We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast,” includes 19 events, among them art shows, lectures, reading groups and walking tours. All events are free, except for a flute performance by Hawk Henries that has a $5 entrance fee.

The scale of the program is a big jump from previous years, according to Katherine Kidd, a retired professor and chair of OLLI’s University Days Committee. In the past, one-day events have been offered twice a year. Before this year, the largest program was a seven-day class about women’s suffrage in 2020.

If You Go

What: “We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast”

Who: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College

When: Aug. 26 – Sept. 29

Where: Lectures are online. Events are in person. 

Registration and more information: berkshireolli.org/UniversityDays2022

OLLI University Days Highlights

Find a full list of events at berkshireolli.org/UniversityDays2022

“Awikhigan: Evoking Indigenous Stories and Landscapes”

What: Works by artists Cheryl Savageau, Judy Dow and Rhonda Besaw.

Where: Gallery at Elayne P. Bernstein Theater, 70 Kemble St., Shakespeare & Company, Lenox

When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Aug. 27-Sept. 20

Reading Group: “The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast”

What: Reading group discussion led by Kate Kidd. Reading group size is limited to 20 people per session. Registration required. Both in-person and online groups are available.

When: Monday, Aug….

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Mëshatàm Lënapehòkink: I remember the land of the Lenape

In 2019, my adult child, River, and I visited our Lenape tribal homeland together for the first time. We are enrolled citizens of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and descendants of the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma, one of three Lenape bands in the United States. Our Lenape ancestors and people were forced from our Eastern Woodlands homelands over two centuries ago and pushed halfway across the continent to Oklahoma, where my father was born. Like many Lenape’ok (Lenape people), we’d never had the opportunity to lay eyes on the homeland that holds the spirits of our ancestors, and the plant and animal nations that nourished our Lenape family for countless millennia.

Our Indigenous homelands are a central part of our identities and cultures. Epigenetic research shows that our relationships with our homeland ecologies are literally part of our DNA, as is the trauma of our separation from them. Living disconnected from our homelands feels like someone carved an empty space where an integral part of my existence used to be. This has affected every aspect of my life, including my artistic and storytelling practice.

The following words and images are memories from four trips to visit Lënapehòkink, our homeland. Having finally reconnected that dangling thread to its source, I feel as if I can start weaving back together some of what has unraveled within my family. I was finally able to begin to understand what it means to be remembered by the land as a Lenape person. My memories of the land are now part of the land, like the memories of my ancestors before me.

A photograph of a person standing in the water at a beach. Their back is to the camera and they hold a bag in their hand.

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Hamilton steelworkers reach contract agreement with Stelco, avert strike threat

Stelco workers in Hamilton have ended a strike threat by voting in favour of a new five-year contract.

More than 82 per cent of the United Steel Workers Local 1005 members who voted approved the contract Wednesday — the same day Stelco’s last Hamilton steelmaking blast furnace was demolished.

The company has not made steel in Hamilton for more than a decade.

But around 600 local Stelco workers continue to operate steel-finishing operations on the bayfront, including a zinc-coating line, as well as an 83-oven battery that makes coke for the company’s integrated steelmaking mill on Lake Erie.

A union memo to members earlier this month said the agreement will include wage increases of $1.05 per year as well as cost-of-living adjustments, pension and benefits improvements.

The Hamilton-based steel company reached a tentative agreement with the union last week, a few days before a legal strike or lockout would have become possible.

The USW local representing 1,000 unionized workers at Stelco’s Nanticoke plant has also reached a tentative agreement with the company, with a vote on that prospective contract scheduled for Friday.

Locally, the union argued during bargaining that Stelco has been “extremely successful and profitable” in recent times, pointing to its recent sale of its Hamilton lands to a developer, investment in the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and announced plans to buy back $1 billion in shares from investors.

Negotiations over the latest local contract came amid a historic ownership change in Stelco’s 324 hectares of bayfront land. Earlier this summer, Stelco sold its Hamilton land to would-be developer Slate Asset Management, which agreed to lease back to the steelmaker the property required to continue local operations.

But The Spectator discovered the company’s lease agreement for coke-making operations appears set to end by 2029 at the latest — leaving the future of that…

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Rob Gronkowski to host official retirement party at Mohegan Sun

Photo of Andrew DaRosa

Aug. 10, 2022Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 3:51 p.m.

Rob Gronkowski #87 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrates after winning Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. 

Rob Gronkowski #87 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrates after winning Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. 

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Four-time Super Bowl champion and NFL legend Rob Gronkowski will be celebrating his retirement in style at Mohegan Sun next month.

“Rob Gronkowski’s Official Retirement Party” will take place at FanDuel Sportsbook in the casino on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 9-11 p.m. The party will feature complimentary appetizers, a champagne toast and the opportunity to run into the former Tight End, according to a press release.

DJ Whoo Kid, the host of The Whoolywood Shuffle on Sirius/XM, will be present all night spinning tracks while the “Gronk Smash Burger” will make its debut at the event. Guests might even be able to see Gronkowski do the “Gronk Smash” on the dance floor. 

An after party will take place at the Avalon Nightclub in Mohegan Sun starting at 11:30 p.m.

Gronkowski’s long-term girlfriend, Camille Kostek, is a Killingworth native and has been spotted on various occassions visiting her home state with the ex-NFL star.  

The former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers player announced his initial retirement in 2019 before coming back in 2020 to join former teammate Tom Brady on the Buccaneers. Gronkowski…

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Mohican Quilters work depicting rural Loudonville will be auctioned at Oct. 5 Street Fair

The Mohican Quilters of Loudonville have produced a quilt to be auctioned at the upcoming Loudonville Free Street Fair, with proceeds going to the fair board.

“For years, the fair has allowed our organization to show our quilt projects to be judged and shared with fairgoers,” Richelle Nicholas of the Quilters explained. “We decided to jointly make and donate a quilt to the fair to be auctioned, with proceeds going to the fair.”

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The quilt auction will be conducted during the auction of prize-winning cakes and pies on the fair midway at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Nicholas said 16 of the 30 Mohican Quilters helped make the item.

“The quilt was designed with life in our rural area in mind,” Nicholas said. “Members chose patterns and made them with fabric the club purchased from the Alabaster Mouse in Loudonville, at times adding material from their own ‘stash’ to their block. Members met in March and added sashing and completed the quilt top. One of the members then quilted the layers together.”

The Mohican Quilters have been in the Loudonville community for 39 years, and meet on the second Monday of each month at the Christian Community Center (Three Cs) at 807 Valley View Drive.

Meetings start at 7 p.m. Programming at meetings includes presentations by club members, show and shares, guest speakers, or hands-on projects. New participants are always welcome.

For more information on the Quilters, contact Nicholas at mrsdnichola@aol.com.

Members are planning their first quilt show, scheduled to be held in the Loudonvilel Fair’s Hans Building during the 2023 Loudonville car Show.

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A Delaware River Journey of Nature and Harmony

Editor’s note: The below “State We’re In” dispatch from Alison Mitchell, co-executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, relates to several recurring themes in the pages of U.S. 1.

One is the notion of ancient rituals, which Dan Aubrey explores as part of his foray into Morris dancing in this issue’s story. The other is the Delaware River, whose environs and many bridge crossings have been the subject of many stories, including several in the August 3 issue.

The mighty Delaware River flows for 330 miles, from its source in the Catskill Mountains of New York to its mouth in the Delaware Bay between New Jersey and Delaware. It provides drinking water for 13 million people, abundant scenic beauty, a corridor for trade and commerce, and habitat for diverse wildlife.

Many people love the Delaware, but perhaps none more than the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, the descendants of the original people who lived along the river for thousands of years before European settlement.

“The river is very sacred to us; we say it’s our lifeblood,” said Barbara Bluejay, secretary of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, which draws members from all four states along the river and beyond.

Every four years, the Lenape Nation celebrates its ancestral lands and seeks peace and healing through a unique tradition: a month-long canoe paddle down the Delaware, with stops along the way for public signings of a ceremonial friendship treaty.

This year’s “Rising Nation River Journey” began on July 20 in Hancock, N.Y., on the upper Delaware, and will wrap up on August 20 in Cape May. Treaty signings are scheduled in 10 locations, including Milford, Frenchtown, Lambertville and West Cape May in New Jersey.

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Alison Mitchell is co-executive director of the NJ Conservation Foundation.

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AROUND THE CAMPS: Susquehanna and Montrose ready for the season

SUSQUEHANNA — JJ Rosa hauled in a high-arcing pass, jogged back and gave quarterback Colton Stone a high five. 

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Efelerin of the Net is in the European Championship finals!

Turkey A National Men’s Volleyball Team, 2023 CEV European Volleyball Championship Qualification in his last game, at home AzerbaijanHe made his mark in the European Championship finals by beating . Nationals will compete in the European Championship for the 9th time in a row.

NOTES FROM THE MATCH:

LIVING ROOM: Burhan Felek Vestel
REFEREES: Sinisa Ovuka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Vladimir Simonovic (Switzerland)
TURKEY: Mirza, Bedirhan, TextBurak, Faik SamedLion, Berkay (L) Volcano (L) (Arda, kaanAhmet)
AZERBAIJAN: Gurskii, Aghazade, Baranov, Melnikov, Bayramov, Mammadov, Abdullayev (L), Allahverdiyev (L) (Hasanli, Suleymanov, Bunyatov, Vasilenko)
SETS: 25-15, 25-16, 25-19
DURATION: 63 minutes (20′ 20′ 23′)

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Harckham Announces Algae Remediation Grant for Mohegan Lake

Sen. Pete Harckham, Yorktown Supervisor Matt Slater and Ken Belfer.

State Senator Pete Harckham recently announced that he has delivered a $100,000 grant for the Mohegan Lake Improvement District and Town of Yorktown for the installation of a new aeration system and retrofitting existing aeration systems in the lake to remove phosphorus in the lake that is causing large algae blooms each year.

By themselves, most algae and similar single-cell organisms actually benefit marine ecosystems and pose no risk to humans and wildlife. But the expansive, often smelly surface mats of freshwater algae blooms on ponds and lakes can harbor cyanobacteria, a toxic blue-green algae that can sicken swimmers and animals that ingest the water. Phosphorus leaching into the lake and warmer summer temperatures have only increased the algae blooms in the past few years.

“The extensive phosphorous abatement project being undertaken at Mohegan Lake will help restore this important natural resource and make it safe for recreation,” said Harckham. “I am happy to support both the Mohegan Lake Improvement District and Town of Yorktown in this effort with state funding that will reduce costs that would otherwise be shouldered by local taxpayers.  I am thankful to Ken Belfer of the Mohegan Lake Improvement District and all the residents for their efforts to address the challenges regarding the algae blooms and their creating models of success for other lake communities.”

Wooded areas and residential neighborhoods surround Mohegan Lake. For a number of years, blue-green algae blooms have interfered with seasonal recreation use of the 103-acre lake, with the local beaches often closed down for long stretches of the summer. A homemade aeration system and periodic treatments of copper compounds, which settle in the sediment, have not…

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