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Just east of the Toronto-Mississauga border is 340 Mill Road where a proposed infill building will replace a surface parking lot. Designed by BDP Quadrangle, the proposed 60.9-metre high building will be massed as a 5-storey podium above which another 14 storeys will rise. The new building has been designed to function as an integrated development with the 19-storey apartment building on the lot that was constructed in 1970s. The new building will add 191 purpose-built rental units to the site, while expanding the underground garage to serve both buildings.

Overview of the site the intersection of Burnhamthorpe Road and Mill Road, where there is an established cluster of residential buildings ranging in height from 12 – 22 storeys. Image via Google Maps.

The rezoning of the site was approved by City Council last week. As part of the zoning approval, the City and site owner Mohican Holdings negotiated a Section 37 funding of $1,500,000 to be put by the City towards improvements to Centennial Park (about a kilometre to the north) and/or to connect cycling infrastructure on Burnhamthorpe Road from Mill Road to the Etobicoke Creek west of which there is already cycling infrastructure in Mississauga. If the money is not used within three years, it can then be redirected by the City to another purpose that benefits the surrounding community.

New rendering of the proposed building, image courtesy of Quadrangle Architects.

The City is also requiring that the existing 225-unit apartment building’s units remain renat controlled for a minimum of another two decades, and that its residents be given full access to all of the new indoor and outdoor amenities of the proposed building at no extra cost. According to the proposal, these amenities could include a gym, rooftop patio, lawn, pet relief area. Current tenants of the existing…

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It is nigh to impossible to wholly address the history of Niskayuna or Schenectady (or any place in the United States for that matter) without first honestly coming to terms with the presence and contributions of the Indigenous People who occupied these lands before European arrival.

When Henry Hudson and Dutch East India Company first appeared in the region, and for several decades after, the territory was occupied, not always peacefully, by the Mohawk and Mohican Nations. By the time both Schenectady and Niskayuna were settled, conflict between the two Nations had forced the Mohican to the east side of the Hudson River.

The Mohawk were one of the five nations in the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) Confederation. Until the Revolutionary era, mutual interest in and mutual benefit from the fur trade, as well as the Dutch, and later the English, interest in a military alliance with the very powerful Confederation, contributed to a shared and jointly advantageous co-dependent relationship. In the years before American Independence was secured, grievances against the European/American settlers became more routine and severe; these grievances not only undermined the Iroquois-English alliance but also significantly weakened the once-powerful Iroquois Confederation. After the Treaty of Paris was signed, many Mohawk removed themselves to British Canada.

Nevertheless, the places we live today are irrevocably linked with the Mohawk people. Our city, county, and town names reflect their language. The “place beyond the pines,” or the Mohawk word “Schau-naugh-ta-da” (which actually referred to Albany), became Schenectady. Also, “Ca-nas-ti-gi-o-ne” (in one of its many spellings) or “extensive corn fields” became Niskayuna. Furthermore, becoming the “gateway to the west” was made possible with pre-war collaboration with the Mohawk and the rest of the Haudenosaunee Confederation.

We are today certainly aware that European infringement on Indigenous territory in our area and in North…

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Two nights of rain filled puddles and ponds and caused creeks to overflow their banks across Northeast and North Central Ohio, leaving some motorists stranded and others delayed Monday.

The waters rose so high that a flood was declared in southern Ashland County and a flood advisory was issued for just about everywhere else.

An average of 2 inches of rain fell along the U.S. Route 30 corridor by Monday morning, according to Raelene Campbell, a meteorologist in the Cleveland office of the National Weather Service.

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Rainfall was lighter in Crawford County and picked up further east in Richland, Ashland and Wayne counties. Holmes County saw flooding in the Killbuck Creek area.

Black Fork River hits flood stage in Loudonville

The heavies rains fell in southern Ashland County, based on reports collected by the weather service.

“At Loudonville we have a report of 2.29 inches,” Campbell said. “Southeast of Perrysville we have a report of 2.14 inches.”

Just north of Loudonville, Honey Creek and Big Run both feed into the Black Fork River, which then meets the Clear Fork River to form the Mohican River south of town.

“The only problem we’re seeing is in the Loudonville area,” Campbell said. “The river gauge there has gone into flood stage.”

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It was the Black Fork that broke the 10-foot barrier by about an inch Monday morning to put the town into an official flood. That warning, though, was scheduled to expire Monday afternoon.

“I don’t expect it to last longer than 3 o’clock,” Campbell said. “If anything, we might be able to cancel it a bit earlier.”

Although the Mohican River was not into the official…

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The 2022 midterm break at Capital is upon us; if you have not made any travel plans, there are still many ways you can spice up your week. If you are staying local for spring break, consider these close-to-home options to make your time off memorable. 

If you are looking to take a road trip, Hocking Hills is only about an hour’s drive from Columbus. At Hocking Hills, you can go camping, rent out a cabin, or just take a day trip. The state park features waterfalls, hiking trails, rock formations and caves. It is an ideal place to enjoy nature or rent out a cabin with friends. 

Take a road trip to Hocking Hills. Photo taken by Ava Boldizar.

Another similar road trip option is Mohican, which is a little over an hour’s drive from Columbus. Mohican is another option for those wanting to explore the outdoors, go hiking and/or rent a cabin. 

If you are wanting to stick closer to home, consider visiting Franklin Park Conservatory right here in Columbus. There is lots to see, with the conservatory featuring exotic plants, art exhibits and a butterfly garden. 

Visit the Franklin Park Conservatory. Photo taken by Ava Boldizar.

Otherworld is another must-see attraction in Columbus. Otherworld is an immersive art installation, with “over 40 scenes filled with large-scale art and mixed reality playgrounds,” according to their website. Visitors are free to explore and interact with the art, making Otherworld a one-of-a-kind experience. 

Penn & Beech Candle Co., previously known as The Candle Lab, allows visitors to make their own candle. You browse through the available scents, pick your favorites, then an employee will help you create a scent…

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Posted on March 1, 2022

SONNY RAMADIN in his later years.

by Renwick Rose

GLOWING TRIBUTES are flowing from all over the world to the great West Indies spin bowler of the epic era of the 1950s, Sonny Ramadin of Trinidad and Tobago who passed away over the weekend.

Sonny Ramadin(left) and Alfred Valentine

He was literally the last of the figurative Caribbean cricket “Mohicans”. All of the other members of the West Indies’ historic series win over England, in England in 1950 are already deceased.

That win, the West Indies’ first ever on English soil paved the way for the rise to the top for Caribbean cricket and it took doubtful umpiring decisions on two tours of Australia (1951/52 and 1960/61) and what became known as a “padathon” by two English batsmen in 1957 to delay the inevitable triumph of Caribbean cricket on a global stage.

Sonny Ramadin was an integral part of both the triumph and the rise to glory. A raw 20-year-old with only two first-class matches to his credit, he and fellow spinner, Alfred Valentine of Jamaica, a left-arm spinner to complement Ramadin’s right arm ‘mystery spin’, turning both ways, he joined his equally inexperienced spinning destroyer to engineer the complete humiliation of England, in its own backyard and give the West Indies a 3-1 series victory.

Most satisfying of all was the unforgettable defeat of the team of the colonial power at the acclaimed “headquarters of cricket”, the Lord’s cricket ground, in the second test, June 1950. It used to be said that England preferred to lose a battleship than a Test…

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The U.S. Board of Geographic Names released alternative names on Tuesday for more than 660 natural landmarks that still use the term “squaw,” considered an ethnic and misogynistic slur. 

Of those, only six are in Massachusetts and one in Berkshire County. 

But the name of Squaw Peak in the Monument Mountain Reservation, listed by Interior, was already changed last year by the Trustees of Reservations.

The Trustees worked with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohicans to rename the summit “Peeskawso Peak,” which they say means “virtuous woman” in the Mohican language, and the trail leading up to it Mohican Monument Trail, rather than Indian Monument Trail.

The name changes were announced in April 2021, along with changes to the narrative of the mountain that had focused on the famous picnic of authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville in 1850. The signage now includes more on the history of the indigenous people who had lived there first. 

This altered framing was repeated throughout the Trustees’ 120 conservation and historic sites as part of an internal review process. 

BGN offers four possible alternatives of naming for each site and the ones for Peeskawso Peak are bit — head scratching. Three are for bodies of water — Agawam Lake, Agawam Brook, and Konkapot Brook — and one for the mountain gap,  Brookside Col. All four of the names already exist as geographic sites in Berkshire County, with the exception of Agawam Lake in New York State.

The reasoning, according to the declaration of U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, was to offer “candidate replacement names drawn from a list of nearby associative topographic features, the names…

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As part of their education program, The Seed Savers Exchange recently hosted a webinar series about seed rematriation. The SSE is a non-profit organization that connects farmers. The SSE also collects, stores and regenerates heirloom seeds, distributes seeds via a catalog and website and educates gardeners.

Seed rematriation, as the SSE handout accompanying the series states, “addresses the desire for Indigenous communities to actively reclaim their ancestral seeds and traditions.”

This webinar series covers the efforts of SSE, funded through a grant by the North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Partnership.

The first webinar was hosted by Shelley Buffalo, an enrolled member of the Meskwaki Tribe and 2021 Seasonal Seed Steward for SSE. Currently, Buffalo works for the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust through the Americorp VISTA Program.

Buffalo introduced the two featured partners, Dr. Rebecca Webster and Kellie Zahn.

Dr. Webster is an enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation and an assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Zahn is the agriculture agent at the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians Community, located in Bowler, WI.

Both the Oneida Nation and the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians originally lived in the modern New York area. However, early colonists from Europe pushed the indigenous peoples out of their ancestral lands and with the loss of their ancestral lands, the ancestral seeds were also lost, too.

Dr. Webster began her presentation with an introduction to her Oneida farmstead, Ukwakhwa: Tsinu Niyukwayay’thisl, which translates as “Our foods: Where we plant things.” Starting with a humble crop of white corn in 2015, Ukwakhwa expanded to more indigenous and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Nations) varieties including corn, beans, squash, tobacco and sunflowers.

In 2017, Dr. Webster and her partner, Steve, purchased ten acres within…

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