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NY State Police & NY State Parks Police report they are investigating the discovery of a deceased male in Woods Creek in Buckhorn State Park on GI. "The deceased subject has been tentatively identified however his name is being withheld pending notification of family," NYSP said.
Grim part of this blog post titled "Rough road ahead."
NYSSWA boys basketball 2020 all-state team, large schools newyorksportswriters.org/blo…
How many rolls of toilet paper do you have right now?
7%None
38%1-9
30%10-24
24%25+
94 votes • Final resultsWho was the most valuable Grand Island Viking on the sidelines during the 2019-20 winter sports season?
30%Jeff Green
20%Don Pray
15%Craig Hoplight
35%Kristin Wegrzyn
80 votes • Final resultsWho was shamefully omitted and should have been included in the first poll of the most outstanding Grand Island Vikings athlete of the 2019-20 winter sports season?
8%Felix Bilharz, swimming
8%Natalie Carter, track
22%Sebastian Melendez, track
63%Adam Daghestani, wrestlin
65 votes • Final resultsWho was the most outstanding Grand Island Vikings athlete of the 2019-20 winter sports season?
45%Lydia Sweeney, basketball
17%Blake Bielec, wrestling
8%Tyler Hunt, boys hockey
30%Abby Blair, girls hockey
199 votes • Final resultsWhat Grand Island Vikings team was the most outstanding during the 2019-20 winter sports season?
57%Girls basketball
24%Wrestling
10%Boys hockey
8%Girls hockey
87 votes • Final resultsShould the Island Dispatch publish a "Lady and the Tramp" photo from yesterday's Grand Island Rugby spaghetti dinner?
72%Yes, it's a tradition.
18%No. Just no.
0%Corny as Kansas in August
10%Mmm! Spaghetti!
39 votes • Final results+ The traffic study says "the project is anticipated to generate 658 entering and 29 exiting vehicles during AM peak hour, and 582 entering and 592 exiting during PM peak hour." +10 at AM, +8 at PM for those numbers when including trucks.
Traffic study for Project Olive (Amazon GI): Overall, the project will have impacts on traffic. However with the implementation of appropriate mitigation
accessories...the project will not have any significant adverse impact on transportation or the
surrounding roadway network.
Monday's presentation at Grand Island.
Kim Nason, lawyer for Project Olive: “As of right now we are not able to disclose anything with respect to prospective future tenants at the facility.”
Councilman Madigan: “So you can’t actually use the word Amazon, is what you’re saying?”
The number of employees in the proposed Project Olive (Amazon) project at any one time (1,800) would be almost 8% of the population of Grand Island (20,000).
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The proposed Project Olive (Amazon) proposal on Grand Island, with a footprint of 823,522 square feet, would be in the top 10 biggest warehouses in the world, according to warehouses on cargo-market.com.
At Monday night's Grand Island Town Board workshop meeting about the proposed Project Olive (Amazon) development, when Kim Nason, attorney for the developer, said "there are no anticipated adverse impacts to the roadways," people in the audience openly and loudly laughed at her.
If you're planning on reading the Project Olive (Amazon) proposal for the Town of Grand Island, Vol. 1 is 222 pages, Vol. 2 is 1122 pages, Vol. 3 is 858 pages.
As revealed at the Grand Island Town Board meeting tonight, the Project Olive (alleged Amazon) project would call for 1800 parking spaces. To put that in perspective, that's about 3x as many as at Fantasy Island.
