Author: Paul Graif
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Approximately 20 000 to 30 000 gallons of grey water from the sewage lift station was diverted in to Recreation Bay yesterday afternoon in Kahnawake after an accident cut off power that brings sewage to the waste water treatment plant. Lindsay Leborgne is a Chief at the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. “It caused an emergency […]
Workers from the Mohawk Bridge Consortium (MBC) wrapped up their work on the Montreal bound span of the Mercier Bridge on Sunday, August 9th. However, according to Sterling Deer, a co-owner of MBC, the Ministere de Transport du Quebec (MTQ) has decided to replace some of the light posts during the day today (Monday). The […]
The work blitz on the Mercier Bridge may wrap up a week ahead of schedule if all goes according to plan says Sterling Deer, a spokesperson and co-owner of the Mohawk Bridge Consortium (MBC). “We are scheduled to finish all the work preferably by this coming Monday (August 10) weather permitting. All in all it […]
The Kahnawake COVID-19 Task Force has delayed the August 10th scheduled re-opening of bars and gaming establishments. “We’ve always said we’ve looked at what’s happening around us and the fact that when Quebec opened bars and started increasing the amount of people for gatherings, we see that that has contributed greatly to the amount of new […]
A recent Twitter page was taken down after potentially libelous postings about alleged assaults and sexual assaults in Kahnawake. 70 anonymous statements were made in less than 48 hours and often detailed alleged attacks experienced by the poster or those that allegedly happened to friends and family members. The Twitter page went by the title […]
The COVID-19 testing site at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) has been busy with close to 100 performed over the last couple of weeks according to Executive Director Lisa Westaway. “As we see rates continue to increase around us. Although we are not experiencing any new cases presently in Kahnawake, or none that we […]
Two community members have submitted Letters of Intent to be candidates for the Tioweró:ton Committee Community Member Representative. The election will be held in Kahnawake on Thursday. The candidates are Michael Diabo and Lester Norton who has had a cabin there since the early 1990’s. Norton says he has some concerns that he would like […]
KSCS has had to adapt to a new way of providing services. Rebecca D’Amico is a Team Lead Secondary Prevention who says she’s seen a split on whether in-person versus at-home virtual counselling sessions work: “It’s kind of easier, I don’t have to leave my house and come to the main building. I can meet […]
An encampment with a sacred fire has been set up in the green space along Highway 132 at the base of the Mercier Bridge in Kahnawake since the land protectors moved from the tracks at Adirondack Junction over five months ago. A lot of people stop there to light the fire and sit there and […]
There have been growing concerns on-line about the local Kahnawà:ke Canada Post post office with regard to community mailboxes that belong to non-Kahnawa’kehró:non. Linda Benwell is the Interim Post Master at the Canada Post branch in town and she says there are indeed outsiders who do possess mailboxes here: “Paying boxes, yes there are some. […]