The Conservative opposition leader of Ealing Council has said it is unfair for the council to blame a council tax rise on the Government. Councillor Greg Stafford said a decade of poor decisions from Ealing Council’s Labour administration was the real cause. The council has agreed to increase council tax by 1.99%, on top of a 3% social care precept, which is effectively the maximum possible increase. Stafford said: “The reality is that over the last close to ten years of this Labour administration they have run down the reserves and wasted money on pet projects that no one wants. The latest example of this is Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, which they re spending tens of thousands of pounds on and now they’ve just had to pay out court costs to the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods objectors yesterday, which although it hasn’t been revealed will be another tens of thousands of pounds.
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Adam Zurn, left, and Ben Webber push a canoe across Pine Creek in Berks County towards the headwaters of the Conestoga River, a route fur traders and Native Americans used 250 years ago.
LANCASTER, Pa. On a cold and sunny winter day on Dec. 30, six local residents gathered at a rural road near the Lancaster-Berks line and unloaded a wooden canoe, a faux fur and an old jug of the kind that once held rum.
The ensemble began pushing the 85-pound canoe through knee-deep swampy mud, at one point having to hoist the canoe over a turned-off electric fence. It may have seemed somewhat comical, but the group may have been retracing an arduous and important fur trade portage for the first time in 250 years.
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Kautz, a software engineer from East Lampeter Township, had been doing research for his upcoming book, “The Conestoga River: A History,” and came across multiple accounts of a 17th-century fur trade route through Lancaster, Berks and Chester counties used by Native Americans and early Colonists.
Native Americans would paddle canoes loaded with beaver and deer hides from their villages along the Susquehanna the length of the Conestoga River. When the headwaters of the Conestoga became too shallow to be navigable, they would have to carry their canoes a couple miles to the headwaters of Pine Creek, which flowed into French Creek and on to the Schuylkill River where trading posts were located.
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on the manafort trial today turning now to another development in the russia investigation, cnn has learned that robert mueller has handed off several cases to new york federal prosecutors according to people familiar with the matter. prosecutors are looking at several high-profile american lobbyists and operatives to determine if they failed to register their work as foreign agents. with me, erica with the scoop, she has the story. erica, tell me about the referrals. sure. we know the referrals happened in the spring by robert mueller, u.s. attorneys office for southern district of new york. looking at whether longtime lobbyist tony podesta and his firm, the podesta group as well as former congressman ben webber and his firm mercury public affairs and greg craig, who is the former obama white house counsel and also formally with this law firm performed work on
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