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At its regular meeting for the month of May on Tuesday the Seneca County Board of Supervisors moved to overwhelmingly choose the next member of the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency board.
A vacancy had become a point of contention among the supervisors- as the relationship between the IDA and Board of Supervisors grew strained.
Mary Anne Kowalski, a Romulus resident, who previously worked for Seneca County- and has a lengthy resume working for state agencies and serving on regional boards will join the IDA after getting 11-2 approval from the supervisors.
The Board had struggled with filling the vacancy, as IDA leadership wanted to conduct virtual interviews of candidates. The supervisors had also voiced frustration about the lack of ‘South County’ representation on the IDA board.
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Cornell undergraduates collaborated with former Cornell Prison Education Program students to develop Confinements, an ensemble theater piece premiering virtually May 16. Prison education alums work with undergrads on theater piece
May 10, 2021
Participants in a new class – designed to bring together formerly incarcerated and traditional Cornell students – have written, workshopped and performed an ensemble theatrical piece that will premiere online May 16 at 2 p.m.
PMA 4801: Advanced Studies in Acting – Devising Re-Entry, taught by Bruce Levitt, professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, includes three former Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) students and five traditional undergraduates.
May 10
1890 - A newly rebuilt Put-in-Bay House on South Bass Island reopens on the site of the previous hotel that was leveled by flames.
1902 - A mob of mourners converges on Forest Cemetery as six of seven of the young people who lost their lives in a boating tragedy on the Maumee River are laid to rest. The Toledo Bee reports as many as 2,000 morbid curiosity seekers packed the city graveyard and trampled the sacred ground, picked flowers and gathered other relics . The article stated they almost turned it into a circus atmosphere with laughing and disrespect. The Bee called the crowd disgusting .
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Cayuga Tribe Urges Justices To Rebuff NY County s Tax Case
Law360 (May 5, 2021, 10:17 PM EDT) The Cayuga Indian Nation has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a New York county s petition in a property tax dispute, saying Native American tribes sovereign immunity to lawsuits is well-established even in legal areas where the state has the power to regulate them.
Seneca County in western New York is seeking to overturn a Second Circuit ruling that the tribe is shielded from the county s attempt to foreclose on a cluster of the tribe s properties for nonpayment of taxes, saying the high court should tackle questions around tribal sovereign immunity that weren t resolved in its previous decisions..