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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.

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#Islandersighting
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Grim part of this blog post titled "Rough road ahead."

NYSSWA boys basketball 2020 all-state team, large schools https://t.co/LNaRhShbQ6

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@AaronBesecker You aren't going to give Chef Anthony any pub? 😁

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How many rolls of toilet paper do you have right now?

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Who was the most valuable Grand Island Viking on the sidelines during the 2019-20 winter sports season?

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Who 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?

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Who was the most outstanding Grand Island Vikings athlete of the 2019-20 winter sports season?

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What Grand Island Vikings team was the most outstanding during the 2019-20 winter sports season?

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Should the Island Dispatch publish a "Lady and the Tramp" photo from yesterday's Grand Island Rugby spaghetti dinner?

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@bartlop + 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.

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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.

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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.

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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?”

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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 https://t.co/KNBVDsGAgy.

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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.

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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.

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Staley Road will be closed as police and fire tend to a car accident near the overpass.

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Jim Carrey visited Fantasy Island.

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I really did want to ask Jim Carrey about Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Robotnik but he just wanted to talk about Buffalo.

It starts with my explanation of why Bruce Almighty is the best Buffalo-set movie.