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manich@leaderherald.com JOHNSTOWN — Submission of a $300,000 final New York state application for a new round of a Fulton County Microenterprise Grant Program was approved March 8 by the Fulton County Board of Supervisors. Board action followed a public hearing, in which no one spoke at the County Office Building. The application to operate the program had been recommended by the board’s Economic Development and Environment Committee. Board Chairman Jack Callery was authorized to submit the application. The board passed a resolution authorizing a Community Development Block Grant applicat...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Marietta City Council was briefed Monday on the impacts of the recently passed American Rescue Plan from the federal government. They were told that the funds from the rescue plan are strictly to be used for infrastructure projects, but the Times cannot corroborate that specific restriction based on the act language that has been signed into law. In a keyword search within the act’s language, infrastructure appears nine times explicitly, predominately identifying cybersecurity and public health analytics within digital infrastructure. According to the Buckeye Hi...

Anne Arundel County officials estimate the county will receive more than $112 million as part of a sweeping pandemic relief package signed by President Joe Biden Thursday that includes hundreds of billions in aid to state and local governments. Annapolis is expected to receive $6 million.

Lawrence Smith/Stuff A lawyer representing whanau who have had dealings with Oranga Tamariki has said the government department should be replaced with a Maori authority focussing on prevention. There is no other way to stop tamariki Māori being disproportionately taken into state care than to disestablish Oranga Tamariki, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told during closing submissions for the urgent inquiry into the child protection agency. The inquiry started in July last year after Oranga Tamariki came under fire for the systemic removal of tamariki and pēpi Māori. The purpose of the h...

There is no other way to stop tamariki Māori being disproportionately taken into state care than to disestablish Oranga Tamariki, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told during closing submissions for the urgent inquiry into the child protection agency. The inquiry started in July last year after Oranga Tamariki came under fire for the systemic removal of tamariki and pēpi Māori. The purpose of the hearing has been to find out why there has been such a consistent disparity of tamariki Māori being removed from their families, whether legislative and practice changes had made any difference, an...