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Hello, this is Rick Lawrence, and for the next hour, I will be reading from the October 2nd issue of the Tribune Sentinel covering Niagara County and Grand Island on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.

Here from the front page of the journal is an article headlined, Grand Island Cares Brings Life-Saving Training to Community.

This is a submitted article without an author's name.

We need the town board to stand with us as our advocates to help us get the county to make life-saving changes to the road, Towers said.

She presented a Lewiston Police Department survey that found over 50% of vehicles that are speeding, with hundreds traveling well over 50 miles an hour.

Towers said, join us in petitioning Niagara County and the New York State DOT for a unified corridor safety study from village to village and for release of pertinent accident data.

She also requested Lewiston Highway crews addressed priority maintenance of overgrown brush areas for the town to work with Niagara County on making structural changes to the roadway and for high visibility speed enforcement by the LPD.

At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News.

Over in Niagara County, police investigating a deadly crash last night.

Happened along Route 77 at about 8:00, where a vehicle drove into a farm tractor that was on the side of the road.

One fatality confirmed, though no other information made available at the time.

There's a letter from the government, and it tells you they've been surveying the area for radioactivity, and now they want to test your property, the home where you live with your family.

That's the reality facing hundreds of families in parts of Niagara and Erie counties in western New York, north of Buffalo.

And the radiation that's been found could have ties to atomic weapon components manufactured in the area during World War II.

State Senate Republican leader Rob Ort represents Niagara County.

He recently met with federal leaders to discuss the homeowners' concerns, and he joins us now on the Capitol Press Room.

John, good to see you.

And there's Love Canal in the 70s and 80s and the chemical contamination of properties that happened then.

I mean, this is an area that is particularly, I don't know if sensitive is the right word to this, but I mean, can you speak a little bit about that?

Goodyear's toxic legacy will also remain for neighbors of the plant who could have been impacted when orthotoluidine was vented out of the plant and into surrounding community.

According to the New York State Health Department, bladder cancer rates in the neighborhood downwind of the plant were triple that of the state's average and double that of Niagara County's average.

Goodyear must not exit Niagara Falls without doing its utmost for the community that has had to endure the dangers of its emissions.

The company must also provide a just transition for the employees it is releasing.

That one is a nineteen megawatt.

There is a proposal at the old Tonawanda Coke site They want to do a 300 megawatt data center between Erie and Niagara County.

We're talking about two gigawatts of projects in the queue, Rauch said.

The moratorium and for Buffalo passed unanimously out of the council to the Community Development Committee for consideration at next week's meeting before possibly returning to the full council for a vote in weeks would establish a two-year pause on the creation of any new data centers of any size.