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With the closure of the Oka location of Les Salons Funeraires Guay in August, which has handled funeral arrangements for many local families since 1988, Kanehsata’kehró:non have been left with questions about why this has happened and how they may be affected by the decision.

The Hospital baseball field was host to an unprecedented number of smiles and cheers for the fourth annual Challenger Baseball Game for Extraordinary Athletes, with over 100 people - more people than ever before - coming to watch the 23 players with special needs and those supporting them play their hearts out on Saturday

This year is the fourth year of the Challenger baseball game, played at the Hospital baseball field and organized by Connecting Horizons, with help from members of the Kahnawake Mixed Softball League, including its commissioner, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Ryan Montour.

It’s the most exciting time for parents, the old joke goes, because your children are back in school.

Plans are in the works for a new Community Justice Centre, which will be built in the space between K1037 Radio and Kahnawake Animal Control Services.

Updates were aplenty at this week’s community meeting, with new information about upcoming additions to Client Based Services, external government relations, and potential tolls among the news shared.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) will cover private tuition for 25 special needs students after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) announced earlier this summer that it would no longer provide this funding through Jordan’s Principle.

Representatives of 2021’s electoral officer, Annie Neashish, visited the community on Sunday to discuss the possibility of taking over administration of the cancelled election, according to multiple sources, following a letter from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) that seemed to endorse the initiative.

Like everyone else, we were sickened, shocked, and horrified to learn about a social media account on which a small group of local men sexualized, violated, and victimized women and girls from the community.

While a contingent of community members advanced their efforts this week to attempt to contract a new electoral officer and resume elections, a quorum of incumbent Council chiefs met a deadline set by Indigenous Services Canada to formally assert an extension of their term with a band council resolution (BCR).