Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published October 1
What’s with the DPW of North Tonawanda? I’ve got a pile of branches on my street, here on Pierce Ave. Been there for a couple weeks now. I called up, and they still didn’t show up to pick it up. It looks like a mess out here. Where did my tax money go?
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I just wanted to say what a wonderful business we have in North Tonawanda; it’s called Tread City Tires. I have an elderly mother who needed a tire plugged from a nail that was in her tire. They fixed it free of charge for her, and wouldn’t even take a tip. What a wonderful business, and I hope that everyone realizes how nice they are. We need more companies like this around here.
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Now that the summer is over, traffic department, how about turning off the blinking light in front of the Memorial Park? Save us city tax payers a few dollars.
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I was recently in a business on Webster St. that has been there for almost 30 years. My husband and I had to walk out because of the stench of sewage; it was so bad. Could somebody please check that out? It is a hazard to people’s health.
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I saw the sweeper go up the street today on Middlebrook. It’s the second time I’ve seen it this summer. Today it went up Fairfax; it turned and went up the other side. There are other streets in Wurlitzer Park besides Wurlitzer Drive and Fairfax, and the other short streets. It seems as if they do the short streets, and say they’ve done Wurlitzer Park. I would like to see it go down Middlebrook a few more times, as it’s a longer street and we also pay our taxes.
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To the person that wrote in to the Sound Off saying that North Tonawanda High School didn’t have a moment of silence on September 11 or lower their flag. My son goes to Starpoint, and they didn’t do it either. Apparently after eight years we suddenly forget that that happened. I think that that is very disrespectful, that they did not have a moment of silence, or even lower the flag. What are they teaching our kids? To forget about what happened? That’s something you should never forget, and I agree with that person that it’s very disrespectful.
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I just read in the paper today about the Riviera Theater. I think that is the greatest thing in the world, because we have a monument there. But, I understand that they are going to put a revolving door in there. That is going to change the looks of that immensely. There’s got to be some engineer somewhere that can make a seal that can do the job and make it original. We don’t want to change the entrance. As far as everything else, they have been doing a fabulous job on it.
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ADAMCZYK: An evening walk with Beethoven
Yes, that’s me: the tall and overweight man with earbuds in his ears and the wire descending to the machine on his hip, huffing through the dusk on Delaware Road in Kenmore.
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Sound Off published Friday March 19
With the snow melting, I took a friend to the newly named Veterans Park on River Road. What a disgrace. There is garbage everywhere, ruts in the grass and the inlet is all plugged up with trash and debris. The mayor says he is a veteran, yet he lets this insult prevail to all the men and women who came before him, some dying. You should be ashamed.
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HOPKINS: Going to the vet for health care
What does a veterinarian have to do with today’s health care debate? Read on.
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KEPPELER: Stranger in a strange land
I’m not too bad with computers.
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Sound Off published Thursday March 18
I’m a City of Tonawanda resident for most of my life and I see the recycling guys don’t want to put themselves out to do their jobs and we paid for their services. So please help, somebody get on their butt and get their job done the way they should.
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DUVALL: Spending cuts must be manageable
For as often as the media uses outsized, hyperbolic phrases to describe routine functions of government, we have going on in New Jersey right now a true ideological clash.
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Sound Off published Wednesday March 17
This is in response to the person who says there was a Jeffrey’s in the City of Tonawanda. The word is Zeffrey’s. It was an old-fashioned ice cream parlor. It was beautiful.
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LEFLER: The good life in Western New York
Oh look! Spring.Now, technically I know it’s not spring yet, but with the Ides of March and Buffalo’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in our rear-view, two of the indicators I use for spring have already passed. Throw in the nice weather we’re having and my body is ready to walk down Main Street in a T-shirt and shorts.
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CONFER: The census and your privacy
In his recent column, my friend Scott Leffler waxed poetic about how illogical — if not illegal — the U.S. Census has become as it asks questions that were unintended by our Founding Fathers. As with quite a few issues, I agree with Scott on this one and I will be one of those folks he mentions who will try their luck by filling out only one question on the 10-question form.
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DUVALL: News to relaunch its Web site this week
Times are changing, and so are we.
With that in mind, I’m pleased to announce that tonawanda-news.com, this paper’s Web site, will undergo a major overhaul. On Tuesday, our entirely new site will “go live” (just a fancy way of saying publish).
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