Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published October 8
So, someone wants to build a group home in North Tonawanda for “troubled youth?” Are they kidding? My family had firsthand experience living near some of these so-called “troubled youth.” It wasn’t pleasant. Do you realize that these kids will be coming from all over? A lot of them are no strangers to the police. The only reason some of these kids aren’t in jail is because of their ages. How are they going to mix veteran’s housing with this kind of thing?
•••
I saw a Sound-Off about the railroad crossing on Walck Road nearest to the old Durez site. It should be removed but the city is not allowed to touch it. The county and state cannot touch railroads. The railroads have rights-of-way that date back hundreds of years and the federal government took over the railroads about 40 years ago.
•••
Take down the Mirror Room. The mayor’s heart is in the right place but we don’t need another three or four families in a house with no space around it! They will all be low-income families with a couple kids each and there is no room around the house to hang out. They will be in the streets. Oliver Street needs more green space, not more families packed in like sardines in a can!
•••
Why would a person steal a picture of Christ while being disobedient to his commandment “Thou Shalt Not Steal?” This really puzzles me. This heirloom was displayed in my mother’s home since I was a child. As you gazed at the picture of our lord’s face it almost seems like his eyes were opening and closing. I wonder where it will be hung. Hopefully in a home where the lord is loved.
•••
I was walking my dog Saturday morning on Oliver Street and 11th Avenue when I looked in the field where Roblin Steel used to be. There was a full-size adult coyote sunning himself in the middle of the field. He was watching my little dog with great interest until he saw me staring at him, he then got up and ran to the large dirt pile and looked back to see if I was still looking and, seeing me still watching him, he ran behind the pile. If you have a small pet you should be aware there are predators in our city and a cat or small dog could be taken if let out on their own.
•••
I just saw on the local news some footage on tape that was released from the government regarding the Oklahoma City bombing. Don’t the news people feel for the McVeigh family, knowing that they have to see this stuff? They were innocent — their son wasn’t — but why do they have to keep bringing this up? There are times when things should be positive in the newspaper. Why do the newspapers and the media have to keep bringing up negativity?
- Opinion
-
-
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.
-
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.
-
HOPKINS: Going to the vet for health care
What does a veterinarian have to do with today’s health care debate? Read on.
-
KEPPELER: Stranger in a strange land
I’m not too bad with computers.
That is to say, I can generally operate one without it blowing up. -
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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).
- More Opinion Headlines
-
