Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published October 15
Another Sabres season and does anybody really have any hope this team is going to do anything? This is very depressing, we go into the fall and winter and our sports teams rip our hearts out.
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I’m reading the article about the new tax on power to make up the state’s shortfall. All the people who work at the Power Authority, especially the people in charge should all have to do like the people at General Motors and Delphi had to do, take a cut in pay and benefits and work like human beings. Not like CEOs who are overpaid, like they all are in New York state. They ought to make them take a cut in pay to keep the prices down. We pay more for power and it’s in our backyard. Let New York City put up windmills and solar panels instead of us supplying them with cheap power.
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I just want to say, on health care, thank you Sen. Charles E. Schumer, for going against the people. Your wanting to pass a health care plan that would hurt the elderly, that really sounds great. You, for one, know 56 percent of people don’t want the public option, but you want the public option? What is wrong with you? I don’t think you should be our senator anymore.
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I live in the Christiana Street area near Spruce School and I’m asking if anyone has seen my lost dog. It’s a 2-year-old male miniature sized poodle with a green collar. If anybody has seen him, please just call the police station. I’ve already notified them. Thank you.
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Believe me, my friend, Tonawanda cops harassing kids is nothing new. My son, who is now 26, was harassed constantly by the Tonawanda cops when he was 16 just for walking through BJs parking lot. The trouble with these guys is that they have nothing better to do in such a small city.
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I was talking to one of the members of the NT School Board about how the city treasurer did not collect the school taxes properly over the past 10 years and how the city taxpayers had to foot the bill. Even after an out of court settlement the school still has no idea whether or not the taxes are being collected. The treasurer is doing things the same way. How could this be? What happened to our school taxes that were never collected?
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Sometimes there’s a Sound Off and you can’t tell if it’s for NT or Tonawanda, like the one about the mayor’s assistant!
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My family and I attended the Ghostlight Theatre production of “Sleepy Hollow” on Saturday and we enjoyed it immensely. The acting, set design and direction were all top-notch. Everyone involved should be very proud of their efforts. What a treasure this theatre company is for our community!
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I want to express my dismay over the new teacher’s contract just passed by, I hope, the soon to be removed board of education. They got raises? I haven’t had a raise in two years and when I did, it was for only 2%! Too much money for too little results. We need to grow our tax base here in NT and that’s not going to happen if taxes keep climbing. And that’s what is going to happen as a result of this contract; don’t let anyone fool you by saying otherwise.
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As a former student and graduate of 1946 of Tonawanda High School, I hope that they continue the football games between Tonawanda and North Tonawanda high schools. It would be a shame to stop such a worthy meeting between the two schools.
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How does an owner of a bar get away with shooting off a loaded weapon inside the bar he owns. The bullet was reported to go though a refrigerator, an outside wall into a neighboring building. So not only could this person have hurt or even killed one of his own customers but someone unknowing outside. What is the SLA, police or the city officials doing about this?
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TUCKER: Will traffic signals be next?
My guess is that you are all ahead of me on this one. However, the article in the News reporting that the one-way streets in the City of Tonawanda will be changed back to two-way is good news.
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Sound Off published Saturday March 20
Tell Walmart to quit arguing with the North Tonawandans and come over to Tonawanda. We have a perfect spot for them where they could build the store and there’d be no problems. -
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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