Opinion
SOUND OFF: Published July 1
To all the people complaining about the train whistles, did you learn your lesson? You need to have train whistles. You need to warn people. I don’t care if it’s early in the evening, or 3 a.m. Children do wander. Keep those train whistles blowing and keep them loud and clear!
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For the lady who moved to Tonawanda from Williamsville and wanted to join the Tonawanda Senior Center but couldn’t because she had to show a utility bill because her driver’s license wasn’t proof enough. Go join the North Tonawanda Senior Center for $2 more. You will be welcomed and more goes on there. You’ll enjoy it!
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What is this world coming to? We’ve got a guy in Wednesday’s paper worried about his kids watching “Sesame Street” and “The Price is Right” because they had no electricity. I’d be worried a little more about the food in the fridge and hot water.
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This is to Eric DuVall, shame on you! Do you hate T.O.? His foot got stuck. She was something else. Doesn’t she know how to be a sport? You don’t always win. Quit putting him down. Give him a chance. Give Buffalo a chance and don’t be so jealous.
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Hey DPW guys, I just drove down North Avenue. It’s beautiful! Thanks guys!
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Mr. Obama, how do you lead the global economy without industry?
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I’d like to know about these people who are supposed to be representing the people of New York state. They don’t show up to work for two weeks. If I did that, I wouldn’t have a job anymore. So I think everybody in North Tonawanda should get all the cookies they can and send them to George Maziarz. That way, if they don’t feel like working, they can just have cookies and milk on a blanket. They don’t seem to want to work or pass any bills. We should think about getting rid of them.
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In reference to the woman who wanted to join the senior citizens’ club in the City of Tonawanda. Please make it clear that it was not the decision of the senior citizens’ organization.
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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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