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Local Commentaries

Rounding Third: Watch out for the credit card sharks

Last Friday, when the phone rang, the caller I.D. read Barclay Bank. Uh-oh. That’s not good. Barclay Bank is synonymous with only one thing for me – my MasterCard. The only time any credit card company has ever called on the phone was to inform me of fraudulent activity. The last time ...

Energy policy in nation needs some rethinking

Winston Churchill observed: “Americans will always do the right thing… right after they have tried everything else”. Hopefully America (and New York state) will do the right thing with respect to energy policy where we have failed abysmally so far. Instead of an energy policy, America ...

Areas impacted believe district dodging questions

For nearly 90 days, Superintendent Gary Weber and the administration of the Warren County School District have been dodging questions and right to know inquiries to a number of subjects. Apparently the less the public knows the better off they shall all be and we’re supposed to take the ...

Are safety issues being considered?

As the vote draws closer, with how the district has simply not discussed the distractions to the students of the district, one has to wonder if the district simply overlooked this aspect or did not think about what distractions might be caused by the plan to close Youngsville High School? Are ...

Table full of memories

As we sat in my kitchen on Christmas Eve, I realized that we were making memories. This was the Christmas when my daughter-in-law was with her ailing father. This was the Christmas that my granddaughter could not make it home because of her work commitment. The table that we sat around ...

Rounding Third: Those pesky New Year’s resolutions

Does anyone make New Year’s resolutions anymore? Most people I talk to don’t bother. Maybe we finally realized that resolutions were merely words… words without action plans. I think I must have spent 40 years making resolutions about weight loss. Many of those Januarys, I actually ...