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posted on
January 18th, 2012
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Supervisor Mary F. Holtz Delivers State of the Town of Cheektowaga Address

Join The Buffalo News' Cheektowaga reporter TJ Pignataro at noon Thursday from the Millennium Hotel where Cheektowaga Town Supervisor Mary F. Holtz will hold her State of the Town address. Holtz is ...

posted on
January 18th, 2012
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How Should West Seneca Use 200 Acres at the Former West Seneca Developmental Center Site?

Join The Buffalo News' West Seneca reporter, TJ Pignataro, who will report from the West Seneca Senior Center at 7 p.m. for this first of four workshops set up to provide information to residents a ...

posted on
January 17th, 2012
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Live blog from Cheektowaga Town Board meeting

Join Buffalo News' Cheektowaga reporter TJ Pignataro who will conduct the first live blog from Cheektowaga Town Hall at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday. The Cheektowaga Town Board will begin by holding a pair of ...

posted on
June 30th, 2009
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What price anonymity?

You get a whole different picture of how people feel about things when they don't have to tell you who they are. That's partly what makes internet message boards and blogs both interesting and a li ...

posted on
June 26th, 2009
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One step completed on long journey

Following a kindergartener through her first year of school was a way to find out what goes on in the classroom, how lofty legislation like No Child Left Behind affects 5- and 6-year-olds, how the ...

posted on
June 23rd, 2009
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Red light cameras and the suburbs

I'm not sure how I feel about putting cameras at intersections to catch people not stopping at red lights. The concerns that opponents have about privacy and about this being nothing more than a mo ...

posted on
June 2nd, 2009
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D - for downsizing - Day in Evans and West Seneca

Voters in West Seneca and Evans on Wednesday will decide whether to trim their town boards to three members, down from five. If the measure passes, taxpayers will send a clear message to their elec ...

posted on
June 2nd, 2009
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The shot heard 'round Western New York

I probably was in the Oranges on the locker room side 90 percent of the times I went to the Aud for anything, but for some reason, on this night, I remember sitting lower and closer to the center. ...

posted on
May 26th, 2009
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Required to live where you work

Many local municipalities require that their employees be residents of their town or city. As taxpayer-supported positions, officials argue, these employees should have a vested interest in the com ...

posted on
May 26th, 2009
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They had the write stuff

Write-in votes usually are wasted votes. That's why I was so interested in what happened last week in the Amherst School Board race. As I wrote in my column today, two people whose names were not o ...