Issue of June 11, 2008

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Board Responds


Wednesday, June 11 2008
As a Town of Victory council member and a voice for the entire town board I would like to offer the following response to taxpayer Roger Manning’s published letter regarding the Town of Victory’s latest revised assessments.

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A Most Sincere Thank You


Wednesday, June 11 2008
I would like to take this opportunity to again say thank you to all of the people that supported the effort to have a traffic device placed at the intersection of 104 and Limekiln Road, in Butler.
I wish my report to you could be of a more positive nature, but I received word this week that our proposal and concerns were rejected by the New York State Department of Transportation.

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WEC Fall Bog & Grog Correction


Wednesday, June 11 2008
I would like to correct the talk of and a statement that was made in a letter to the editor from the Sodus Chamber of Commerce that the Wallington Engine Company’s Fall Bog and Grog will be two-day event. 

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Accept Grant Dollars for Hotchkiss


Wednesday, June 11 2008
We actually have a treasure among us, an international treasure, “a diamond in the rough.”  This is not just any building; this is an historic building with an amazing story.  I am talking about the H.G. Hotchkiss Prize Medal Essential Oil Company Building located on the Erie Canal in our county seat of Lyons.  

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Patterson Confirmed What We Knew


Wednesday, June 11 2008
The June 4 article in the Wayne County Star “Patterson: Wayne is Highest Taxed County in Nation” confirms what Wayne County property owners have for years suspected.
Can you believe it? 

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Immigration: A Contentious Issue


Wednesday, June 11 2008
I roundly applaud my former editor for her defense of her immigrant neighbors and for her comments on a basic injustice that needs to be addressed.

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Reaction to “My Neighbors, in Handcuffs”


Wednesday, June 11 2008
This was a great story that really struck a chord with me.  My retirement career has included hundreds of hours as a classroom volunteer in Head Start classrooms.  Two years ago, I met a wonderful little boy named René Aguilera.  A very special relationship developed, so special that many members of the local Latino community refer to me as his godfather (which I guess I am, in all but the strictly religious sense). 

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Making the State Pay Attention and D-Day

Louise Hoffman Broach, Wayuga Editor
Wednesday, June 11 2008
Making the State Pay Attention and D-Day
Bill Wiggins thinks he came out on the losing end with the state Department of Transportation because its engineers didn’t find the intersection of Limekiln Road and Route 104 in Butler needed a blinking light to control traffic.

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