Bee Editorial
It's next generation's turn on Memorial Day
      The men and women who have quietly walked for many years among the tombstones of this nation's cemeteries prior to Memorial Day, deftly pushing miniature American flags beside the graves of their deceased comrades, need some relief.
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Spindle items
JESSICA FINCH Associate Editor
      + WHAT MATTERS IN THE END - Many of us were silenced during the overtime period of the Sabres game on Saturday when Ottawa scored, ending the Sabres dreams of winning the Stanley Cup in 2007. But we picked ourselves up and went on with our Saturdays.
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago May 25, 1882 At his residence near Wolf's Mills, Amherst, John Brunner, aged 38 years, died Monday of typhoid pneumonia after an illness of nine days. Fishermen are not telling as large stories this year as usual. Either the sport isn't as good as formerly or the sportsmen have become better men.
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Collins hits the ground running in race for county executive
DAN MEYER Political Columnist
      Chris Collins says it's time to draw a line in the sand. And the Republican candidate for Erie County executive isn't talking about using his toe to mark his territory on a beach somewhere down in Florida.
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Town Board fighting must stop; others should run for seats
SATISH MOHAN Amherst Supervisor
      Every society deserves an honest government that uses the public money with maximum efficiency and that keeps the interests of the voters above the interest of its members.
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