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School budget process has begun - get involved
      It's time to get involved with your school district's budget process. Unhappy with the district's spending plan? Want to see more spent on athletics? Less? Now, not in May, is the time to voice your opinion, concerns and questions. Make the school administrators and board of education accountable ...
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Spindle items
JILL SCHMELZER Amherst Reporter
      + MAGICAL MOMENTS - Readers, you may remember an article that appeared in the Oct. 11 edition of The Amherst Bee in which resident Katie Weisser was featured for her efforts to participate in Walt Disney's marathon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago Jan. 19, 1882 A week ago last Tuesday evening, Jan. 10th, a bridal party drove up to the Lutheran parsonage, and Miss Dena Schworm and John Hardinger were made one. After which, a reception was held at the house of the bride's father. May happiness and joy attend the newly married...
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No savings too small in our troubled county
BRIAN ACKLEY Political Columnist
      It's a warm, dry, sunny January day in Buffalo when something wafts down from the top of the Edward A. Rath Erie County Office Building that doesn't remind us all of driving through Lackawanna when Bethlehem was a thriving economic interest.
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Laws now in effect will benefit New York taxpayers
MARY LOU RATH New York State Senator
      On Jan. 1, new laws went into effect that will save New York's families and businesses almost $1 billion in taxes, preserve jobs and valuable industries such as manufacturing, and drastically cut down on Medicaid fraud.
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Democratic leadership prioritizes agenda
LYNN MARINELLI Legislature Chairperson
      As we start 2007 in the Erie County Legislature, I have been given the honor and responsibility of leading this Legislature as we address reform and financial efficiencies in our elected service to the people of Erie County, better ways to conduct the business of the people and other avenues of act...
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