High schools should adopt alcohol training for parents
      Lake Shore Central Senior High School requires parents to attend mandatory alcohol and drug training before their children are allowed to purchase tickets to dances. The training covers pressures youth face, legal issues, signs and symptoms of abuse, recognizing drugs and pa...
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Spindle items
      DAVID F. SHERMAN Managing Editor + RED HANDED - Last week's Meet the Candidates night hosted by the Sweet Home Board of Education was not without its comic moments.
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago May 11, 1882 Last Thursday, the Rough and Ready Fire Company held its annual election of officers. Chosen were J.D. Long, foreman, and Peter Horey, assistant foreman. The law of the land is that pedestrians have the right of way at street crossings. The own...
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Senecas offer Spitzer rough road; Ackley authors his final column
      BRIAN ACKLEY Political Columnist If Eliot Spitzer thinks it's been a tough road, pun intended, with the Seneca Nation of Indians, he might be in for a whole lot of you ain't seen nothing yet. No doubt that newly elected nation President Maurice John speaks for plenty of...
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Let's protect both workers and democracy
TODD STOTTLEMYER NFIB President and CEO
      Successful entrepreneurs know that a key factor in running a thriving business is a good relationship between the owners and their employees. In the current economy, with nearly full employment and intense competition for good workers, it's clearly in their interests to foste...
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Some suggestions for the governor
      JOEL GIAMBRA Erie County Executive When Eliot Spitzer said in his State of the State speech that New York State has a few thousand too many municipalities, I saluted. Because for the first time in my recollection, a governor said what scholars and policy professionals ...
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