Bee Editorial
Are your children really ready to go back to school?
      Pens - check. Notebooks - check. Stylish back-to-school clothing - check. If you're a parent or guardian who has already obtained the ever-growing list of supplies required by school districts and the hippest clothing and shoes required by your child - you may think your back-to-school regimen...
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Spindle items
JESSICA FINCH Associate Editor
      • THINK SUNNY SKIES - With Labor Day deemed the unofficial end of summer, some of you may be wondering where the season went. I know I am, in part at least - I know the other part was spent celebrating nuptials.
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Out of the Past
      125 Years Ago Aug. 31, 1882 Last Saturday afternoon, the Williamsville base ball nine played the Gardenville club, which included several good amateur players from Buffalo, and defeated them 18-9 after a close and exciting contest of two and one-half hours. Fine running catches were made by Le...
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Political shenanigans in Albany blocking reform, progress
DAN MEYER Political Columnist
      Even the finest movie directors in Hollywood couldn't come up with a better storyline than what some of the Empire State's top elected officials provided us in recent weeks when it comes to the bizarre behavior of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and some of their closest po...
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Great Lakes a treasure worth fighting for
TOM REYNOLDS Congressman 26th District
      The end of summer is nearly here, and assuredly, many Western New Yorkers and tourists alike have enjoyed one of the greatest attractions our area has to offer in the summer months: the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes, as all Western New Yorkers know and understand, represents so much to our area.
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