Editorials
Editorials
Lancaster Airport expansion: Part I: Residents have questions
Lee Chowaniec
The more the Safe Aviation Coalition (SAC) looks into the Lancaster Airport expansion project, the more inconsistencies they find in a master plan study that was written to provide federal and state funding for the expansion, and more reason to belief that taxpayers are being fleeced.
Nov 19, 2009, 13:40
Editorials
2010 Lancaster budget approved
Lee Chowaniec
By a 4- 1 vote, the Town of Lancaster approved its 2010 budget. The amended budget cut another $53,000 from the tentative budget proposed in October.
Nov 17, 2009, 10:55
Editorials
Lancaster Airport expansion under fire
Lee Chowaniec
The Safe Aviation Coalition (SAC)has reason enough to complain about small aircraft flying low and/or buzzing their homes and affecting their quality of lives. Once being told by the Town of Lancaster that they had no jurisdiction in the airport expansion process and that they should contact the FAA, the airport or Congressman Christopher Lees’ office, they began doing some research.
Nov 10, 2009, 12:01
Editorials
Safety of Lancaster Bridges
Lee Chowaniec
What exactly is the status of the safety of the Lancaster Pavement Road and Cemetery Road Bridges and the time table for their repairs and/or replacements depends on where the information is coming from.
Nov 7, 2009, 10:21
Editorials
Congratulations Lancaster candidates for taking the “high road”
Lee Chowaniec
Although the council member race has not been declared official, I would like to extend my congratulations to all Lancaster candidates, winners and losers, for taking the high road in their campaign efforts.
Nov 6, 2009, 10:16
Editorials
You Better Leave Town
Gary S. Howell
The Supervisor went on to say, “If I ever find out anyone ever started a rumor about me, you better leave town.”
Nov 5, 2009, 10:56
Editorials
Lancaster Town Supervisor on rumors and innuendos
Lee Chowaniec
At Monday evening’s Lancaster Town Board work session, Supervisor Robert Giza brought to the attention of the board members and a few attendees the anger felt concerning the salacious rumors and innuendos appearing on the Internet, in the media and passed about in public.
Nov 4, 2009, 12:31
Editorials
Time for a "new direction"
Lee Chowaniec
Residents who are considering voting for incumbent Lancaster Town Board Council Members this year have good reason to ponder change. For years, the entrenched single party (Democratic) Town Board has acted in such manner that many residents are of the opinion that the board is more accountable to developers, special interest groups and town employees than for the best interests of the community it was elected to serve.
Oct 31, 2009, 10:59
Editorials
A $250 donation, I think not!
Lee Chowaniec
Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Ellen Goodman recently wrote on President Obama requesting Congress allocate $250 to the 57 million beneficiaries of Social Security and other federal entitlement programs, regardless of income to compensate for the fact that older Americans will not get a cost-of-living increase in their 2010 checks.
Oct 29, 2009, 09:34
Editorials
The second Lancaster department head budget cut meeting
Lee Chowaniec
Damn, miss one Lancaster Town Board and who shows up, none other than the Buffalo News. How is it that they missed the first meeting last Wednesday, the more significant/detailed meeting? Who rang their bell on this one; the second dog and pony show? Regardless, thank you Ms. Pasciak for the coverage.
Oct 27, 2009, 12:47
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