Bruce Andriatch
- Bruce Andriatch: Considering a sidewalk as life-or-death
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 11/18/08 7:27 AM
- Eleanor Granica has wanted sidewalks in front of her house for all of the 50-plus years she has lived on South Park Avenue in Hamburg. Spurred by the death of a young woman hit by an SUV as she walked along the road, Granica recently decided to gather signatures on a petition to force the issue.
- Bruce Andriatch: Amherst looks in mirror on downsizing
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By Bruce Andriatch
News Columnist
Updated: 11/11/08 6:58 AM
- Nine months ago, when Amherst lawmakers were debating whether to eliminate two members from the seven-member Town Board, Council Member Deborah Bruch Bucki voted against the idea, with a caveat: If it were to be done, it should be done over time by attrition.
- Bruce Andriatch: The prospect of no library
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By Bruce Andriatch
News Columnist
Updated: 11/04/08 10:21 AM
- One of the many things Katie Burd likes about living in Kenmore is that she can walk anywhere she wants to go. She can walk to her daughter’s school, she can walk to church, she can walk to restaurants.
- Bruce Andriatch: Why does 'free' education cost so much?
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By Bruce Andriatch
News Staff
Updated: 10/28/08 10:54 AM
- I’m thinking of sending my kids to a private school. Public school is getting too expensive.
- Bruce Andriatch: ’98 memory all too vivid yet not tragic
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 10/21/08 7:44 AM
- The headline read “Truck hits, injures bike rider, 12,” on June 20, 1998. What followed was a fairly routine news story about a type of accident that happens around the world every day.
- Bruce Andriatch: Tales of sidewalk woes abound
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 10/07/08 8:24 AM
- In 2003, after years of complaints about deteriorating and dangerous sidewalks and not really doing anything about it, the Village of Lancaster sent out notices to property owners ordering them to make repairs.
- Bruce Andriatch: Don’t think of this as one column; it’s 9
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 09/30/08 8:13 AM
- Don’t think of this as a collection of non sequiturs; think of it as nine very short columns for the price of one.
- Bruce Andriatch: Dazed, I am, without that classic glazed
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 09/23/08 8:18 AM
- The first time we met, I knew we had something special. True, you made me wait. You made everyone wait back then. There were days when I wasn’t sure if we would ever get together. But when we finally did, it was all worthwhile. You filled a void in me that I didn’t know existed.
- Bruce Andriatch: For officials, gas guzzling becomes habit
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 09/16/08 7:46 AM
- Recent headlines do not bode well for the future of the sport utility vehicle.
- Bruce Andriatch: Step by step, boundaries are overcome
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 09/09/08 7:50 AM
- For a long time, Buffalo and Cheektowaga were the next-door neighbors that barely acknowledged each other.
- Bruce Andriatch: New traffic roundabouts are moving experiences
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 09/02/08 7:52 AM
- A funny thing happened to traffic on Harlem Road in Cheektowaga the other day: It kept moving.
- Bruce Andriatch: Skeptics be damned: still taking the bus
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By Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 08/19/08 10:33 AM
- Are you still taking the bus?” is the second most common question I have heard in the past few months. The most common is: “You’re not still taking the bus, are you?”
- Bruce Andriatch: Little Cherry Valley votes for bigger board
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By Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 08/12/08 8:25 AM
- Things are a little different in Cherry Valley, a community of about 1,300 people 30 minutes from Cooperstown. Try to contact an elected official there in the afternoon, and you hear this message: “Hi. You’ve reached the Cherry Valley village office. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please leave a message.”
- Bruce Andriatch: As a parent, it’s all about being there
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 08/05/08 7:58 AM
- The calendar on the refrigerator has so many numbers, abbreviations and acronyms jammed into the squares for each date that anyone who doesn’t live in the house could not know what they all mean.
- Bruce Andriatch: A man’s way of putting his family first
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Bruce Andriatch
Updated: 07/29/08 8:28 AM
- From the street, Clarence’s newest business appears to be a coffee shop.
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