To say I was shocked was a really good understatement when I read that Ron Raccuia was “fired” (yes, fired without explanation) from the Buffalo Bills, and without any real public explanation as to why. Here’s a man who probably is solely responsible for not only bringing the new stadium to …
Readers comment on the USS The Sullivans, the decommissioned destroyer at one point listing in Buffalo's Inner Harbor.
Congrats to the genius who designed the so-called improvements to Exit 19 in Abingdon.
The town of Abingdon has determined to sell their former visitors center site, the impressive century-plus-old Hassinger House, a property abutting our Veterans Memorial Park.
In my opinion, as lay people, we don’t have all the information to protect us from contracting this virus. Yes, handwashing is critical. Social distancing of at least 6 feet is helpful, 10 feet even better.
This is a voting story. I’m deliberately submitting it BEFORE we know the results of the 2020 presidential election. This year I had three friends, all previous NONVOTERS, cast their vote, in part perhaps because I kept talking about how important voting is.
I would like to comment on a story that was in the Bristol Herald Courier on Sept. 20. It stated that flyers were being circulated in Abingdon calling Ruth Bader Ginsburg a witch.
The recent news of the USS The Sullivans taking on water broke my heart. I have followed the Sullivan story for several years, watching the movie and visiting the ships with my grandchildren. The last time I was at the Liberty Hound restaurant with one of my granddaughters, we stopped to see the great ships and we were shocked to see The Sullivans tucked into a spot between the pier and the USS Little Rock. We noticed that much debris, including small logs, were collecting around the ship and thought that this mighty warship deserved a better fate.
I am writing in response to several opinions expressed regarding public funding of the new Buffalo Bills stadium: and the plight of the USS The Sullivans.
It will cost several million dollars to repair the USS The Sullivans. If the five Sullivan brothers were alive, I’m sure that they would rather see that money used to help the living veterans.
In early 1977, while I served as counsel to Buffalo Mayor Stan Makowski, Anthony P. LoRusso, who had just returned with his wife Jackie from a visit to North Carolina, phoned me and said that he had seen the Battleship North Carolina in a Naval Park there. LoRusso said that Buffalo should also have a Naval Park. Then, LoRusso located two ships that were available for a Naval Park in Buffalo: The Sullivans and the Little Rock.
For several years now a Buffalo treasure has sat idle denying visitors to the Erie Basin Marina the opportunity to enjoy a location with spectacular views of Lake Erie, the Buffalo River and the Erie Basin Marina while enjoying an ice cream, hot dog, or loganberry. Hopefully, Mayor Byron W. Brown and those charged by him to enhance the quality of life in Buffalo, will act quickly as warm weather approaches to identify a suitable operator of the Hatch and former William K’s this year.
Tim Howard is finally “gone” from the sheriff’s department. Still too ill to work but can attend Bills games and maintain a no-show desk job in the sheriff’s department. Old is new again.
I read the U.S. Rep. Morgan H. Griffith article in the editorial section of the paper on Feb. 16, “Ideas to improve health care.” Apparently, our representative does not know what the Stark Act involves.
It’s nice to read that U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, 9th District, is concerned about the health of his constituents. Unfortunately, his ideas are, at best, modest and, at worst, misguided and full of misinformation.
Most hospitals are now full which has resulted in elective surgeries being postponed. Why are they full? Obviously because of Covid, but there is also another reason. Nursing homes don’t have enough staff and therefore can’t admit patients from the hospitals. Why don’t nursing homes have enough staff? This is because New York State does not reimburse nursing homes for what it costs to care for Medicaid patients.
Congrats to the genius who designed the so-called improvements to Exit 19 in Abingdon.
The town of Abingdon has determined to sell their former visitors center site, the impressive century-plus-old Hassinger House, a property abutting our Veterans Memorial Park.
As a great-granddaughter of John Hassinger, I have been asked for some input on the controversy over whether to keep or sell his house. I question whether a short-term fix outweighs the long-term effect of selling the house and property.
No one has done more to harm the people of the Ninth District than Congressman Morgan Griffith.
If you are a Republican worried about socialism and you plan on getting the $1,400 COVID relief check from the U.S government, trash it, don’t cash it.
It has been gratifying to see the Bristol Herald Courier’s and Washington County News’ recent articles on issues concerning historic buildings in Abingdon, including the handsome 1840s Dooley House.
Hey, Abingdon! Today you took down three magnificent sycamores on Court Street, and about a week ago, another tree on Main Street — one that didn’t even have a yellow notice on it, if memory serves — got the axe.
As a retired professor who taught operations management for over 20 years, I am appalled at the way the Covid-19 vaccine is being distributed in Erie County.
I am a proud, lifelong resident of the City of Buffalo. I applaud our continued development of the Outer Harbor with an emphasis on habitat restoration and accessibility for all.
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation has released a draft plan for Buffalo’s Outer Harbor. In many ways, the plan treats the Outer Harbor like a park. It would be much stronger, though, if it included actually making it a park. An economic development corporation with time-limited funding is not the best steward for public land with great ecological importance and beauty. Moreover, Buffalo is severely “under-parked,” with only 7% of its land used for public parks (New York City, by contrast, is 20 percent park).
In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, while pounding his shoe on a desk, stated in anger that the communists would take the United States without firing a shot.
The ongoing chaos associated with the presidential election achieved an audacious pinnacle with the Texas suit requesting votes for Biden be overturned in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
In my opinion, as lay people, we don’t have all the information to protect us from contracting this virus. Yes, handwashing is critical. Social distancing of at least 6 feet is helpful, 10 feet even better.
This is a voting story. I’m deliberately submitting it BEFORE we know the results of the 2020 presidential election. This year I had three friends, all previous NONVOTERS, cast their vote, in part perhaps because I kept talking about how important voting is.
