April 21st, 2009
RiverCityMalone.com (RCM) is a discussion forum on the issues that matter in Malone and surrounding region. Simple as that. We aim to cultivate what’s vibrant and interesting about this little town and region, chiefly through editorials, feature articles, letters to the editor and other reader commentary.
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April 3rd, 2009
With appreciation to photographer Lisa Beth Older
We’ve added romance to our Classifieds. It’s called Personals.
Why?
Waddya mean “why“? It’s spring! Spring’s when you fall in love! Everyone knows this. It’s primal. Like geese flying north. Like spring peepers crawling out of the mud and singing their hearts out all night.
The great amphibian ode to love!
No different from you and me. (Didn’t they teach you you’re directly descended from frogs? Why do you think little kids jump all the time? Think about it.)
Except for one problem. How the heck do you meet someone in zip code 12953? More…
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March 27th, 2009
—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin
Timothy Chase lives in Chateaugay in a house with big fat liens on it. And I warn you right now this is going to be a sad story and if you don’t like sad stories stop reading right now.
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March 25th, 2009
Frank Cositore, President
Flanagan Hotel
UICC Holding LCC
Malone, NY
Dear Frank,
I think you’re not telling this community everything we need to know. Plus, I think you’re beginning to harm this community. Hence this letter.
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March 20th, 2009
» To the Franklin County Fair Board:
We, the undersigned, ask that you switch the location of the beer tent. From its usual spot to a new one, such as the other side of the grandstand (near the entrance in front of the NCCC campus). Doesn’t matter where, so long as it’s moved from its current, inappropriate location.
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March 17th, 2009
The exploding and burning of Noble Environmental's turbine was not its first disaster. Cheryl LeClair (Altona, NY) describes an experience equally calamitous.
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March 17th, 2009
—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin
A day or so before Thanksgiving, ComLinks CEO Nancy Reich was pulled over by a trooper during a pre-holiday traffic check—a public safety measure aimed at keeping the roads safe for the family, above, from the homicidal threat of drunk drivers.
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February 25th, 2009
—Michael Fournier, Guest Editor
President Obama makes many a reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous admonition, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”
Being the great orator he is, Obama has taken FDR’s line and edited it a bit. The words from this President that will be remembered for the next generations are, “We have nothing to offer but fear.”
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