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Archived stories from Thursday, December 7, 2007 to Wednesday, February 6, 2008

DENIED! GIANTS PULL BIGGEST UPSET IN NFL HISTORY, DEFEAT 18-1 PATRIOTS IN STUNNING FOURTH QUARTER (Review)... 2/3

Just to make something clear here: No, I haven't forgotten about the site, I've been focusing on some other things and it's been relatively slow since the budget address. The New York Post and its reporter, Fred Dicker, has had a few good Spitzer articles the past few days, but that's about it. Right now I've been paying attention to the Presidential primaries, and quite frankly I'm not a fan of what I see...

...And the banner? I'm just testing some ideas here, flipping text around upside down and backward, just fun on my part. 1/30

Happy Groundhog Day... Punx Phil says "6 more weeks of winter." However, Dunkirk Dave says otherwise and predicts an early spring. Of course, Dave was the only one predicting 6 more weeks of winter last year... and he, IIRC, was wrong.

OK, the Cattaraugus County Bicentennial is this year, March 11, 2008. Most of the celebration is going to be during the summer, but the big thing they've all been touting is a wagon trail across the county. Quite frankly, if that's all they've got as far as a bicentennial that's really disappointing because, simply put, it's lame. It doesn't connect to the current population or the current culture. For those of you unaware, the Salamanca Press has a synopsis of what's going on... 2/1

Senator Catharine Young: More concerned about Watertown than her home constituency (Newzjunky.com)... 1/23

Spitzer's budget address... guess what? It does include tax increases. Reactions: not particularly good... 1/23

OBIT: Heath Ledger, 28. Star of "A Knight's Tale" and "Brokeback Mountain." 1/23

Center Street Bridge (Route 353) in Salamanca closed until further notice... 1/17

What the heck are we doing feeding feral cats on village property? (FV exclusive): While on a shopping errand I encountered a woman who was in the village barns after 7:00 last night. She claimed to be feeding feral cats and became testy when confronted, insisting she had permission to be there from the village public works superintendent. The question is, what was she really doing there and if her story is true, why are we housing feral cats in the village barns?... 1/17

Things Eliot Spitzer didn't mention in his billion-dollar giveaway this morning: decreasing regulations, tax reform, reduction of public union jobs, a fence to keep people in NYS... AP synopsis of "State of Upstate" address... Transcript coming soon... 1/16

Good news you won't hear from the AP: Cattaraugus County economy on the upswing (Olean Times Herald)... oh, and the housing market isn't slumping here (OTH)... (1/15)

THEY DIDN'T TELL US THIS: Remember when they said you had to have a passport to cross over into Canada beginning January 31? Well, apparently a birth certificate (or a certified copy, available from the Board of Health of the town in which you were born for far less trouble) will suffice (Buffalo News)... (1/12)

Well, it looks like the Farmersville Landfill idea is dead. Cattaraugus County has foreclosed on the property (Salamanca Press)... (1/10)

OBIT: Edmund Hillary, 88. First man to climb Mount Everest. (1/10)

Text of the State of the State Address (Governor Spitzer's Web site)... (1/10)
--Responses: George Winner: I liked it, but talk is cheap... Michael Bloomberg: Upstate helped us out in the 70s, it's time to help them out... Dean Skelos: "The motherlode of all one-shot gimmicks... I don't think he gets it." Catharine Young (according to blurb from Gary Nease of WPIG): He has to do more than talk about tax relief (so why, then, did you oppose the health care cuts?)...

Spitzer to propose cap on property taxes (New York Sun)... (1/7)

Vast left wing conspiracy to crush the Spitzer dirty tricks scandal? (New York Post)... (1/7)

Wegmans to drop tobacco sales by February 10, 2008 (WBEN)... (1/6)

Assembly Republicans propose bill that would require legislative approval for all thruway toll increases (Empire State News)... (1/5)

The Catskills will not be getting a casino (Albany Times-Union)... (1/5)

Two unnamed teens make bomb threat to Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School Wednesday morning (WESB)... (1/2)

From Fullervision: THE YEAR THAT WAS 2007 (FV exclusive)... (1/1)

Cattaraugus County bank expands into the two biggest cities in Chautauqua County (Jamestown Post-Journal)... (12/30)

Spitzer: "Erie County, no question, is coming out way ahead" in government handouts (Mid-Hudson News) (via our new Google Spitzer Wire)... (12/28)

Report: Spitzer deletes e-mails in "dirty tricks" investigation (New York Post article 1) (NYP 2)... (New York Times)... (12/27)
--Also: Only to Spitzer can a private $3,100 charter flight to Buffalo cost a mere $140 (Albany Times-Union)... (12/27)

OBIT: Benazir Bhutto. Opposition leader in Pakistan is killed by suicide bomber... developing...

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM FULLERVISION... (12/25)

This message from Senator Young regarding the US 219 project has me a little confused (Sharon Turano)... (12/21)

So much for "one New York:" Spitzer to deliver "Upstate State of the State" (WLEA)... (12/20)

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I HAVE FALLEN ABOUT A WEEK BEHIND IN POSTING STORIES TO THE SITE DUE TO SOME OTHER OBLIGATIONS AND TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

Among the stories to be posted:
Failed bank heist at the Cattaraugus County Bank in Franklinville (Salamanca Press)...
Talk of merging town and village of Allegany into one entity (Olean Times-Herald)... (The result would be a municipality larger than Salamanca and second in the county only to Olean in population.)
Spitzer subpoenaed, plus Bruno sets sights once again on Sheldon Silver...

"Largest quantity of cocaine ever seized in the city of Salamanca" -- grand total: $12,000 (including cash and paraphernalia) (Jamestown Post-Journal)... (12/11)

Bait (WGRZ)... (12/11)

Update on the US 219/I-67 project (Springville Journal)... (12/7)

Spitzer meets with Seneca Nation: And things go, in the terms of the Seneca Mafia, "surprisingly well" (WESB)... (12/7)
Speaking of the Seneca Mafia... it appears we've sold out to them (WGRZ)... (12/7)

Spitzer now pushing for... universal broadband for all! Especially those types who can get it but "can't afford it!" (Can we say... subsidy?) (Associated Press) (12/7)

Joe Ferraro, Jr. sends us this picture of an 8-point buck he caught while hunting in South Valley, New York. (Click here for picture)