Advice sought for ways to raise funds for area family
     A very dear friend’s husband has been suffering with brain cancer for two years now. His long and noble fight has included two craniotomy surgeries and many courses of chemotherapy, thereby depleting the family’s finances.
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Collar, identification tag could ensure pet’s safe return
     As a fellow animal control officer for more than 25 years in a neighboring town, I read with interest the article regarding Frank Faraone, a Monroe animal control officer facing animal cruelty charges over having technicians euthanize a cat that he believed to be ill (“Officer Stands Trial in Cat Eu
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Of modern kings, henchmen and peons
     There has been talk about raising the retirement age to 73. Why don’t we just raise it to 94? At least the next generation can work its whole life putting money into the system and not have to worry about collecting any of it. Then the following generation won’t have to worry about a shortage — ther
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