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		<title>Story-killer: The word &#8220;brownfield&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My duties here at the Gazette include covering environmental issues of all sorts &#8212; and believe me I could spend all my time writing about the environment in Niagara Falls. But, alas, I wonder if our readers feel the same way. For instance, you could make a strong argument that the city&#8217;s most significant issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=majorpoints.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3508782&amp;post=8&amp;subd=majorpoints&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German POW</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.niagara-gazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_128204320.html Talk about fascinating: Sitting across from Heinrich Willert, an officer in the German Luftwaffe during World War II who was captured and eventually held at Fort Niagara until the war was over, was a great experience. Willert wanted to stay in America after the war was over, but he was sent back to Germany, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=majorpoints.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3508782&amp;post=7&amp;subd=majorpoints&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youngstown development</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For such a small village, Youngstown has its share of active residents who know where to go to make their voices heard. Take, for example, last Thursday&#8217;s board meeting. Nearly the entire population of East Oak Terrace showed up to protest the lack of progress they see in a nearby development: http://www.niagara-gazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_126180534.html The village doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=majorpoints.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3508782&amp;post=6&amp;subd=majorpoints&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just another town board meeting&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.niagara-gazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_119221511.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_120204730.htm Actually, it was anything but that. As a reporter, I&#8217;ve sporadically heard about the mutual dislike between Fred Newlin and George Maziarz since I joined the Gazette almost a year ago. But I hear a lot of stuff that probably isn&#8217;t true. This is clearly true. Maziarz was ostensibly at the meeting on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=majorpoints.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3508782&amp;post=5&amp;subd=majorpoints&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Village budgets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budget votes are due before the end of April for New York state villages. Lewiston votes on its spending plan today and Youngstown may approve theirs at a 4 p.m. meeting next Monday, April 28 at Village Hall. If my past experience at these meetings is any indication, attendance and feedback afterward will be sparse. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=majorpoints.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3508782&amp;post=4&amp;subd=majorpoints&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An introduction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi. This is our blog. By &#8220;us&#8221;, I mean me and anybody interested in Lewiston, Porter, Youngstown and the New York Power Authority. Those are my beats at the Niagara Gazette and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll be discussing here, hopefully on a regular basis. Beyond that, the format will be pretty fluid. I&#8217;ll try to update [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=majorpoints.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3508782&amp;post=1&amp;subd=majorpoints&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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