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I’m looking for relatives of Lula Whitmarsh Anderson, born in 1872, died in 1906, married to Fred Anderson. They are both buried in Woodbridge Cemetery in Candor. Please help with the mystery. Leave a phone number in this column.
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I have eight clean five-gallon pails to give away – will deliver. Text to (607) 321-8210.
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Oh, come on! Taxpayers paid $960,000 for new school buses last year for OACSD! NOW THEY WANT ANOTHER $1,140,160? You are killing the golden goose! A MILLION dollars EVERY YEAR for buses is just insane!
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It’s 2025, and Tioga County still doesn’t equip its sheriff’s deputies with body cameras. “Too expensive” is the official reason. The 2025 Tioga County budget shows that the public safety budget amounts to $13.5 million, or about 13% of the entire budget. Yet, they can’t afford body cams? Interesting.
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I would like to send a special thanks to Seth Tarbox for his donation of the delivery of a crusher run to fix potholes at Hope Cemetery. I would also like to thank all those who donate their time. THANKS!
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FYI – 71% of skateboarders are male. 70% under 18, the largest percentage being age 14. Shouldn’t major funding benefit a wider segment of the population? Just saying.
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Looked at my current May electric bill from NYSEG and compared it to my May bill from 2024. Over one month, the overall bill increased in cost by 5%! Over the last year, the overall bill increased in cost by 73%, supply cost increased by 86%! My usage pattern hasn’t changed much. NYSEG says the increase is because they cut us a break during COVID; increased costs to meet NYS clean energy goals; aging infrastructure; rising supply costs; extreme cold temperatures, etc. This private, Spanish-owned company has some explaining to do to the public and should do so in a reply to this column.
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If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity. — Mama Gump
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Please vote “NO” for the proposed 7.9% increased school budget on May 20, between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. at Newark Valley High School, the taxpayers should not be paying for unnecessary new signs, steel fences, or paved parking lots.
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The question to the Village of Owego, why are we losing parking spots on North Avenue for a bus stop that hasn’t been there in years?
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In the Owego Apalachin Central School budget, I’m noticing that the program component is going up 4 percent, which is probably reasonable, but the administrative component is going up 14 percent. I don’t understand how this is really helping the children of the school district.
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Duct tape can’t fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound. — Mama Gump
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My generation had Wonder Woman, this generation wonders what a woman is. — Studebaker Hawk
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This is to the person who put in the Pennysaver about people dumping brush and things like that on their property and they got their license number. I don’t know if it’s possible, but if you print that license number and if it’s who I think it is, I will let you know in the paper next time.
National Political Viewpoints
Democrats have chosen illegals, criminals, and terrorists over U.S. Citizens!
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Donald Trump is going to destroy democracy? I really hope so! “Democracy” is what North Korea has. We are a constitutional republic. — Mama Gump
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I was surprised last week to see a comment that Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk “worked for their money.” This is not factual. Mr. Trump got $400 million from his father, and Mr. Musk got $78 billion in U.S. taxpayer subsidies for his businesses. Most people in the country do not realize that the biggest recipients of welfare in the U.S. is big business. They know how to milk the system better than anyone else.
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Literally within minutes of Pope Leo XIV being announced, Trump’s social media lapdog, Laura Loomer, tweeted out, “WOKE MARXIST POPE.” Not that we needed further confirmation, but this was the clincher: MAGA is a movement comprising garbage human beings.
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Is anyone else surprised that Donald Trump has tasked Pete Hegseth with cutting the military budget, including forcing out 20% of our generals, at the same time he is planning a big military parade for his own birthday? A parade that will cost multiple millions of dollars? Every day I wake up and pray that this can’t really be happening.
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Well, everything Trump promised before the election is nothing but a lie. He’s done nothing. The war in Ukraine is still raging, inflation is going wild, tariffs are killing our economy, unemployment’s up, and as far as the immigrants, he was going to deport all these violent immigrants. He’s deporting anybody he can grab off the street.
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That program, The View, is horrible! The women on it are a bunch of hate mongers. It should be thrown in the garbage!
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Trump took an oath to uphold the constitution. Our democracy is being threatened by Trumpism. Trump states, “I don’t know” when asked if he must uphold the Constitution. EVERYONE regardless of party, needs to be very concerned and worried. Trump has already violated the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 11th Amendments of the Constitution, according to judges who have been appointed by Democrats and Republicans, even Republican judges appointed by Trump himself. Trump is not a good president so far. Indeed, he is not even a good American.
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Let’s see, before the election, I remember Donald Trump saying we’re going to be going after the M 13 gang members, the killers, the murderers, the rapists, and we’re going to get all of the violent people out of this country. They’re going after everybody, and I mean everybody. How long until they start going after Americans who disagree with him? I’m telling you, people need to think about it.
Seriously, now we have Charlie Kirk here lying and looking foolish.
Only Charlie Kirk is gaslighting Americans into believing there’s a difference between a “democracy” and a “constitutional republic”.
In the definition of both a democracy and a constitutional republic, they are led by elected officials.
Charlie Kirk is confusing people with a “true democracy”, everyone votes on every single issue in the country. I’m not sure any country is a true democracy.America is a Democratic Republic.
Charlie Kirk wants a theocratic dictatorship in America. A theocracy.
IMO, Charlie Kirk should be in prison for insurrection.
He sent out a flyer looking for “patriots ready to fight for Trump” on January 6, 2021. There’s no fighting on January 6. Kirk sent 80 bus loads of domestic terrorists to DC January 6, 2021.
January 6 is to certify the election. The fight is over when all the ballots are counted and states certify their election.
Trump conspired to change the certification in 7 states. Now Trump is trying to pardon a traitor convicted over one of those plots. It’s a state conviction, trump can’t pardon a state conviction.
60 cases in front of over 80 judges, all ruled 2020 was a free and fair election. Many judges were appointed by Trump or another Republican POTUS.
fox and oan paid Dominion Voting Systems for knowingly and maliciously lying about the 2020 election.
Charlie Kirk is working to end democracy in America.
I don’t agree with everything any of the YouTube media outlets I use for politics.We all agree on 1 thing. Without democracy America is like North Korea.
Check out Meidas Touch. They put the documents on screen whenever possible.
Hal Sparks also brings documents when possible. Hal is a little more of an entertainer, so his shows are a little more fun. Both can be found for free on YouTube.
I’m not sure what this means. Last week I saw a picture of my son being falsely called a dead Vietnam veteran. I think the YouTube channel is, This Day In Time. I know my son when I see a picture of him.
Someone in this reader’s column asked, when do they start coming after you, in reference to Trump’s gestapo kidnapping immigrants.
Garcia is not ms-13. That picture was photoshopped. He’s going to win defamation lawsuits against some of Trump’s gestapo and some Republicans who are trying to help Trump cover up the kidnapping of Garcia.
I took a screenshot of the picture. I’m not sure what to do next. Was I threatened? I’m not sure. I’m positive it is my son. Did someone threaten my son?
I’d love suggestions for the next steps I can take to find out how my son is on YouTube as a dead Vietnam veteran.
I’m puzzled. I see MAGA hating on The View quite often.
You can fact check everything they do and see it is all factual.
Those are usually the same people who use a media outlet that paid 3 Quarters Of A Billion Dollars for knowingly and maliciously lying about the 2020 election.
Those people praise fox and oan even though they’ve both settled a lawsuit for knowingly and maliciously lying about Dominion Voting Systems and the 2020 election.
The most accurate news comes on MSNBC between 4pm and midnight.
Their news is the opposite of what the right-wing propaganda machines tell you because foxOanNewsmax and right-wing podcasters give you the opposite of reality. Literally the opposite of reality.
One of the biggest problems America is having is due to Americans not being able to have discussions because the Republican Party is knowingly and maliciously lying about everything. The right-wing media outlets and podcasters back the lying Republicans.
No MSM outlets paid 3 quarters of a billion dollars for knowingly and maliciously lying.
I’m happy Trump and Republicans are very worried about fraud, right. So worried trump just pardoned someone convicted of stealing/defrauding $2M from Social Security.
A law enforcement officer who was taking bribes to hand out police badges was pardoned by Trump.
You should Google, people pardoned by Trump.
I wonder how much Trump made for pardoning the crook who defrauded Social Security and the IRS. Oops, his mother just dumped $1M at Mar a Lago.
Mr law and order dropped a case his DOJ advertised as, a leader of ms-13 arrested on the east coast.
Reports are starting to surface saying the ms-13 leader was working for, Bukele.
Apparently Bukele made a deal with ms-13 while they were in the prison in El Salvador.
Did you see how Trump brought the family of a cartel leader to America without even consulting the Mexican government?
Alice the cocaine ring leader was pardoned in Trump’s first term. Her gang was looked at for murder.
Trump pardoned the founder of the Silk Road drug dealing website.
Trump made it possible for the child trafficking, rapist Tate brothers to come to America.
Musk has admitted to using several illegal drugs while leading doge.
Here’s an example of Trump using extreme rhetoric and not following through.
It was insane to say all drug dealers should get the death penalty, Trump said it more than once.
Then Trump did the exact opposite, he’s pardoned drug dealers in both terms. He brought the family of an incarcerated cartel leader to America.
Damn, MAGA sure are owning the libs, huh? We aren’t the ones lying to you, MAGA.
The moderates of both parties have more in common than either party has with its extreme wing.
All that said, I’m just as angry as I was about some of the people Biden pardoned.
He pardoned a judge who took bribes to put kids in jail.
Trump quote, “tariffs are a tax on other countries”
This is not a harmless lie. Trump is repeating that lie to brainwash Americans.
It is the same as Republicans calling MSM fake news while they’re being interviewed on the outlet that paid 3 Quarters Of A Billion Dollars for knowingly and maliciously lying about the 2020 election. How does fox get away with telling you it is MSM outlets who are fake news when fox hosts were caught flagrantly lying about who attacked the Capitol on January 6 and the 2020 election? There are text messages from several fox hosts saying the exact opposite of what they were telling millions of Americans in their “professional” capacity.
That is the same as people in this reader’s column saying MSM lies or The View is horrible.
*Tell your target population the same lie enough and they’ll believe it.
These are straight from the fascist playbook Mussolini wrote and Goebbels prefected. Some examples.
*Create a fake crisis, tell your target population you’re the only one who can fix it, then pretend you solved a problem that never existed. Obama had America first in crude production by 2014, Trump had nothing to do with that or the Biden administration setting all-time energy production records.
Tariffs are a perfect example. America had the highest GDP and lowest inflation of all major economies under Biden. The Economist is a conservative magazine that said the Biden economy was the envy of the world.Trump lied. He said the economy was in crisis so he could unilaterally impose tariffs on the entire world, penguin inhabited islands included. Who do you think will pay those tariffs, the penguins or the seals? How about we send Lutnick and Bessent to that uninhabited island to find out.
Trump put 145% tariffs on China. Then sent Bessent to Switzerland to pretend China caved to Trump’s tariffs.
Trump got nothing from China when he lowered the tariff on China.
*Accuse the other side of what you’re doing or planning to do.
Republicans started banning books in school libraries. Now they’re allowing DEI hire Hegseth to ban books at military academies like West Point and Annapolis. Fascism, Nazi behavior in America’s military academies.
Our future military officers are having their education censored by the party who told you it was Dems trying to end democracy in America.
Nazis burned books in 1933, 6 years later the Holocaust had begun, Austria was under Nazi rule and the invasion of Poland started WWII.
Trump’s gestapo are kidnapping American citizens in their attempt to kidnap legal immigrants.
The use of kidnapping is not hyperbolic.
They still have a woman in ICE custody who simply wrote an oped on netanyahu’s genocide in Palestine.
Another college student was kidnapped for similar reasons. He was released so he could graduate. Trump’s gestapo are sending immigrants to war torn dictatorships so the legal immigrants can’t get their story to the American people and the world.
Again, the judge who wanted Trump’s gestapo to stop flights to El Salvador was 100% correct. 75% of the immigrants sent to El Salvador had no criminal records anywhere.
If Americans don’t wake up very quickly, it is going to be too late to stop the fascist takeover of America. I’ve never worried about that before.
June 14th, Flag Day, A day of huge protests across America.
There are 1,000 planned “no kings in America” protests on the day trump makes Washington DC look like Moscow, N. Korea and other dictatorships, They use their military to keep their citizens in fear of the government, that is not America, yet.
There are many veterans saying Trump’s birthday parade is a betrayal of them and their oath to the United States Constitution.
DC mayor already said tanks are going to destroy streets in DC. She’s not prone to hyperbole. We’ll see.
There is no actual fascist playbook in print, I refer to methods shared by mass murdering dictators.
America didn’t have to go through this, Reagan and fox started the fall into fascism when he repealed the “Fairness Doctrine” and fox hit the airways.
It is not the Democratic Party or MSM outlets lying to you.
Jake Tapper proved he’s been a snake in the grass with his unverified book about Biden.
I know Biden slowed down a lot, but not to the extent Tapper portrays.
They went to progressives who had been sabotaging Biden since the day before he won the 2020 election.
If the moderates of both parties got together, we would vote out the extremist wing of both parties.
Most Dem voters are against transgender athletes stealing trophies from female athletes in women’s athletic competitions and bathroom laws that could make it possible for predators to find victims in the women’s restroom.
I’m not saying transgender people are predators, but any man would be able to put on a dress and wait for victims.
Most Republicans aren’t for overthrowing America and banning books from adults like the far-right.
Most Americans want common sense gun laws.
That’s a reason the Republican Party started using abortion as a cultural divider in the 1970s.
The Catholic Church is against abortion but won’t Baptize a still born because it “hasn’t taken the breath of life” it is a cultural divider.
Read what God told Lot about a wife with another man’s child inside her.
That story tells me God is pro choice under the right circumstances.
Late term abortion does not happen if the baby is healthy.
Republicans want their constituents to believe a scorned woman could go to a Dr to abort a baby out of spite.
Everyone knows it would be murder to kill a baby after it was born. Yet Republicans have convinced brainwashed Americans that there is such a thing as, abortion after birth. Read the definition of abortion. How can Americans believe that lie? By Republicans using the fascist playbook Mussolini wrote and Goebbels prefected. Tell your target population the same lie enough and they’ll believe it.
In less than 6 months Trump went from, “I’ll bring down grocery prices on day 1″ to Trump telling Americans they won’t be able to afford more than 2 dolls and 5 pencils. And to be happy about it.
Joni Ernst thinks it is more important to give billionaires another tax cut than Americans having healthcare.
If you didn’t see the town hall Ersnt was told,”Americans are going to die” because of the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, it’s available on YouTube.
Then watch her make fun of the constituents that are worried about Americans being harmed by the bill that will add trillions to the national debt, push 14,000 Americans off Medicaid, all to give more money to people that couldn’t spend the money they already have in 2 lifetimes.
There are no illegal immigrants on Medicaid. That is another lie from trump and his Republican Party.
For the person who brought Charlie Kirk to this reader’s column. There’s a YouTube channel, Dan McClellan. The first video I watched crushes everything Kirk interprets from the Bible, while Dan puts the Bible quotes Charlie Kirk is shredding, on the screen for you to see.
*Kirk has no clue or is intentionally deceiving his listeners.
Does everyone understand the Christian nationalists want to go back to old testament lifestyle?
They want women out of the workforce, barefoot and pregnant.
This is not the least bit hyperbolic. They use the words I just did.
They think the 19th amendment is where America went wrong. They pretend a Constitutional Republic is different from the Democratic Republic America is.
Why do you vote for people who want to end women’s voting rights? Again, not hyperbolic. You allow Charlie Kirk to have free speech while he wants to take away your voting rights. I don’t enjoy paying such close attention to everything Trumputin and his Russianpublikkkan Party of nazi insurrectionists are doing and planning. If you read things I say and didn’t know them already, you’re doing exactly what the fascists in America need you to do in order to end democracy in America. I do not, ever lie about what Trump’s nazi insurrectionists are doing or planning. moses Johnson did that when he released video of January 6. He wants you to believe John F. Kennedy had a peaceful trip through Dealey Plaza by not showing you the assassination.
Nothing changes the brutal violence in Dealey Plaza or on Capitol Hill, January 6, 2021.
It begins with, Republican scare tactic politics that caused paranoia and mass delusions in millions of Americans. Another use of the fascist playbook Mussolini wrote and Goebbels prefected.
Go have a lie down.