You may call the Owego Pennysaver Readers\u2019 Column at (607) 687-2378 24-hours a day, or e-mail comments to readerscolumn@stny.rr.com. We reserve the right to revise or reject any message.<\/p>\n
Thank you to the 210 Newark Valley students and the two directors for the wonderful Prism concert!<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t understand that because of St. Patrick\u2019s Day they had to change Election Day. You can\u2019t vote on St. Patrick\u2019s Day or what?<\/p>\n
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I agree with the reader that wrote in last week about the dog poop on the sidewalks. You cannot walk on the sidewalks hardly anymore in Owego because of the dog poop that is on the sidewalks. I think people should be accountable that have dogs that walk them and get it picked up and get it cleaned up. They know who they are. I don\u2019t own a dog, but if I did I would clean up my dog\u2019s poop, even in the wintertime in the snow.<\/p>\n
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This is to the person who commented about the programming on public television. If you don\u2019t like the programming that they show for the pledge drives call WSKG and tell them. Don\u2019t call this column.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019d like to comment on the comment last week about not having two mechanics in the town of Owego. I haven\u2019t been in the town of Owego as long as some of these I\u2019ve heard like the old man on the hill, the genius. I\u2019ve talked to some of them and we always did when we had a few trucks, had two mechanics and we had two foremen, working foremen.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s my understanding there have been some county meetings on county employees getting raises. I\u2019d like to know why this is, every time I turn around these people deserve a raise. I mean some of them are hard workers, yes, but I\u2019m not talking about any particular departments, but I\u2019m saying there is one department in which I don\u2019t think those people need to have a raise. I think they should have to work just like the rest of us taxpayers do. When do we ever get a raise? All we ever do is end up paying taxes because of all this.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019d like to know who took the red bows off the bridge in Newark Valley just past the school on the left hand side. Just to let you know there were two people that lost their lives there and that\u2019s why they were there. I don\u2019t appreciate you taking those bows off there because I\u2019m the one that put them there. Thank you very much for being a concerned person.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019d like to leave a note to people to stop complaining about Cal Harris. He\u2019s an innocent guy. He\u2019s a very nice guy. He\u2019d give the shirt off his back for people and has done a lot for the community. People need to stop calling him a killer and accusing him of killing his wife because he didn\u2019t do it. He\u2019s a real nice guy. So people should back off and leave Cal alone. He\u2019s a real nice guy.<\/p>\n
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In the Elmira newspaper on Sunday, it says, \u201cDo it\u201d at the top and at the bottom it says \u201cappreciation\u2019\u2019. It says these activities and attractions help celebrate the country\u2019s rich culture. It\u2019s too bad there\u2019s another segment of society that couldn\u2019t appreciate their culture but they can do anything they can to ruin the culture of their country.<\/p>\n
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About 50 percent of wage earners pay zero federal taxes. The earned income tax credit gives taxpayer money to those who pay zero federal taxes. It might surprise you to know that this includes, get this, $4.2 billion given to illegal aliens. Is there any intelligent life on this planet?<\/p>\n
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Can the obamacrats be so stupid that they will support the corrupt Clinton\u2019s after the disastrous last six years under the emperor? Probably. In the meantime former pro-Obama big money from Bill Gates, General Electric, and other corporate cronies is sending millions of dollars to shove Jeb Bush down the throats of the conservatives and patriots who want real change from the Marxist economic empire gaining more control of the U.S. every single day.<\/p>\n
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Is there anyone in the Apalachin area who does sewing alterations?<\/p>\n
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I personally want to thank the Owego Pennysaver staff for giving us the privileges offered through this column, in which we are able to state info\/opinions, ask questions, and give encouragement to others. Someone in last week’s edition commented that we shouldn’t be asking others through the “Column” for advice and that we should be contacting the source of our unanswered questions instead.\u00a0It’s not that simple.\u00a0Sometimes, when I pick up the phone and call an office, agency, etc. for advice, I am greeted with a recording which tells me to “stay on the line and your call will be answered in the order received” or “we are unable to take your call at this time – please try again later.”\u00a0Unfortunately, those of us who are elderly and those of us with speech \/ hearing\u00a0disabilities cannot endure those suggestions.\u00a0It sure is nice to contact the Owego Pennysaver’s “Press Column” where we can be heard. It is nice that fellow citizens in this county will help out when they are willing to give their own testimonies to help those in need.\u00a0Again, thanks to the Owego Pennysaver for enabling us to read your “Column” each week!<\/p>\n
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What a hoot!\u00a0Al Gore now wants to punish people who don’t buy his hogwash!\u00a0Yeah, right.\u00a0If global warming and climate change is honest and such a big deal, why was his movie, \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d photo shopped and “facts” altered to fit the desired outcome?\u00a0Why has there been instance after instance of altered “facts” from various sources supposedly “proving” global climate change? Why is there no definite proof?\u00a0When you can’t win an argument by proving facts, then pass a law that everyone HAS to agree, or be punished.\u00a0Yeah, that’s the American way all right!\u00a0Ever hear of the 1st Amendment Al?<\/p>\n
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Recent data has shown that the richest 0.1 percent (115,000 households) have each increased their wealth by an astonishing $10 million per year <\/b>mostly from Wall Street (the stock market) while 138,000 kids were homeless. And $45 billion per year in federal, state, and other safety net support is paid to workers earning less than $10.10 an hour. Thus the average U.S. household is paying about $400 to employees in\u00a0low-wage industries such as food service, retail, and personal care.\u00a0That means you and I are making up for the poor wages paid by fast food, big box stores, except for Costco. Walmart’s profits last year were about $25 billion so they can well afford to pay their employees the same as Costco does ($15 hour minimum).<\/p>\n
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Republicans in the U.S. will propose major spending cuts to programs such as Medicare, health care subsidies, food stamps and the Medicaid program for the poor and elderly to produce a budget that’s balanced on the backs of the poor and elderly.<\/p>\n
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With colossal flood loans exceeding our mortgages, high village taxes that offer us very little in return, obscene increases in sewer and other services, flood insurances that have quadrupled, we simply can’t afford the OPD!\u00a0We have to cut where we can, and protect ourselves, as we can, until the stigma of the flood has passed and we can sell our properties and get out of this poorly run village.<\/p>\n
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We have a dairy farm and our milk is picked up by a tractor trailer every other day and when he picks it up he usually\u00a0takes both lanes to pull up beyond the barn, puts on his four way flashers, and then backs into the driveway. On March 14, at about 11 a.m., he arrived and pulled up and a green SUV waited behind him. The milk truck started backing up then the SUV passed him on the RIGHT hand side. Of course the driver blasts his horn but to no avail. This happens all too often. Are people in such a hurry that they can\u2019t wait for a few minutes for the truck to back up? People need to be more patient in this world and have respect for others.<\/p>\n
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It is spring in the village of Candor and many people still haven’t shoveled their sidewalks. My husband and I like to walk for exercise, and we still have to go out into the road in many places because people let the snow build up on the sidewalk in front of their homes all winter, and now it is ice. In addition to the danger of falling on the sidewalk or getting hit by a car in the road, we now have to dodge the dog poop that people haven’t picked up either. How can people be so rude and inconsiderate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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