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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v6n30 (07/26/2007) » Section: The News, Briefly


Dumped

If there are any bright spots in the city’s handling of its urban forest this summer, one might be the removal of the big, dead Norway maple that was pictured in “Timber!” (Artvoice v6n28), four days after the story published. After being on the removal list for a year and a half, Schneck’s Tree Removal, an Orchard Park company the city contracts to cut down trees, finally arrived to remove it. The foreman on the job explained that they’d be back to grind down the stump and lay down fresh topsoil within two weeks. Dead before the storm, there was no way to justify FEMA money for its removal. Nevertheless this is one example where the city found the funds to have a hazardous right-of-way tree removed.



Robbed by the One-Armed Bandit

American cartoonist and humorist Kin Hubbard once said, “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” Sound advice, indeed. Advice that I should’ve taken last Friday. Instead, in the middle of a postcard-perfect summer afternoon, with cotton ball clouds hanging in the sky and a crisp $20 bill burning a hole in my pocket, I stepped into the air-conditioned cool of the Senecas’ new Buffalo Creek Casino.



The Land that Time Forgot

If you’re a collector of Cold War memorabilia, the US General Services Administration has a hot item for you: the Youngstown Test Annex, 98.7 acres at the corner of Balmer and Porter Center Roads in Niagara County. An online auction for the parcel began on July 12, with a minimum opening bid of $100,000.



Common Council Report: Star Power

Standing ovations for the Scintas, Eliot Spitzer, retirees delay the people’s business





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