Speed skating will be the newest program offered by the Town of Aurora Department of Parks and Recreation, and training sessions will take place at the Time Warner Cable Classic Rink on Riley Street. The Aurora Town Board approved the program at its Dec. 8 meeting, but not before Town Supervisor Dwight Krieger raised questions about running programs not based on town property.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo this fall appointed East Aurora resident J. David Sampson to the post of New York State's deputy attorney general for regional affairs. Sampson will oversee 225 lawyers working statewide in the attorney general's 13 regional offices, managing what Sampson called the "front door to the attorney general's office."

Jan. 1 ? New state laws go into effect, including Senate Bill 500 which bans smoking within 15 feet of virtually all businesses and public places. Drivers younger than 18 will also have stricter requirements, including increased permit times from three months to nine months.

Under the best of circumstances, 2008 was expected to be a tough year for the airline industry due to rising fuel prices.

Speed skating will be the newest program offered by the Town of Aurora Department of Parks and Recreation, and training sessions will take place at the Time Warner Cable Classic Rink on Riley Street. The Aurora Town Board approved the program at its Dec. 8 meeting, but not before Town Supervisor Dwight Krieger raised questions about running programs not based on town property.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo this fall appointed East Aurora resident J. David Sampson to the post of New York State's deputy attorney general for regional affairs. Sampson will oversee 225 lawyers working statewide in the attorney general's 13 regional offices, managing what Sampson called the "front door to the attorney general's office."

The above chart shows the decline of state aid for Buffalo from 2006 to 2009.

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Cronig's Market owner Steve Bernier said this week that contrary to rumors he has heard, the construction materials in the Vineyard Haven supermarket's parking lot are for use in a renovation project at the back of the building.

Editor's note: This is the second in a series that will take a look back at issues that affected our readers in 2008. Today we are focusing on the second quarter of the year.

Keyboarding students of Shenandoah teacher Shawn Munsinger have offered to update the community on the happenings at Shenandoah Elementary School. See page 3 for the fourth graders' first, of what will soon be monthly, installment.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo this fall appointed East Aurora resident J. David Sampson to the post of New York State's deputy attorney general for regional affairs. Sampson will oversee 225 lawyers working statewide in the attorney general's 13 regional offices, managing what Sampson called the "front door to the attorney general's office."

The new year should bring at least two big-ticket development projects to Conneaut and the potential for two others.

Just a month ago, while Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George Bush met for the last time as heads of state in late November 2008 in Washington and continued their relentless bellicose rhetoric toward Iran, I and three activists from the United States were in Iran as citizen diplomats talking with Iranians on their views of a new American presidential administration and their ...

Gov. Bill Ritter was among the dignitaries who traveled to Pueblo this fall for the announcement that Vestas Wind Towers will build a 500-worker plant in Pueblo.