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Bill's Broadsides
 Bill Ackerbauer |
Art outingSat, May 10, 2008 @ 1:48AM My wife and I and the kids went to the Fulton County Art Show last night. Jen and I were both eager to go because we had missed it the last couple of years. (By the way, this Sunday, May 11, is the last day of the show -- you should go.) Since I spent most of our visit scolding the boys ("Don't touch that!" and "No running near the ceramics!") , I didn't get to take everything in as fully as I'd have liked. I can say that I was most impressed by a few artists in particular: - Jon Swartwout's rustic oil paintings of fish and other Adirondacky things, in their hand-carved twiggy frames, were attractive in a woodsy, masculine sort of way (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Publisher's Point
 Pat Beck |
Mind Your NetiquetteMon, April 28, 2008 @ 3:11PM Emily Post penned tens of thousands of words on proper social behavior - in other words, manners. In 1922, when Emily first wrote her definitive guide to etiquette, she said, "Wherever two people come together and their actions affect one another, you have etiquette." Wow, little did she realize that those two people would be able to meet on the Internet and their actions have the possibility to be observed by millions of others. Yes, there have been a great deal of cultural changes in eighty-six years but does that really give permission to people to be cruel when hiding behind a fictitious name? In the short time that our new website has been operating, since February of this year, we have had 4,682 comments on stories and blogs. Undoubtedly, a few more even while I am typing. I value the opinion of our readers and how they react to what we are reporting. What you have to say does really matter.
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Glove City blog
 Michael Yerina |
From Education to Poverty to retailMon, May 5, 2008 @ 7:03PM There is a lot of concern in Gloversville about our prosperity or lack of it. Everyone has a view on the proposed retail expansion that will hopefully bring in the tax dollars and help our town to grow. Of course by now I suppose that all of you readers know my opinion of the anticipated retail expansion for Gloversville. In truth retail is necessary for the community, we have to have it. The concerns that I have are as the old saying goes; “too much of a good thing” and the other concern is the fact that we will be subsidizing retail expansion to companies that make billions in profit annually; this is wrong.
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