http://www.tonawanda-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_071000317.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_071000317.html The television emphasis, lately, has a new definition, the boss as Judge, and if a generation grows up assuming that the way to supervise is as draconian as television depicts it, I expect to see a few bumps in future labor relations. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_063234454.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_063234454.html There’s little I remember from Economics 101 other than “supply and demand.” If demand of a commodity exceeds supply, its price goes up, which leads me to observe that the wholesale price of chicken wings moved in 2009 to an average of $1.47 per pound, up from 89 cents per pound in 2008. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:18:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_057001818.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_057001818.html Always on the lookout for positive situations for which they can take credit, local and state politicians last week visited a Town of Tonawanda environment with a vibe unfamiliar to them, a manufacturing facility with assembly lines, machinery for milling, drilling and filling, and people who get dirty while making a living. In a place such as this, a suit and tie make you the incorrect one. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:21:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_049232138.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_049232138.html An individual can lead a perfectly good life without much of the personal hardware tucked into many people’s pockets, purses and automobiles. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:13:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_042231308.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_042231308.html So there we were, five of us, huddled over a computer and looking at history. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_035230954.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_035230954.html While no one will agree with all of it, and much of “Sound Off” seems to be random ranting, a search for a forum when government or politicians don’t seem to be listening, I take note of the “this country is doomed” attitudes some callers provide. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:59:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_028235916.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_028235916.html Several weeks back, I used this space to cavil over what’s known as “three dot journalism,” a columnist’s method of turning a number of short items into a more-or-less coherent piece by separating each item with an ellipsis (also known as “suspension points,” “periods of ellipsis” or “dot dot dot”). Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:45:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_021234454.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_021234454.html Let’s talk about music, which may be like dancing about architecture, but let’s talk about it nonetheless. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_015000428.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_015000428.html As I keep saying, getting older forces you to utilize a certain wisdom, a little perspective. You see advantages where others don’t; when you get half a loaf, your mind flashes back to the times you had no loaf at all. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_008000430.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_008000430.html Well, Happy New Year to my far-flung readers, and kids, when I say far-flung, I mean it. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:34:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_365233358.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_365233358.html A local television station presented “Unknown Stories of Western New York” in November, short newscast segments every night for a month. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:50:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_351235110.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_351235110.html I’ll leave the “Year in Review” columns to writers with a stomach for looking back on a year better forgotten. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:41:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_344234125.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_344234125.html If you’re raising a kid whose short-term goal involves devouring every book in the “young reader” section of the public library, I’ve got a role model for him or her. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:56:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_337225605.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_337225605.html If you had a 10-square mile blanket, it could be tossed over every one of them — all the places I’ve lived, all the schools from which I graduated, nearly all the employers I’ve had. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_316234629.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/Ed%20Adamczyk/local_story_316234629.html The ex-Blue Devils of West, many of them, wrote about their coach, Jules Yakapovich.