Lacona Village Hedges Budget With Tax Shortfall
Oswego County village Lacona freezes spending and lays off six part time employees after more than 16,000 in property taxes remain unpaid. Blount Lumber Co. owes 14,125 of the total, while delinquent residents total about 2,800. Rehiring contingent on Blount paying.
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Boylston
Centro grants retirement plan amid travel and payout to former boss
Warren Frank, Centro's former executive director, was permitted to spend 51 days at vacation spots in Florida and California while counting the time as work days toward a $95,942 retirement package. The board approved these terms to retain Frank, who retired in 1991 and later joined as a board consultant.
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Boca Raton
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Vincent Cook
Syracuse Transit Corp
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American Public Transit Association
Sister seeks truth on brother missing in Vietnam
Patricia Plumadore pursues a Marine’s fate after 1967 battle. She defends his remains were misidentified or not recovered, recalls letters home, reviews DD1300 files, and presses officials amid a POW MIA convention. She seeks definitive proof and closure.
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Syracuse
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Arlington Stouffer Concourse
Stouffer
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Brian Bohman
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League of Powmia
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Bohman
Nant
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Inner Harbor transit plan aims to link Syracuse sites
Davis and Bragman push a state and federal funded intermodal center tying the Carousel Center, Inner Harbor, downtown districts, and new museum to a rail network extending to Oswego Port and Ithaca. Cuomo supports the Growth Agenda. The plan envisions millions in public money and private partners to revive the economy. The tourist train from Jamesville to Syracuse is planned to begin next spring.
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Jamesville
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Binghamton
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Inner Harbor Project
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Cooperstown
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Budget pork remains in lean deficit era in Congress
Deficit mood trims many items but pork persists in bills. Kenaf research in Mississippi faces $150,000, and North Miami bike paths draw $1 million in transportation funding. Lawmakers like Parkbusters push to curb such projects, while others defend their presence amid a $334 billion estimated budget gap and ongoing debates over a balanced-budget amendment.
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New York
Ross Perot
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House Appropriations Committee
Jamie Whitten
Miami
Miami Beach
William Lehman
Timothy Penny
D-Minn
Harris Fowell
R-Ill
Capitol Hill
Heir Worn
Iran Contra probe tightens on Reagan aides and cover up
Washington Iran Contras prosecutors intensify an inquiry into a possible cover up involving former President Reagan who maintains no illegal acts. The probe, now accelerating after Caspar Weinberger’s indictment, targets whether Reagan Meese Shultz and Regan conspired to conceal U S role in 1986 Iran arms shipments.
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the Post
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Post
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