http://www.grandislandrecord.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:11:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_263121058.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_263121058.html “As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins,” wrote philosopher, physician and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, who died in 1965. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:54:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_256155257.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_256155257.html Don Paul was the trigger.As I walked down the concrete hallways of Channel 4 to find its heart, the studio, something in me seemed awry as the look of that very four-letter word. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:56:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_255235657.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_255235657.html Don Paul was the trigger.As I walked down the concrete hallways of Channel 4 to find its heart, the studio, something in me seemed awry as the look of that very four-letter word. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:02:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_249150154.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_249150154.html This “Amethyst Initiative” is a tough one to understand. Or is it? (The word amethyst comes from the ancient belief — or hope — this violet form of quartz protected the wearer from drunkenness.) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:41:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_227150425.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_227150425.html Considering the fight against the GI tolls has been ongoing for 50 years, I was a little taken aback by the words. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:40:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_235111324.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_235111324.html As any student of the epic Brady Bunch Hawaii Episodes knows, bad things can happen in gorgeous settings even to beautiful people. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:38:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_242151834.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_242151834.html One of my favorite aphorisms is “You can’t have everything at once.” Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:06:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_306160721.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_306160721.html Politicians — and others — use them to start little fires, trying to fan the flames of public opinion. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:18:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_299161933.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_299161933.html Recently I noticed a man walking a pit bull — not on the Island but Niagara Falls — and it flash-boiled my anger. Why? I thought. Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:55:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_292125548.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_292125548.html I have a feeling I’m going to be writing a song about this story. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_285181716.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_285181716.html The streets were deserted, ruled by a massive layer of suddenly slush. Inside, the homes were dark and getting colder. The trees heavy with snow. And all those leaves! Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:15:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_278131613.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_278131613.html “Every child is an artist,” Pablo Picasso once said. Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_271171654.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_271171654.html That’s unlike last year when the Crop Walk coincided with the October Surprise Storm and just a handful of hardy souls showed up to make the approximate six miles walk. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_264163555.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_264163555.html “Sometimes your feelings become your memories.” Steven Whipple said that’s when he realized his recollection of Sept. 11 was bogus. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:26:00 +0000 http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_264162737.html http://www.grandislandrecord.com/personalities/local_story_264162737.html A wealthy friend once said to me, “If you don’t have your health, you have nothing.” I was younger at the time, and did not realize the absolute truth in that statement. He was talking from experience, though, having watched his father suffer and wither away with colorectal cancer.