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Editorials

KID CAUTION

Labor Day signals the end of summer and so our borough’s children went back in school on Wednesday September 8.

We hope that parents who bring their kids to school by car will not create dangerous situations by double- and triple-parking in front of the buildings. They should park their vehicles legally on any nearby street and walk their students to the front door.

Adults without school-aged children should remember to drive more slowly and carefully near school buildings – most are now posted for just 20 miles per hour. Drivers should remember to look an extra time or two as they back out of home driveways.

Do not pass any school buses that are stopped with flashing lights and their stop signs displayed near the driver’s window.

If you have a student or two enrolled in school, send your children armed with a good breakfast. It is the most important meal of the day, especially for usually sleepy-headed teenagers. Give them all the help you can.

Parents should remember to search their children’s backpacks or folders for letters, flyers, notes, announcements, surveys and the like from school officials.

Let us all have a safe and productive school year.

 

REMEMBER TO VOTE

Get out on Tuesday, September 14 and vote on Primary Day. It is a state-wide primary and we will be voting for our candidates for U.S. Senator, some members of Congress, our Governor, Attorney General, as well as several Assembly and Senate seats in Albany.

Gone are the old drawn-curtain voting booths. We will all be voting on new state-of-the-art scanning machines. The ballots will be filled in like the ovals on the SAT tests.

Our politicians have been imploring all of their constituents to "do their homework" and study how to use the new devices and fill in the ballots at town halls, community meetings and specially-staged demonstrations all summer.

Try out the new machines during the primaries and be ready for the November elections.

Good luck to all those running for office.