Attendees will hear from candidates for State Assembly and Senate running in contested elections and then vote whether to endorse them.
Greater Western New York— September 26, 2022 — Chris Carosa, publisher of the Mendon-Honeoye Falls-Lima Sentinel, has announced that his paper will host a Greater Western New York (Virtual) town hall meeting on Wednesday October 12th beginning at 7:30 PM to interview State Assembly and Senate candidates within the Greater Western New York Region who are running in contested elections.
Nearly a dozen members of the Western New York District of the New York Press Association are co-sponsoring this third in a series of virtual meetings, including the Mendon-Honeoye Falls-Lima Sentinel, the Akron Bugle, the Alfred Sun, The Batavian, Neighbor-to-Neighbor newspapers (including the Arcade Herald, the East Aurora Advertiser, the Springville Journal, Warsaw’s Country Courier, and the Franklinville Mercury-Gazette), and the Johnson Newspaper Corp’s western New York papers (The Daily News and the Livingston County News) and Niagara Frontier Publications (Island Dispatch, Niagara County Tribune Sentinel).
The event is free and open to all residents of the Greater Western New York Region. This will be a 90-minute meeting with the first hour devoted to each candidate taking 5 minutes to answer 5 questions dealing with issues with appeal across the Greater Western New York Region, not just the district they hope to serve. After candidates from each race are done, attendees will vote on which (or both or none) of the candidates they will endorse. Results will be made available to the press. Following this, the final 30-minutes will be an open forum.
This is the fifth in a series of public Town Hall meetings. More than three hundred people have signed up in advance to attend these events over the past year. Those interested can sign up by going to https://greaterwesternnewyork.org/ to register.
For more information, contact Chris Carosa at (585) 733-4553 or by email at ChrisCarosa@MHFLSentinel.com.
To participate in the event, go to GreaterWesternNewYork.org to register. The event is free and open to all residents of the Greater Western New York Region.
The Greater Western New York Region comprises the 17 westernmost counties of New York State and was formally defined by the Treaty of Hartford on December 16, 1786 with the creation of Preemption Line. These counties include: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates.
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