There goes the neighborhood
By Editorial Board | Oct. 21, 2014Living next door to uncooperative or unpleasant neighbors may be an unavoidable experience, but residents of Tonawanda are doing all they can to prevent a crematory from reopening in their neighborhood. It?s a legal battle that shouldn?t exist in the first place ? neither Tonawandan residents nor Amigone Funeral Home, the owners of the crematory, deserve much blame here. Instead, it was the Erie County Legislature in 1991 that set this dilemma in motion, when it gave the funeral home permission to build the crematory in the densely populated, residential neighborhood along Sheridan Drive. This original decision was an inexplicable oversight and has left residents of Tonawanda stuck living alongside the ash (and yes, that?s human ash), noise, soot and foul odors produced by the crematory.
