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Nukedlou


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Buckholtz & Rooney
Information & Facilitation Services
For The Niagara Region of NY and Ontario



For nearly nine years Dr. Peter Buckholtz and Robert Rooney have been the main "answer men" for thousands of e-mail inquiries that have come in to the Lockport Home Page, a Niagara Frontier community website. Because of a need to downsize the activity at the website and focus more intensely on information of a general nature, the free information service previously offered at www.Lockport-NY.com has been terminated.

That service, and much more, have been taken over as a private, For-A-Fee service by Buckholtz and Rooney.

Who Can Find Value In This Service

If you live or have business at a distance from the Niagara Frontier Region and need information or a service in this area, our Information & Facilitation Services is a possible economical solution to your needs. You'll find little or no need to travel to this area and, if you do, your time here can be arranged for you with maximum effectiveness. Make one call, and let us do all the follow-up and present the information package you seek to you promptly in a business-like manner.

No matter where you are in the world, if you have a need for information or service on the Niagara Frontier, we can help you.

Typical Services

We will recommend to you and/or obtain professional services: In law, health care, education, real estate, and private investigations.

We will make arrangements for you: For lodging, health care, travel and stay here, border crossings, banking and financial needs. We will make deliveries and pickups. We will ship and receive. Nursing homes and health care.

We'll provide photographs of most anything you seek. Current. From the ground or from the air.

We'll prepare information reports on most any subject, entity, or process that is in the Niagara Frontier Region.

For your own investigation, we can provide leads, tips, and resources.

We can provide public relations and publicity services and marketing assistance.

We can provide unbiased reports and comparisons on colleges, schools, and public services.

Commercial & Industrial Product Sales and Presentations in Upstate New York

We can represent you and your interests at anything from a funeral to a Grand Opening.

Please do not inquire about unlawful activity, we don't get involved in those areas.
About Us

We have a diversified background strengthened by a lifelong residency in this area.

Decades Of Direct Experience and Backgrounds in:
Public Relations & Media, Science, Education, Property Management, Business, and Information Brokerage

USA & Canadian Citizenship

Able to promptly travel for your interests within 200 miles of this area. Delivery & Pickups.

Contact us for full resume' as pertains to your needs.


Confidential & Discrete



We will not disclose our client base nor our work projects. With the possible exception of publicity work, we carry on our work for you in a low-profile, confidential manner.


Cost & Fees

We do not mark-up any service we obtain for you or refer you to. And we do not take commissions from any vendor.

Our own charges are hourly for service, usually preceeded by an estimate. Expenses are billed at a mark-up of 20%.

Our charges start at as little as $25. On some matters we can provide one-day service.



How To Contact Us

We are located in Lockport, NY.

Because we travel weekly, if not daily, we prefer initial inquiry via e-mail to: B&G@Lockport-NY.com
We will then provide information of more immediate means of contact suitable for your needs via FAX, telephone, s-mail, or cell phone.

If you need to telephone and can leave voice mail: 716-439-4852
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Scott, you should offer this valuable service to your members. It's a bargain at any price! Thoughts?

That's a good one. From this day forth when I refer to a total moron, they will be a "ROONEY!"

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I can't wait until that dip shyt closes that site. It used to be an okay site. Now it's just a Jerry Lewis Telethon without the Kids. I hope he doesn't get the money so he closes that lame site. SCOTTLEFFLER.COM RULES!

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pcguy


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Everyone is entitled to their opinions :)

With that said, That site, like it or hate it, provided information accesible from the web, for a long time when there really wasn't many other options available. The niagara county area sorely needs sites like scottleffler.com and the lockport homepage, and as many others as possible. it's quite shocking the lack of accessible information in the area. More discussion forums for residents would be great too!

Anyone who relies solely on the mass media, which in WNY is quite laughable at best, and downright misleading at worst, is simply uninformed and has no clue what the real truth is.


We should be encouraging the local population to get informed, get educated on issues, and most of all participate. Without participation we have no right to complain.

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Scott Leffler


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I agree with pcguy here. Although I thought Rooney got it wrong most of the time, I always checked it out and sometimes got some information that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. It was a love-hate relationship. But if he's going to take money and not update the site, that's what I have an issue with.



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kspeer


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WOW! How funny!


"Bringing Back The Good News..."

One of the most popular complaints of Lockport Home Page detractors is to the effect that we don't publish enough "good news." That's a valid complaint and it could be charged against other news media as well. The truth is, there isn't as much "good news" that qualifies as real news under most journalistic standards. However, we're willing to give it another effort, starting with this page. Right here and now. The banner was created a couple years ago and we received no contribution from readers.

A good challenge: If we can receive $100/month in contributions, designated for this page, we'll put the staff time and resources into this page, taking away from other tasks and expenses. There. All you who complain! Now you have something more you can do. Send your contribution, as all others, payable to Editor/Publisher, Robert Rooney, c/o Lockport Home Page, You're also invited to send photos and stories that fit this format to the Editor via E-Mail.

Let's see what happens!

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I would love to find out how the costs are calculated for the lockport home page. I see figures quoted that seem astronomically high for such a simple web site. I do like the site, and believe it has a place in the community, but question the finances of it all.

I run a commercial website that the true costs of are approximately $225 annually, and this includes some licensed software/apps etc... along with the traditional hosting services, security certificates etc....

These are what I consider the "overhead" costs, along with expenses such as cameras, travel time etc.... No matter how I look at these figures, I can't for the life of me figure out where he gets $4k or $8k annual operating expenditures. Sure it would be nice to take a profit from a site. but in reality he is in startup mode again since his stroke and the inactivity of the site. Even now, the updates are far less often than previously.

As much as I like it, I can't financially kick in on something run in this fashion. These recent ads proclaiming services available dont really hold water either. He needs to be building click counts and traffic. Once you are attracting visitors and growing this number weekly, then you can consider ad revenues to further grow the site. This needs to be his primary goal to ensure survival. Not pleas for donations etc....

If he wants to run purely on donations and charity, then file the paperwork to become a nonprofit and do it properly. Not a mishmash of charity and services income. Thats a broken business model from the start.

Any other thoughs on this?


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jspeer


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He wants to be paid. I'll buy the site off Mr. Rooney...how much?

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