Herald News, August 15, 2007
By Karen Keller

If you pick Verizon, you won't get City Council meetings. Or Board of Education meetings. Or any other event transmitted over Clifton's public access channel.

Several residents are complaining to city officials that Verizon employees have been saying that if they switch to Verizon's FiOs TV Service from Cablevision they will get local programs, said Councilwoman Gloria Kolodziej.

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