I think the better solution would be to decrease the log level for those informational messages such that they do not end up in syslog, but only in debug.log.
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--- Begin Message ---System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 3 08:08:53 piper ntpd[3690]: kernel time sync status change 4001 Feb 3 08:28:04 piper puppetd[3572]: Other end went away; restarting connection and retrying Feb 3 08:43:01 piper ntpd[3690]: kernel time sync status change 0001 Feb 3 08:58:07 piper puppetd[3572]: Other end went away; restarting connection and retrying
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