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Caring For The Lake Is Caring For People

To The Reader’s Forum: The recent letter to the Readers’ Forum by Tom Erlandson and Jim Wehrfritz of the Chautauqua Lake Partnership confused me. The authors began by asking that we honor Earth Day every day, but then they criticized the Chautauqua Lake Alliance, Chautauqua County government and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation for their response to the fish kill in Burtis Bay. They complained about these groups for caring for nature and the ecology of the lake, claiming that the DEC is putting mussels before people and concluding that “People are ...

Outsider Anti-Religious Bigotry ‘Wins’ In Clymer

To The Reader’s Forum: Holding a club over the head of the Clymer Central School, a leftist special interest group intimidated the district into shutting down the freedom to assemble at Baccalaureate and the free expression of prayer at graduation. One solitary complaint swung the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) into exerting the clout of its legal and leftist thuggery to ban what has blessed the vast majority of Clymer residents for decades. FFRF is an intolerant pack of ideological bullies who roam around the country to pounce on schools who do not toe-the-line of their ...

Reader Says Republicans Help Russian Interference

To The Reader’s Forum: There is no question that Russia interfered in the presidential election. The Mueller Report looked at whether Trump’s campaign helped them with that. Ultimately it found there was no criminal intent to help the Russians. This doesn’t change the FACT that Russia did interfere. Republicans used to be very concerned about the Soviet Union and subsequently, Russia’s intentions in the United States. They spent a great deal of time and taxpayer dollars investigating Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email server. Donald Trump publicly called on ...

Reader Sings Praises To JHS Concert Band

To The Reader’s Forum: I just had the extreme pleasure of attending the spring concert of the Jamestown High School bands. Plural, because there is the Symphonic band - kind of the junior varsity, and the Concert band, all seniors. The Symphonic band played some very difficult music flawlessly, and of course, the concert band was perfection. I was surprised that there was not standing room only. The Jamestown community should support these excellent young musicians wholeheartedly. And, folks, it’s free. I had the privilege of being in the band when Arthur Goranson was the ...

Being Concerned Only Goes Half The Way

To The Reader’s Forum: The uptick of child abuse in this country has hit a more than alarming cases. And what is more alarming is the disgraceful trend of absence of concern by today’s society. Being aware has not saved one single child, yet we have plenty of that. Being concerned only goes half way to save children. Who would take the first step to prevention and how would prevention work? I would expect that the starting point would be cause. We have been living in a very sick society for decades. Why? Why does our society so radially accept that fact? Not only has the ...

Talk To You Doctor About Vaccinations

To The Reader’s Forum: Exercising, eating healthy, getting proper sleep and having a positive attitude are all good habits to have but do not prevent getting measles, mumps, polio, chicken pox, whooping cough and a host of other contagious diseases. A recent letter to the editor of this paper contained some appallingly ignorant misinformation. There are serious repercussions for those who experience these diseases. Some people truly cannot receive a vaccination due to medical conditions, allergies or even being a very young baby. These people depend on the rest of us to keep ...