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Attend Sacred Song Service At Chautauqua

CHAUTAUQUA—If you haven’t read John Whittaker’s page-one story on Chautauqua Institution in the July 19-20 edition of this newspaper, please pull it out of your recyclables. This well-written story is worth reading. Twice, maybe thrice. Chautauqua Institution is an extraordinary place. People from all over come to Chautauqua Institution during the nine-week summer season, and we’re fortunate to have the institution in our backyard. Yet Chautauqua Institution has challenges to meet. What’s striking about the Whittaker story is that Kyle Keogh, the institution’s ...

Memories Of Camping With Family

Last week when I wrote about making coffee with lemon water it reminded me of the times when the family camped and had campfires. The campfires came first. Often, we went up on our hill. There was a spot where the trees opened up into a nice spot for a campfire. I remember when Todd had a friend come with animals for him to treat and we went up on the hill for a fire. What a nice evening. At that point we all came down to go to bed. The children camped with friends up on the hill too. They cane down for breakfast. I recall one morning when I made pancakes because that was all I had ...

A Lot Happening On Chautauqua Lake

If you live on the west side of Chautauqua Lake, you know that the season at Chautauqua Institution has arrived because the traffic on Route 394 has doubled. It is not just people traveling to Chautauqua for its programs, it is people from Chautauqua heading for Lakewood to shop and buy groceries. You just have to get used to the traffic. It is best to slow down when you get on the road, and to expect that it may take you a minute or two longer to get to your destination. This is especially the case as there are now stoplight restrictions related to construction work on the ...

Nuclear Chickens Come Home To Roost

In 2019, with great fanfare, then NY Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which Democrats claimed would usher in a new economic era in which New York State would lead the world in Net Zero (carbon free) electricity generation, and create a thriving new economy. A mere 6 years later, the bloom is off that particular rose. Excelsior denied. Cuomo also signed legislation to eliminate our existing Nuclear plants, which were clean, safe, low-cost producers of Net Zero power. Why would Cuomo want to take Nuclear power off-line and ...

How Times Have Changed!

I got a message on Facebook that said – and I am paraphrasing here- If you grew up in the era where you went out each morning and did not come home until dark you grew up in the best of times. I think that is true. When I think back to the way it was when I grew up, I am in awe of the things we did. When I got up, I had chores to do first. When they were done, I was allowed to do whatever struck my fancy. I had many neighborhood friends – boys and girls. We all played games together. In the evening when the weather got cooler, we often played kick the can. Someone raided their ...

A 10% National Sales Tax

In 2025, the United States has essentially imposed, for the first time, a 10% national sales tax on the wholesale value of everything imported into our country. Even agricultural products that we do not produce in the United States are now faced with a minimum 10% tariff, which ultimately is paid by each of us when we buy that agricultural product at the grocery store. That 10% tariff, therefore, winds up being similar to a 10% national sales tax at wholesale. The minimum 10% tariff is paid to the Federal Government’s Treasury. It is, therefore, essentially the same as a 10% ...