I always envisioned my retirement as the Golden Years. I somehow pictured days of sleeping in, reading after lunch, and playing tennis or an occasional bridge game. Oh – and not having too many obligations. I wanted to stop jumping through other people’s hoops. Fuggedaboudit. Besides, ...

Though we have had little rain this fall, the good weather has been helpful to those reconstructing the Chautauqua Lake Bridge. As you head east over the lake from the Stow side on I-86, you can see the open, raw girders where a substantial amount of concrete decking has been removed. There ...

Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman told his party to stop with the Nazi and fascist rhetoric. That clearly went out the window at the recent “No Kings” protest. In Jamestown alone, signs labeling the president and MAGA as Nazis and fascists could be spotted everywhere you looked ...

To The Reader’s Forum: I was disgusted by a recent commentary by a member of the bar on Trump’s extrajudicial murders of suspected drug smugglers. Is this what justice in America has become? A single man following his violent, vengeful instincts while presenting no justification, no ...

Tom Carle, Democratic candidate for Chautauqua County executive, has reason to be proud of his accomplishments in the private sector. Throughout his years of running large and small businesses in the United States and Canada, his decisions were driven by finding results that benefited ...

For those who have a gut feeling that the richest Americans are getting richer while the rest of us are getting poorer or just treading water, the evidence is that they are right. Not since the start of the modern Federal Estate Tax in 1916, has there been a better time to be wealthy in ...