Gov. Kathy Hochul visited Chautauqua County once again to celebrate a big state-assisted project: expansion by Wells Enterprises of what many locals still call Dunkirk Ice Cream. Before the governor’s speech, the Chief Executive of Wells revealed that what Wells had announced in 2023 as a ...

I read the piece “Increase In Homeless Shines LIght On Lack Of Investment In Mental Health Treatment” this morning and wanted to write something in response to that. The homeless population need what no amount of money can buy … drive, determination and desire. They also need what no ...

This is an old saying that my father taught me. I am not sure there is a way to describe what it means, other than it conveys the idea that “things have changed” or “the situation is now reversed.” However it is used, it seems to describe what has now happened in our national ...

CHAUTAUQUA—Knowledgeable people from across the spectrum should put their thoughts on the Corona Virus Disease-19, or CoViD-19, pandemic into books that laity can understand. Dr. Scott Atlas has done that in “A Plague Upon Our House.” Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution ...

When the produce markets open, I think about canning. I was new to canning when I moved to the country. My grandma canned a few tomatoes if the crop was big, but other than that she did not can. I had one girlfriend whose mother canned tomato sauce for spaghetti and pizza. A couple times I was ...

“What?” You may ask, is CLCPA, and why does it matter? CLCPA is the atrociously misnamed New York state “Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.” It is how the state Government will sacrifice taxpayers on the “Green” altar, while the rest of the world laughs at our ...