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Please, Stand With Steven Baca

If you support the Second Amendment, oppose mob anarchy and reject the monumental madness gripping America, then you stand with Steven Baca. If you have been outraged by the persecution and prosecution of brave patriots across the country defending their homes, their families, our downtowns, ...

Many Disagree With Global Warming Consensus

There has been a general tendency toward melting glaciers over the last few decades, presumably an unprecedented event in the history of the world, and presumably inextricably linked to human industrial activity of the last few centuries. As some of those glaciers melt, however, they are giving ...

Picking Those Bright Red Orbs, The Joys Of Strawberry Season

Picking strawberries has long been a favorite pastime of mine. My love of berries began as a young child. I lived with my grandparents. They did not often pick the berries, but we often had them to eat. Grandma would cut them up and add sugar. We usually made biscuits for our shortcakes. ...

Things Are Getting Better In Chautauqua

A childhood friend owns a gift shop and up until last week she has been opening her door for limited hours only. My heart breaks for her whenever I drive by. All the pretty things in the windows look like orphans in a dark house. We’re not buying candles and gifts for friends. We’re ...

Old Maids And Popcorn, A Lifelong Lasting Love Affair

Desperate to flee the encroaching violence of the Bay Area (two murders at local businesses we regularly frequented within a couple blocks of home: our liquor store and a good steak restaurant that had pancakes for the kids), we packed up and moved to my hometown of Warren. My father, a ...

Take A Tip From Gilligan

“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship.” This is the opening from the Sept. 26, 1964 to April 17, 1967, run of the television sitcom, “Gilligan’s Island. “ The storyline of the comedy, was ...