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I’m not Tevye, but I like how he thought

One of my favorite musicals since it arrived on the stage scene in 1964, and hit the Big Screen in 1971, is Fiddler on the Roof, the story of a poor Jewish family struggling to maintain their religious beliefs and teachings in a settlement of Imperial Russia set around 1905, about the same time ...

What does patriotism look like?

I hope you’re feeling a little more patriotic. The visiting international spectators at the FIFA matches should have stirred something in all of us. The Fourth of July, despite the strange weather, managed to break through the clouds long enough to remind us there is still much worth ...

Paths To Success

While Buffalo Bills players often occupy the spotlight on Sundays, Nick Lacy and Chris Brown have built careers that demonstrate the many paths to success in professional sports. Lacy, an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Bills, and Brown, the longtime voice of the Bills Radio ...

Request to rescind Portland resolution ignored

PORTLAND — Community members in Portland have not wavered in their opposition to the idea of a data center coming to town at the site of the former Sugar Hill Golf Course on Route 5. At least a dozen members of the public have attended each of the four meetings in protest since the Town Board ...

Area fully plugged in to data center debate

Maybe Portland town Supervisor Rich Lewis and Town Board members were testing the waters in March. That is when the body passed a resolution expressing its support for a proposed data center to be located on the grounds of the former Sugar Hill Golf Course. If anything, they had the ...

Falconer to hold public hearing Monday

FALCONER - The village of Falconer will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Monday to get village residents’ opinions on the village’s plan to apply for state grants to complete sanitary sewer system work. The hearing will be held in the Fireman’s Exempt Hall, 3 Coleson Drive, Falconer, to ...