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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 as the Russian Revolution. It is a tale based on a real-life milkman who author Sholem Aleichem, writer of a series of Yiddish short stories titled Tevye and his Daughters, once met somewhere 1894 and 1914, in a small Jewish-only settlement. When the story became a musical, the opening one-word ...

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 celebrating. Oddly, there are Americans who seem to hold their own country in contempt. Yet talk to many new citizens who escaped communist or socialist governments, and you’ll often hear a very different perspective. They still see the United States as a remarkable experiment in human freedom. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 residents at a boiling point. Within the next three months, an online petition was started and a Facebook Grape Belt Community Group with a modest 210 members was started to send a message of opposition to any such plan. Located near the shoreline along Route 5, the former golf course property is ...

Westfield rescue awarded $500,000 grant for new shelter

WESTFIELD - The Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue has been awarded a $500,000 Companion Animal Capital Projects Fund grant from the state Department of Agriculture and Markets to support construction of a new shelter. NCCR is one of 12 organizations statewide selected to receive funding ...