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Mayville Tree Advisory Committee quits in protest

MAYVILLE – All the members of a committee that helps planting trees in the village have resigned, apparently because of how the village board operates. Laura Marsala, who had been the Mayville Tree Advisory Committee chairperson, sent a letter to the Mayville Village Board announcing her ...

Sales include land for Ellicott DPW

A town government in the south county has purchased land to store equipment and highway materials. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from Aug. 14-20. The county does not provide transaction information, but real estate documents are available for review at the clerk’s office. During this time period, the town of Ellicott purchased 1837 E. Main St. Ext. and another parcel on East Main Street Extension, Ellicott for $50,000. The parcels are labeled as vacant property and total around 8 ...

How the seasons were named

We are about two thirds, give or take, into the calendar season of Autumn, also known as Fall, and like many children become curious and ask questions, especially the ones in the “wh” (who, what, when, where, why, how) category, I find myself, at 73 years young, coming across things that ...

Things are never as easy as they seem

Why do the easy things we set out to do often turn into a disaster? I asked myself last weekend whether there was some kind of master skill for making caramel apples that I have not sufficiently gleaned after decades of motherhood. The problem with creative projects as I grow older is ...

In age of sharing, privacy picture blurs

Rare is the moment when our senior U.S. senator is critical of any type of picture taking. A longstanding political joke notes “the most dangerous place in Washington is between Chuck Schumer and a television camera.” That phrase offers a nod to Schumer’s longtime tradition of annually ...