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Thanks, Reginald, For Lending Me A Song

Around this time of year, Sally and I have a four-week period of time, which we could call our Celebration Trifecta, as we remember our Wedding Day on March 22nd, Sally’s Birthday on April 2nd, and my trip Around the Sun Anniversary on April 23rd. While celebrating these special days, we don’t do the conventional gift giving, and we do the same for Christmas, as well. We use our Guardians Baseball Package, and whatever concerts, or stage shows that we may want to see pop-up, or if we just want to do a getaway weekend somewhere, and gift those to one another as our Birthday, ...

The Old Immigrant

I met him on a playground by chance while visiting my daughter—an old man who had grown up in Cuba, under the rule of Fidel Castro. “You have no idea what a paradise America is,” he told me after we’d chatted for a while. “I walked into a grocery store my first week here and I couldn’t believe it. Food! From ceiling to floor! In Cuba, cream was an expensive luxury. I can count the times on my fingers that I had cream.” He pauses and looks in the direction of his house, somewhere past the trees. “You can’t see America the way I do,” he says “because you don’t ...

Trustees View Tentative Lakewood Budget

LAKEWOOD - Lakewood’s 2026-27 tentative budget has been released, and trustees learned of a tax rate decrease. The proposed $5,822,633 spending plan is considered an “all-in” budget, Mayor Randy Holcomb. “We take all of the requests from each department and their department heads, ...

CVCS To Perform ‘High School Musical’

High School Musical, On Stage will be presented by the Cassadaga Valley Drama Club. Performances will be held Friday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 29, at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults and $8 students and seniors and are available at ...

Panama To Present ‘James And The Giant Peach’

PANAMA - Panama Central School will bring a beloved children’s story to life this spring with its high school musical production of James and the Giant Peach. Featuring students in seventh through 12th grades, the show promises a colorful, imaginative adventure filled with lively ...

Affordability Keeps Getting More Expensive

Almost every level of bureaucracy is guilty of overusing the word affordability. As prices keep rising — whether due to inflation, at the grocery store or painfully within the last two weeks at the gas pump — that phrase gets repeated more than nightly “Law & Order” reruns. Let’s ...