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Songs For The Day

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In a couple days from now, the summer season unofficially begins, with celebrations of parades, picnics, ballgames, fireworks, with family and friends, all on a day which has special meaning to our country. It is the day set aside to celebrate those who fell in defense of this nation. In two ...

Hanging Out At The Donut Shop

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This is a first for me. I’ve never brought my work and settled into a coffee shop before, but I’ve seen the young adults in corners of plenty of Starbucks with their computers and their headsets on. Today, I’m one of them. It’s enough to make me feel thirty again. I decided to get the ...

The Big Dream Of Exercise Machines

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Dream was the word I associated with exercise machines in the old days. Not the dream of ownership, but the dream of possibility. The machine promised the ultimate transformation. I was going to become the new me. Now, at my advanced age with dashed dreams, I am giving up. I decided that this ...

Paying Respects

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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of travel and discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers. Iraq War veteran ...

No Decision Made

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MAYVILLE – It could cost $120 million to replace the oldest section of the Chautauqua County Jail. Back in 2022, Labella Associates was hired to do an evaluation of the county jail which sits in Mayville, across the street from the county courthouse and county office buildings. They ...