Twice in less than two months, area teachers have been accused of inappropriate conduct with students. First came news that the Westfield Academy and Central School Board of Education was aware of claims against a current staff member accused of inappropriate behavior. Then, just a couple of ...
Society Is Challenged By Growing Use Of Gibberish There’s a scourge in our society that gets worse with each passing day. The affliction about which I write is politically correct speech, also known as the language of cowards. For the most part, this is based on a simple premise that ...
Marcy’s vacation week offers a holiday column excerpted from her book, Rounding Third … originally from 2006. Christmastime is pure nostalgia. Many of my holiday memories began with our children’s arrival. I will never forget the total exhaustion of falling into bed after filling the ...
We have lived on Chautauqua Lake now for over 30 years and have very seldom seen the lake, as it now is, iced-over before Christmas. It may have happened once or twice before, but then, I think, it was only partially frozen. The snowfall this year has also been significant, i.e. the kind of ...
The holidays are upon us, and I’m exhausted. Not from the typical pressures of the season. No, I’m exhausted from being subject to a President who, just when any reasonable person wonders whether he can go any lower, seems to say, “hold my Diet Coke.” Exhibit A from this week (and ...
Coming home from college for winter break, I decided to revisit a classic winter film while recovering from my wisdom teeth extraction. That movie was It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra. Although the film was released in 1946, it contains themes that transcend eras. One element ...