The much-discussed, much-debated and parentally panned school cell phone ban is a near non-issue for most students through the first few weeks of the school year. Proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul and approved by the state Legislature, the new school cellphone policy creates a statewide standard ...

It made little sense last January for most Chautauqua County schools to be closed in observance of the Asian New Year. In fact, in our opinion, the best place for children to be in order to learn about the Asian New Year would be in schools given that most parents know relatively little ...

Food pantries struggling to make ends meet isn’t necessarily new. But the Frewsburg Community Food Pantry’s recent request for help from the town of Carroll is something we haven’t seen in recent years. Wendy Nelson, food pantry coordinator, is asking the town to help as an emergency ...

There should be, in our opinion, general approval among state lawmakers that there should be more testing of the baby food parents find on store shelves. The federal Food and Drug Administration earlier this year set new, lower maximum levels for lead in baby foods like jarred fruits and ...

We don’t know yet if the resolution passed recently by the Ellery Town Board supporting creation of a centralized lake authority is the first of many dominos to fall or a tree falling in the forest. Only time will answer that question. But we find it interesting that Ellery, which has ...

The city of Jamestown will be hiring part-time, on-call matrons to work in the city jail when the city is holding women until they can be arraigned in Jamestown City Court. The issue arose after an inspection of the city jail from the state Department of Corrections. The position isn’t a ...