For the first time in its history, Chautauqua County’s Fly Car program is running in the black. The change in the program’s financial health is due in part to increased revenues as county officials and its billing partner have done a better job of capturing money owed for services as ...

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 ...