The process the village of Lakewood uses to regulate short-term rentals has, thus far, worked as intended. During Monday’s meeting, the Village Board approved three short-term rentals - two unanimously and one with some debate because it is in a R-1 district. The village’s short-term ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul will have a difficult decision to make before the end of the year when it comes to ending anonymous child abuse reporting. The aim of A.66/S.550 is simple - spend less time investigating child abuse complaints that end up having no merit and save parents whose children ...

Never let it be said that one person can’t make a difference. Tammy Shack of Bemus Point is living proof of that. The owner of the Bridgeview One Stop spent months trying to convince state officials that the closure of Exit 9 into Bemus Point was hurting her business as well as to have a ...

Injecting politics into the redistricting process - a process already governed by politics - is unfortunate but ultimately harms no one but politicians. It’s irksome when Texas Republicans and New York and California Democrats play shenanigans with congressional district lines because of ...

Staff Sgt. John Mann has been a man lost to history for the past 83 years. During World War II, Mann was assigned to 22nd Material Squadron at Hickam Airfield on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. On. Dec. 7, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese aircraft expanded to Hickam Field, ...

The city’s decision not to rezone some areas of the north side near Jackson-Taylor Park is a good compromise, in our opinion. We aren’t surprised some neighborhood residents pushed back on the city’s proposal to rezone some areas of the park from an R-2 area to a C-1 designation in an ...