CHAUTAUQUA—Did you read the page-one story about local elections in last weekend’s edition of this newspaper? If you didn’t, pull it out of your pile of recyclables, because it’s well done. The bottom line today is that this episode in state government was a missed opportunity to ...

In our walks through our lives, we find many people who have an itch to find out what we are thinking at certain moments or during certain events. Many of those people asking those questions, or taking those photos, that sometimes we’d rather not be photographed during these moments or ...

Maybe we should all start carrying a handkerchief again — not that I do, but I like the idea of something soft and real in a world that isn’t. Something you’d fold, wash, and keep. A reminder that care used to mean something, and could again. Here are a few other things we might try, ...

Though we have had little rain this fall, the good weather has been helpful to those reconstructing the Chautauqua Lake Bridge. As you head east over the lake from the Stow side on I-86, you can see the open, raw girders where a substantial amount of concrete decking has been removed. There ...

Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman told his party to stop with the Nazi and fascist rhetoric. That clearly went out the window at the recent “No Kings” protest. In Jamestown alone, signs labeling the president and MAGA as Nazis and fascists could be spotted everywhere you looked ...

I always envisioned my retirement as the Golden Years. I somehow pictured days of sleeping in, reading after lunch, and playing tennis or an occasional bridge game. Oh – and not having too many obligations. I wanted to stop jumping through other people’s hoops. Fuggedaboudit. Besides, ...