We’ve just begun the 2023 Season of the National Football League, and I’ve waited a while to post this piece, as I felt this would be the appropriate time to talk about a person whose life legacy was exactly the same as today’s title. Since the Cleveland Browns, (once a storied and ...

I am well aware that the milestone I reach this year is not guaranteed to everyone. My first husband died before he reached retirement age. I have also lost classmates and friends who were “young”. I first felt my age when a dear a friend from church took sick. She weathered the ...

Seeing something fishy in DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), a clever caller to the Dennis Prager Show conveyed a better way to say the acronym: Do Everything Intelligently. Isn’t that common sense? Sadly, nonsense is becoming more common. Admitted to a hospital for an emergency in ...

I know that technically fall doesn’t begin until the autumnal equinox, now a week away. But, for all practical purposes, it has begun already on the lake. After Labor Day weekend, the human footprint dramatically decreases. The boat traffic is down by more than half, the jet skis and ...

CHAUTAUQUA—Not many people who speak at Chautauqua Institution can do what this speaker did. To the delight of the July 17 morning-lecture audience, he flashed his long-ago credentials from when he was an intern at the Chautauqua Daily, the newspaper that the institution publishes during ...

Our Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency (CCIDA) was created by the state Legislature in 1972 at the request of our Chautauqua County Legislature. The CCIDA is a public body ultimately controlled by our Chautauqua County Legislature and/or County Executive. The CCIDA is absolutely ...