Chautauqua County has long been working hard to improve services for the people living here while reducing their cost of living. It’s not an easy balance to achieve. In 2017, New York state decided to nudge communities to get serious about this with a competition to improve local government ...

Last year, Catholic Charities of Buffalo celebrated 100 years of serving the Western New York community. This year also marks something equally special – our 100th annual Appeal. The backbone of stability for our organization, the annual Appeal has allowed us to continue our mission of ...

“Old Timers” like me may still remember when radio was King. For the first decade or so of my life, there was no television. The only common, immediate public communication came via the radio. For some reason, after the lake ices over, and after the ice fishermen start coming—an old ...

Thanks to the foresight of members or supporters—whether past or present—some organizations have endowments. That’s a good thing. If such organizations manage such endowments properly, the corpus should forever grow with inflation, as should the annual—or whatever the time frame ...

Question: I got a hospital bill from my admission and the Rehab stay after. I didn’t think it would cost that much? How do I know what to pay? Answer: I will answer this question over the next two weeks. As the answer is different depending on your insurance. The key to maximizing your ...

I am not sure exactly where this saying comes from, but it is certainly true. I get pictures of the little ones from Alaska. That helps me keep up with the way they are growing. I get pictures from the kids when they are in college. That is the way I keep up with them as well. Last summer I had ...