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Opinion

It’s Up To The Community To Save Ribfest

In Our Opinion

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. An event with a familiar name struggles to get volunteers after years of successful operation. Or, organizers decide they want to focus on other things and make the decision to cut their losses. In either case, the community that didn’t hear the ...

Forgetting Everything? Well, Join The Club.

Local Commentaries

My mother had a saying that I heard all too often during my childhood: “You’d forget your head if it wasn’t attached.” Sadly, she was right. I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of my whole life looking for what I have lost, misplaced, or simply forgotten. No, it’s not just ordinary ...

Koenigsegg – What Kind Of Name Is That?

Local Commentaries

It’s not an easy name to pronounce accurately especially if you don’t know the name, origin or history but regardless of your knowledge, the fact still stands that a Koenigsegg or Koenigsegg Automotive is a Swedish manufacturer of high performance super cars (mega cars); derived from a 22 ...

Loss Of Refresco Is Simply Latest Blow For Ag Industry

In Our Opinion

Farming has been a way of life for many in Chautauqua County for as long as there has been a Chautauqua County. That way of life is increasingly difficult, as we were all reminded recently when news broke that Refresco, a grape processing plant located on Talcott Street in Dunkirk, is ending ...

State’s Economy Drives Out Businesses, People

Local Commentaries

Across New York, families and businesses are facing an affordability crisis that is making it increasingly difficult to live, work, and stay here. High taxes, rising energy costs, burdensome regulations and the ever-growing cost of living are pushing people to leave the state. The data tells ...

The Newspaper And Local Sports

Local Commentaries

This week I opened the newspaper, and there on the front of the Sports Page was an incredible photograph of three girls from Frewsburg with hands raised celebrating their State Championship in basketball for the second year in a row. It wasn’t just the photograph but also the write-up which ...