It will be decades before Chautauqua County is in the path of totality for a solar eclipse again. But the lessons we learned from the county’s handling of the influx of visitors from this week’s event can provide some lessons the county, its residents and its businesses can learn from ...
Beginning on April 9, 1942, and concluding on April 17, 1942, 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers were taken prisoner on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines during World War II. This action was rated among the greatest atrocities of the times matched only by the holocaust in Europe, it ...
Last year the paper published my essay titled “Ripley: Believe It Or Not.” At that time the development of a County Industrial Park in Ripley was still a proposal. As a new member in 2024 of the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Economic Development Committee I watched a YouTube video of a ...
In 2018 an article in The Post-Journal reported that legalization of marijuana took a big step forward. It was said that the “pros would outweigh the cons”. We could raise $700 million in tax revenue. The county Board of Health backed legalization because the “pros outweigh the cons”. ...
It was interesting to observe all of the “hoop-la” surrounding the recent solar eclipse. There were stories of thousands traveling to see the total eclipse, stories about solar eyeglasses being distributed, and, finally, stories about how the skies broke open just as the eclipse was ...
It took four long years, but U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are finally ready to recommend parents should treat COVID-19 and its variants like any other respiratory illness. It is no longer a federal recommendation that students undergo isolation periods and ...