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Opinion

How To Handle Medication Changes

Local Commentaries

Question: My medication has changed significantly recently, and I have medication I am no longer taking. What do I do with it? Answer: I often speak about medications, the costs and how to obtain them, but this is the other end of the medication lifecycle. Do not flush your unused medications ...

Stories Untold Can Be Unhealthy

Local Commentaries

The last article was an introduction to my professional link to working with clients professing ideology of self-destructive behaviors. I was fortunate and blessed to have had a golden opportunity to connect with an established county based 24-hour hotline. The public was served via telephone ...

Useless Weed Or Useful Medicine

Local Commentaries

I have always been enthralled with dandelions. When my children were young, they often brought home bouquets of them. I proudly displayed them so they would be happy. The little yellow flowers were so joyful to look at. By evening the little yellow blossoms had closed up. That is the way of the ...

Lessons We Learned From This Week’s Eclipse

In Our Opinion

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 ...

Ripley: Believe It Or Not: Part II

Local Commentaries

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 ...

The Greatest Atrocity Of The Pacific Theater

Local Commentaries

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 ...