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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
PATH OF TOTALITY—Let’s pick up where we left off last week. The April 8, 2024, eclipse was a moment in—or perhaps out of—the sun for Chautauqua County, for Western New York, and for all of those throughout North America in the path of totality. It was fun, because it was a solar ...
Dunkirk’s former power generating station located on the shores of Lake Erie has always been a love-hate relationship for its residents. City, school and county officials historically understood the payoff it brought in terms of adding to a deteriorating tax base and high-paying jobs. But ...
Bills like Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti’s truth in campaigning legislation introduced recently in the state Assembly aren’t new. They’ve existed in one form or another for decades. What’s changed is the need for them. We have former House Rep. George Santos to thank for that. In ...