Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most. I wish that old cliche were not so appropriate. I don’t know who said that first, but he or she was a perceptive genius, and definitely over sixty – the age when chronic forgetfulness moves in permanently. What are you saying to ...

By JUDI LUTZ WOODS What a precious gem we have right here in Fredonia, at the Rockefeller Arts Center. Under the direction of Jefferson Westwood, we have a high quality venue that allows the college students to highlight their talents and the audience to reap the rewards. For the ...

Last Memorial Day weekend in Washington, D.C., we commemorated the 20th year of the dedication of the National World War II Memorial. It was a special time. For me, it had all started in 1994, thirty years ago, when I had been first appointed by the President to the commission responsible for ...

By NORMAN P. GREEN I had to shake my head a hard no reading Dunkirk Town Councilman Phil Leone’s quote opposing government consolidation in a recent OBSERVER write up. “We seem to be the only fiscally responsible town…,” said Leone in taking his neighboring communities to task and ...

During the course of World War II, the United States sent over 16 million of its citizens to fight overseas. Some in Europe against the onslaught of the Nazi regime, and some in Africa; some in the Mediterranean against the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and some in the Pacific against the ...

South Carolina has prevailed in the Equal Protection Clause challenge to the Palmetto State’s congressional-redistricting plan after the 2020 census. There can be no dissecting of the whole U.S. Supreme Court in one column. Yet it’s possible to look at part of it. ≤ ≤ ≤ The ...