Think of this. If someone asked you to list the most significant inventions in humanity’s history, what would you include? Wouldn’t you include the printing press? To be sure, humanity could — before the printing press — transmit knowledge, wisdom, and culture from one generation ...

Several things caught my attention in recent days. The old high school on Main Street in Silver Creek is finally coming down and surprisingly not under the weight of its decaying structure. When the Kirkpatrick family arrived in Silver Creek 45 years ago it had already stood abandoned for ...

Last Friday I received a pacemaker. I’m still not over the shock that I needed one. I was skeptical because surgeons want to do their job. You know, they’re trained to cut. Same as my hairdresser. But the cardiac surgeons at St. Vincent’s in Erie were convincing. Long story short, my ...

I am writing in response to the recent article concerning the homeless individual residing on the benches near City Hall in Dunkirk (May 10-11). I was deeply disheartened by the tone and content of the remarks made by several of our city officials, which reflected a disturbing lack of ...

I don’t know if you have observed it, but it looks to me like there are at least double the number of people as usual now working on the Chautauqua Lake bridge. It is obvious that the contractor is taking advantage of the good weather and reconstruction work is ramping up. What you ...

I am a constituent of the 23rd district in New York state. I have become increasingly dismayed with the lack of communication and concern for the constituents of this district that U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy has shown. Since Feb. 23, I have written four emails with my concerns about President ...