ORCHARD PARK — In the days before the 2025 American Football Conference championship game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs, there circulated many spoofs humorously suggesting that National Football League referees were in cahoots with the Chiefs. Yes, you saw them, ...

So far the winter of 2024-25 has been a return to real winter weather for Western NY. In fact, I used my snowblower more this year than I have the last two years combined. Hopefully, the worst of winter will soon be over and in a few weeks Frosty Treat in Irving will open for the season, ...

Small town living seldom requires the services of Uber or Lyft. But I was in New York City last week and had the opportunity to be a newly savvy traveler. I became an Uber user. I am a verified rider. I am so cool. It was fun, it was safe, and I enjoyed my drivers. And yes, it is fairly ...

A local pastor posted an open letter by a “progressive” preacher John Pavlovitz urging all pastors in the nation to stand in support of Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde for her remarks made to President Trump at the National Cathedral (1-21). Count me out. Another progressive pastor ...

It may be the middle of winter, but that has not stopped construction of new sewers for the west side of Chautauqua Lake. It is now underway. As you head toward Mayville from Hogan’s Hut on Route 394, you come up a hill and just beyond the crest, on the right-hand side, you will see the ...

New York State needs to reap the economic benefits of President Trump’s National Energy Emergency Declaration by removing barriers to development of the oil and natural gas under our feet. In 2021, NYSERDA published information that 70-plus % of the total energy used in New York State ...