The veterinarian said something to Finian that I personally never heard in a doctor’s office: “You could stand to gain a little weight.” He removed our cat from the scale, announcing that he had lost ten ounces. That probably doesn’t seem like much, but it was 5% of his body weight. ...

We arrive once again at the somber date we all know as 9/11. Since the fateful hours we observed through immediate television coverage, the day from 2001, has been memorialized as Patriots Day. The resolve of a nation has been recorded, and the memories preserved of the nearly 3,000 lives that ...

Most of my life has been lived in Chautauqua County, and, if there has been one common denominator or barrier throughout — it has been what we call the “ridge,” the Chautauqua Ridge which separates the South County from the North County. It is a division originating in mother nature. It ...

A former president of the United States places a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery on the third anniversary of the deaths of 13 members of the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan. This is an admirable show of respect, in itself. However, our former president is not capable of performing a ...

We believe that, if government is of the people, by the people and for the people, then it should also be open to the people. Government exists to serve its citizens. Access to public information should be simple. Freedom of Information Laws and the New York Open Meetings Law make access to ...

CHAUTAUQUA LAKE — Overall, humanity hasn’t been a good steward of Chautauqua Lake over the course of the last two centuries. Raw sewage, pollution and runoff from various enterprises, and the clearing of so much land along Chautauqua Lake have hurt this body of water. The scuttling of ...