Benefit brings outpouring of ‘love’ Editor, OBSERVER: The friends of Annemarie Johnston wish to express their gratitude to all who made the benefit for her family such a great success. Sister Corona and St. Columban’s on the Lake donated food, The Conservation Club provided the ...
In my lifetime, I have lived through what I would call two or three “cycles” in our national politics. We came out of World War II as the major super-power in the world—there was a good feeling in the country. Yet, somehow, we lost our “mojo.” Along came the fall of China to the ...
For the first time in its history, Chautauqua County’s Fly Car program is running in the black. The change in the program’s financial health is due in part to increased revenues as county officials and its billing partner have done a better job of capturing money owed for services as well ...
The current assault on American healthcare compelled me to write this as a nurse practitioner. The fact that this administration made a statement that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must align with the president’s Make America Healthy Again agenda should strike fear in ...
During the past few years, school shootings have been on the minds of the majority of parents with children. The difference between 2025 and 1965, in relation to school shootings, is like night and day. Karen and myself raised five children and not once when we sent them to school did we ...
In life and business, reputation is everything. For the village of Fredonia, when it comes to the water supply, there is only one real perception: unreliability. That, ultimately, is what caused the boil-water order after flawed testing last week. Even though village leaders have every right ...