Life

CLCS recognizes top March students

Chautauqua Lake Central School is proud to recognize its March Students of the Month for grades seven through 12. These students exemplify dedication, positivity, and a strong commitment to both their academic work and school community. — Seventh grade honoree Paxton Liddell is a positive and driven student who consistently demonstrates preparation, perseverance, and leadership. He actively participates in class, encourages others, and goes above and beyond expectations, making him a valued member of the school community. His initiative and willingness to support his peers help create ...

Spring is the season for nature’s babies

The sunshine and blue skies outside my window are doing their best to remind me that it is currently spring, despite the bouts of cold and snow this past weekend. Though the weather is inconsistent, the natural world continues to forge on and do its best to bring about what spring is known ...

State honors for student

Samuel Bowers, of the Silver Creek Central Schools, achieved the honor of being inducted into the 2024-2025 New York State Business and Marketing Honor Society. The primary purpose of the society is to recognize those students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in a secondary ...

Visionary tool adds perspective

Eyes are windows to the soul, or so they say. It’s a lovely metaphor. Certainly eyes are the most beautiful part of our anatomy, our most luminous, mystical, and expressive features. Eyes speak to us more deeply and with more nuance than tongues or pens or swords. The full range of human emotions can be communicated through the eyes – confidence, vulnerability, joy, sadness, excitement, ennui, urgency, calm, truth, and even lies are expressed through those little orbs that adorn our faces. Eyes serve to connect us, or at least have the capacity to do so. They are mirrors, ...

Little Mice by Caleb Spell

‘Future physician’ to receive Lanford award

Acquiring experience in medical care was the right prescription for Julia T. Skiba to receive the State University of New York at Fredonia’s highest academic honor. The senior Molecular Genetics major from Troy, will receive the Lanford Presidential Prize at the university’s 199th ...