The State University of New York at Fredonia’s soil judging team has punched their ticket to compete in the 2026 National Collegiate Soil Judging Contest. A strong overall sixth place finish — out of 20 teams representing 13 schools — at the recent Northeast Regional National Soil ...
SUNY Oswego recently recognized several Chautauqua County residents as high academic achievers on its President’s List and Deans’ List for the spring 2025 semester. President’s List students are those attaining semester grade-point averages of 3.8 or higher while carrying required academic credits. Students on the President’s List include Kaylee M. Winchell, Dunkirk, business administration (online)...
Westfield begins the magical holiday season with its annual “Christmas in the Village” event. This decades-long tradition takes place on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Beginning on Friday through Sunday, Nov. 23, Christmas in the Village brings the historic downtown alive with family ...
In July, Chautauqua County will host the 40th reunion of the Great Peace March (GPM), a historic cross-country protest calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Former marchers, supporters, and others will join at the Great Blue Heron Farm and Event Center to reflect, reconnect and ...
Horses are remarkably intelligent animals. Like people, every horse is shaped by its life experiences. Many horses can live well into their thirties (and donkeys and mules even longer), which means that when a new horse arrives at our barn, we rarely know what they’ve been through before. ...
That “words have consequences” is not a new idea, but it has gathered momentum of late. Maybe a better way of looking at it is to say that words are organic. They evolve, like a living thing, and affect and are affected by the environment in which they operate. Their meaning changes with usage, and it almost seems they want to gain attention by shedding plain denotation in pursuit of more colorful connotation. Sometimes the growth is poetic – a kind of metamorphosis. Lately, however, the mutations of many words in the geopolitical sphere have become worrisome. For example, the ...
