Use it or lose it. What does that mean? Muscles adapt for the function they are used for. If you don’t need the power of muscles for function, our bodies shift the energy to another part that does require it. Muscles weaken or atrophy with prolonged disuse. What about people with a ...

Chautauqua County was home to more than 1,100 anti-slavery activists between 1835 and 1860, the period leading up to the Civil War. However, myths about their involvement in the Underground Railroad often obscured the truth about what those people actually did. For example, stories of ...

An easy way that I stay connected to nature, even if I have a busy schedule, is taking a moment to look out a window and watch birds at a bird feeder. It is both simple and, in my opinion, brings an extra bit of joy into one’s life. When I arrive at the Nature Center in the mornings and sit ...

SILVER CREEK — Silver Creek Middle School has announced the second quarter honor and merit roll. HONOR ROLL Eighth grade — Hunter Anderson, Adalyn Bagwell, Dakota Bastedo, Lukas Charles, Jacob Congdon, Anthony Cornwall, Mason Fote, Brielle LaValle, Justina Lindow, Genevieve Lowe, ...

BROCTON — Students of the month for February have been announced by Brocton Central Schools. Sophia Hamlet has been selected at the Brocton Middle School. She is currently an eighth-grader residing in Brocton and Sheridan with her parents, AnnMarie and Edwin Hamlet. She is an active member ...

The Shakespeare Club recently heard a report by Mary Croxton on banned books Croxton noted that attempts to restrict what kids in school read are on the rise but book banning started with the Puritans. The first banned book in the colonies was thought to be Thomas Morton’s “New England ...