In a region that relies heavily on local governments to provide answers and assistance, those who are not elected to serve often get more done. That was the case last month with The Citizens for a Better Cassadaga community organization. It received a grant from the Northern Chautauqua ...
It is just past Thanksgiving and another deer season is upon us. Many around here will likely spend some time at deer camp that day. In reflecting back, though I have no historical proof of it, I have always thought that the pilgrims likely ate venison along with turkey on that first ...
It was important to resolve the federal budget knowing that there are hundreds of families who rely on the SNAP program to put food on their table every night. But it should be a challenge to everyone we elect at the local, state and national levels to double our efforts to decrease poverty ...
You have to hand it to U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy. Not everyone would be willing to go out in the rain and stand in front of a microphone to tell us temporary funding for rural hospitals that offsets only one-third of permanent funding cuts is a win. Langworthy called the $50 Billion Rural ...
We’re all in this together, but we still want to go our separate ways. That best describes our northern Chautauqua County community that allows the proliferation of government while population trends keep declining. A most recent example was a potential partnership between the towns of ...
Imagine you have never been to Niagara Falls and you are visiting the area for the first time. You visited the Canadian Side of Niagara Falls first, then came to the American side after a small stroll on the Rainbow Bridge. You feel lost and disappointed with your experience here compared to ...