Upbeat music played in the distance in anticipation of the arrival of New York state Gov. Kathy Hochul last week in Fredonia at the East Main Street site where a new north county hospital is being constructed. With the location basking in the sun, more than 100 community members and local ...
CHAUTAUQUA LAKE — Herbicides are an effective tool against weeds and algae in lakes, including Chautauqua Lake. Yet what happens to those herbicides once they’re introduced into a lake? That question arose at an Aug. 18 Chautauqua-Lake-focused public-information session in the Casino ...
A major $3.2 million upgrade to a Westfield manufacturer is worthy of plenty of praise. Besides the company investment with state assistance, there also is an effort to maintain a younger generation within the region. According to an article in last weekend’s edition, Renold Westfield at 100 Bourne St. is actively marketing itself to prospective hires. The company has hosted factory tours for students enrolled in P-TECH, an Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES program for high school students that offers career and technical education and certifications in skilled trades, engineering ...
Is our war with Iran necessary? Some see attempts to give diplomacy a chance as a waste of time and want to see it brought to a swift conclusion with the current regime destroyed. Others, because Americans are peace-loving people, want our nation to get out now, and some Democrats, remembering ...
An attentive reader of The Post-Journal responded to my column about the nighttime marauders on our deck — the nocturnal animals. I mentioned that some friends in Russell, Pennsylvania, were being overwhelmed by skunks, and entire neighborhoods there reeked. Whoa — I had never noticed that ...
The fate of the American colonies rested in the hands of two men in August of 1777 in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York. And one wasn’t “General” Nicholas Herkimer who led his men, some 800 members of the Tryon County Militia, including nine of my relatives, into a trap at Oriskany where between four and five hundred of them were slaughtered. The battlefield became a dead man’s land as the bodies of most of the slain were never retrieved. How bloody was the battle? Pulitzer Prize winner Rich Atkinson writes (The Fate of the Day) that in 1777, 1,517 Americans were killed in ...
