As another school year begins I am always reminded of my first-grade year and my teacher Mrs. Toni Harris. I believe that my education started at the tail end of a very unique era in American education. I learned to read from primers that described Spot, Dick, Jack and Jane engaged in ...
It’s no secret that people read less today. It’s a slow process, and we live in a fast world. There might be, however, a growing appetite for shorter readings. The following is an example of the genre called flash fiction — stories of less than a thousand words. It’s a parody of a classic children’s story. Location is everything, and the troll who lived under the wooden footbridge was shrewdly aware of that fact. On hot days, fish lollygagged there in the shaded waters, easy prey for his quick, thorny hands. At night, he slithered up the creek banks where he hunched in the ...
We wholeheartedly agree with Fredonia Trustee Paul Wandel when it comes to reading letters during the public comment portion of a government meeting. If someone wishes to offer an opinion, they need to have their name attached to it. Why would it be any other way? Wandel’s resolution, which was not voted on this week, was spurred by comments read at a recent meeting with the writer requesting anonymity. That individual’s thoughts then included name calling of Mayor Michael Ferguson while bashing his behavior. Talk about not having courage in your convictions. That letter is ...
After 20 years of outright fraud, the UN-IPCC finally admitted their climate doom scenarios (RCP8.5 and SSP5-8.5) were phony nonsense. But those fraudulent scenarios were used to fleece New York taxpayers to subsidize Albany’s fear-based Green Energy mandates. But the climate-con continues daily. Consider the knee-jerk reaction of climate doomers blaming the recent Nepal flooding on global warming – before any scientific data was available! But geologists – using detailed video and seismic data – showed that the underlying bedrock collapsed, not the glacier. It had nothing ...
I write as a former marijuana user and a concerned member of our community to strongly oppose the legalization of marijuana and the proposed opening of a retail store here. These steps are not merely unwise policy choices — they are dangerous, both practically and spiritually. From personal experience I know that marijuana dulls the mind, weakens judgment, and opens the door to habits and influences that are difficult to reverse. What begins as recreation often erodes clarity, motivation, and spiritual discernment. Introducing a commercial outlet that normalizes and profits from this ...
SUNSET BAY—It’s a gorgeous late summer day on the shore of Lake Erie. As a Buffalo Bills’ game is on television, the sun is bright, the air is warm, and wispy clouds fill the blue sky. This is the kind of day that postcards are made of. It’s that much fun. It’s a bit windy ...
