Preparing for this weekend’s garage sale, I came across a canvas bag I hadn’t seen in years. It was filled with pinecones. Giant Sequoia pinecones. Some of these babies are almost a foot long, and my memory of first seeing them goes back to 1949. 1949? Yes, I was alive then – and out ...

Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman told his party to stop with the Nazi and fascist rhetoric. That clearly went out the window at the recent “No Kings” protest. In Jamestown alone, signs labeling the president and MAGA as Nazis and fascists could be spotted everywhere you looked as ...

Though we have had little rain this fall, the good weather has been helpful to those reconstructing the Chautauqua Lake Bridge. As you head east over the lake from the Stow side on I-86, you can see the open, raw girders where a substantial amount of concrete decking has been removed. There ...

When I was a wee lad, my mother Vivian took me for a walk after supper. It was a beautiful late October night. A harvest moon was shining down, so bright that it almost seemed like daytime. The stillness of that hallowed evening was suddenly interrupted by a child’s screams. Mine. I had ...

No Kings Day was a celebration of the rule of law. We are a nation of laws. We were the first nation on earth to say “We make our own laws.” “We the People” decide for ourselves what the law is. Our democracy is endangered by this Lawless President. This week President Donald Trump ...

I am writing in response to the OBSERVER’s View (Oct. 6), which highlighted the Paint CHQ program and the editors’ concerns about the use of county resources for the mural project. The editorial notes that the Paint CHQ program did not use county funding, because the County Planning ...