In my eight years as a City Court Judge my biggest surprise was not our society’s drug problem but the hundreds of young men who appeared before the Court who did not work. These young men, most between 18 and 25 were “lost.” Many had dropped out of school at 16, which New York law ...

ORCHARD PARK — Let’s pick up where we left off last week. To be sure, dismissing a nine-year, grade-A head coach because one wants to do even better has its risks. On Jan. 21, Buffalo Bills’ owner Terry Pegula acknowledged as much. The Bills’ most important task this off season is ...

Running out of Werther’s hard caramels doesn’t qualify as an earth-shattering crisis. Unless the only hard candy left in the house are the candy canes hanging on the Christmas tree. And they of course contain sugar. I’m supposed to limit my sugar intake. Werther’s, a German company, ...

Recently our “loyal” allies – France, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands – sent small forces to defend Greenland from U.S. aggression. These forces were intended to make any U.S. military action an attack on multiple NATO members simultaneously, effectively raising the ...

The problems outlined in this commentary with the County Pomfret Portland Dunkirk Sewer District (PPD Sewer District) have previously been brought before the Village Mayor and Board of Trustees, but needs repeating. It’s important to reiterate those problems as nothing has been done by the ...

We tend to forget that it takes dedicated people to run our local government institutions. One of my earliest memories of politics was observing my Dad’s duties as Supervisor of the Town of Kiantone. It was not a job that he really wanted—he was plenty busy running the farm—but the ...