What is a visionary? One definition is “A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.” Another slightly different one is “One having unusual foresight and imagination.” Whatever the definition I think the word is overused and like beauty being in the eye ...

Significant redactions were made by the Chautauqua County Health Department to the LaBella Water System Evaluation Report on the Fredonia water system that was submitted to the Village in mid-November of last year. Major portions of the report were censored from public view by the Chautauqua ...

These are words from the Old Testament--words of hope from a prophet that, at the end of time, “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Unfortunately, we haven’t gotten to that point, and mankind continues to find new ways to kill each ...

Beginning on April 9, 1942, and concluding on April 17, 1942, 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers were taken prisoner on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines during World War II. This action was rated among the greatest atrocities of the times matched only by the holocaust in Europe, it ...

Mike Tramuta is 100 percent correct. The 1972-1973 Dunkirk High School basketball team he coached was unquestionably the best basketball team in school history. Frankly, and no disrespect to the DHS state championship baseball team of the 1990s, Mike’s team was also the greatest team in the ...

I’ve been granted the opportunity to express my opinions and offer them to a wider audience than I would otherwise have. I’ve taken this opportunity very seriously, and have tried to choose topics that are important and relevant, that would be thought provoking. Over the course of the ...