Fredonia Mayor Michael Ferguson’s recent comments regarding the Article 78 filed on behalf of a group of concerned citizens regarding the trustees’ vote on Dec. 26 to draw down the reservoir and decommission the water treatment plant demands a response. The Article in no way prevents or ...

At a village of Fredonia board meeting on Dec. 22, village trustee Jon Espersen reported that the cost to buy water from the city of Dunkirk would be $1.9 million per year compared to the entire village water budget of $2 million, making it appear that it would cost less to buy water from ...

“Why can’t we all just get along?” It’s either a pretty tall ask; or realistically, just a rhetorical question when someone is exasperated by some ongoing conflict. We can blame it all on “human nature” but humans being such a bundle of thoughts and emotions, we carry all reaches ...

Chautauqua County has long been working hard to improve services for the people living here while reducing their cost of living. It’s not an easy balance to achieve. In 2017, New York state decided to nudge communities to get serious about this with a competition to improve local government ...

Thanks to the foresight of members or supporters—whether past or present—some organizations have endowments. That’s a good thing. If such organizations manage such endowments properly, the corpus should forever grow with inflation, as should the annual—or whatever the time frame ...

Here are some of my thoughts on the 2024 presidential election. I am really getting tired of the campaign coverage, provided by CNN, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, and yes, even Fox News. It seems that the dust has hardly settled from the last presidential election when they soon treat us to panels of ...