I wanted to write something this week that had no connection to politics but the continuing effort on the part of Democrats to block the agenda that in large part got President Donald Trump elected became hard to ignore. Democrats should remember the words of Barack Obama in 2009 when he ...
In fact, Spring started a little early for us, and brought an untimely gift. Whoop-de-doo. We have ants. And we have been struggling. Occasionally in April or May, we have had a small platoon of the little black critters. Nothing we couldn’t deal with easily. We’d buy an 8-pack of ant ...
Dunkirk’s Town Board decided against solar panel on a parcel of land on Williams Street. Now, it faces a legal challenge. Last week, Solar Liberty Energy Systems and John Dach filed suit in state Supreme Court this week. The filing calls the board’s denial of a solar farm project permit ...
Reducing the County’s sales tax rate from 8% to 7 ¾% under my Resolution is a win-win proposal. Our residents get a tax break and our cities, towns and villages will be held harmless. Starting in 1968, for over 30 years, Chautauqua County made do with a 7% sales tax. For the last 10 ...
March 26 — 1947 - The Ellington Free Methodist Church was dismantled. March 27 — 1894 - The steamboat Vincent burned in Mayville. — 1938 - Famed Swiss balloonist Jean Piccard visited Jamestown. — 1963 - A bomb threat was reported at Dunkirk High School.
A judge’s decision this month approving the state Legislature’s decision to limit lawmakers’ outside income struck perhaps the most odious part of the law. Judge Alison Napolitano of state Supreme Court in Suffolk County ruled the state can’t strip legislators of their voting rights ...