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Opinion

Shootings in schools scar generation

Commentary

During the past few years, school shootings have been on the minds of the majority of parents with children. The difference between 2025 and 1965, in relation to school shootings, is like night and day. Karen and myself raised five children and not once when we sent them to school did we ...

FREDONIA: Boil order based all on reputation

The OBSERVER’s View

In life and business, reputation is everything. For the village of Fredonia, when it comes to the water supply, there is only one real perception: unreliability. That, ultimately, is what caused the boil-water order after flawed testing last week. Even though village leaders have every right ...

Our government no longer stands for all

Commentary

“We the people” means something we are doing together. Of, for and by ourselves. “In order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our ...

Pull back on the rhetorical reins

Commentary

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. At some things, one just has to laugh. One just has to laugh at what four law schools did that at least in effect substantially diminished attendance for presentations to Federalist Society chapters: — At one law school: A fire drill and the ...

JCC tapdancing on north-county site

Editor's corner

As part of a celebratory announcement in January 2023 for a New York state Downtown Revitalization Initiative that would include $10 million for the city of Dunkirk was a project that involved Jamestown Community College. At that time, the institution was hoping a Central Avenue site, between ...