Preserving freedom takes work at home Editor, OBSERVER: Next year, our nation will mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Our founders gave us the framework that made the United States the greatest nation in history. Preserving that legacy is both our right ...
A member of my family suggested that it might be timely to write an article about these two polar opposites whose names have recently been in the news. “Diversity” has become a bad name for some, but the juxtaposition of these two men between what is called “democratic socialism” ...
A trail to honor the efforts of area veterans is in the works. An advisory committee envisions a three-year project that will create a trail from the Dunkirk Lighthouse and Veterans Museum to the Yorkers Museum in Sherman for Purple Heart recipients. According to a press release, the plan is ...
I am responding to the letter in paper on the No Kings march and rally held in two locations in our county. He completely missed the message of the movement. Instead he focused on some who used profanity, the words Nazi or dictator in their signs. He completely ignored the speeches made, the ...
That “words have consequences” is not a new idea, but it has gathered momentum of late. Maybe a better way of looking at it is to say that words are organic. They evolve, like a living thing, and affect and are affected by the environment in which they operate. Their meaning changes with ...
Recent budget concerns from the city of Dunkirk fire and police chiefs speak to the realities of a number of upstate New York municipalities. It does not just come down to the costs of manpower — which is the contractual agreement, but additional expenses due to the fact these agencies are on ...