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Opinion

Unfairness can befall us tomorrow

Commentary

JAMESTOWN — Let’s pick up where we left off 60 weeks ago when we first considered ultimately successful efforts to save Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Jamestown from closure. ≤ ≤ ≤ The Diocese of Buffalo has tough, unenviable decisions to make in addressing issues ...

Rounding Third: 24 legs in the house at holidays

Commentary

Today, the second of January, a working day, really begins the New Year. Fuggedaboudit. I’m hoping people have today off to go along with the holiday. Two long weekends in a row? Now THAT would make for a happy Christmas. Despite housing six additional 2-legged residents and two 4-legged ...

2026: Possibilities lie ahead for new year

The OBSERVER’s View

We’ve done it. We’ve reached the end of 2025 and are looking ahead to all the possibilities 2026 holds. Some may be planning to put 2025 firmly behind them and not look back, others may have much upon which to build from one year to the next. Whatever the case — whether our dreams ...

Backtracking before going forward

Commentary

Well it’s the end of another year but for me it’s not time to make resolutions but a time to look back on the previous year and wonder what the new year will bring. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is Catholic while pro-choice, has told the legislature that she will be signing the bill to allow ...

New York State: Never consensus in aid in dying law

The OBSERVER’s View

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature on legislation approving Medical Aid In Dying was, to put it nicely, not universally approved. Many state lawmakers didn’t like the decision. More importantly, tens of millions of state residents didn’t like it either. And the chances are they won’t ...

The lake freezes before Christmas

Commentary

We have lived on Chautauqua Lake now for over 30 years and have very seldom seen the lake, as it now is, iced-over before Christmas. It may have happened once or twice before, but then, I think, it was only partially frozen. The snowfall this year has also been significant, i.e. the kind of ...