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Opinion

New Brooks-TLC a key piece to area’s future

Commentary

The Chautauqua County Partnership for Economic Growth (CCPEG) brings together leaders from the public and private sectors to advance economic development efforts and achieve economic prosperity in our county. We do this by focusing on creating and preserving quality jobs, while also focusing on ...

Promoting education, prevention

Commentary

You may see pink ribbons, clothing and articles all month because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We need to make sure that across Chautauqua County we raise awareness and recognize the survivors and those currently battling the disease. Most importantly, we must promote education ...

Retrospective

Retrospective

Thirty years ago — 1993 The Gowanda Business and Professional Women’s Club has named Joan R. Byrne as its 1993 “Woman of the Year.” She was chosen for her volunteer spirit demonstrated most recently by her efforts to start the 50-Plus Senior Program and the inception of the Meals on ...

Campus losing grip on community ties

Editor's corner

Victory Mondays were extra special during the four consecutive Super Bowl appearances by the Buffalo Bills in the 1990s. As a student at the State University of New York at Fredonia, those years offered an introduction to Valerie Pawlak who worked weekdays in the housekeeping department and ...

SUPREME COURT: Declining case is win for democracy

The OBSERVER’s View

The edition of The New York Times that appeared on March 29, 1960, reported on a strike by bus workers in Tampa, Fla., a former Chicago nightclub owner being found dead in a sewer, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower getting a new hair-do and former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen suggesting that ...

Follow advice of Goldwater, Present

Commentary

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. The U.S. House of Representatives has an odd rule. It in effect allows a small minority of the majority to join forces with a large majority of the minority to vacate the chair in whatever circumstances the small minority of the majority chooses, ...