It’s been a challenging year for many in our community facing price increases, tighter budgets, and job cuts and the need for Catholic Charities’ services only continues to grow here in Chautauqua County. For more than 100 years, Catholic Charities has provided HOPE to our neighbors who ...
It is far beyond time for two troubled north county governments to implement a consideration that was definitely needed long before now: a hiring freeze. Both governments in putting forth devastating tax hikes have offered no other possible solutions in planning for the future, so why not ...
It appears that one of our consistent contributors to the opinion page has figured out why Democrats don’t like Donald Trump. He thinks it’s pragmatism. Oh really, it’s that simple? I won’t use the word “hate” as the writer did, mainly because it is actually “hate” that is ...
Fredonia homeowners are soon to have a historic gargantuan tax increase imposed on them with virtually no resistance by their own choice. Notwithstanding, last year’s illegal and unprecedented tax of 6%, this dwarfs that by a factor of 12 times. If you go prior to last year you may as ...
SCHONDORF AM AMMERSEE, Germany — Let’s pick up where we left off last week. In war, the people almost always lose in one way or another—with some making the ultimate sacrifice—regardless of whether their countries prevail. Ultimate sacrifices leave voids among families and friends ...
Call it a longtime exercise in futility. For more than a decade, this newspaper has written opinion pieces and editorials advocating consolidations, warning that numerous local governments and schools were becoming a burden for a shrinking Chautauqua County population. Elected officials of the ...