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Life’s a beach in Dunkirk Editor, OBSERVER: When Park Avenue childhood neighbors and lifelong friends Roger Orcutt and myself, Beverly (Michalak) Slichta-Cusick, met recently, Roger decided to become a member of the Dunkirk Historical Museum where I am a new trustee. An avid promoter of Dunkirk, Roger talked about Dunkirk’s history and shared his special interest in Point Gratiot, Wright Park and Cedar Beach. Roger has a collections of historical Dunkirk beach photos— including one with skinny dippers at Cedar Beach decades ago. “With National Beach Day” coming on ...

Special Night Out in Fredonia

Editor, OBSERVER: The Fredonia Police Department National Night Out, at right, was a great success on Aug. 3 in Russell Joy Park. The Fredonia Police Department would like to thank everyone who attended and made this night so special. A huge shout out to our sponsors: Walmart, Tim ...

Commission must return

Editor, OBSERVER: New York state adopted the Moreland Act in 1907 to permit the governor “to examine and investigate the management and affairs of any department, board, bureau or commission of the state.” The soon-to-be-gone Gov. Andrew Cuomo invoked the Moreland Act in 2013 to “probe systemic corruption and the appearance of such corruption in state government, political campaigns and elections.” Through the then Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, who himself had to resign in 2018, for physically abusing women, a number of experienced prosecutors were appointed to carry ...

Sex harassment not a party issue

Editor, OBSERVER: I couldn’t agree more with the Commentary written by Rolland Kidder, that was published in the OBSERVER (Aug. 10). While I am not in any way condoning the recently documented inappropriate behavior of Andrew Cuomo, I do not believe any reasonable person would state that what he did is even close to the inappropriate behavior with women that was clearly admitted to by Donald Trump. It is interesting that Democrats, as well as Republicans, across state and the rest of the country have no hesitancy (appropriately so) to condemn Mr. Cuomo’s actions but Republicans ...

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It’s premature to opt to preserve Editor, OBSERVER: In an article “Motion to Preserve 23rd Congressional District Falls Short” (July 30), the OBSERVER reports that county Legislative Chairman Pierre Chagnon requested that the county legislature pass a motion urging the “preservation of existing boundaries of New York State 23rd Congressional District.” The article goes on to report that, despite heavy voting along party lines, the motion failed to move forward to the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission. For the chairman to propose such a motion before ...

Columnist’s mask take is ‘spot on’

Editor, OBSERVER: Thomas Kirkpatrick’s opinion of face masks for children is spot on! Thank you for having the guts to express what so many of us are thinking. The progressive agenda has to be stopped. Our young people in public schools should not be indoctrinated by the Critical Race Theory garbage. This country is under attack from within. Marxist ideology has no place in the USA. The Biden administration’s policy at the southern border would be laughable if it were not so obviously politically motivated and dangerous. Keep the opinion pieces coming Mr. Kirkpatrick. ...