There should be, in our opinion, general approval among state lawmakers that there should be more testing of the baby food parents find on store shelves. The federal Food and Drug Administration earlier this year set new, lower maximum levels for lead in baby foods like jarred fruits and ...

Rising fees and a 54% tax increase in the village of Fredonia spotlight something this corner has railed against for decades: the continued growing of government with a declining tax base is a formula for disaster. During the village’s public hearing on the plan to hike water and sewer ...

Sheridan voters are being asked to consider downsizing the number of justices from two to one in the November general election. Though we back the idea, we do believe Chautauqua County is just dragging its feet when it comes to court consolidations. As we have seen in the town of Hanover, a ...

Robert Redford’s death early Tuesday morning in Utah has at least one connection with Chautauqua County that was noted earlier this month regarding a South Dayton celebration. Redford, who died at the age of 89, left a movie trail etched into land. He seemed to reside as much across the ...

Over a span of 10 days, there has been plenty to celebrate when it comes to Chautauqua County’s most significant crop. Just this past weekend, Silver Creek held its annual Festival of Grapes that included numerous events downtown — and the always popular parade. Not to be outdone, the ...

It’s easy to lampoon many proposals coming out of Albany as soft on crime. It would have been easy to do so with a proposal introduced recently by Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, D-Corona, that would place limits on police departments’ access to doorbell camera footage as part of crime ...