Navigating bedtime with a teenager is, in many homes, a nightly battle with a constant refrain: Get off your phone! Go to bed! Research shows that today’s teenagers are more sleep-deprived than ever before. Adolescents need between eight and 10 hours of sleep, according to the Centers ...

The saying goes “April Showers bring May Flowers,” and some have followed that up with asking, “…so what do Mayflowers bring?” The not very funny answer to that is “Pilgrims,” but May is a month that brings other special days and events that are celebrated in large and small ...

I’m really attracted to the tiny house scene. I’m not sure why, but maybe it’s because when I was a little girl, I had a poem book and one of the poems was about a little girl in her very own tiny little house. The poem featured a picture of the little girl sitting in a rocking chair, a ...

I like to write about the annual robins who nest on my back porch. I enjoy watching their month-long odyssey from the home building to the final fledgling fly-off. Last year’s model must have liked the neighborhood, because Rosie Robin (as I had named her) is back. And she has brought ...

CELORON—The Chautauqua Lake shoreline in and around the village of Celoron is a mess. That’s undisputed. Where the mess came from is another matter entirely. Thousands of what appear to be bamboo sticks that may actually be Japanese knotweed, tree trunks, logs and yard debris litter ...

DUNKIRK — After being unused for more than a decade, some Chautauqua County leaders want to see the NRG plant in Dunkirk repowered, either with natural gas or as a micro-nuclear energy facility. During the recent county legislature meeting, Legislator Jamie Gustafson, R-Lakewood, requested ...