CHAUTAUQUA LAKE—Let’s pick up where we left off six weeks ago. You, faithful reader of this column, already understand some effects of the state’s designating parts of Chautauqua Lake as wetlands. For one, any wetlands-designated part of Chautauqua Lake would soon look like a weed ...

Question: My medication has changed significantly recently, and I have medication I am no longer taking. What do I do with it? Answer: I often speak about medications, the costs and how to obtain them, but this is the other end of the medication lifecycle. Do not flush your unused medications ...

I have always been enthralled with dandelions. When my children were young, they often brought home bouquets of them. I proudly displayed them so they would be happy. The little yellow flowers were so joyful to look at. By evening the little yellow blossoms had closed up. That is the way of the ...

The last article was an introduction to my professional link to working with clients professing ideology of self-destructive behaviors. I was fortunate and blessed to have had a golden opportunity to connect with an established county based 24-hour hotline. The public was served via telephone ...

Beginning on April 9, 1942, and concluding on April 17, 1942, 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers were taken prisoner on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines during World War II. This action was rated among the greatest atrocities of the times matched only by the holocaust in Europe, it ...

Last year the paper published my essay titled “Ripley: Believe It Or Not.” At that time the development of a County Industrial Park in Ripley was still a proposal. As a new member in 2024 of the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Economic Development Committee I watched a YouTube video of a ...