I have never been best friends with Lake Erie. I grew up less than 15 miles from its shores in a suburb of Buffalo but I only knew it slightly better than I know the Indian Ocean, which isn’t saying much. My summers were spent here by our own small lake, of which I could always see the ...

A piece on the news caught my attention last week. A teacher in Texas was featured for an activity that she did with her class. They took a day away from their studies and “visited” Mexico. She had travel documents for each student as well as a passport. The children were really enthused ...

Chautauqua County has long been working hard to improve services for the people living here while reducing their cost of living. It’s not an easy balance to achieve. In 2017, New York state decided to nudge communities to get serious about this with a competition to improve local government ...

Last year, Catholic Charities of Buffalo celebrated 100 years of serving the Western New York community. This year also marks something equally special – our 100th annual Appeal. The backbone of stability for our organization, the annual Appeal has allowed us to continue our mission of ...

“Old Timers” like me may still remember when radio was King. For the first decade or so of my life, there was no television. The only common, immediate public communication came via the radio. For some reason, after the lake ices over, and after the ice fishermen start coming—an old ...

Thanks to the foresight of members or supporters—whether past or present—some organizations have endowments. That’s a good thing. If such organizations manage such endowments properly, the corpus should forever grow with inflation, as should the annual—or whatever the time frame ...