When I got to thinking about the Christmas Eve celebrations, I realized that I had varied experiences. When I was young, I remember one Christmas Eve at home. I prepared a little service complete with Christmas carols. My aunt and uncle came that evening to celebrate with us since they would be ...

The one place you won’t find a Subaru is in Dear Richard’s driveway, our everyday car park. He’s a domestic sorta guy. We got chatting about our old car favorites and I realized how much he enjoyed his “big boats” from the 60s and 70s. Back then you could buy 8 horsepower under the ...

The best Christmas gift I ever received was a roller coaster. It stood about four-feet high, had three steps up to the top and a cart that you sat on as you were launched down a metal frame over two small, but thrilling curves. I was eight. It’s been all down hill from there, if you’ll ...

For many in the SUNY Fredonia community, the recently announced program cuts were a wake-up call. For my family and I, it was deja vu — a painful reminder of a chapter in our lives that we thought was over. Although currently tenured at SUNY Fredonia, I still consider myself an “academic ...

Much has been reported about how difficult it is to enforce housing codes to deal with everything from junk and debris all over a property to rotting porches and roofs. As the Jamestown Housing Court Judge until December 31, 2021, I can confirm there are many obstacles to effective housing ...

The announcement by Lutheran Social Services here in Jamestown that they were closing their skilled nursing care facility should be a wake-up call for all of us. Nursing homes, at least here in New York State, are in trouble. Much of their difficulty is related to things beyond their ...