Today’s Thanksgiving column, which first ran in 2021, has excerpts from my 2021 eulogy for Mrs. Elf and is in thankfulness for our marriage: ♦♦♦ Once when you, My HilaryLove, came to visit, you shared strategy for five-card draw. Including this: When you have nothing in your hand, ...
Western New York is still reeling from the shock and sting of an announcement that rocked a workforce and community. Earlier this month, with little warning, Sumitomo Rubber announced it was closing its tire manufacturing facility in Tonawanda. Around 1,550 hourly and salaried employees were ...
Too often, we prosperous, free Americans take our many blessings for granted. Nearly all of us enjoy material wealth that is the envy of billions of people in other lands. We are free to do nearly anything our hearts desire, as long as our actions do not harm others. Our nation itself is a ...
Grants often have strings attached to them - as Jamestown officials were reminded last week when talking about a culvert replacement project that will be aided with a $1.5 million state grant. Jamestown won’t have a problem covering its $350,100 share of the project as long as nothing ...
City Council members are poised tonight to pass a budget with much less of a tax increase than was proposed a month ago by Mayor Kim Ecklund. That’s good in the short-term. The increase in costs that we have seen across the board has pinched many homeowners’ budgets, so even small tax ...
Next week we celebrate Thanksgiving. At this point I have no plans but it will all come together. How Thanksgiving has changed down through the years. We used to go to Grandma Swanson’s but when she no longer could do it, we went to my sister-in-law’s. I always worked right up through ...