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Weekend voices: Your vote greatly impacts local elections

Vote. If you haven’t already taken advantage of the early voting schedule that began on Saturday, Oct. 25, it extends through this Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The closest early voting site for north county is at the Dunkirk fairgrounds. You will have all day on Tuesday, the traditional ...

Partisan politics blocks honest debate

CHAUTAUQUA—Did you read the page-one story about local elections in last weekend’s edition of this newspaper? If you didn’t, pull it out of your pile of recyclables, because it’s well done. The bottom line today is that this episode in state government was a missed opportunity to ...

Rounding Third …I still pine for pinecones

Preparing for this weekend’s garage sale, I came across a canvas bag I hadn’t seen in years. It was filled with pinecones. Giant Sequoia pinecones. Some of these babies are almost a foot long, and my memory of first seeing them goes back to 1949. 1949? Yes, I was alive then – and out ...

Traffic circles drive some motorists crazy

John D’Agostino’s recent Editor’s corner on roundabouts got me thinking about roundabouts or as they are called in Massachusetts “rotaries.” I want to begin with the admission that I absolutely hate those narrow paved circles no matter the soothing words state Department of ...

‘No Kings’ rally includes royal absurdity

Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman told his party to stop with the Nazi and fascist rhetoric. That clearly went out the window at the recent “No Kings” protest. In Jamestown alone, signs labeling the president and MAGA as Nazis and fascists could be spotted everywhere you looked as ...

Good progress being made on bridge

Though we have had little rain this fall, the good weather has been helpful to those reconstructing the Chautauqua Lake Bridge. As you head east over the lake from the Stow side on I-86, you can see the open, raw girders where a substantial amount of concrete decking has been removed. There ...