By Rolland Kidder This year, the “equalization rate” for Chautauqua County went down about 12 points and last year it was down 6 points. That means that over two years, the state has estimated that the value of Chautauqua County property has gone up by at least 18%. Next year the assessed ...

“Hitler was right!” “Gas the Jews!” Those revolting remarks from malicious mobs on American college campuses mimic the most infamous henchmen of history. How unnerved and intimidated would you feel being a Jew hearing raw racial vitriol voiced on campus fueled by nut-job professors and ...

If climate change is an existential threat to human life, or at least life as we have enjoyed it since World War II, then the expanded use of an existing technology that produces electricity around the clock with no (zero) green house gas emissions, nuclear power, must be accepted, no matter ...

Monday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. in the Fredonia Opera House there will be a public hearing to discuss the LaBella and Associates Evaluation Report on the village of Fredonia’s water system. If you are a customer of the Fredonia system, I urge you to attend as this meeting will probably lay the ...

It’s that time of year again. As December proceeds, schools—both elementary and secondary—are having their annual Christmas concerts. You may remember that for Christmas vocal concerts in elementary school, you lined up on risers and performed songs—some Christmas songs, some ...

Eighty-two years ago today, at around 2:30 p.m. EST, many Americans were finishing Sunday dinner or sitting in their living rooms listening to shows on the radio like” Sunday Serenade” featuring bandleader Sammy Kay and his orchestra on the NBC Red Network or even a NFL game on radio ...