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Opinion

Thanksgiving Counting our holiday blessings

The OBSERVER’s View

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 ...

FREDONIA Diver makes splash with state title

The OBSERVER’s View

For six years, Elizabeth Pucci-Schaefer of Fredonia consistently exhibited excellence as a member of her area high school swim teams. In her final contest before graduating, she became a state champion. Pucci-Schaefer dominated in finishing with a score of 503.5 to win the State and ...

Work hasn’t slowed on lake bridge

Commentary

Every day I go over the Chautauqua Lake Bridge at least two or three times. You can see that a lot is going on there, and good weather has obviously helped construction activities move along. Last week, as I entered the expressway and bridge eastbound at Stow—I followed a huge semi-truck ...

County history this week

Community News

November 24, 1913 – Chautauqua County native Robert H. Jackson was admitted to the bar, setting him on the path to becoming one of the most influential legal figures of the 20th century. Jackson went on to serve as U.S. Solicitor General and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and his legacy ...

SCHOOLS: Students take lead on more sharing

The OBSERVER’s View

Our county’s population loss is being acutely felt in rural school districts, where the fairly small but steady population loss makes it difficult to provide elective courses and extracurricular activities that were common as recently as the mid 1990s or early 2000s. Shared sports teams ...

COVID comments no dose of reality

Commentary

By JUDI LUTZ WOODS I am writing in response to the recent commentary “Dedicated Public Servants and Bad Medicine.” In this piece, the authors misled, misinformed, and at times presented totally false information on COVID and how the experts in our country responded. This unnecessarily ...