It seems I’m calling our local Law Enforcement agency more often than I’ve had to in past years, to register some concerns and complaints regarding what’s been going on in our neighborhood lately. Now I realize, mine is not the only area where these happenings are occurring. I do realize ...

With the opening of Summer Olympics my mind went to some of the sports that will be featured. Yes, baseball is back. Other sports are making their debut. I watched a young man talk about skateboarding and the two divisions that will be part of the games. During the opening ceremony it became ...

At the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, we think about what we humans feed our lakes, streams and groundwaters. We all live in a watershed. What runs off our yards with and in precipitation, what we place on our yards, what drips out of our vehicles, what we put in our dishwashers, down our ...

CHAUTAUQUA – When this columnist was a newspaper reporter, he did a 22-part series letting teachers of all sorts share their thoughts on, and approaches to, the profession. It was fun just to let teachers open up. In their own ways, they all did. A local reading teacher advised reading to ...

There was something “special” about the Fourth of July this year. It is hard to explain, but there was an “electricity” to it that was more than normal. There were more boats on the lake than I have ever seen. The bay at Long Point State Park was solid with them. Boats were ...

I’ve just emerged from a lockdown that lasted several years. Not the kind we all discovered when the pandemic hit in 2020, but a far more extended one caused by my wife’s terminal illness. We were able to keep Sue at home where she could be, and was, in the care of angels: Hospice of ...