While 17-year-olds are more likely to be found at an amusement park, James Maltbie has been spending hours at a playground. Designing and helping to build it, actually. "I was inspired to create this because I have always loved swing sets and playgrounds, and I believed that if there were ...

I have a confession to make. At an age when most people are thinking about giving up coffee, I’ve just started drinking it. Six months ago, in fact. I’ve somehow managed to get through college, motherhood, various careers and a zillion early mornings without becoming a coffee drinker. ...

A second home in the town of Ellery has been sold this year for more than $1 million. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from May 1-8. The county does not provide transaction information, but real ...

These are troubled times we’re living in these days. Our country is at war, not only with another country, but we’re fighting a war within our own nation’s boundaries, a Cold War between Red and Blue. We’re fighting wars on drugs, wars on a variety of trafficking, wars on senseless ...

Everyone has a hurdle in their life to overcome, no matter what that hurdle might be. But people are not defined by what their hurdle is. They are defined by who they are in spite of that. Laurel Hotelling was born with Down Syndrome, but that is not what defined her. Laurel was a positive, ...

Fredonia will hold a public hearing Monday on a law that would do away with downtown parking meters, in favor of a “mobile app” payment system. The law would also establish a paid permit structure for parking in the village lots on either side of Water Street. A section of the law ...