Yesterday in church, worship began with one of my favorite songs. We sang “This Is My Father’s World”. This song takes me back to the days when I camped at The Conference Grounds near Dunkirk, NY when I was growing up. Although I did not belong to the church that sponsored that camp, I ...
Anyone who pays attention to the research focused on Chautauqua Lake knows there’s a lot we don’t know about harmful algal blooms. Research right now is focused largely on explaining why algal blooms occur, the conditions that create them and ways to deal with them when they happen. ...
One would think that with a $78 million reconstruction job going on with the only bridge that spans Chautauqua Lake, that there would be a lot of official communication going on relative to it. Yet, I have seen very little news lately about it. A local official did hear back from a DOT ...
June 20 was World Refugee Day. It is a day to remember children who were born in tent cities because their parents left home due to war or persecution. It is a day to remember those who have fled the Taliban or the drug cartels. Others run from the wars in Sudan and Syria and the Ukraine. It ...
The newspapers have recently commented on the “disappointing” continued decline of Chautauqua County’s population. The 2023 estimate has us down to under 125,000 people. This decline follows a disastrous population drop from the 2010 Census of 135,000, to the 2020 Census of 128,000, a ...
In the June 22 issue of The Post-Journal, an opinion writer posted an assault against the petroleum industry, accusing it of outrageous greed. He then parroted opinion polls (source not divulged) regarding fracking in Pennsylvania. Noticeably missing from this writer’s poll was a question ...