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Definitions of the word “humility” include “a quality of being humble” and “a modest sense of one’s own significance.” To be humble is to be “modest, ...

I’ve been sensing a trend. People tend to be taking backwards looks, reflecting on their lives and trying to figure out what they did right, acknowled...

One week from today the annual Genesis House Fall Gala will take place upstairs at the Old Library Restaurant on South Union Street. This annual gala ...

I ran into a St. Bonaventure professor while I was grocery shopping last week. We had a couple of quick laughs right away because I took four graduate...

I believe that, before college, I was taught some of the wrong things. I wasn’t taught that 8- and 9-year-old girls are having vaginal organs removed ...

Let’s count the ways in which the Republican Party’s nominee for president, Donald Trump, runs afoul of the expectations of the 18th century founders ...

Her email response was somewhat rattling. Oh, no. What had I done? For a range of reasons — from being a former student to now being a professional jo...

When I came home June 28, 2014, I knew life would bring changes, experiences different from what I’d known living in the Midwest. Turning onto Temple ...

Donald Trump says if he loses the presidential election, it will have been “rigged.” He’s been using the word for months. During the Florida primary i...

Say this for the Democratic Party: They put on a great show. Maybe there’s something to their unabashed affiliation with 95 or more percent of Hollywo...

I fell in love with small-town newspapers years ago. There is something about that tie so many small-town newspapers have to their local communities t...

Who writes letters anymore? Do you see my hand up? A lost art, I know, but one I still practice, even in an age of social media. I’ve written letters ...

We’d just spent a wonderful afternoon Saturday at Kinzua Bridge, enjoying a clear and beautiful day. If I have been to the bridge before, it would hav...

For those unacquainted with Odosagih Bible Conference in Machias, it is located on Lime Lake and offers year-round programming for retreats and confer...

For well over a year, my only mental picture of Tina Wagoner was a police mugshot from covering her original child sex-abuse indictment. She looked ha...

Several people joined those in the LGBT community Wednesday, standing in the rain with candles and rainbow-colored signs in Olean’s Lincoln Park, for ...

No amount of advice, photographs or premonition could have prepared me for driving the rural roads of Western Ireland — or the absolute beauty of the ...

How would you feel if somebody moved into your house, sectioned-off half of your rooms and refused to pay rent? Then he welcomed his friends, took ove...