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Remember sitting outside under a tree on a hot summer day, listening to the chirping of the bugs and songs of the birds while a light breeze ruffled t...

I have always been something of a planner. That’s good, right? If you can map out a strategy or set up some steps to achieve a goal, it can’t hurt. Th...

Hollywood loves stories about unlikely heroes seemingly out of their element who step up and use their unique set of skills to save the day. Luke Skyw...

Writers always hope for readers and for columnists, that hope is someone will identify with what they offer. This is known as “the universal element,”...

Step outside — in person if you can, or in your mind. You’ll be delighted by a spring symphony of bluebirds and finches, robins, redwings, peepers and...

Sometimes there’s just no explaining Albany. That’s really been true over the past six years of New York state government under one-party control. Tak...

If you’re like me, you have your smartphone on you all the time. I actually need it for work, but the amount of time I spend scrolling through social ...

I hate to give Mel Gibson any praise or a compliment of any kind these days, but the guy knows how to direct a movie. As displayed in the trailer for ...

In the next few days, town and county tax bills will be arriving in the mail to property owners in New York state. Payments accepted in the month of J...

One of the time-honored traditions throughout this holiday season is to gather around the table to share a meal, express thanks, and count blessings i...

If there’s anything to be learned from the releases of “Gladiator II” and “Wicked” this past week, people love having a show put on for their entertai...

Who’s to say what makes a Christmas classic, or even a Christmas movie at all? “Miracle on 34th Street” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” sure count, but “D...

Farmersville Town Board member Tom Callahan Jr. writes, in an op-ed in the Nov. 15 edition of the Times Herald, to urge the Cattaraugus County Industr...

You may have noticed a lack of bylines from me over the past few weeks. Some of you who emailed or called me might have noticed I didn’t get back to y...

Have you been watching the news reports from down South? Some individuals have faced the cameras and you can see the devastation on their faces, hear ...

Some of the best stories — especially ones with a horror or supernatural bend to them — are the ones with an unreliable narrator who may or may not be...

I’ve had a good life, learning and traveling and am lucky enough here in the UK [United Kingdom] to be allowed an assisted death which I hope will be ...

The straightforward fact remains that every time New Yorkers go the grocery store, or the gas station, or to buy back-to-school supplies for their chi...