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During the inauguration ceremony Wednesday, references to the U.S. Capitol reminded us what’s truly at stake in our experiment with self-government.
The COVID-19 pndemic has changed how we live our lives. Most of the changes are not welcomed I recently had a COVID-19 experience that was welcomed and inspiring. I am 78 years old and my friend, Sue Schmitt, is 77.
I would like to thank the village of Geneseo residents for all the support throughout the past 12 years of my tenure as streets superintendent. I have always taken great pride in the beauty of our village and worked hard to make Geneseo a place we are all proud of.
There is much to commend about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s push to see renewable energy projects get underway throughout the state.
I don’t understand how anybody could be surprised about what happened at the capitol this week.
Republican state senators recently demonstrated that they have no intention of throwing in the towel as the opposition party in Albany.
On Monday, the nation celebrated the life of the great Martin Luther King, Jr., the most visible and impactful leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The MLK holiday was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, 15 years after King’s assassination.
Once upon a time, before the Net was draped over all mankind, there were things called “Books.” This class, known as Books, often contained many, MANY words. Although the Order, “Childrens’ Books” contained pictures, many Orders contained ONLY words!
Henry H. Lord of Upper North Street studied a crystal ball with a vision indicating the demand for fresh fruit in New York City during the late 19th Century. Buying and shipping Livingston County fruit was more profitable than blacksmithing in Cuylerville. Local fruit could be obtained at St…
There was a terroristic riot through the halls of our Capitol. Two members of law enforcement, and four others, are dead. For some reason our congressman left his “shelter in place” to continue the farcical charade of the “stolen” election. He doubled down on the false notion that, hours bef…
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Reason. Coming into its own after the Dark Ages, it flourished throughout the centuries, reflected in liberty of thought, a free press, independent judiciary, and ethical conduct. For many years it was a stalwart champion of intellectual fre…
The five deaths thus far and the violence that happened on Jan. 6, 2021, in the attack on our Capitol lay at the feet of Chris Jacobs and his other Republican colleagues who have continued to pander to the person sitting in the White House, and who have refused to call out his obvious lies a…
I believe that the violence at the Capitol would not have happened if the courts would have taken more time to investigate the many claims of fraud from November’s election. The followers of Trump are frustrated as to whether he won or not. It should have been proven. Therefore, there would …
State authorities will correct some of the errors they made with their COVID-19 vaccination rollout by allowing counties to play a bigger role.
This letter is addressed to my Republican and Republican-voting neighbors:
I would like to thank Tom Reed of Corning for being one of the adults in the room (Congress) who said:
A Dallas Morning News editorial.
LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) — After President Donald Trump’s disgraceful performance on Wednesday, it’s no wonder so many legislators — including a few Republicans — want to oust him immediately.
Dear Mr. Jacobs,
While farmers throughout the state recently got a breather when it comes to having to pay more overtime to their workers, this issue will hang over them unless authorities come to their senses.
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Standing like a sentinel on our north shore watching over Lake Ontario is what used to be the Somerset power project. It once provided well-paying jobs to 100 families and it produced megawatts of electricity like they were going out of style. It came to be that the plant’s means of power ge…
The Livingston County Board of Supervisors were debating a proposed budget at the Courthouse when a rustling of oak leaves was heard outside the window.
Sometime between the evening of Dec. 26 and the morning of Dec. 27 a rock found its way inside the office of the Livingston County News, leaving a softball-size hole in the building’s large front window.
To the Livingston County community,
God damn them all.
The scenes Wednesday from Washington of right wing belligerents vandalizing our democracy are repulsive but, unfortunately, not at all surprising.
The state plans to use thousands of public distribution sites across New York to expedite the COVID-19 vaccine to essential workers, the elderly and eventually the general public as officials expect immunization supply to increase in the coming months.
To the editor:
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following message was sent to members of the Genesee Valley Conservancy on Dec. 18, 2020, following the death of founding member Martha D. Wadsworth on Dec. 17, 2020, at age 89. It is reprinted with permission
Last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo threatened to bring the hammer down on medical personnel who dared provide COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone not belonging to a group on his approved list of priorities.
On Jan. 2 I received in the mail my annual property tax bills.
A researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca believes that New York’s drop in population won’t be quite as bad as is being projected by the U.S. Census Bureau.
As we prepare to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day this month, we think not only of those escaped slaves who came north to freedom on the Underground Railroad and went to Canada, but some who stayed in the Genesee Valley.
A museum curator, in contrast to a historian, or an archivist, looks to objects to tell a story.
So long, 2020. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Livonia poet Beth Sleboda, who has turned a phrase or two to help cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, sees the end of 2020 as bringing a new sense of hope in 2021. She writes:
Following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement on Wednesday that a limited number of spectators would be allowed to attend the Buffalo Bills home playoff game in January, state Sen. Patrick M. Gallivan, R-Elma, issued a statement calling for the state to reopen restaurants.
The group redrawing the state’s Senate, Assembly and congressional districts will at last receive $1 million lawmakers allocated for the work in previous state budgets, officials said, after potentially unconstitutional funding delays set the commission back several months in completing the …
In June, the hashtag -DCblackout erupted on Twitter. A series of tweets claimed authorities had blocked protesters from communicating on their smartphones in order to tamp down on unrest around police brutality and the killing of George Floyd.
For the first time in New York history, if not American history, doctors, nurses and health care providers could be stripped of their medical licenses and face fines of up to $1 million, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared in an executive order Monday, after a downstate provider faces criminal charge…
The police scanner provided me a saddening study in contrasts on Christmas Day.
Dear Avon Residents:
As he threatened to do a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump has vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021.
I know a secret for getting through this pandemic isolation: Find pleasure in simple things! And, of course, be grateful for them.
When the Normal School Christmas carolers sang outside Blanche Jennings Thompson’s Chestnut Street front door on Christmas Eve, not “Silver Bells,” but “Silver Pennies” would have been most appropriate.
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.