A milder weekend in store, but also a chillier future

As I wrote this past Monday, some warming would arrive just in time for this weekend. Saturday will start out frosty inland from the lakeshore, and...

Don Paul

2 friday

No lawsuit against the IJC can stop high Lake Ontario water levels

Water levels in the Great Lakes obviously have their ups and downs over the years, as any lakeshore resident can tell you. There has been the...

Don Paul

20 16.10.2019

Like it or not, Christmas is coming. Might as well be ready

I'm going to go easy on you, because I know it really ticks people off if you bring up Christmas before we've even had time to celebrate Halloween....

Samantha Christmann

4 16.10.2019

When doing more than your job calls for gets you fired

"Going above and beyond the job description will make you stand out and demonstrate that you are a hard worker." – Oregon State University’s...

Rod Watson

4 16.10.2019

The constant pleasures of an impolite history of music

Ted Gioia's "Music: A Subversive History" is one of the most important and welcome books I've encountered in the last decade. If ever there were a...

Jeff Simon

10 15.10.2019

Expect more downs than ups in this week's temperatures

Compared to last week, which became marvelous Tuesday through Friday and again on Sunday, this week will be a little bumpier, with more thermal...

Don Paul

5 15.10.2019

At a Holland pumpkin stand, reviving the spirit of Halloween

Tammy and Eric Bell had never met Ron Nagel Sr., until the same seasonal longing brought them together Friday. The Cheektowaga couple, traveling...

Sean Kirst

1 15.10.2019

Why we care (even though we say we don't) about who belongs in Rock Hall (kind of)

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced its list of 2020 nominees Tuesday morning, and it didn’t take long for social media to be flooded with...

Jeff Miers

1 15.10.2019

A touch of lonely awe amid beauty and spiders at Buffalo's water intake

Ricardo Rivera could appreciate the wonder of it all. He sat last week, feet dangling, on an outlook by the turret of the Emerald Channel intake. A...