By SPENCER, ERIN, LUKE, GRAHAM and GRACE KONDAK Our parents, Kurt and Beth Kondak, purchased Kondaks Community Market in October of 1988, just about one month after they were married. Just in their mid-20s, they risked a lot to invest their lives into this small grocery store and catering ...
For a brief moment on Sunday following President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not seek re-election in November, Sen. Joe Manchin considered switching parties back to Democrat to explore running for office. That changed a short while later as support coalesced around Vice President ...
I moved from my hometown more than 60 years ago. Urban Renewal went through and everything changed. I recall stories of my grandfather going out and getting lost. His memory was not that bad, but the landmarks he was so used to seeing disappeared. Once I saw what had happened in Dunkirk, I ...
Some city residents were upset when City Council members limited discussion of the Hudson senior living project at the last council meeting. They shouldn’t be. Now that a lawsuit has been filed over the project by five city residents, including one who is a sitting member of the City ...
The short story of our long lives Ben Franklin said that the two things you can count on in life are death and taxes. Ben was wrong. It turns out there’s a third universal certainty if we’re lucky enough to age: Shrinking. Most of us begin losing height after age 40. My shrinkage has ...
Over the course of roughly eight decades the Warren Concert Association has been helping bring beautiful music to Warren. The association’s last note has gone quiet with the recent announcement that the association will wind down its operations. Decreasing numbers of subscribers and ...