Chautauqua County is administered following the federal template, with a county chief executive elected every four years and a county legislature whose members represent each of the 19 electoral districts in the county. Since 2014,
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After delays totaling an entire calendar year, the multimillion dollar upgrading of the Chautauqua Utility District wastewater treatment plant is moving ahead and is back on schedule to come online next year. In August 2014,
As Chautauquans arrive and settle in for the 2016 season, they will see the most dramatic evidence of Chautauqua Institution’s progress in implementing its complex $41.5 million Amphitheater renewal project is at the back-of-house. Most
The former director of the United Nations Environment Programme has said that “we used to think that energy and water would be the central issues for the next century. Now we think that water will be the critical issue.”
“Water is the oil of the 21st Century,” a former Dow Chemical president told The Economist magazine.
Chautauqua Institution lost electric power throughout the grounds just before 3 p.m. Thursday on a sweltering and humid afternoon. A transformer at the local National Grid substation failed, and power was not restored until 6 a.m. Friday.
George Murphy, vice president and chief marketing officer, described the scene on the second floor of the Colonnade after initial word reached President Thomas Becker’s office that the blackout might last for 24 hours.
The Athenaeum Hotel general manager kept calling, but Michele “Mickey” Murray wouldn’t return his calls.
This went on for several weeks in 1993, the GM calling, Murray suspecting he wanted to offer her a job at the Institution. For her, having a summer vacation that year was more important.
Fishing.
It has inspired some great minds, such as Washington Irving: “There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”
Theodore Olson, former U.S. solicitor general, will be the featured speaker at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater as the Week Two examination continues of “Applied Ethics: Government and the Search for the Common Good.”
Olson has been at the center of some of the most significant U.S. legal proceedings of the past 25 years and was named by Time magazine last year as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Is there hilarity in housekeeping?
Can bathroom sinks and fun appear in the same sentence?
In Chautauqua, it appears the answer can sometimes be yes.
A brand new entrance to the ground and an extensive rain garden designed to help protect Chautauqua Lake from Institution water runoff are just two projects that highlight a typically busy off-season for Chautauqua’s grounds and landscape staff, whose efforts were severely hindered by rainfall heavier than many could recall.