WESTFIELD – Lake Shore Bank has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation through the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York Small Business Recovery Grant Program, an initiative designed to support local organizations and economic resilience. The grant will help fund ...

You can’t have a horse barn without barn cats. They simply appear, and then they stay! They seem to bond easily with the horses. It takes more time to trust humans. First priority is to catch them, so they can be spayed or neutered and vaccinated. Then they’re released back to the barn to ...

The New Horizons Band of Western New York spring session begins on Wednesday, Feb. 4 on the SUNY Fredonia campus. The concert band is always looking to expand its membership. Whether you’re interested in learning to play an instrument, returning to an instrument you haven’t practiced in ...

I received excellent math instruction growing up in Fredonia. After three years of middle school math with Roger Burlett, my classmates and I were very well prepared for high school. Most FMS House II students idolized Burlett. We thought he was the coolest teacher on the planet. And to this ...

Before I get to this month’s topic, I want to congratulate two fine high school basketball programs, Dunkirk and Fredonia. I attended the Dunkirk-Fredonia basketball game this month at Dunkirk and was impressed by the effort given by both teams. Coach Vince Lombardi used to state, “the ...

It is said that before something can become a reality, it first must be a thought or a dream, a term known as “ideation.” Edgar Allan Poe (from Elenora) said, “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” The power of dreaming is more ...