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Multiple departments responded to 49 W. Fifth Street in Dunkirk overnight into early Tuesday morning for a structure fire at the corner of Canary Street. The Dunkirk Fire and Police Departments, as well as several…

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Nearly a dozen residents attended the latest Town of Pomfret Zoning Board of Appeals meeting in opposition to the special…

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 Cassadaga Labor Day weekend activities Cassadaga Man Triathlon at 8 a.m. 1.2 mile…

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FALCONER — The Falconer/Cassadaga Valley/Maple Grove girls soccer team posted a 3-0 nonleague victory…

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The OBSERVER’s View: Hochul can veto cannabis wage board

Both houses of the state Legislature approved legislation (A.11562/S.10643) that would create a wage board for the state's cannabis industry. It's a bill that both state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, and Sen. Liz Krueger, D-New York City, opposed in the state Senate. It's one of the few areas of cannabis policy on which…

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Thinking about the downside of bigness

We have had a tradition in America, not always but mostly, of trying to avoid the perils of businesses that get too big. The most prominent example in our history was likely the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which became law in 1890. Though its primary target, twenty years later, became John D.…

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