A recent meeting of the 2025-26 Fredonia Shakespeare Club was at the home of Judi Lutz Woods and Leanna McMahon was the hostess. Vice President Sharon Klug welcomed Club members to the meeting. After a brief business meeting concluded, a paper by Rebecca Huber-Ross was presented on the ...

Adhrit Chowdhury was the champion of the Western New York Regional Championship of the Scripps Spelling Bee sponsored Saturday by the State University of New York at Fredonia. His winning word was mortadella, meaning a large smoked sausage made of beef, pork, and pork fat and seasoned with ...

Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper is launching a new $1.6 million grant program to assist Western New York communities with environmental restoration projects. Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper’s Western ...

Rural Minds, a local nonprofit organization focused on mental health in rural America, has recently launched a new program focused on connecting farmers to mental health resources. The new program, known as the Farmer Mental Health Resilience Program, has been developed to provide farmers and ...

The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation and the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation have added Rural Philanthropy Fellows to their teams through a partnership with the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation. The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation welcomed Solimar “Soly” Vazquez as ...

FREWSBURG - To help provide a balanced budget, the Frewsburg Central School District Board of Education is proposing to eliminate about 8.5 positions. The 2026-27 proposed budget now stands at $24,291,748, a 2.9% increase over the current 2025-26 budget, interim Superintendent Lynda Quick ...