When Chautauqua County lawmakers vote on resolution for Pomfret to explore various consolidations, Sheridan officials want them to know they are not interested in being part of a regional highway department. This past week, Pomfret Supervisor Dan Pacos appeared at different county ...

PORTLAND — The Portland Town Board has an open mind when it comes to a development in the town on one of its prime pieces of real estate. At the latest Town Board meeting, the Board passed a resolution expressing its support for a proposed data center to be located on the grounds of the ...

Dunkirk Intermediate School has announced its Students of the Month for February. Its overall student of the month was Greyeliz Morales-Torres. Others include: Isaac Billick, Aleaius Rojas, Josiel Rosado, Avery Carmen, Deysi Cruz Bautista, Maximus Killion-Fuller, Grace Alvarado-Alvarez, Natasha ...

Cindy Capestrani, village of Falconer Clerk, was named 2025 Chautauqua County Municipal Clerks Association Clerk of the Year. Capestrani was nominated by her peers and fellow CCMCA members. Comments submitted described her as one who is active in her community outside of her Village Clerk ...

Editor’s note: This concludes a three-part series. Images are courtesy of Jack Woodbury, the Barker Museum, and the early Fredonia Baptist records. Many of those documents reside in the SUNY Fredonia Archives and Special Collections, and are transcribed and posted with Chautauqua ...

More than half of the city of Dunkirk’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding was spent on police and fire salaries, data shared with the OBSERVER revealed this week. The city spent $10,619,589 in ARPA funds from 2021-23. ARPA was approved by Congress as a massive, one-time shot of ...