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Officials continue push for city Control Board

Senator George Borrello and Assemblyman Andrew Molitor sent a letter Friday to Governor Kathy Hochul urging her to include enabling legislation establishing a state financial control board for the City of Dunkirk in her forthcoming 30-day budget amendments. The lawmakers said the recent ...

Three years on, Dunkirk DRI limps ahead

Three years after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul visited Dunkirk to announce a $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative award, there is little physical evidence of it in the city. A mixed-use development in a former bank is complete, and a project to build apartments is approaching ...

Dunkirk Dave braces for chilly Groundhog Day

The prolonged, frigid temperatures this winter have not been very conducive to early morning gatherings outdoors. Monday morning at daybreak, a Dunkirk tradition will inspire many to brave the brutal cold to figure out whether there is light at the end of the tunnel, or if these bitter cold ...

Heritage CEO: Closure helps save other buildings

Following the announcement earlier this week that Heritage Ministries’ Gerry facility, Heritage Village, will be closing, CEO Lisa Haglund, said no other local facilities are expected to close in the near future, and that closing this specific facility is part of ensuring that. Both Heritage ...

Building permit in for new hospital

Brooks-TLC’s plan for a new hospital on Main Street in Fredonia hit another key milestone this week. “Anybody who believes the hospital’s not coming here: The check came in for a building permit. So they’re getting a building permit,” said Fredonia’s top code officer, Charles ...

Guilt galore in Dunkirk’s money mess

You could call it a destructive trifecta. For the third time in less than 15 years, money has gone missing in the city of Dunkirk. At the moment, Mark Woods is the latest offender. According to a press release issued last week by both state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Chautauqua County ...