A weekend event at the State University of New York at Fredonia offered a bit of hope for the future. During the “Go Big Blue Day” open house, nearly 850 attendees filled the Rockefeller Arts Center. Accepted students and their families also were able to interact with a student panel, ...

Northern Chautauqua County can show support for an area teacher that is part of a national contest. Silver Creek’s Janet Decker is a finalist in the Reader’s Digest contest to name America’s Favorite Teacher. Decker said she was thrilled when she received an email stating she would be ...

It will be decades before Chautauqua County is in the path of totality for a solar eclipse again. But the lessons we learned from the county’s handling of the influx of visitors from last week’s event can provide some lessons the county, its residents and its businesses can learn from ...

Votes to levy a new tax through a school district to support libraries is nothing new at this point. Town and village budgets aren’t providing enough support for libraries to keep their doors open and provide the programs users want, so they use a provision in state law to levy a tax ...

With the recent revelation of Dunkirk’s massive fiscal crisis, a bonus that was approved to all city workers — as well as those who serve on Common Council — has an added stench. It also shows just how out of touch those elected officials were with Dunkirk’s annual budget. At that ...

It took four long years, but U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are finally ready to recommend parents should treat COVID-19 and its variants like any other respiratory illness. It is no longer a federal recommendation that students undergo isolation periods and ...