I have a pen pal. Her name is Alice Congdon. Alice is the youngest member of the wonderful Congdon clan. This amazing family is made up of Kevin, Megan, Jake, Henry and Miss Alice. I met this wonderful and caring family when Jake and Henry were outstanding student athletes at Northern ...

Community outreach is most powerful when it meets people where they are — and offers them something they didn’t think was possible. For many families, especially those caring for children with developmental disabilities, even a simple outing can feel overwhelming. The need for support is ...

Ralph Serpe, Adams County Community Foundation President and CEO, won the Excellence in Community Foundation Leadership Award from the The Council on Foundations. The award is presented to a leader of a community foundation demonstrating years of vision, leadership, impact, and elevation of ...

Recently students at Dunkirk Primary School 4 were chosen as Students of the Month for March. All were presented with certificates for their accomplishments. Analyce Pereira Lara (not pictured) was chosen as Overall Student of the Month for March and was honored at a recent Board of Education ...

SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. recently recognized 49 students who received the Norman P. Conney Jr. Award for Student Excellence, including the State University of New York at Fredonia’s Moraya Sorimar Bautista. The award, which is an annual tradition now in its seventh year, recognizes ...

“Not my child, not my problem,” I overheard someone say this week. On Friday, our first day of our new E.A.S.E.Growth Program (Equine Assisted Social Emotional Growth) in collaboration with the Mental Health Association of Chautauqua County, a mother of a 10-year-old boy with Autism ...