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School 4 names top students

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 graduate wins leadership honor

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 ...

Bautista is recipient of McConney Award

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 ...

New era of task masters never tire

The biggest problem with slavery, and you can ask anyone who worked for the Pharaohs back in the day, is that slaves will at some point in time cop an attitude. This causes a problem for both parties. The rulers, in their occasional tender moments, might have looked upon those sweaty, ...

Natural wonders: SUNY Earth Day event touches on awareness

Earth Day began more than 50 years ago with a goal of protecting the planet and raising environmental awareness. Dr. Tracy Marafiote, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at Fredonia, thinks this initiative has only grown more important ...

A lesson for the Sneeches of America

I teach Faith Formation to 19 awesome eighth-graders who are members of The Lord’s Vineyard Family of Parishes. In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, I wore my Cat in the Hat tie to Sunday school on March 1. Seuss’ birthday is March 2. I polled the class. Every student knew of at least a couple of Dr. Seuss books. We talked about kids’ favorite Seuss tales and the lessons behind them. None of my Sunday school students had ever heard of or read Seuss’ “The Sneeches.” We watched a video of “The Sneeches.” I would think that everyone reading this column would know the story ...