State University of New York at Fredonia senior Dominic Townsend has won the $10,000 First Prize in Opera Grand Rapids 2026 VanderLaan Voice Competition. A native of Youngstown, NY, Dominic is currently pursuing a Mus.B. in Vocal Performance under the tutelage of Assistant Professor Don ...

Brocton Elementary School congratulates and recognizes all the students who were chosen as Students of the Month representing grades kindergarten to grade five. These students demonstrated the character trait of fairness on a consistent basis. The students pictured were chosen as Students of ...

Jacqueline “Jackie” Francisco has been recognized with the Highmark Bright Blue Futures Employee Recognition Award, honoring her commitment to community service and volunteerism. The award includes a $1,000 grant designated to a nonprofit of the recipient’s choice. Francisco donated ...

The New Horizons Band of Western New York will be performing a free concert on Thursday. The event, at King Concert Hall on the State University of New York at Fredonia campus, begins at 7:30 p.m. It is free and the public is invited to attend. The band will be performing a program of pieces ...

Recently, the Westfield-Mayville Rotary Club held its annual “Rural-Urban Day.” The guest speaker was Andy Campbell, Corporate Rotarian member. Campbell took the audience through his life’s journey of ups and downs and emphasized that “Where you start isn’t where you always finish!” ...

As a wayward 20-year-old college dropout, I would listen to Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side of the Moon” over and over again. It seemed I was on the verge of some music- induced transcendental experience that could take me further and deeper into the mystic. It was better than drugs or the ...