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Sunday Lifestyles

Positive paths: 2025 Art Trail sees 20% increase in traffic

The 17th annual Art Trail, hosted by the North Shore Arts Alliance, has concluded with resounding success, reporting a 20% increase in visitor traffic over last year, affirming the event’s growing popularity and the strong community interest in arts and culture across the county. This ...

SUNY senior attends EEB program at Princeton

Sydney Hawkins has been accepted into the prestigious Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Scholars Program at Princeton University. It’s an impressive achievement for Hawkins, a senior Biology major from Ripley, as only 10 U.S. students and two international students are accepted each ...

Shootings in schools scar generation

During the past few years, school shootings have been on the minds of the majority of parents with children. The difference between 2025 and 1965, in relation to school shootings, is like night and day. Karen and myself raised five children and not once when we sent them to school did we ...

NCCF grants to help projects at BOCES sites

Teachers often try to bring classroom lessons to life through hands-on community service, bridging academics with real-world impact for their students. A local nonprofit is again helping instructors at Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES do just that. The Northern Chautauqua Community ...