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Cummins’ volunteers pitch in at Greystone Nature Preserve

On Sept. 17, Bill Moran and Diane Clark of Greystone Nature Preserve invited several Cummins employees onto the land for volunteer work. The employees, all part of the same engineering team at Cummins, completed a variety of tasks around the land to help Greystone Nature Preserve (a 501(c) ...

SUNY Fredonia employees honored

The 2025 Finance and Administration Outstanding Administrative Service Awards have been presented to five State University of New York at Fredonia employees. The recipients’ collective service spans more than 80 years and all major departments within the Finance and Administration division. ...

Just between us

Southern New Hampshire University reports the following students have been named to the Summer 2025 President’s List. The summer terms run from May to August. They include: Marisa Lopez of Gowanda, Patrick Reardon of Fredonia, Emily Baumgartner of Dunkirk, Libbey Youngberg of Dunkirk and Theresa Hochstine of Dunkirk. … Anna Dalrymple of Dunkirk has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Summer 2025 Dean’s List. The summer terms run from May to August. … Rebecca Priest, a resident of Fredonia, was among 241 students from Genesee Community College, including all six ...

Top Brocton students named

Brocton Elementary recognizes students who were chosen as Students of the Month representing grades kindergarten to five. These students demonstrated the character trait of Self Control on a consistent basis. The following students were chosen as Students of the Month for September. Front row: ...

Healing with horses: Riding offers powerful tool to thrive

We’re not here just to survive. We’re here to thrive. As human beings, we possess the extraordinary ability to think, feel, dream, and connect. We are driven not only by necessity but by a deeper desire to live meaningful, fulfilling lives. We’ve been taught to associate success with ...

A leaf’s life is brief but rife

The autumn of 2025 has been an unusually warm and dry one. For this writer, it has been unsettling for a number of reasons. The first is that it is an eerie reminder of the reality of climate change. Second, as anyone who has lived in Western New York long enough can tell you, there will be a natural equalizer; the law of averages tells us that these dry, hot, windless days will guarantee an especially nasty weather pattern some time in the not-too-distant future. There will be payback! Despite the aberrant weather, the fall foliage has arrived, and this essay sets out to explore the ...