Mark your calendars for a lively evening of food, friends, and fundraising at Patterson Library’s Annual Benefit Auction and Chicken BBQ, taking place on Wednesday, Aug. 20 at Eason Hall, 23 Elm St. in Westfield. This beloved community event brings together supporters of the library for a ...

The Dunkirk Fredonia Lions Club has awarded its scholarships for the 2025 year. The program was open to 5 schools: Dunkirk, Fredonia, Brocton, Silver Creek, and Forestville. Each school was eligible to have one $500 winner. Since 1917 Lions Clubs have been committed to working in their ...

4-H Youth worked hard to bring their sheep to the Chautauqua County Fair. The youth showed their sheep at the 4-H Sheep Show on July 16. Sheep program participants raised their market lambs for at least 85 days, but many have owned their breeding animals for multiple years. There were 28 ...

The First Ward Falcon Club recently announced their 2025 scholarship winners. They are, from left, Thomas Shaffer Jr., Mackenzie Curry, Brooke Szymczak and Dylan Bankoski. Thomas is attending Finger Lakes Community, Mackenzie and Brooke are both attending UPMC School of Radiology, and Dylan is ...

Over the year and a half since the village of Fredonia opted to draw down the Fredonia reservoir and switch to buying water from Dunkirk, a lot has happened. Between a lawsuit, constant conflict between village officials and SOR (Save Our Reservoir) members, the new engineering report ...

For many years, similar to many of my readers, I set goals to achieve. Goals for everything from grades, for lifting weights, in the gym, running six miles every morning, for success in business, for winning basketball games and championships. I succeeded at first, but failed at a lot of them. ...