This past spring, the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation announced a new community project geared to “acknowledge those who make our community BLOOM with vibrancy, beauty and color!” That project was logically called BLOOM, Two local groups, Fredonia Garden Club and Imagine ...
If you’re looking for a fall flavored dessert that tastes cozy and warm but doesn’t make you feel like you’ve just eaten a feast, this here is your dessert. This is a cake that tastes like being curled up by a fire but won’t weigh you down. It’s light and fluffy, and actually tastes ...
Szu-Han Kay Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at the State University of New York at Fredonia, received the 2019 Advancing Academic-Research Careers (AARC) Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The award is intended to ...
Tim Cowan of Chautauqua Lake Central School and Andrew Pingitore of Fredonia High School were recently named the 2018-19 College Connections Teachers of the Year. Each year College Connections — Jamestown Community College’s concurrent enrollment program — recognizes a teacher who best ...
SILVER CREEK — The sun ushered in a picture perfect weekend for the 52nd Annual Festival of Grapes. The first night officially opened at 5 p.m. with a rededication of Silver Creek’s historic fountain in the park. Louis Pelletter, deputy supervisor for the town of Hanover, gave a short ...
The Race World Offshore (RWO) contract between the city of Dunkirk and the organization was recently shared with the OBSERVER. In it, Dunkirk Mayor Wilfred Rosas signed the agreement with RWO President Larry Bleil. However, the contract was never put through the city council as per the city of ...
A $4 million Route 60 project that will include the addition of passing lanes in the towns of Gerry and Charlotte was unveiled to the public this week during a hearing at Cassadaga Valley Central School. Local officials say they hope the new lanes will alleviate traffic congestion and make ...
As of today, the long countdown continues in what was expected to be much quicker process. On March 4, 2016, New York state and Brooks Memorial Hospital announced $57 million in funding for a new state-of-the-art health-care facility for the north county region. That was 1,296 days ...
OBSERVER Staff Report New York state officials say crews are ready to get to work once a deal gets reached with the Seneca Nations of Indians to repair a three-mile stretch of dangerous road on the Thruway. A spokesman from New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, in a call to the ...
Dunkirk Walk to End Alzheimer’s today Dunkirk Walk to End Alzheimer’s will take place today, Saturday, from 9 a.m. to noon at Point Gratiot Park NY-5 and Point Drive W., Dunkirk. The ceremony starts at 10, and the walk gets underway by 10:10 a.m. Join in fighting for the first survivor of ...
Jamestown man pleads guilty to being a felon in possession of a gun BUFFALO — U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced Friday that Willie C. Graham 38, of Jamestown, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. ...
Submitted Photo Blessing of the grapes took place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Silver Creek. Father Dan Fiebelkorn led a prayer of gratitude for the bountiful grape crop and for the safety of those who harvest the grapes. Grape growers of the parish brought in ...
WESTFIELD — Westfield Memorial Hospital (WMH), part of the Allegheny Health Network, is now utilizing low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans to screen people at high-risk for lung cancer, even when they’re not experiencing symptoms. WMH is the only American College of ...
A bonus mini job fair, Network on the Go, was added to the always popular State University of New York at Fredonia student Activities Night held recently in the Dods Hall Grove. “This was a great opportunity for students to talk informally to employers about internships, part-time jobs and ...
Submitted Photo Students and an accompanying professor from Nagasaki University, Japan are in residence at Jamestown Community College through September 21. While at JCC, the 12 visiting students are taking an intensive, non-credit English immersion course; visiting workplaces including ...
ANGOLA — Dr. Darryl Tonemah, an American Indian health psychologist, was the keynote speaker at Lake Shore Central School District’s Staff Opening Day program, speaking to all district employees about how stress affects the brain, behavior and learning. One compelling story he told was ...
The Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation & Improvement Corporation (CHRIC) has launched the “Homeownership in the City of Dunkirk” First Time Homebuyers Program. “Making you a homeowner is our business,” said Mayra Alvarado, homeownership program manager of CHRIC. The Dunkirk ...
Submitted Photo The Sinclairville Free Library invites community members ages 12 and up to a free paper folding instructional class in creating paper butterflies. The class will be led by volunteer Florence Seekings on Monday, Sept. 23 at 6 p.m. All supplies will be provided at no cost. ...
SILVER CREEK — On Saturday Sept. 15 at a local grape farm in Silver Creek the first Queen Of Grapes Pageant was held. The Queen Of Grapes Pageant was created out of love for our beautiful grape belt region, the Festival of Grapes, and its past pageant. The Queen Of Grapes Pageant is a ...
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have announced $70,107 in federal funding for Chautauqua Children’s Safety Education Village, Inc. The funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant ...