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New details, progress seen in Brooks-TLC build

Construction of a new hospital in Fredonia took another significant step forward on Tuesday. Officials from Brooks-TLC and Kaleida Health announced they have finalized and submitted the Certificate of Need for the site at 412 E. Main St. According to documents filed with the state Health ...

ELECTION NIGHT: Follow updated coverage

Polls closed at 9 p.m. in Chautauqua County. Follow our election coverage through the night on our website and at https://x.com/TheObserverNY In contested races: --- Dunkirk will have an all-Democratic council as Frankie Torain won Ward 2 and Michael Civiletto won Ward 4. --- Fredonia ...

Golden Cougars repeat as Class B champions

BUFFALO — When Falconer/Cassadaga Valley/Maple Grove junior Kylie Kress last played Allegany-Limestone earlier this season she was kept off the scoresheet and sustained an injury in a 2-0 league loss. That injury kept her off the field for a couple of weeks and still shows its teeth. ...

Morning fire destroys home in Arkwright

A Sunday morning fire destroyed a house at 8996 Park Road in the town of Arkwright. Numerous agencies responded to the blaze, that was called in around 5:45 a.m. Those fire departments include: Sunset Bay, Sheridan, Emergency Services, Cassadaga, East Dunkirk, Silver Creek, Stockton, ...

Judges order contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown

BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation's social safety net. Word in October that it would be a ...

Couple charged after 4-year-old found on Thruway

A Silver Creek couple has been charged after a 4-year-old child was found walking on Interstate 90. On Thursday, the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation charged Robert L. Lyman, 31 and Mikayla A. Miller, 30, with endangering the welfare of a child. At 6:10 p.m. Tuesday, Troopers responded to the state Thruway westbound near Silver Creek for a found child on the side of the highway. Investigation determined that a vehicle traveling visually observed a young child enter the road. The operator of that vehicle pulled over and called 911 and kept the child out of the road ...