OBSERVER Photos by Braden Carmen City of Dunkirk Fire and Police Departments responded to a fire on the second floor of a the Lincoln Arms apartment building at 430 Main St., Dunkirk, around 4:45 p.m. Monday. The fire started inside an apartment and was confined to one unit with occupants ...

The Dunkirk Senior Center will be having a Spaghetti Dinner/Mystery Auction on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. Dinner will consist of spaghetti and meatballs, salad and dessert. Tickets will go on sale on Sept. 8 in the Center office. More details included in the ...

PORTLAND — The Town Board also held a lengthy discussion with the Town of Portland Museum and Historical Society about a potential chicken barbecue fundraiser to support additional improvements to the Museum. The Town expressed its concerns with legality of the use of funds for a fundraiser ...

At their regular meeting this month, Westfield Academy and Central School Board of Education members heard their first report from Superintendent Ryan Sikorski and learned that Interim Secondary Principal Ivana Hite's last day at the school will be Monday. Sikorski began by telling board ...

The Chautauqua County Legislature will be voting on three union contracts connected to the Sheriff’s Office. The first union contract is with the Deputy Sheriff’s Association of Chautauqua County. Union members include those who are crime scene analysts, investigators, and sergeants. ...

Updates could be coming next year to New York’s Lemon Law. Legislation introduced recently by Assemblyman Patrick Carroll, D-New York City, and state Sen. Toby Ann Stavitsky, D-College Point, have introduced A.8594/S.8430, which would update New York's Lemon Law in ways Carroll says better ...