Legislation creating a Rural Suicide Prevention Council is again awaiting a veto or approval from Gov. Kathy Hochul - and advocates are pushing the governor to sign the bill. The bill has been largely the work of and supported by Joe Tobia, a Steuben County legislator and mental health ...
Outside of Wicked Warrens in Jamestown, about a dozen protesters gathered, shortly before Rep. Nick Langworthy was to speak at the CHQ Chamber’s “State of NY-23” Congressional luncheon. While the protesters held signs regarding cuts to SNAP, the Epstein files, President Trump and the ...
When New York state changed the regulations regarding animal shelters at the end of 2025, the Westfield Stray Cat Rescue had to relocate from their facility above their Thrifty Kitty Thrift Shop at 59 E. Main St. in Westfield so they could meet the new guidelines. They relocated to the space formerly used as the Westfield Veterinary Clinic at 8494 W. Route 20. The facility is larger than the previous one, and the shelter is consequently in immediate need of more volunteers to help care for the cats and kittens. Most of the cats at the shelter roam freely in the area assigned to ...
At the conclusion of Dunkirk’s Common Council meeting, department heads and elected officials gathered around to congratulate newly approved Police Chief Doug Switzer. Since the retirement of Chris Witkowski in February, Switzer had been handling the duties before being officially approved ...
The Lake Erie Regional Grape Program wants to remind you to be extra cautious on the roads so that everyone can make it to their destination safely. We are in the middle of the grape growing season, and it is critical that everyone is aware of, and takes caution to, tractors, semi-trucks, and sprayers on the roads. Collisions involving slow-moving farm machinery and other agricultural equipment on public roads in New York and Pennsylvania may lead to injuries and, tragically in some instances, fatalities. The National Safety Council estimates that 15,000 collisions involving farm ...
Fredonia High School’s Class of 1956 gathers this weekend for what class member Wally Latimer said could be the last time. “It probably will be,” he said. “We’ve had one every five years for the past 70 years, we’ve been very consistent on that. People come in from all over — California, Hawaii.” Latimer recalled that his school’s teams were called the Hilltoppers, with Fredonia High School then atop a hill next to the current Wheelock school. FHS moved off the hill to the Fredonia Central School main campus just a few years later, and its teams changed to the ...
