Linda Kaminski was met with a standing ovation in the Fredonia High School Library as her decision to retire from the Wheelock School at the end of this year became final. The Board of Education, administration, and guests in the audience stood to applaud 38 years of Kaminski’s dedication to ...

Dunkirk Hospitality LLC is fighting the village of Fredonia’s attempts to force those staying at the former Route 60 EconoLodge to leave the building. The company filed an Article 78 lawsuit Friday asking the state Supreme Court to annul and vacate Fredonia’s April 27 direction to vacate ...

The good news is that traditional tobacco smoking rates in Chautauqua County are declining. The bad news is that vaping appears to be taking its place. Members of the county Health Department recently gave a presentation at a legislature committee meeting regarding smoking and vaping. ...

SOUTH DAYTON — The 2026-27 Pine Valley school budget proposal shows no tax increase to district residents. Never has a zero-increase drawn more criticism. The reason for the objection is less about this year, but more about how things got to this point. Joe Kortz, a member of the South ...

Jamestown police are investigating a Sunday stabbing that has left a person dead. On Sunday, May 3, around 4:30 a.m. city police officers responded to the area of Lakeview Avenue and East Eighth Street for a report of a stabbing victim. Once on scene, officers located an unresponsive person ...

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced awards for a total of 21 transformational projects for Western New York --- including nine in Westfield --- as part of two economic development programs: the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) and NY Forward. “The DRI and NY Forward winners in ...