Acquiring experience in medical care was the right prescription for Julia T. Skiba to receive the State University of New York at Fredonia’s highest academic honor. The senior Molecular Genetics major from Troy, will receive the Lanford Presidential Prize at the university’s 199th ...

Samuel Bowers, of the Silver Creek Central Schools, achieved the honor of being inducted into the 2024-2025 New York State Business and Marketing Honor Society. The primary purpose of the society is to recognize those students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in a secondary ...

Imagine a classroom without walls—where the lessons are shaped not only by books, but by hoofbeats, fresh air, and the quiet understanding between a child and a horse. For a growing number of families, homeschooling offers that possibility: an education guided by curiosity, flexibility, and ...

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. ...