Standing before business and community leaders, County Executive PJ Wendel said he believes Chautauqua County is in a good place and will continue to improve. For the first time during his tenure in office, Wendel gave the State of the County address at a CHQ Chamber breakfast, held at ...

Monday’s season-opening Unified basketball game between Dunkirk and Fredonia at SUNY Fredonia’s Dods Hall represented everything that sports should be. With 2:05 left in the third quarter, Dunkirk cut Fredonia’s seven-point lead down to one. After Dunkirk’s third straight bucket, Ben ...

BROCTON — The tax rate in the Village of Brocton has steadily increased each year since 2018-19. That will not be the case this coming year. Mayor Craig Miller and the Brocton Village Board proudly approved the 2026-27 Village of Brocton Budget at a recent meeting, featuring a tax rate ...

The Fredonia Board of Trustees was belittled by at least one speaker during public hearings Monday on the village's proposed budget. The hearings were marred by technical difficulties with the Fredonia Access broadcast. Only a small part of Mark Twichell's remarks made it on air, then the ...

By M.J. STAFFORD mstafford@observertoday.com Dunkirk is getting ready for two big annual warm-season events, with a call put out for Memorial Day Parade participants and a Music on the Pier announcement expected next. The parade is set for Monday, May 25 at 11 a.m., according to the City ...

Representatives of a project renovating Fredonia’s Middlesex Apartments pleaded their case for a small Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) recently. They appeared before the Fredonia Planning Board to discuss the BESS. The planning board is supposed to write a letter of ...