WESTFIELD — The mission of the Westfield Stray Cat Rescue has always been to give cats a safe place to stay until they find their permanent home. In recent years, the shelter found itself in the same position, needing help in search of its own permanent home. That help came in the form ...

The Dunkirk Common Council approved Tracy Smith-Dengler as new city comptroller this week. She got the job with a 4-1 vote, with Councilman Gary Frederickson dissenting, apparently because Smith-Dengler’s salary is unclear. Smith-Dengler is currently the central business office manager ...

Detailing a surge in violence, staff assaults, overdoses, exposures and deaths inside state prisons, New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association President Chris Summers declared the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to be in a “full-scale systemic ...

The Discovery Way at the Point building project at Dunkirk’s Point Gratiot Park has garnered so much attention, one of the most influential philanthropists in all of Western New York felt compelled to stop by on Thursday morning to check out the progress. Mary Wilson, Life Trustee of the ...

Fredonia’s short-staffed Board of Trustees held a minimal meeting Tuesday afternoon. Mayor Michael Ferguson stated at the start of the 20-minute meeting that the three attending trustees would be considering an abbreviated agenda. He said that for some items previously on the agenda, “I ...

The WNY Walleye Classic and 3-Day Dunkirk Walleye Festival is set for a busy weekend on the Lake Erie waterfront, bringing food, games, live music, an outdoor show, fishing for the young and not so young, and plenty of family fun to the Dunkirk Central Avenue pier. The WNY Walleye Classic and ...