Dunkirk Intermediate School has announced its Students of the Month for February. Its overall student of the month was Greyeliz Morales-Torres. Others include: Isaac Billick, Aleaius Rojas, Josiel Rosado, Avery Carmen, Deysi Cruz Bautista, Maximus Killion-Fuller, Grace Alvarado-Alvarez, Natasha ...

Cindy Capestrani, village of Falconer Clerk, was named 2025 Chautauqua County Municipal Clerks Association Clerk of the Year. Capestrani was nominated by her peers and fellow CCMCA members. Comments submitted described her as one who is active in her community outside of her Village Clerk ...

Editor’s note: This concludes a three-part series. Images are courtesy of Jack Woodbury, the Barker Museum, and the early Fredonia Baptist records. Many of those documents reside in the SUNY Fredonia Archives and Special Collections, and are transcribed and posted with Chautauqua ...

More than half of the city of Dunkirk’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding was spent on police and fire salaries, data shared with the OBSERVER revealed this week. The city spent $10,619,589 in ARPA funds from 2021-23. ARPA was approved by Congress as a massive, one-time shot of ...

The number of private million-dollar residences sold locally has skyrocketed over the past few years. Since 2022, The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County. The county does not provide this information, but it is available by manually reviewing ...

Earlier this week, Refresco announced through letters to grape farmers that they hold contracts with, that they are canceling all contracts with grape growers. Friday morning, a statement was released from state Sen. George Borrello and Assemblyman Andrew Molitor on this cancellation. “This ...