SILVER CREEK — Through her work inside the classroom and out, Janet Decker is a champion for her students at the Silver Creek Central School District. Now, Decker hopes to be a champion in another sense. Decker is currently competing in the 2024 Reader’s Digest contest to name America’s ...

Three honorees will be celebrated during the annual dinner gala Friday, April 26 for the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Chautauqua County. The event begins at 6 p.m. at Shorewood Country Club. Being recognized this year are David and Gina Kron from Tim Hortons as Friends to the Club; David ...

Dunkirk High School looks set to move its graduation ceremonies back to SUNY Fredonia’s Rockefeller Arts Center. DHS held its ceremonies there prior to the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset in 2020. The graduations were moved to the football field at the high school, at first to enable “social ...

In a nationally televised interview, Salman Rushdie said he expects to testify in Chautauqua County Court regarding the attempt on his life nearly two years ago. The international author was on multiple television news programs over the last couple of days, promoting his new book “Knife” ...

Three of the four volunteer fire departments in the town of Chautauqua are moving ahead to explore consolidating and become one department. It was announced at both the Mayville Village and Chautauqua Town board meetings that a meeting will take place on May 1 at 6 p.m. at the Chautauqua ...

The Pomfret Town Board has joined several other local lakeshore municipalities in coming out against power-generating wind turbines in Lake Erie. The board passed a resolution against the turbines at its meeting last week. The measure was basically the same as one passed by the town of ...