Millions across the nation watched SUNY Fredonia student Lucas West on his journey from a blind audition to the finale of NBC's singing competition, “The Voice: Battle of Champions.” Wednesday evening, West will give the Dunkirk-Fredonia community its own special performance as a thank you ...

A busy Dunkirk Common Council agenda tonight is topped by a proposal to create a city comptroller position, and a resolution to hire a new dog control officer. The comptroller position requires a local law, and tonight’s agenda introduces it. A public hearing would have to be held before ...

MAYVILLE – Two years ago Sean Thomas was watching an 8-month-old Aniyah Turk when he apparently became frustrated and ended up strangling the infant to death. Prosecutors don’t see him as someone who is “purely evil” but rather as someone who didn’t have the proper maturity to care ...

SILVER CREEK — Several resignations were accepted at a recent Silver Creek Board of Education meeting. Among them is a Special Education Teacher and a School Counselor. Amanda åç is set to resign from her teaching position in Special Education at the end of the school year. Duckett cited ...

ARKWRIGHT — The Town of Arkwright is thinking outside the box when it comes to its highest salaried position in the town, the role of Highway Superintendent. Town Supervisor Brian McAvoy presented a local law to the Board to change the role from a full-time, salaried position elected by the ...

After more than two years have passed since the Fredonia Board of Education first began discussing reducing the term length of members of the Board, a decision has been made to reduce the length from five years to three. The Board voted 5-2 in favor of reducing term lengths for new members to ...