SILVER CREEK — Every day at Silver Creek Elementary School, students are taught the value of respect. The Silver Creek-Forestville Unified Basketball Team recently took to the court to provide a unique lesson in respect at Silver Creek Elementary’s first character education assembly of the ...

Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel says the newly established Government Efficiency Fund should be focused on efficiency and can extend to things outside of dissolving municipal government boards. In September, County Executive PJ Wendel announced that he wanted $500,000 from the county ...

The village of Fredonia’s general fund is more than $3 million above water early in its 2025-26 fiscal year. Treasurer Erlyssa LeBeau gave a report about village revenues and expenses at Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting. She said Fredonia’s general fund has seen revenue of $5,968,690 ...

At 10 months old Theodore Adam Waylon Sullivan is a fighter. He was born premature at 27 weeks old with multiple health challenges. He’s also in a fun competition. Theo is the son of Brett and Danielle Sullivan. Chautauqua County residents, one of Theo’s older half-sisters, Peyton ...

With Supplementary Nutrition Assistance benefits not being distributed at the beginning of November due to the government shutdown, local food pantries are expecting to experience an influx of people in need of their services. At the moment, many pantries are already struggling to cover ...

The Fredonia Board of Trustees voted down an attempt to list village-owned property on Glasgow Road for sale. Trustee Jon Espersen has advocated selling the property, on the south end of the town of Pomfret near Cassadaga Lake, as a way to pump some more revenue into the village tank. ...