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Jamestown man, sex offender charged in child porn case

Eric A. Brown, 42, of Jamestown was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with distribution and possession of child pornography, which carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years. According to the complaint, in February 2025, the New York State ...

Finance panel ditches another meeting

The Dunkirk Common Council’s Finance Committee canceled a second straight meeting Monday. The OBSERVER didn’t find out until it went to the committee’s Stearns Building conference room Monday morning and found just one other person there, an equally confused city employee. A look at ...

Krystofiak earns tenure as Silver Creek Principal

SILVER CREEK — Over her tenure at Silver Creek Schools, from her time as Elementary Principal to her role now as High School Principal, Heather Krystofiak has always found a way to be exactly who Silver Creek needed. It isn’t hard to see why the district rewarded her with tenure at its ...

Senator wants to extend Superfund to radiological contamination sites

The state Senate’s minority leader wants to include radiological hot spots in Niagara and Erie counties in the Superfund program. DEC and EPA assessment teams continue to inspect potential radiological hot spots in Niagara and Erie counties. Western New York was a hub for the ...

Malfunction of battery pack blamed in Silver Creek fire

SILVER CREEK --- An accidental structure fire in the village was extinguished early Tuesday. Just before 5 a.m., Tuesday, firefighters from the Bay-Creek Fire District responded to a house fire at 330 Central Ave. in the village. According to a report from the Sunset Bay Fire Company, a ...

Reversing course?

Residents of Fredonia’s Forest Place are furious that the village is considering a parking ban on the street, and making it a stretch of it one-way. Complaining letters from the residents, along with other rhetoric about the proposal, took up a big chunk of Fredonia’s last Board of ...