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For BOCES chef, culinary journey comes full circle

For Chrissy Conklin, becoming a Culinary Arts instructor at the LoGuidice Educational Center is an opportunity to combine two things she has always enjoyed: cooking and education. Conklin brings nearly a decade of culinary industry experience to her new role with Erie ...

City announces Zoom meeting on waterfront improvements

Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper and the City of Dunkirk will host a Community Meeting on Tuesday at 5 p.m. via Zoom to share the Framework Plan for improvements to Wright Park Beach and Lake Front Boulevard, and to hear about the vision for the future of this important community waterfront. The ...

School 7 names top students

Dunkirk School 7 is proud to announce the Students of the Month for September. In the front row are: Juan Classen, Sophie Braunscheider, Conor Ganey, Mireya Vega, Echo Texidor. Back Row: Levi Gold, Madelyn Janora, Emilian Ramos Garcia, Felicity Delvalle (School 7 Board Student of the Month ...

A Bedford patent offers a clue to frozen grape juice

Frederick W. Bedford’s work with frozen juice concentrate went beyond freezing juice. A 1944 patent assigned to Bedford Products describes a way to recover more juice after concentrate was separated from ice. The patent uses grape juice as its example, but Bedford was not claiming the ...

Administrative employees receive service awards

Five employees at the State University of New York at Fredonia have received the 2026 Finance and Administration Outstanding Administrative Service Award. The awards are given in recognition of exemplary service to the university. Collectively, the recipients represent all major departments ...

Life’s journeys all begin with a dream

When I first went away to college, I registered for an elective course in Eastern religions. As a rebel without a clue at a conservative school, it seemed the right thing to do. At the time, the radical hippie movement was morphing into a kind of cerebral escapism that fused recreational ...