Breaking News

TOP STORIES

Village revenue outpaces costs, but fund balance worsens

Fredonia Treasurer Erlyssa LeBeau offered a report on the village’s 2025-26 fiscal year at the most recent Board of Trustees meeting. Mayor Michael Ferguson called the report “Not always perfect, but certainly better than last year.” Fredonia’s main budget line, aka “general fund,” wound up in positive territory by $504,595. The village’s revenue was $9,011,886 and its expenses ran to $8,507,290, according to LeBeau. (Figures are rounded to the nearest dollar.) That represents a significant improvement over the 2024-25 closing total of minus $224,677. However, the ...

Rice retires, Helmer steps down as athletic director

SILVER CREEK — After 29 years with the Silver Creek Central School District, serving in a variety of roles as a coach and an educator, Kevin Rice has elected to retire. The Board of Education accepted his resignation from the roles of English Teacher and Dean of Students at a recent ...

Drug investigation leads to charges for Buffalo man

JAMESTOWN --- A Buffalo man is facing charges after a drug investigation A search warrant was executed on Thursday at 312 E. Sixth St. in the lower apartment in Jamestown. The search warrant was executed by narcotics investigators from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office and narcotics ...

Staying close to home

Outside of Wicked Warrens in Jamestown, about a dozen protesters gathered, shortly before Rep. Nick Langworthy was to speak at the CHQ Chamber’s “State of NY-23” Congressional luncheon. While the protesters held signs regarding cuts to SNAP, the Epstein files, President Trump and the ...

Taking on a crisis is unpopular, lonely at top

At the conclusion of Dunkirk’s Common Council meeting, department heads and elected officials gathered around to congratulate newly approved Police Chief Doug Switzer. Since the retirement of Chris Witkowski in February, Switzer had been handling the duties before being officially approved ...

FHS Class of 1956 holding 70th reunion

Fredonia High School’s Class of 1956 gathers this weekend for what class member Wally Latimer said could be the last time. “It probably will be,” he said. “We’ve had one every five years for the past 70 years, we’ve been very consistent on that. People come in from all over — California, Hawaii.” Latimer recalled that his school’s teams were called the Hilltoppers, with Fredonia High School then atop a hill next to the current Wheelock school. FHS moved off the hill to the Fredonia Central School main campus just a few years later, and its teams changed to the ...