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‘In Loving Memory’: Forestville dedicates tree to student who passed

FORESTVILLE — Monday morning, the student body at Forestville Middle/High School gathered outside of the school to remember one of their own — one whose absence is still felt each day, and whose memory will carry on for years to come. Sky Hahn was memorialized with the planting of a ...

Lack of rain, pump problem impact water plant

Two weeks of sunshine is evidently troubling the Fredonia water treatment plant and reservoir. There’s a dark cloud there, anyway, due to a snag in a chlorination improvement project. A water conservation order for the village continued Monday — the week after water system director Luis ...

PVCS students rally for teacher aide

SOUTH DAYTON — Demonstrating that no member of their school family fights alone, 27 students and staff members at Pine Valley Jr/Sr High School gathered in the school gymnasium for an emotional show of support: shaving their heads and cutting their hair in solidarity with Stephanie West, a ...

Pomfret offering millings to St. Anthony’s Cemetery

The association that runs the St. Anthony’s Cemetery needs help, and the town of Pomfret is providing it. St. Anthony’s Cemetery Association, located on Route 60, is a private, non-denominational cemetery and is not affiliated with the Diocese of Buffalo or St. Anthony’s Church in ...

Council passes BESS moratorium law

The Dunkirk Common Council approved a local law imposing a six-month moratorium on Battery Energy Storage System applications. The move was basically a legal formality in response to Mayor Kate Wdowiasz’s veto of a previous moratorium resolution. One of Wdowiasz”s reasons for the veto was she thinks a moratorium must be done as a local law, not just a simple council resolution. Moratorium law sponsor Natalie Luczkowiak said there is going to be a Nov. 18 meeting, at a place and time to be determined, on possible city BESS zoning codes. “This moratorium, it’s a pause to ...

Fredonia trustees eye fewer workshops

A couple of Fredonia trustees are suggesting fewer public sessions for the board. Trustees Tim Mulholland and LeeAnn Lazarony spoke up at the end of a two-hour-long workshop Monday. The village board currently sits on virtually every Monday. Two Mondays a month are designated official meetings. Other Mondays are called workshops, where trustees are supposed to discuss village business and proposed legislation, and hear department heads’ reports. Mulholland wondered if the board would be better served with just one workshop a month. “I don’t want to be here every week … ...