An inmate connected to a brutal attack on a counselor and officer at the Lakeview Shock Incarceration Facility in Brocton is facing charges in the February incident. Early Tuesday, a secret indictment authorized in April by a Chautauqua County Grand Jury was unsealed in County Court charging ...
Even before programming cuts were announced last week, the State University of New York at Fredonia kept whittling down its overall financial deficit. It’s down to a projected $3.36 million, according to Wayne Lynch, the campus vice president for finance and administration. Lynch spoke ...
MAYVILLE – Some village residents are questioning a proposal to install sidewalks on their street, saying the proposal has not been thoroughly studied, especially when it comes to meeting the standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act. During the Mayville Village Board ...
The Dunkirk Common Council has banned the service of legal papers while it is meeting, in response to an incident where a woman about to speak was handed lawsuit documents. “The service of legal papers upon individuals during the course of a public meeting may create a chilling effect on public participation and disrupt the orderly conduct of council business,” according to the resolution unanimously passed by the council. City-contracted attorney Elliot Raimondo served Jennifer Sasso at the public speaker’s podium with a lawsuit during an April meeting. Sasso, a former city ...
Though not from the region, Ken Soney has an emotional Dunkirk connection. A member of the U.S. Marine Corps, Soney was a best friend and served with Harry L. Kaus Jr. of Dunkirk. Kaus was the first Western New Yorker to be killed in action during the Vietnam War. “Dunkirk is a very ...
Two boys sit rocking back and forth, As bands play marching tunes. They laugh. “That man don’t have no legs,” they say. And creamy pink buds of dogwood trees Are swept away by the breeze. The boys get up and race through grassy fields To where their mother sits and ...
