By M.J. STAFFORD mstafford@observertoday.com Dunkirk is getting ready for two big annual warm-season events, with a call put out for Memorial Day Parade participants and a Music on the Pier announcement expected next. The parade is set for Monday, May 25 at 11 a.m., according to the City ...
Representatives of a project renovating Fredonia’s Middlesex Apartments pleaded their case for a small Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) recently. They appeared before the Fredonia Planning Board to discuss the BESS. The planning board is supposed to write a letter of ...
Millions across the nation watched SUNY Fredonia student Lucas West on his journey from a blind audition to the finale of NBC's singing competition, “The Voice: Battle of Champions.” Wednesday evening, West will give the Dunkirk-Fredonia community its own special performance as a thank you ...
A busy Dunkirk Common Council agenda tonight is topped by a proposal to create a city comptroller position, and a resolution to hire a new dog control officer. The comptroller position requires a local law, and tonight’s agenda introduces it. A public hearing would have to be held before the law is passed, and notice of the hearing is required, so the law won’t get passed tonight. However, the process will start on enacting another big change at City Hall. The city clerk and city treasurer positions were merged just a couple months ago. The law is supposed to “enact changes ...
MAYVILLE – Two years ago Sean Thomas was watching an 8-month-old Aniyah Turk when he apparently became frustrated and ended up strangling the infant to death. Prosecutors don’t see him as someone who is “purely evil” but rather as someone who didn’t have the proper maturity to care ...
SILVER CREEK — Several resignations were accepted at a recent Silver Creek Board of Education meeting. Among them is a Special Education Teacher and a School Counselor. Amanda åç is set to resign from her teaching position in Special Education at the end of the school year. Duckett cited ...
