I read with some concern a recent OBSERVER article about the crime wave being carried on by a 16-year-old male in downtown Dunkirk over the last month resulting in damage and business disruptions impacting numerous merchants Apparently, the youth has been arrested on numerous occasions but has ...

The job of historians, archaeologists, theologians, and researchers in general is to dig up stuff from the past and piece it all together in order to formulate theories about things that happened eons ago — theories that only a Time Machine could prove to be true. A professor at Yale, Noel ...

I suppose that I could be accused of having “too much time on my hands” to write about this…but let me try anyway. Recently, as happens every year under the requirements of state law, a list of delinquent property taxpayers was published in the newspaper. It was eight full pages of ...

With all the editorials, commentary and public remarks regarding the decision the Village Board of Trustees made regarding the village’s water source, supplier and future projects, it is necessary to distinguish the facts from fiction. Fiction — The village redacted the LaBella report to ...

This is an open letter to the Citizens Action Group for Saving Our Reservoir, the initiators of the Fredonia water project court suit. Concerns that led to the suit being filed are understandable but, at this point, premature because planning for any project to implement any solution to ...

I am honored to have this opportunity to update the community on our efforts to achieve financial sustainability. In my December campus presentation and previous OBSERVER article, I highlighted three key pillars essential for achieving financial sustainability: enrollment growth, efficiencies, ...