During his time at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Lucas West has been right at home. The Fairport native, noting his senior year, has had his share of accomplishments in recent years. From singing the national anthem at Buffalo Bills’ games to his recent performance in ...

For more than half a century, the United States has been celebrating Earth Day. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it was in the spring of 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day as a way to force legal and regulatory mechanisms to protect our natural world. Today, our ...

The more time one gets to look at the judge’s decision in local lawsuits challenging the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act regulations, the more it is clear that the regulations are likely merely delayed, not dead. Judge Richard Platkin’s ruling last week in state Supreme Court in Albany ...

Portland town Supervisor Richard Lewis in March set the ball rolling. In an interview with Dunkirk OBSERVER reporter Braden Carmen, the elected official noted there may be some interest in the former Sugar Hill golf property by a data center. Within a month, the board meeting saw attendance ...

Revitalize Dunkirk has made a call to the community. Help the group of volunteers in a spring cleaning mission that is slated for Tuesday with a rain date of Thursday. Held in conjunction with National Fuel’s “Days of Doing,” in which employees are given release time to engage in ...

Democrats spend so much time blustering about fair elections, we had assumed they actually believed in the concept. They proved last month they do not. That is when the state’s Public Campaign Finance Board chose to deny the application filed by Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for ...