Dunkirk this week announced a full slate of events as part of its traditional Music on the Pier and summer festivals. Though it’s a welcome sign that warmer weather is on the way, it also brings a bit of a pause. City officials are navigating their way through a multi-million dollar ...

The Biden Administration, once again, is trying to use executive action to reduce student loan debt. And once again, the White House’s approach fails to address the root causes of this problem and ignores the historic avenues that allow such root causes or larger concerns to be aired and ...

There’s no denying what is obvious to everyone who drives through Route 20 in the town of Sheridan. Remnants of the June 2022 blaze that wiped out businesses, most notably Pawn Starz, at Roberts Road is a sad site for all who pass by. Town Board members, for their part, have not allowed the ...

Grass-roots and volunteer efforts play a larger role in making a community viable than work by government. High costs are usually associated with a municipality when it takes on an event. That’s not the case with those invested, which is why a small business expo at Valley Outdoors. It was ...

We’ve seen enough municipal branding attempts to know their payoff is typically pretty small. It’s better than nothing — though how much better than nothing is frankly up for debate. So we hope there is a payoff to the county’s Live CHQ and Choose CHQ programs that were launched ...

Dunkirk Common Council is not capable of making financial decisions. New Mayor Kate Wdowiasz is still learning on the job. And, a longtime city treasurer isn’t really watching the store seeing that the municipality is somewhat shockingly in the hole to the tune of $18.5 million. How must ...