Back in 1966, the Beatles asked in “Eleanor Rigby” where all the lonely people came from and where they all belong. Fifty-seven years later, the question remains just as pertinent and, in the estimation of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, even more urgent. According to a report ...

Attendees will get a taste of Dunkirk’s past at an event Saturday. A successful Beer and Breweriana Show in October that saw more than 250 people walk through the doors of the Kosciuszko Club in Dunkirk, has become a boon to a collectors’ club. One of the highlights of the weekend event ...

Government wants to become bigger. That is at least the impression one could get from the new law being proposed by the town of Pomfret that would allow a new municipal building in certain mixed-use residential and commercial districts. A public hearing on the law will be held next month. ...

Next week, a prominent Dunkirk citizen who played an important role in the successful passage of women’s suffrage will be remembered with the placing of a historical marker at 627 Washington Ave. Elnora Babcock, a native of northwestern Pennsylvania, moved to Dunkirk around 1880. She became ...

Last week’s report that test scores in civics and history are dropping should be concerning not just to teachers, but to all of us. The National Assessment of Educational Progress — known as the “nation’s report card” — tested about 7,800 students across the country in civics, ...

Every college town in the nation faces what the village of Fredonia does for one week a year. For all the good the State University of New York at Fredonia does for the community, there is a residential distaste for the Non-Fred Fest event that takes place annually in the spring. Normally, ...